Spencer Heath Archive

Item 218

Taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath.

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White envelope contains item 219 also.

   

    WORLD SAVIORS NEVER SAVED THE WORLD          (Means vs. Ends comes in there)

     Great spirits have come into the world for the salvation of mankind. (You know Socrates is the only damn one among them who didn’t take up the sword. But he did — he fought in defense of Athens.) They have brought instruments of the spirit, but the spirit has not yet sufficed. For they have not disdained also the sword. Another thing, Socrates made a sword out of his tongue. He was violent in war on behalf of Athens, then he foreswore war and made a sword of his tongue — and then he drank the hemlock.

     Christ championed the oppressed with leather thongs and words of fire and scorn, proclaimed himself with palms and, deserted, suffered his Gethsemane.

     Gandhi, the non-resistant, founded a nation in the long-time (traditional) pattern of tyranny and war.

     Rienzi, the hopeful politician of the spirit, came to a martyr’s doom.

     The sword and pen of Washington accepted a lesser and potential tyranny that bore its bitter fruit in Lincoln’s day. And the great Lincoln himself sought with the sword of Mars to enthrone the Spirit of Life, yet for all his martyrdom mankind languishes in fear today.

     “He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword.”