Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.1:

Unpublished aphorisms

Item 1 - [01] Other Conjectures (not Conjectures of G Bystander)

First Lines:  Course of meditations on "Christian in the world", ie- myself, monk, hermit in relation to the world

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  5

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Includes a line of music in gregorian chant, neume, notation.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 2 - [02] Technology and regression

First Lines:  Technology surrounds man with a new artificial "nature". In the beginning man was immersed in nature

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  4

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Thoughts on Max Weber, etc.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 3 - [03] The person

First Lines:  Human nature contains within itself a seed, a capacity for unique development for a fruit of freedom

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 4 - [04] St. Anselm

First Lines:  The whole understanding of A depends on how one interprets his 'fides quaerens intellectum'.

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Double-sided sheet with some notes from "Letter to a Southern Xtian [Christian]".

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 5 - [05] Letter to a Southern Xtian. [Letter to a Southern Christian.]

First Lines:  The loneliness of conscience is the inescapably evil situation, in which one cannot keep having

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  See also the verso of note on St. Anselm.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 6 - [06] Conjectures

First Lines:  Time as Satan- i.e. the past as accuser of present freedom- inhibiting freedom with logic. What was,

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  "Time as Satan", "Time is money", and "The static idea of tradition".

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 7 - [07] More Conjectures

First Lines:  We insult beings by placing our value on them and saying that they must be only what they mean to us

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a