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August 19, 1974 To all the trustees of The
Stelle Group I have engaged myself in a journey of a couple thousand
miles and have waited six days for an audience with the trustees. I came in response
to what appear to be disturbing trends within the administration of both The
Stelle Group and Stelle Industries. Inasmuch as I am responsible for the
actions of you who I have appointed as agents to act in accordance with my
commission, I see it as my duty to test the tenor of the Stelle enterprise
when indicated. The thinly veiled runaround I encountered to prevent open
discussion, your refusal to accept my telephone calls or respond to messages,
and the one-up-manship employed to bespeak your “power” and “importance” over
me seems to me an increased determination to shut down communication. The
self-righteous close mindedness of your directive dated May 17 and August 14
cause me grave concern. Aside from the insulting language of the presumably reasonable
excuses, they lend credence to the second-hand information that the trustees
regard me to under the influence of the Black Mentalists or, at best,
emotionally disturbed so as to be incompetent. That, of course, allows you to
do whatever you please, and to shut your minds to truths you prefer to
dismiss. A genuine pursuit of truth by a student of the universe will
eventually lead him into realms he could never have foresee. Over and over in
the years of our acquaintance I have broached new and “far-out” subjects only
to hear your protests of “I can’t believe that” and “no way!” Yet a few have
heard me even though the trustees couldn’t, at least at first you couldn’t
hear. But more and more you try to dictate to the cosmos, you do not
hear me nor can I pass along to you the wisdom which my predecessors expect
me to follow. Your world and mine have grown quite distant because you refuse
to come along with me. You repudiate me and seek to silence me; by my
conforming to your gag ad ridculum
you will learn that you have imposed reciprocal repudiation in spite of my
desire to the contrary. Smug politicians are really timid souls who live by
sterile rules and make it their business to interfere with other people’s
progress since it could upset their parochial interests. You grossly
interfere in my environment and presume to abridge my Egoic growth and
experiential proofs. I am charged with the task of education, not of
entrenching rules dogmatically. The murmurs and rumblings are quite
justifiably rising within the ranks of The Stelle Group in accordance with
the laws of social science expressed the first essay of Observations II.
The silences of the afraid and resentful are first relieved explosively. Best
be sensitive rather than repressive. Since you cannot abide me in Stelle, you
are now the spiritual leaders too in my absence. I am given to understand that the trustees will know when
I am well enough to return to assist you. I am tempted to make predictions,
but I must be content to let you play your game through. However you twist
and turn, your longevity in office will last not one hour longer than I let
it. Tom Valentine informs me that henceforth I am invited to correspond with
you at a distance by written matter only. Whether or not that is profitable
for any of us I think can be determined by the truthfulness, care and
precision in your reply to this letter. I earnestly suggest that your replies
be group efforts in order to avoid the inconsistencies between your May 17
directive and August 14 decision. I anticipate that all my letters, including
this one, be responded to on a sentence-by-sentence basis. The main test
question, however, requires a frank resolution of the following: How is it
that whoever of the trustees is authorized to invoke a directive in the name
of Christ does not demand to have stricken from the August 14 letter the
second half of the third paragraph before putting his or her signature to
such blatant arrogance? I don’t see much point n your sending replies that
you didn’t all wholeheartedly agree to in entirety. If one of four dissents,
let him so note it on an given sentence. Let us deal frankly instead of with
chivalrous cover-ups. I am only irritated when I speak my Truth and receive
silence or assertions which do not square with the Trustees’ traditional ways
as a reply. You may envision that keeping me in the dark because your
actions are no longer within my need to know gives you a power over me.
However, I eventually find out. As you begin to feel all-powerful, the
temptation to place yourselves above the law of the land can increase. I
refer specifically to your refusal to honor a contract with me concerning
royalties. Moreover, I authorized Jim to increase Gail’s salary from $5000 to
up to $7,500 annually only to find out from my lawyer that Gay and Dawn have
been left improvided for. At the time I left, Gail had $4,500 in notes and
bonds. Has she had to spend these already? Diverting money from one person to
another’s profit without a legal court order is illegal. What’s the
point in exposing yourself to criminal action? I’ve already complied with
your letters advising me to get lost, am I now also to be thought of as your
enemy? You may become more and more repressive in keeping me from doing my
job, but I will continue to monitor you n more subtle ways now that I’ve
become aware of the necessity for doing so. When I left in April, I advised
Jim that I elected the members of the board of directors of Stelle
Industries, and would further elect directors as needed. In spite of my
arrangements to telephone him every week or two to discuss problems, he never
indicated a need for further director’s nominations or elections. I told him
that I would likely follow the suggestions made by him or the directors as a
group as to who should be added to the board. Coincident with the May 17
directive from the Trustees I learned that Gail was staying on as director,
even though she was not elected, until her successor could take office, and
that Jim and Gail were announced as the new Voting Trustees at the May 7
director/managers meeting. That blatant usurpation took all the hear out of
me. Other acts of concealment of truth from the members-at-large have
troubled me greatly as well. Tom Valentine believes there is some confusion
about the Voting Trust status at the present time and has suggested that you
elucidate me to precisely what happened and how you could legally get away
with taking over at that time. Please direct your reply to this letter in care of Tom
Valentine. I will try to find some way to pick it up from him. I would
appreciate your forwarding to him my driver’s license application pre-printed
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