Spencer Heath Archive

Item 903

Notes for Prefatory of Citadel, Market & Altar

January 1957

 

Every living thing has three basic systems: a body for protection, a nutritional system and a nervous or coordinative one — Citadel, Market and Altar, as it were. In society it is the same. Each is intelligible in itself. Hence the three great divisions of this book can be read and understood separately as interest may lead, instead of the genetic and ascending order in which they are arranged.

Every life-form is basically three-fold in its composition — structural, nutritional and neural or coordinative — Citadel, Market and Altar

Every life-form is threefold in its composition: structural, physiological, psychological

 

Every life-form is a trine. It has

structure, physiology, psychology

physical, nutritional, psychical

     physical, functional, psychological

Every life-form has three basic aspects:

mechanic, metabolic, psychic

 

material, nutritional, mental

Every life-form has three basic systems:

mechanic, metabolic, psychic

material, nutritional, neuro-electrical

 

 

Society is similar. Its essentials are

 

 

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/Here is a suggested re-write by MacCallum:

“Every life-form is basically three-fold in its composition — structural, nutritional, and neural or coordinative. And so it is with society, whose three functional systems are symbolized as Citadel, Market, and Altar. Because each of these systems is intelligible in itself, the three great divisions of this book can be read and understood separately as interest may lead, instead of the genetic and ascending order in which they are arranged.”/