Spencer Heath Archive

Item 210

Taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath.

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     Man is a spirit. Also he is a body. And the spirit is manifested in flesh. (*Meaning everything physical, not only men’s bodies.) The life of the spirit is mani­fested in the life of the body. But the spirit of man manifests itself not only in his body, but in every­thing that he creates, just as the creations of God mani­fest the divine spirit. But it is only the creative man, the regenerate man who can create. He must first outgrow his merely animal nature and give effect to his divine nature — his spiritual nature. To do this he must carry out the Divine command to do unto others as he would have others do unto him. He thereby enters into the spiritual life and becomes a creator in the Kingdom of God, a co-creator with God. All life is of God. Whatever promotes life, serves God. It is spiritual. Whatever retards the life of man and God, is unspiritual. Disobedience of the golden rule is sin. Its wages is death — to the body and to the spirit. But to practice the way of life as commanded is to enter into the life abundant, even unto immortality.

     Man is the only dust that can take on the divine prerogative.

                              /Asked to comment on his bracketing the                                       terms creative and spiritual:/

     The spirit is manifested through flesh (not only of man but all the cosmic dust). What advances the flesh thereby advances the spirit, and what retards the flesh thereby retards the spirit; its fate is one with the flesh. Therefore what advances the spirit — through the flesh — is spiritual. And vice versa. What advances life is spiritual. What advances life is creative of life and of the spirit.

     The spirit is the giver of life. It transforms the dust into material forms and into beauty, according to the degree of its manifestation.