Spencer Heath Archive

Item 107

Penciled by Heath on a 3-ring-notbook sheet of paper.

May 20, 1952

In God (or Nature, if one prefers) is the origin of all things. He created them all; hence He is the Creator, and all created things become His Creatures. But His highest creation He made like unto Himself. Into this creature He breathed a higher nature, a diviner breath, a sharing of His power to create — His spiritual power.

Thus man alone, of all creatures, over and above his merely animal nature and powers, is capable of being inspired, of an inspirational, a spiritual and thereby a creative, a divine mode of life. He is endowed with the potential energy not merely to exist but to create — to share in the nature, the powers and the processes of God. This is the positive side of his redemption — potential from the beginning — of his at-one-ment with God.

Man has two natures, his aboriginal as creature which he shares with all the lesser creation, and his spiritual and potentially creative in which /he/ becomes like unto God. In the one he is unregenerate and destructive; in the other he becomes a participant in creation, a co-worker with God.

In all God’s Cosmos there is no permanency with change. His creation is discontinuous; it proceeds by stages; astronomy (cosmology) by systems, geology by periods /and/ ages, biology by its successions of ever higher functioning forms of life. There is always a new dispensation emergent and transcendent from and above the old. The single cell becomes multi-cell in endlessly evolving forms. The higher multi-cells become variant within their separate kinds. Thus families, tribes, races, nations and ultimately societies are evolved. Yet each higher form carries over within itself all that its predecessors enduringly possessed.

The Old Testament, the old dispensation of God’s creative power upon the potentially spiritual (creative) nature of His yet unregenerate mankind, is the story /of/ men chosen to wander in the wilderness of the world on their way towards redemption into everlasting life. This was vouchsafed to them not as individuals but in the promise of length of days and endless descendents, numberless as the stars. There was but one path, the way of life that was inherent in the will of God. And as they wandered from it Jehovah, through His prophets, kept ever calling them to repent and return. Only so could the wages of sin be escaped and life everlasting attained. But in all this men could only obey and conform, they could not in themselves execute and practice the will of God. Their law was negative as a foil against death