Spencer Heath Archive

Item 413

Random taping of conversation with Heath

September 1954

 

Missing original

 

I think perhaps the best definition of truth is that which cannot be gainsaid; that which proves itself; that which upon examination becomes self-evident. All these movements and efforts to disprove or otherwise combat error and evil are sterile. They cannot succeed. That sounds as though there were no way to prevail against those things. Better say, without a positive alternative, they cannot succeed. And if they could, they would leave the victors with empty hands. Removing obstacles does not conduct a parade, whereas a positive procedure overrides obstacles by transcending them. Order destroys disorder only by transcending it. For disorder itself is never anything but order of a lower degree. So-called darkness is only a lower order of luminosity, — cold of light — death of life. Zero is equally unattainable with the infinite or the absolute. (That’s a good sentence, that last; we don’t realize often enough how zero is equally impossible with the absolute.) This fact establishes that we are always on the up-side in a creative and dynamic cosmos.

 

/Although we can be moving in either direction./

 

Yes. Always underneath are the everlasting arms. Nothing in itself can be alien to the absolute — beyond the love of God.

 

/Why did you say, ‘in itself’?/

 

Because I wanted to exclude the idea of direction. We can fall away from or we can draw nigh unto God.