Spencer Heath Archive

Item 112

Verbatim pencil notes by Spencer MacCallum from dictation from Heath for a letter which was to be sent (it never was), to the officers of the Christian Freedom Foundation (all ministers) to accompany “The Trojan Horse of Land Reform.”

July, 1955

Dear Dr. ________

     As one of those persons who are not only sincerely but also devoutly concerned with man^’s right relations to God and his likewise right relation to his fellow men, I am sending you a little writing of my own concerning the relationship between men and their environment — the bounties of the Creator, the gifts of God to men.

     In his original nature, man has little if any power over his surrounding world. He is creature of, and not creator over his environment. In his unregenerate state, he’s not learned how to dream and how to create his dream into the world about him in a divine dominion over it.

     For this he must be regenerated into a new mode of life, into a new relationship towards his fellow men. For this, Christ came into the world — to teach men in what relation towards one another they could become creators having dominion over their world instead of remaining creatures in subjection to it. He taught that their spiritual, their creative power, depended upon a new relationship among themselves — upon what they should do (not refrain or desist) unto one another. His new precept was in the particular manner of their doing — that they should do unto one another in the same manner as they would have others do unto them. This would make them free (free from violence and duress) so that they could love one another by serving one another, in place of ruling one another by coercing one another. Thus He introduced the idea of contract without coercion in place of status under compulsion. Only through owning their own bodies could they use them in the service of other men, and likewise only through owning material things could men make them the instruments for serving other men and of being served in return. Only through ownership, self-ownership and ownership of other things, could men serve other men.

      Just as each man must have a separate dominion over himself in order to serve other men, so he must have a separate dominion over the gifts of God to men so that they may be administered peaceably. Thus alone can they become the subject matter of contract and thereby instruments of service as objective love. Just as men must give themselves contractually, that is, reciprocally, to one another, so they must also own the gifts of God in order to distribute them in like manner among themselves.

related to one another by contract with land as subject matter of the contract.