Spencer Heath Archives

Item 23

Taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath about free will.

October 31, 1955

 

 

 

     It is known that when energy enters into an atom, it is transformed. It enters with one period of frequency and issues with a different period of frequency. This change of frequency is determined by the specific constitu­tion of the atom. The atom therefore effectuates its own will because it determines an event in accordance with its own nature or constitution. It is very well to say that its own nature was pre-determined, and no doubt it was. Be that as it may, the event brought about by the transforma­tion of energy passing through the atom is still determined by the specific constitution of the atom itself.

     It is the same with the individual. His act is a transformation of energy. The energy enters into his specific constitution. It is transformed in accordance with this specific constitution of the individual. Hence, the issuing energy or event takes its character from the specific character of the individual. That is, from his nature or his free will.

     So by demonstrating that a stone, being composed of atoms, has free will, and then by equating man in this respect with a stone, the existence of free will is shown. But thinking people have always held that free will is what distinguishes men from lower organized forms.

 

     We have shown a certain respect in which these two things are alike, and now we are going to see a respect in which they are not alike. The great difference is that man, while still an integrated unit, is a vastly greater and more complex organization. He therefore determines vastly greater and more complex events. The atom in its small way can play God without being God. Man also, in his vastly greater way, can play at being God — at being a creator — without being God. Man, therefore is a step in transition in the steps between atom and God (but no nearer God because God is infinite). This places man as a creature between the atom and God with power, according to his increasing length of days, to act increasingly more and more like God (the cumulative effect of increase of days). But there is an important qualification.

     Man’s increasing length of days depends on how he transforms the energy that passes from man to man. It must be transformed reciprocally — both from and to — that is, in the form of balanced contractual relations (balanced as to quantity but not identical as to kinds). Each man gives to the other the same quantity of social-ized energy as measured in the market, but each gives to the other energy of a different kind. This is the contractual process. Upon this process depends the lengthening of their lives. And this ever-lengthening of their lives gives them ever increas­ing power to transform qualitatively any or all of the energy of their environing world. It enables them to enter progressively more and more as determining elements in the universal creative process.

     See a wheel within a wheel? Men work reciprocally, and that gives them power to take in the whole creation as the domain of their creative power. Thus the divine command, the golden rule of Jesus Christ, is literally the way, the light and the truth, giving men greater abundance of life, even immortal life as creative power with their increasing length of days.

 

 

Life — a quantity or degree of life.

Mortal life only means less life — all life is immortal.