Spencer Heath Archive

Item 480

Typed on three-ring binder pages, slightly revised in pencil by Heath and followed by a short, amended version most likely by Alvin Lowi. Title supplied.

About 1942?

 

 

 

/THE TRIUNE REALITY

 

Spencer Heath/

 

 

In all ages the conscious minds of men have universally made manifest and affirmed that there is an essential and ultimate cosmic reality, by whatever name it may be called.

Consciousness and experience alike attest to its unity, but there are always three aspects to its manifestations. In the Articles of Faith these three aspects are: Substance, Power, Eternality, figuratively called Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and in their unity called God.

In the objective sciences the three aspects are called Force, Space, Time; Substance, Action, Continuity; Mass, Motion, Duration; in their unity they are called Action.

The three-fold aspect of the Universal has other designations such as, Material, Mental, Spiritual; Animal, Human, Divine; Existent, Emergent, Transcendent; Physical, Vital, Spiritual.

Although the Universal can be conceived in these three aspects, they cannot be experienced otherwise than in Unity. There is nothing in experience to correspond with any one or any two of them alone. Anything less than the three in one is a mere abstraction and has no complete or experiential reality. In any two the third is implicit; in any one the remaining two are implied.

Mass cannot exist without Motion and Duration, Motion cannot exist without Mass and Duration, Duration cannot exist without Mass and Motion. Motion emerges out of Mass, Duration out of Mass and Motion. Motion is potential in Mass, Duration is potential in Mass and Motion. Duration is the final term, the ultimate term, in the hierarchy of Reality./[1]/

Duration, time, is change. Its base of reference is in the rhythmic changes in the earth’s position.

Change, as Duration, if it is to have continuity, if it is to be enduring and thereby Real /in the sense of Plato and Saint Paul/, must be in the sense or direction of complexity.

Duration, then, involves an indefinite progression into organic heterogeneity. All retrogression towards homogeneity is disintegration towards mass without change or with only potential change, without Duration and therefore without Reality.

Only change in the positive sense, in the sense of progression into ever higher organic complexities can possess, manifest or be indefinite duration — the Ultimate Reality.

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/The following is an amended version. I don’t know where it came from, perhaps Alvin Lowi? -Editor/

In all ages the conscious minds of men have universally made manifest and affirmed that there is an essential and ultimate cosmic reality, by whatever name it may be called, attested to /alike by/ consciousness and experience. Always there are three aspects to its manifestations. In the Arti­cles of Faith these three aspects are Substance, Power, Eternality, figuratively called Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and in their unity called God. In the objective sciences the three aspects are called Force, Space and Time, /or/ Mass, Motion and Time, and in their unity, Action. Although the Universal can be conceived in these three as­pects, they cannot be experienced otherwise than in Unity. There is nothing in experience to correspond with any one or any two of them alone. Anything less than the three in one is a mere abstraction and has no complete or experiential reality. In any two the third is implicit; in any one the remaining two are implied.