COLLEGIUM

JOSEPH MATHEWS

January 17, 1969

Problem of white man.. was in tyranny of spirit... permeated Africa with it.

New Social Vehicle and New Religious Mode.

New Social Vehicle is going to sit in New Religious Mode like a child in a womb.

New Religious Mode has to do with solitaries ­­ corporates; corporate­­solitaries. The I­Thou concept together.

New mode of humanness.

Task -- to utterly ground each step in raw edge of humanness ­­ consciousness of consciousness.

You have lived in 50 years of the most intensive probing of spirit dimensio ­ .

Have to trust broad sweep of history; you must trust classic=1 formulatio44 of human mind ­­ grasp that within antiquated … such as mind, soul, spirit ... those categories hold together in a formal style a complex formula of raw humanness...Philosophy recovered through this kind of awareness.


push through ­­ be aware not talking about contemplation, meditation, prayer but a state of being ­­ find equivalent terms of our own society for those states of being. Today it as:

Contemplation ­­ Mystery, Contingency. Has to do with coming into or existence or going out of existence.

Meditation -- Humanness is Sociality -­ we are in society or we are not

Human.

Prayer ­­ Freedom. Action before action human freedom ­­ not free will.

I am Freedom a ball of creativity thrust into history.


Cultural

Economic

Political



Classical formulations that wrap up human experience in formalized categories.

The vows ­­ self­conscious relationship in corporate­solitary syndrome as C­M­P are to solitary­corporate concept.