Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-10


Perfect State. Such laws as there are will
exist only for the purpose of being violated,
as people are so in the habit OF vlolat1ng laws
that it would be pity to take that simple
pleasure from them.
A CHECK AND BALANCE
Any one who wishes to violate a law, how
ever will be COMPEL ID to withdraw to dis
lance from his fellowmen, so that the viola
ton will not interfere with them.
Everv citizen of The Almost Perfect State
will be law unto himself. The violation OF
law, therefore, will be an internal row within
the ego Of each individual; necessary thing
if the individual is to grow into sometn1ng
better -.
Self-improvement will be one of the in
and-outdoor sports of the A. P. S.-out any
one who talks about self-improvement, up
lifts and so forth will be boiled In asphalt.
CIVIC CENTERs l
The asphalt obtained by boiling these per-
sons will be used to pave central courts in
the chief cities of the A. P. S.
Then persons of Levitt and beauty and un-
Outstanding will come and dance on the
asphalt.
LEVITY
Levity is the result Of spiritual ana
aesthetic poise. A person who is cropping and
struggling and fighting for such poise is wor-
ried and grave All progress is toward levity
through gravity. Weight, then wings. But
it is the wings which are the goal, not the
weight. Weight in itself is not the thing
desired or to be desired.
People who understand only weight and
gravity are trivial half-people. The really
serious persons are those who know about
levity and wings. "a
II a series Of frightful biological massa-
cres is necessary to clear the world OF too
much gravity and prepare it for new species
vowed to levity and joy, let the gods attend
to that It is for such things that we have
created the gods. If they fail us, we will
late new ones. But it would be mistake
to assist too gravey and consciously in the
creation Of new gods and new species. 1t 10
not something that can be done by commit
tee meetings.
HOW TO GET IT
Hug the thought to the solar plexus, say
nothing about it and nature will do the rest.
Suppose nature doesn't?
Very we'll, then, nature will have to be
changed.
In the creation of new gods to assist US In
the creation of new species we may some
time stumble onto the idea that we are the
gods.
ADVICE AND ADMONlI1ON
If we should find that out, let us not be
too grave about it. Lot us recognize that our
wings are to frivol with. The goal OF all
civilization, all religious thought and all that
sort of thing is simply to Have Good Time.
But man gets so solemn over the process
that he forgets the end.
Law and anarchy, order and chaos, weight
and wings are necessary to make up the unlf
verse. Duality is the essence or all mytnss
| 0fn
! ress seems to be toward an equilibrium. Per-
haps it is toward the explosion which follows
an instant Of equilibrium. Equilibrium at
I! tanned by the touching OF the negative and
positive poles of the eternal paradox may
vanish in the spark evoked, and the universe
fly to Dust and flinders, to start the process
Of creating itself all over again.
Maybe creating itself is all the fun it gets.
You should worry about the explosion that
comes the instant after quilibrium-equil1b-
rum which is the goal Of all things ana
which is at the same time unthlnkaDle anu
i'm ossible-you should worry about this ex-
plosion It will be long time coming; you
, should worry about 1t.
That is, If you want to worry, 1t Is the only.
thing in the universe you have to worry
about
wings.
Not wings to fly solemniy with. Wings
to frivol with You will not worry them INTO
existence You will get them by acting as II
you already have them and thinking you have
them.
Perhaps there are people who do not want:
wings very we'll, there is place for Them
too. They shall be the tails to our kite. And
all this is implicit in the story of Martha ana
Nary. Martha who had weight and the
sense of duty; Mary, who flew straight TO-
ward joy because she had wings.
Unless you have levity and wings you snall
not enter The Almost Perfect State.
Some day Aunt Prudence Hecklebury and !.
the Old Soak will meet in our office, and we :
will find it difficult to explain TO the one |.
what we see in the other. (.
The way to gain a reputation for geniallty
and good nature Is tc let people see you
Guild be mean as HI If you took nation .
We suppose King Constantine will now
write his Memoirs also.
Copyright, 1929 /.
MY FAVORITE STORY