The First Cycle of Letters to Cynthia (Harris).

On Tribe, Egypt and Israel in order to find direction in our Era. 1943-1944. With insertions from 1939, 1946, 1947, and 1950. [1. Geography and History or Spaces and Times (February 7, 1943), 10 pp. /  2. The Family: Male and Female create Home or Space; Old and Young create Epoch or Time (February 13, 1943), 11 pp. / 3. Government, the Viscera of the Body Politic; The vital goal of history is the creation of one common speech; History is the triumph of the Singular over the Plural (February 22, 1943), 15 pp. / 4. History as the enlarged Self; You learn history, you cannot learn anything from history (March 11 and 12, 1943), 17 pp. / 5. The Future of our Era: I. “Truth, Trust, True. The Belonging to an Era is demanding a Decision between Traject and Preject”; II. Our Era (March 21 and 25, 1943), 31 pp.6. The Era of Department-history is coming to an end; The real pressures to become an understanding individual and the finality of history (April 5, 1943), 26 pp. / 7. War and Art ; The graven images of the victors;  The Body an Army at the price of death;  Idealism and Materialism as Fire and Ashes; Tribe – Empire – Israel and the inverted sequence, Church – State – Society (April 21, 1943), 14 pp. / 8. Any order for which nobody is willing to die is doomed; The Historian’s Obligation” (April 28, 1943), 9 pp. (5 + 4 inserted pp.) / 9. The Yaruros of the Capanaparo River;  Using and commenting on the published materials of Vincenzion Batrulle (May 4, 1943), 38 pp. / 10. ENVOY (July 9, 1943), 2 pp. with insertion: I. The Secret of the Temple or Underwriting the Sky (ca. 1947), 29 pp., and  II. Modern Man’s Disintegration and the Egyptian Ka. (1939), 15pp.11. On Method (July 9, 1943), pp. 2-21, with insertion: 1. Generalisations. The Calendar. Metanoia [originally 23rd letter] (February 24, 1946), 22 pp. (There is an earlier version with 9 pp. The insertion in this version is on pp. 12-19); 2. 24th letter (May 27, 1946), Church and State, 5 pp.; 3. Two Reflections on the Role of Egypt [Preface, p. 2: I. Sun or Horizon. The Distribution of Cosmic and of Historical Facts in Egypt’s Orientation, pp. 2-24; II. Eye of Horus? Eye for Osiris? The Dialectics between Clans and Empire in Egypt’s Liturgy, pp. 24-38 (March 1950);  4. Superbody, Supermind, Supersoul [originally 22nd letter], no date, 21 pp. /  12(a). Catastrophe as Origin of Society (July 14, 1943), 4 pp.; 12(b). The Cross of Reality. Tribe, Empire, and Israel (July 21, 1943), 12 pp. / 13. Introduction to the Origin of Civilisation (July 22, 1943), 5 pp. / 14. Speech and Writ overcoming Death and Distance (August 10, 1943), 27 pp. (23 + 4 inserted pp.: 8a, 9a, 11a, 19a). / 15. The Task of Settlement (Fall 1943), 24 pp. (21 + 3 insert pp.: 9a, 10a, 10b). /16. Patience. I. 4 questions answered. II. 1. Set, the indispensable (p. 8); 2. The Djed Pillar (p. 12); 3. Set’s Place in Egypt (p. 24); 4. Set, the d…d. (p. 32) (November 11, 1943), 45 pp. (42 + 3 inserted pp.: 16a, 18a, 41a) / 17. A World of Gods (November 11, 1943), 8 pp. /  18. Writing versus Speaking (November 19, 1943), 5 pp. / 19. How the Skyworld became observable (no date),  21 pp. with an appendix of 11 pp. / 20. Chapter on Israel (February 25, 1944), 31 pp. / 21. Hitler and Israel, or On Prayer (October 19, 1944), 21 pp. (17 + 4 inserted pp.: a, 1a, 2a, 3a).Reel 7, Item 378. – 1943