Spencer Heath Archive

Item 382

Recording by Spencer MacCallum of conversation with Heath at 11 Waverly Place, New York City

July 3, 1955

     Do you know what were the last words of Goethe on his deathbed? “Light, more light”. “Licht, mere licht”, I suppose was the German of it.

     The regenerate man learns the great truth that there can be more light or there can be less light, but there is no such thing as no light, no such entity as darkness. The regenerate man is the man who sees light as light, beauty as beauty, order as order, and not darkness as darkness. The man who can entertain these realistic conceptions is born again out of his animal limitations and into his human and divine illimitableness. That is what Christians really mean by the plan of salvation and redemption from original sin, or darkness.

     It was to teach men the way of increasing life as against the way of diminishing life that God sent His Son to teach the golden rule among men in place of the iron rule — the power of the spiritual interaction among men as against the destructive dominance of worldly or political power — the society of men in creative freedom as against a government of men in destructive slavery — the life abundant even unto immortality as against life diminishing towards death. The powers that be are not ordained permanently of God. They are intrinsically impermanent. Had God ordained Caesar, He had not sent Christ.

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Paul said the powers were ordained of God. — Ordained to be superseded by the spiritual power of Christ! Can’t Christianity mean a lot when you go at it rationally? Is it any wonder then that the free world eats while the pagan world starves and dies?