No single element in a personality can be understood without understanding the whole, and no single element can be changed without changes occurring, even to a minute degree, in other elements of the system. However, in merely describing the scientific method of a thinker, one does not necessarily mean that one was correct in one’s results. Indeed, the history of scientific thought is a history of pregnant errors. “Unconscious homosexuality” is one of the best examples of people being motivated by the opposite of what they think they are motivated by. The analyst, to show that one looks beneath the surface, may suggest that the individual suffers from unconscious homosexuality. Assuming the individual has a very intense heterosexual life, it will be argued that this very intensity helps to repress an unconscious homosexuality. Or assuming the individual has no sexual interest whatsoever in persons of one’s own gender, the argument will be that this complete absence of homosexual interest is a proof of the repression of homosexuality; that if a human praises the colour of another man’s tie, it is prima facie evidence of his unconscious homosexuality. The trouble of course is that with this method the absence of homosexuality can never be proven and not rarely analysis has continued for years in search of unconscious homosexuality for which there is no evidence at all except from the basic assumption that anything might mean the opposite of its overt meaning. This habit has had disastrous results because it permits a degree of arbitrariness in interpretation which often leads to completely erroneous conclusions. Something can mean its very opposite, but this something has to be proven because one can always claim that if something is not what it says, it is the opposite, and thus it is easy to manipulate thinking for one’s own dogmatic purposes. #RandolphHarris 1 of 21

The first and most important maxim of legitimate or popular government, that is to say, of a government that has the good of the populace for its object, is therefore, as I have said, to follow the general will in all things. However, to follow the general will one must know it, and, above all, properly distinguish it from the private will, beginning with oneself: a distinction that is always most difficult to make and only the most sublime virtue is capable of shedding enough light on it. Since one must be free in order to will, another no less formidable difficulty is how to secure both the public liberty and the authority of the government. Examine the motives that have brought humans, united by their mutual needs in the large society, to unite themselves more closely be means of civil societies. You will find no other motive than that of securing the goods, life and liberty of one of their number without infringing on the liberty of others? And how can the public needs be attended to without altering the private property of those who are forced to contribute to it? Whatever sophisms one uses to whitewash all this, it is certain that I am not longer free if someone can constrain my will, and that I am no longer master of my estate if someone else can get one’s hands on it. This difficulty, which must have seemed insurmountable, was removed with the first inspiration which taught humans to imitate here below the immutable decrees of the divinity. By what inconceivable art could one have found the means to place humans in subjection in order to make them free? To use the goods, the manual labour, even the very life of all its members in the service of the state without forcing them and without consulting them? #RandolphHarris 2 of 21

To bind their will by their own consent? To force them to punish themselves when they do what they did not want to do? How is it possible that they obey and no one commands, that they serve and have no master, and yet are actually more free because, under what appears to be subjection, no one loses any one’s liberty except what can be harmful to the liberty of another? These wonders are the work of the law. It is to the law alone that humans owe justice and liberty. It is this healthy tool of the will of all which reestablishes as a civil right the natural equality among humans. This is the Heavenly way that dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches one to act in accordance with the maxims of one’s own judgment and not to be at odds with oneself. It is also with this voice alone that leaders should speak when they command; for no sooner does a human claim, independently of the laws, to subject another to one’s private will, than one at once leaves the laws, to subject another to one’s private will, than one at once leaves the civil state, and, in relation to the other human, places oneself in the pure state of nature, where obedience is never prescribed except out of necessity. The leader’s most pressing concern, as well as one’s most indispensable duty, is therefore to keep watch over the observance of the laws of which one is the minister, and upon which all one’s authority is based. If one must make others observe them, then a fortiori one ought to observe them oneself, since one enjoys all their favour. For one’s example is so powerful that even if the populace were willing to allow one to free oneself from the yoke of the law, one ought to avoid taking advantage of such a dangerous prerogative—a prerogative others would in turn try to usurp, and often to one’s disadvantage. #RandolphHarris 3 of 21

At bottom, since all the commitments of society are reciprocal in nature, it is impossible to put oneself outside the law without renouncing its advantages, and no one owes anything to someone who claims to owe nothing to anyone. For the same reason, no exception found the law will ever be accorded for any reason whatever in a well policed government. Even the citizens who are most deserving of something from the homeland should be rewarded with honours but never with privileges. For the republic is on the verge of is ruin at the very moment someone can think it is a fine thing not to obey the laws. However, if the nobility or the military or some other order within the state were ever to adopt such a maxim, everything would be irretrievably lost. The power of the laws depends even more on the ministers’ wisdom rather than on their severity, and the public will draws its greatest weight from the reason which dictated it. It is for this reason that Plato regards it as a very important precaution always to place at the beginning of an edict a well-reasoned preamble which shows their justice and usefulness. In effect, the firs of the laws is to respect the laws. Harshness of punishments is merely a vain expedient dreamed up by small minds to substitute terror for the respect they cannot obtain. It has always been remarked that the countries where punishments are the most severe are also those where they are the most frequent, so that the cruelty of punishment is indicative of nothing but he multitude of lawbreakers, and when everything is punished with equal severity, those culpable are forced to commit crimes to escape punishment for their faults. #RandolphHarris 4 of 21

However, although the government is not the master of the law, it is not an insignificant thing o be is guarantor and to have a thousand ways of making people love it. The talent for reigning consists of nothing else but this. When one has force at hand, there is no art to making everyone tremble and not even very much to winning over people’s hearts, for experience has long taught the populace to be deeply grateful to its leaders for all the evils they do no do to it and to worship them when not despised by its leaders. An imbecile can, like anyone else, punish crimes; the real statesman knows how to prevent them. One extends one’s venerable rule over wills even more than over actions. If one could bring it about that everyone behaved correctly, one oneself would have nothing left to do, and the masterpiece of one’s works would be to remain at one’s ease. At least it is certain that the greatest talent of leaders is to disguise their power in order to render it less odious and to manage the state so peacefully that it seems to have no need of managers. I conclude therefore that just as the legislator’s first duty is to conform the laws to the general will, the first rule of the public economy is that the administration should be in conformity with the laws. This will be sufficient even to keep the state from being poorly governed, if the legislator has paid the attention one should to everything that is required by the locale, climate, soil, mores, and surrounding areas, and all the relationships one has had to institute which were peculiar to the populace. This is not to say that there does not still remain an infinity of administrative and economic details that are left to the wisdom of the government. However, it always has two infallible rules of behaving correctly in these occasions. #RandolphHarris 5 of 21

The one is the spirit of the law which should help decide cases the law could not have foreseen. The other is the general will, source and supplement of all the laws and which ought always be consulted for want of them. How, I will be asked, does one go about knowing the general will; because this means is unworkable for a large populace; because it is rarely necessary when the government is well intentioned. For the leaders know very well that the general will is always on the side most favourable to the public interest, that is, the most equitable, so that it is necessary simply to be just to be assured of following the general will. Often, when this is flouted too openly, it makes its presence known despite the terrible restraint of the public authority. I look as close to home as I can for examples to follow in such a case. In China, the prince has as an unshaking maxim that one should side against one’s officials in every dispute that raises between them and the populace. Is bread expensive in one province? The intendant of that province is thrown in prison. Is there a civil disturbance in another? The governor is dismissed and each mandarin answers with one’s life for all the unpleasantness that takes place in one’s department. This is not to say that there is no subsequent examination of the affair in a regular trial. However, long experience has made the judgement thus to be anticipated. One rarely has any injustice to rectify in this; and the emperor, convinced that public clamour never arises without cause, always discerns among the seditious cries one punishes, some just grievances that one remedies. It is no mean feat to have made peace and order reign in all parts of the republic; it is not small matter that the state is tranquil and the law is respected. #RandolphHarris 6 of 21

However, if one does nothing more, the government would have a difficult time making itself obeyed if it limits itself to obedience. If it is good to know how to use humans as they are, it is better still to turn them into what one needs them to be. The most absolute authority is that which penetrates to the inner part of a human and is exerted no less on one’s will than on one’s actions. It is certain in the long run people are what the government makes them. Warriors, citizens, humans when it so wishes; rabble and riff-raff when it so pleases. And every prince who belittles his subjects dishonours oneself by showing that one did not know how to turn them into something worthy of respect. Therefore train humans if you want to command them. If you want the laws obeyed, make them beloved, so that to get humans to do what they should, they need only consider that they ought to do it. That was the great art of governments of old, in those remote times when philosophers gave laws to the peoples, and merely used their authority to make them wise and happy. From this same the many sumptuary laws, the many regulations concerning mores, the many public maxims accepted or rejected with the greatest of care. Even the tyrants did not forget this important part of administration, and they took as many pains in corrupting the more of their slaves as did the magistrates in correcting the mores of their fellow citizens. However, our modern governments, which are under the impression they have done all there is to do when they have raised money, never imagine it to be either necessary or possible to go that far. When modern writers talk of the Resurrection, they usually mean one particular moment—the discovery of the Empty Tomb and the appearance of Jesus Christ a few yards away from it. The story of that moment is what Christian apologists now chiefly try to support and sceptics chiefly try to impugn. #RandolphHarris 7 of 21

However, this almost exclusive concentration on the first five minutes of the Resurrection would have astonished the earliest Christian teachers. In claiming to have seen the Resurrection, they were not necessarily claiming to have seen that. Some of them had, some of them had not. It had no more importance than any of the other appearances of the risen Jesus Christ—apart from the poetic and dramatic importance which the beginnings of things must always have. What they were claiming was that they had all, at one time or another, met Jesus during the six or seven weeks that followed His death. Sometimes they seem to have been alone when they did so but on one occasion twelve of them saw Him together, and on another occasion about five hundred of them. St. Paul says that the majority of the five hundred were still alive when he wrote the First Letter to the Corinthians, id est, in about 55 A.D. The “Resurrection” to which they bore witness was, in fact, not the action of rising from the dead but the state of having risen; a state, as they held, attested by intermittent meetings during a limited period (except for the special, and in some ways different, meeting vouchsafed to St. Paul). This termination of the period is important, for, as we shall see, there is no possibility of isolating the doctrine of the Resurrection from that Ascension. “Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on Earth,” reports Colossians 3.2. This is a new dimension of consciousness, where it is coming to itself, demesmerized from the limitation imposed upon the ego. In that moment humans have come to oneself. Before then one has been dwelling in alien things, in one’s passions, one’s thoughts, one’s emotions, and one’s desires. In this ecstatic mental silence, the personal will is given up, the impersonal Overself is given mastery. One’s personal identity is taken away for a while, to be replaced by a higher one. #RandolphHarris 8 of 21

To be born again, in the sense that Jesus Christ used this phrase when speaking to Nicodemus, means to leave the ego’s limited and outward awareness for the Overself’s infinite and inward awareness. Within the ego’s life there comes to birth another, utterly dissimilar and outwardly unnoticeable. It tis literally a going out of one’s little self into the liberating enlightening Overself. The search is at an end. The Overself has come toward us even as we went blindly toward It. In that blessed moment, one sinks one’s identity into Reality which one has reached. “One must then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that one (Jesus) must be killed and after three days rise again. He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. However, when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, He rebuked Peter. ‘Get behind me, Satan!’ He said. ‘You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of humans.’ Then He called the crowd to him along with His disciples and said: ‘If anyone would come after me, one must deny oneself and take up the cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save one’s life will lose it, but whoever loses one’s life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a human to gain the whole World, yet forfeit one’s soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of one when He comes in His Father’s glory with the Holy Angels,’” reports Mark 8.31-38. Creating a blueprint in your mind for success does not happen without effort. One must choose and believe that good things will happen. O Jesus Christ, Splendour of Eternal Glory, Solace of the Wandering Soul, when I am with You, my loquacious mouth loses its eloquence, leaving only my silence to speak to You. However, when I am not with You, I feel I must speak up. #RandolphHarris 9 of 21

Come, my Fleet-footed if Flat-arched Friend, come! Why has it taken You so long to make such a short trip! I am just a verminous pauper huddled in a crumbling doorway, just a shackled prisoner shambling alone on cobbles. Without you, no day, no hour will ever be happy again. Why? Because You are my joy and, besides, without You the conversation grows dull. Only You can lighten up my cell. Only You can restore my freedom. I live only to see Your friendly face turn in my direction. So much for the little prayers of one poor Devout. Others scour the World for You, but they look in all the wrong places. They find everyone else, but they never seem to find You. As for me, in the same interval, I am in just as much of a dither as they. Nothing pleases me either, but here is the difference. The only thing that is likely to please me is You, my God. You are my hope, my salvation. I should keep quiet, I supposed, but I will not. I do not care if I become raucous, obstreperous. I will pray in public until Your grace returns; that is to say, until You return to our chatsworthy place within. When one gets up in the morning, one must focus on the fact that the Lord is here with us, and here He intends to stay. One’s tears and desires, one’s humble soul and contrition of heart, all will turn the Lord toward our little prayers and hasten Him to our side. God is directing our steps. His favour is surrounding us. Goodness and mercy will be on our path. Be excited about the day. Welcome your life in. This glimpse of a state one has never before seen is an effective revelation. For one has now understood, felt, and experienced—lucidly—the exact meaning of that vague word “spiritual.” There is no confusion here of many different and differing cults; the intellect is no presented with contradictory theologies or rival organizational claims. The stillness lifts one to a stratosphere above all such non-sensical choices. Start your day with faith and expectancy, and then go out anticipating good things. #RandolphHarris 10 of 21

Trust and believe that circumstances will change and make your life easier and more enjoyable. Once you accept Jesus Christ and practice an attitude of gratitude, people will go out of their way to help you. You will be at the right place and the right time and receive your blessings. God wants to help you build your faith. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for,” reports Hebrews 11.1. Long have I called You, my Longanimous and Longevitous Lord, and long have I prepare myself, dumping all my Earthly desires into the spittoon. Long will I continue to desire to enjoy Your presence. As I recall, You spotted me long before I saw You. And so what recourse do I have but to bless You, O Lord, for all the mercies You have rained on me, as the Psalmist has said before me (106.45). What more is there for Your servant to do except to huddle profoundly in front of You and remind You of one’s ingrained villainy and vilety? Of all the wonderful people in Heaven and Earth, as the Psalmist has sung (40.5), there is no one like You. Your works are extravagantly good; Your judgements, extraordinarily fair, as the Psalmist has proclaimed (19.9); Your many providences, without bounds. Therefore, all praise and glory to You, O Wisdom of the Father, and may the cacophony of all creation praise You and bless You in chorus! We can confidently expect the favour of God. God usually meets us at our level of expectancy. That is why, in many ways, one’s expectations will set boundaries for one’s life. “According to your faith, be it done to you. Become what you believe,” reports Matthew 9.29. The glimpse gives a human either a revelation or a confirmation that something exists which transcends this ordinary life, that it is holy, beautiful, satisfying, and that one many commune with it. This glimpse is a human’s personal revelation of one’s divine possibilities. It is breath-taking and beautiful. One eagerly seeks its repetition. One will see what one really is—the “I” of everyday experience with the mysterious being behind it. #RandolphHarris 11 of 21

Only when one when one knows one’s ego as it is known in the Overself can a human be truly said to know oneself. The Overself’s light enters the understanding and enables one to perceive what humans like Jesus really meant when they spoke. The divine self reveals itself for a few thrilling moments and then draws back into the void where it dwells. However, the glimpse is enough to tell one that a higher kind of life is possible and that there is a being beyond the ego. The glimpse gives one a slight inking of what the term Overself means. It shows one—not as intellectual idea but as realized fact—something of the ideal toward which one shall strive. It is in these highest moments of indescribable bliss that a human may know what one truly is and how grand is the relationship that one bears to the Infinite Being. It is from such paradoxical moments that one learns both how insignificant one is and how great one is! It is a message of assurance, a communication of knowledge, and a whisper of trust in the Universal Mind. In these few glorious and luminous moments the truth reveals itself, not to the intellect, but to the inner being. With this experience of one’s own divinity, one discovers a meaning in life. Henceforth, one is able to take part consciously in the higher evolution which is inherent in it. Life announces its divine intention only in the deepest, most secret, and most silent part of our being. It is not felt as just another experience only but also as a truth, so illuminative is it. That is what faith is all about. Start believing that good things are coming your way, and they will! Do not allow circumstances or feelings to dull your enthusiasm for life and imprison you in a negative frame of mind. Expect to experience the greatness of God. The glimpse provides assurance that the Soul exists, that God is, that the purpose of human life must include spiritual fulfilment to be complete, and that the Good, the Beautiful, and the True are more enduring and more rewarding than the Bad, the Ugly, the Lie. #RandolphHarris 12 of 21

Thank You, Father, that You want me to get my hopes up, that You want me to start expecting good things to happen in my life, rather than worrying about what evil might come upon me. Where my faith is weak, please help me to grow stronger so I can trust Your for more and have what my faith expects. Whoever wishes to experiment in healing oneself or others need not be deterred by these provisos from trying to do so. One does not need to be an adept in self-actualization or a sage in philosophy to receive the power of grace. Technically, even the slightest realization of the principle involved may suffice to bring success. For the result is not one’s hands, but God’s. And partly because of this put partly because many physical ailments can be traced to their psychological equivalents in defective character, deep repentance is an additional factor of definite importance in such self-treatment. No human oneself, one’s ordinary self, is a real spiritual healer in the way another human could be a medical, herbal, magnetic, homeopathic, or psychotherapeutic healer. Spiritual healing belongs only in the providence of the Overself. The truth that it is not the ego which is instrumental in the higher forms of healing is made evident to every practising healer throughout one’s career. When Saint Augustine was dying, a sick man came to him and begged to be cured. Augustine replied that if he possessed any powers, he would have used them upon himself. However, the visitor said he had been told in a dream to ask Augustine to cure him by the laying on of hands. The saint yielded and followed the instruction. The man was healed. Yes it is a wonderful feeling, this which accompanies a glimpse of the higher self; but when it is also merged with a knowing, a beneficial perception beyond the need of discussion, interpretation, formulation, or judgement, it gives the philosophical seeker a certitude which is like a benediction. #RandolphHarris 13 of 21

Every human who passes through this experience and holds its memory, verifies for oneself that there is an Infinite Life-Power pervading the entire Universe—also that it is ever present, perfectly wise, and all-knowing. Its point of contact with one is one’s Overself. In that sudden moment of spiritual awareness, or that longer period of spiritual ecstasy, one identified oneself no more with the projection from Mind but with pure Mind itself. In that severance from its projection, the shadow becomes the Sun. During such unforgettable moments the Soul will speak plainly, if silently, to one. It may tell one about one’s true relationship to the Universe and to one’s fellow creatures. It will certainly tell one about Itself. It may separate one from one’s body and let one gaze down upon it as from a height, long enough to permit one to comprehend that the flesh is quite the poorest and least significant part of one. And perhaps best of all it will certainly fill one with the assurance that after one’s return to the World of lonely struggle and quick forgetfulness, It will still remain beside and behind one. If you think in negative terms, you will get negative results. If you think in optimistic terms, you will get beneficial results. That is the simple fact of an astonishing law of prosperity and success. No single truth is every sufficient, because the World is not simple. Any truth separated from its complementary truth is a half-truth. It is true that pride leads to self-sufficient individualism, the taking of credit and displacement of blame, and an intolerance of those “inferior.” However, let us not forget the complementary truth about the benefits of optimistic thinking. Jesus called us to self-denial: “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me”; but He did not call us to self-rejection. Far from devaluing our individual lives, He proclaimed their value. Being created in the image of God, we are more valuable than “the birds of the air” and the other animals for whom God cares. #RandolphHarris 14 of 21

Indeed, God’s valuing of each human life motivated Jesus’ kindness and respect toward those dishonoured in His time—women and children, Samaritans and Gentiles, leprosy victims and fancy women and men, the poor and the tax collectors. Recognizing that our worth is what we are worth to God—an agonizing but redemptive execution on a cross—therefore draws us to a self-affirmation that is rooted in divine love. This assumption of each person’s God given worth and dignity further spawned the idea of universal human rights. Without doubt, such feelings of self-worth pay dividends. People who feel good about themselves—who express a beneficial self-esteem—are generally less depressed, freer of certain ailments and drug abuse, more independent of peer pressure, and more persistent when facing tough tasks. Many clinicians report that underneath much of the human despair and disorder with which they deal is an impoverished self-acceptance, a sense of “I am worthless.” The harp-eyed psychology student will recognize that cause and effect are ambiguous in this correlation between misery and self-rejection. Perhaps miserable experiences cause feelings of worthlessness rather than the other way around. However, experiments not only indicate that inflated self-esteem can underlie conflict and violence, but that a lowered self-image can have negative consequences. Imagine yourself being temporarily deflated by the news that you scored poorly on an intelligence test or that some people you met earlier thought you were unappealing and unattractive. Might you react as experimental subjects often have—by disparaging others or even exhibiting racial prejudice as a way to restore your feelings of self-worth? The defensive, self-righteous pride that feeds contemptuous attitudes can itself be fed by the inner turmoil of self-doubt. People who are made to feel insecure and who therefore have a need to impress others are more likely to make scathing assessments of others’ work than are those who feel secure and comfortable with themselves. Mockery says as much about the mocker as the one mocked. #RandolphHarris 15 of 21

We saw how, as the Second Wave progressed, the family unit transferred many of its functions to other institutions—education to the school, care of the ill to hospitals, and so on. This progressive stripping away of the functions of the family unit was accompanied by the rise of romantic love. A First Wave person looking for a mate might properly have asked, “Is my proposed spouse a good worker? A good healer? Mentally stable? A good teacher for the children to come? Can we work together compatibly? Will she (or he) carry a full load or prove to be a shirker?” Peasant families actually asked “Is she strong, good at bending and lifting, or is she sickly and weak?” As the functions of the family were hived off during the Second Wave era, those questions changed. The family was no longer a combination of production team, school, field hospital, and nursing home. Instead, its psychological functions became more important. Marriage was supposed to supply companionship, procreation, warmth, and support. Soon this shift in the functions of the family was reflected in new criteria for choosing a mate. They were summed up in the single word love. It was love, the popular culture assured us, that makes the World go round. Of course, real life seldom lived up to romantic fiction. Class, social status, and income continued to play a role in the choice of a mate. However, all such considerations were supposed to be secondary to Love with a capita L. Tomorrow’s rise of the electronic cottage may very well overthrow this single-minded logic. Those who look ahead to working at home with a spouse, instead of spending the main part of their waking lives away, are likely to take more into consideration than simple pleasures of the flesh and psychological gratification—or social status, for that matter. They may begin to insist on Love Plus—pleasures of the flesh and psychological gratification plus brains (as their grandfathers once favoured brawn), love plus conscientiousness, responsibility, self-discipline, or other work-related virtues. #RandolphHarris 16 of 21

We may—who knows?—hear some John Denver of the future croon lyrics like: “I love your eyes, your cherry lips, the love that always lingers, your way with words and random blips, your skilled computer fingers.” More seriously, one can imagine at least some families of the future taking on additional functions rather than shedding them and serving as a multipurpose, rather than a narrowly specialized, social unit. With such a change the criteria for marriage, the very definition of love, would be transformed. The social unrest of the 1960s and 2020s, combined with the physical decline of the central cities and disillusionment over the proliferation of low-density suburbs, led American architects, planners, and policymakers to again look at new towns. With the central cities undergoing racial turmoil, financial and spiritual crisis, noise and air pollution, traffic congestion, crime, parking issues, corruption, and social disorganization, there was renewed interest in trying to recreate the older Victorian ideal of community by creating new towns. In a very American way, it was argued that new towns would provide not only new housing, but also a new social start. The postwar British new towns appeared to be social as well as economic successes, and American new towns, it was thought, would allow for the solving of the economic and racial problems of the city without creating more economically inefficient and socially isolated suburbs. As foreseen by urban planners and federal housing officials, new towns would provide a setting for a new beginning of planned communities that would provide the answer to suburban sprawl. New towns would offer both economic success and social justice in an environmentally attractive setting. New towns would give their residents “a second change, a redemption, to live a new life unencumbered by the sins of the past.” As during the Victorian age, the problems of the city were to be solved by abandoning the city and starting over. #RandolphHarris 17 of 21

The 1970s New Communities Act provided government guarantees for up to $50 million (inflation adjusted for 2021 $352,534,793.10 USD) of each developer’s bonds to finance the building of thirteen new towns. This was because building a new town required heavy front-end outlays for land and infrastructure before even a single house could be built. Private lenders were very reluctant to commit long-term funding to what appeared to be marginal economic ventures. Because of the British experience, it was assumed it would take a decade and a half for new towns to become self-supporting. By 1974 a total of $252 million (inflation adjusted for 2021 $1,398,354,645.03 USD) in federally guaranteed debitures had been issued. The first project to receive federal mortgage guarantees was the new town of Jonathan, to be built in rolling countryside some twenty-five miles southwest of Minneapolis. Jonathan received a guarantee of $21 million (inflation adjusted for 2021 $116,529,553.75 USD), but almost from the start the new town was in serious trouble. What was occurring in Jonathan was typical of the program as a whole. In 1973 the nation was hit with an oil crisis, and suddenly there was no market for homes in distant outer-ring new towns. At this crucial point the Ford Administration announced that all federal monies would be cut off, and new town would be left to sink or survive on their own. None survived, except Woodlands, 30 miles north of Houston. It survived because its developer also had natural-gas holdings. The usual pattern was for HUD to foreclose on the outstanding mortgages on the project, after which what remained would be sold to a private developer. Central-city mayors, far from being supporters of the new towns, were also strong lobbyists against providing funding, believing that money going to new towns would be take from them. They wanted the deferral focus to be on saving the cities, not on looking for alternatives to the city. #RandolphHarris 18 of 21

The total training and balanced endeavour of philosophy are enough by themselves to avoid any danger from identification with the body. However, takes an additional precaution against it by introducing the following movements or positions: “I am not this limited body. It is my servant. I am infinite Mind.” That good posture is one of the determinants of a purified body many seem too bold an assertion to be credible even to many who may be able to grant that it is one of the determinants of physical fitness. Let them remember that the spine is the trunk of a tree, the central nerve system, crowned by the brain, the organ of thought. A proper self-respect will of itself straighten the posture and remove the sag in the middle. However, the opposite is just as true. A proper posture will add self-respect to the character. The poise of the head, the posture of the spine, and the functioning of the breath determine every attitude of the whole body. By lowering he center of the body’s gravity in all its activities, whether sitting, waking, or standing, we are raising its ability o obey the will and the mind. Proper posture does not mean stiff poster. The back should be carried as erect as possible. As it is ordinarily and unconsciously carried, the vertebrae are pressed together so that the spinal column is actually shortened. However, as it ought to be carried, they should be pulled away from each other so that the spinal column is actually lengthened. There is a common idea, probably derived from now outdated military drills, that the right posture involves lifting up and throwing back the shoulders and stiffening the knees. This is wrong as it throws too much strain on the body and fatigues the nerves. What the head initiates, the remainder of the body follows. This, in the case of the developed human, is true of what lies inside the head. However, concerning the physical head itself, it is true of all humans, developed and undeveloped. #RandolphHarris 19 of 21

The relation of consciousness to the ego expresses itself in the use of the ego. The use expresses itself in the relation between the head and the trunk. Beware of the student’s stoop. The writer whose head is drooped and whose neck is bent by desk work is not in the best posture to generate inspired ideas. This training of the spine has some valuable secondary and incidental results. Although these are connected with the improvement of health and eradication of disease, and as such are not the direct object of the training, their value remains great one for sufferers. For instance, weak and painful backs can be the result of several different causes but one of them is faulty posture when walking. The following way of carrying the torso is bad; drawing the shoulders and chest too far back and pushing he abdomen too far forward. This curves the spine in the wrong direction and unnecessarily throws too much weigh upon it. The spine is so delicately built up it is affected for the worse by the soft beds in which they body sleeps for several hours nightly. A harder surfaced bed is better for it. It is not a necessary accompaniment of spirituality that a human be weak and sickly in body. Those who suffer from spinal troubles or hip diseases should not practise any physical exercises without previous permission from their physician. To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one’s distance; to understand its form, one must move around it; at noon and at midnight, in sun and in rain, in snow and in storm, in summer and in winter, and in all the other seasons, one who can see the mountain like this comes near to the life of the mountain. Mountains grow and decay, they breathe and pulsate with life. They attract and collect invisible energies from their surroundings the forces of the air, of the water, of electricity and magnetism; they create winds, clouds, thunderstorms, rains, waterfalls and rivers. #RandolphHarris 20 of 21

Mountains fill their surroundings with active life and give shelter and food to innumerable beings. Such is the greatness of mighty mountains. A glimpse may exalt the human and give one inspiration, but above everything else it attests for one the fact that one is fundamentally Spirit. This is the commonest kind of Glimpse but there is another kind which, in addition to doing these things, opens mysterious doors and provides inlooks to the working of secret laws and occult processes in Nature, the World and the life of the human. This kind of glimpse may fitly be termed “a revelation.” One sees the Universe as one might see a great mosaic picture opening before one. This knowledge best comes to a human by interior revelation rather than by exterior. Thus the existence of a higher possibility for humans, which or ethical sense demands and to which our metaphysical reasoning points, is confirmed at last by our best experience. All that one now experieces will be seen by the glow of is better light, while the memory of all that one experienced in the past, however distressing or vile, will be transmuted into effective educational forms. The light of truth removes the falsities in one’s World view, and diminishes the feebleness in one’s character. It brings one a new strength. One knows that one has a place in the cosmos, that one is part of the World-Idea. Hoshana Rabba calls to mind the colourful and joyous ceremony of the Drawing of Water for the alters of the Temple. On Hoshana Rabba we pray that we may be worthy of God’s sustaining care and that He may confer upon us the bounties of nature. Hence, many prayers of Hoshana Rabba plead for the forgiveness of sin. The Service takes on a solemn character of Yom Kippur. In his mood there is knowledge without thoughts, understanding without words. What goes on within one’s ego could be better seen, and judged, if one could climb above it for a short time. This is just what the glimpse enables one to do. It clears the sight. #RandolphHarris 21 of 21

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