Spencer Heath Archive

Item 3029.

Pencilings on notepad paper, wording for blurb for Citadel, Market and Altar.

January 1957

 

 

 

He finds in all things an intrinsic vital entropy towards ever more enduring modes and forms — a dominant creative trend in all nature in which we can join and advance if we will or oppose and retard to our certain cost and loss.

 

 

He freely acknowledges disorder, but only as the soil or raw material, so to speak, whence higher order springs but not as our practical concern, and in this wider view he sees

 

 

.. riddle of the Sphinx: — How men of good will can exercise in the social realm even a modicum of the beneficent control they have gained over their material world; how they can carry on their common and public services as they do their private enterprises — without resort to violence and the ways of government and war — will find here a severely rational and scientific method and yet, all the more for this, a very high and predominantly spiritual outlook, a heartening and inspiring view.

 

 

Society is what distinguishes from barbarism

 

 Animal      Human      Spiritual

Conflict   Interwoven  Transcending

 

 

   Animal               Human             Society

Single-Family   Single-Family-Community

 

 

Single Individual

     Family – Clan – Tribe – Blood

                   Community – Contract