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“MAN IS AN ETERNAL BEING . . . PART OFTHE UNIVERSAL EXPLOSION”
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STOCKHAUSEN, KARLHEINZ. Two items: Typed Letter Signed,
“Stockhausen,” to Representative Seymour Halpern * Photograph dated and Signed,
“Stockhausen / 1972.” The letter, explaining how to achieve a lasting world peace. With
several holograph corrections.The photograph, bust portrait by Perrine, showing him with
eyes cast downward. Inscribed in the image, middle right. 6
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Kürten, 30 July 1972; Np, 1972
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30 July:“There will be no lasting world-peace for a very long time.
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There will be only peace within the rare souls who live in complete harmony with the Divine.
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One aspect of the Divine is rebirth in death, Phoenix coming out of the fire.
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There is only one way to increase the number of those individuals, who are able to leave in peace: the
number of human beings being born must correspond to the number of human beings who die . . . .
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I see a growth in population . . . and then a mass suicide . . . . Only after that catastrophy [sic] the
regulations of a global population control will be accepted.
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. . . [T]he whole period of the time of Aquarius, there will be wars on a smaller scale of mutual
destruction: the war between China and Russia, in which America and Japan will join . . . ; then the
big wars . . . between the Africans and the rest; and then . . . the big wars between the three remaining
hegemonies fighting for the last remaining sections of this globe which will not have dried out.
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The main task for the politicians of today would be not to promise an ever lasting peace . . . but
rather to give a good example how one can find the inner peace . . . .They should give an example,
that man is an eternal being and an atom of the universe and that he is part of the universal explo-
sion, destruction and renewal.”