Spencer Heath Archive

Item 3017

Fragmented pencil transcription by Spencer MacCallum of a random taping of conversation with Heath

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Kaufman said Christ and the New Testament generally appealed to men’s desire for gain, that it in effect offered a “bribe” to do God’s will. This would seem to be at variance with a religious message, which is presumably not motivated by considerations of expedience but transcends experience.

     I would rather think of it as the “news,” or the “good news” — or the “Gospel” — that he had insight that these things, length of life to practical immortality and abundance will follow from men turning a reciprocal service and practicing God’s ways.

 

beauty for no other reason than the divine inspiration which moves us — which is the true religious spirit. This knowledge of the rationale in the universe is put to the service of mankind by the universal spontaneous (in that it is decreed by no statute) practice of the golden rule among men of voluntary reciprocal services — by measured (which enables it to be universal) exchange. We are not acting against God when we act in accordance with His rationality but are acting with Him — one with the Cosmic Mind. And when we meet in failure, in social as in physical relations, it is because we are not working in accordance with His rational principles. We have only just discovered His mind in physical phenomena; how long before we discover it in the social?

Instead of trying to force our minds on nature — or our wishes or ways or will — we have found how God’s mind works in nature and then worked with God — in accordance with His own mind and way. Instead of enforcing our own reforms on society, when will we discover how the mind of God works in society?