Spencer Heath Archive

Item 460

About 1941?

 

Original in item 458

 

          REALITY

 

                     Substance

Religious          Power

(Absolute)         Eternality

 

 

                  Mass

Scientific        Motion

(Relative)        Duration

 

 

The religious or absolute conceptions of God or reality are conceptions only. They are not facts for they cannot be done. They are subjective only for they cannot be experienced. Their absoluteness, immeasurability, forbids them having relationships. They can be experienced only when reduced to some relative and finite form. Only in terms of the finite can the infinite be known.

The scientific or relative conceptions of reality for knowing /Sentence?/ reality in its objective and finite manifestations. These conceptions in finite form are called Mass, Motion and Duration. They are expressed always as specific units or definite and limited multiples of these units. These units are called the “physical” units of the sciences. They are units of mass, motion and duration — grams, centimeters, seconds, or units similar to and convertible into them. Science seeks to analyze and describe all phenomena, all experience, in terms of these units or multiples of them.

Like the religious units, Substance, Power and Eternality, /or/ Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the scientific units, which are the finite expressions of them, succeed each other in the same definite order. There can be no motion without mass.