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I shook my head. "Are you sure that this would even be possible?" I interjected. "Maybe her husband Fritz wasn't her only concern." I suggested to Helen that Erica might have had a strong religious background and that her father might have been a minister of the church. In this case, her stepping out of line might have caused an Earthquake.
"What has this got to do with anything?" answered Helen sharply. She suggested that in such a case Erica would have had to tell her church relatives that their standpoint is invalid, that their standpoint is criminally dangerous in a nuclear armed world, and that anything that prevents the unfolding of the Principle of Universal Love has no justification to exist. "It should not be allowed to exist." That is what she should have said in this case.
Helen added a few moments later that in such a case Erica would have had to confront her church people, even her own beliefs. She would have to ask what is more important, the defense of human existence and civilization on the basis of what is true, or the defense of an ancient doctrine that is upheld by decree, rather than by it being rooted in universal truth. "Erica would have had to ask herself bluntly and unmistakably: Which of the two approaches is a valid option for us to follow for assuring the survival of humanity?"
"We all must ask ourselves that question," I said to Helen, "but we don't even consider going as far as asking ourselves what is valid and what is invalid."
"Let me tell you a story from one of the Gospels," Helen replied a while later. "A man had died, and according to the law of the land his brother had married the diseased person's wife. But soon, he died also. Consequently the woman was married again to the next brother, and so forth, until the last of the seven brothers had died, and the woman died also. Christ Jesus was asked: Whose wife shall she be in the resurrection? They all have had her?"
Helen told me that Christ Jesus' answer was that they had asked an invalid question, because in heaven, at a higher state of perception, they will neither marry nor be given into marriage as their concept of marriage has become perfect and universal and all-embracing like that of the angels, anchored in truth. "He should have said that all humanity is really already married to one-another as children of a common humanity and a common human Soul, and that we should make an effort to recognize this truth. Helen suggested that Jesus should also have added to his answer that the concept of marriage isn't invalid, but merely needs to become enriched and put onto a higher platform that brings us closer to the truth where love is a universal principle. "Only the invalid aspects that divide and isolate us, and create barriers against one-another and against our love for one-another, will thereby fall away," said Helen. She explained that in real terms marriage is nothing more than what the world implies: a process of coming closer together, of embracing one-another; of overcoming division and isolation. "We start out small," she said, "but we go on from there to reach for what is really true and acknowledge it in life."
Helen sighed. "We are a sad people. We starve ourselves, and do this with a bright future at out grasp. Maybe some day the sadness will be overcome. Today, we have the capability to stand on the moon. In a decade we may stand on Mars. Eventually we will break the isolation of space by distance and visit other worlds, like the potential worlds in the Alpha Centauri system for instance, which is only slightly over four light-years distant. In the process we will enrich our own planet and ourselves as we draw ever more riches out of our humanity. In time we will enrich the universe with the light that we have within us. "That's what the term, marriage, means," she added moments later. "It should outward focused to bring light to the world, not being inward focused. We are married to one another universally as human beings, to love and honor, to support and to cherish, to uplift and enrich our living, till the next Ice Age poses no longer a sting to us. But before our universal marriage can unfold we need to learn to extend a hand across the table and bridge the distance that separates us heart to heart, which seems almost infinite at the present time. That's what all of this means, Peter.
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