STOCKHAUSEN KARLHEINZ Two items Typed Letter Signed Stockhau

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"MAN IS AN ETERNAL BEING . . . PART OF THE UNIVERSAL EXPLOSION" 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 1/2x9 1/2 inches; minor scattered dings. Kürten, 30 July 1972; Np, 1972

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30 July: "There will be no lasting world-peace for a very long time.
"There will be only peace within the rare souls who live in complete harmony with the Divine.
"One aspect of the Divine is rebirth in death, Phoenix coming out of the fire.
"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 . . . .
"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.
". . . [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.
"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 explosion, destruction and renewal."