Spencer Heath Archive

Item 771

Random taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath

November 1, 1956

I think I have quite a mission to draw the distinction between the positive and creative philosophy of Christ and that of his Oriental opposite numbers. His is a philosophy of creative dominance over the world, man the master of his environment and not its slave. The Eastern is a philosophy of renunciation of desire, acceptance of things as they are and comparatively supine.

This difference is associated with environment — differences in terrain. The little European continent is rugged, various, stimulating. The Oriental is mainly enervating, unstimulating, tending towards lethargy and fatalism, despair of this world, hope only in the far beyond. The West is creative. Spirit is wrought into flesh and form in the here and now. The metaphysical takes form in the physical, the spiritual into the material. Christ has given dynamism to the West

Gerald Heard and crowd seem to think there is something mighty and magical about the metaphysical, entirely apart from its corporate form in the material world, contrary and even antagonistic….