"Her second river is named, Gihon, which she defined as 'the rights of woman acknowledged morally, civilly, and socially.' Her sense of woman appears to go far beyond the sexual division of mankind. It appears to be representing the image of mankind that John the Revelator described as 'a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.' If that brightness is the unfolding image of mankind, then we are dealing with a humanity of great power, great brilliance, with a future barely imaginable. And with this tall image of mankind come tall rights that must be 'acknowledged morally, civilly, and socially.' One of these rights is the right of unimpeded development, individually; and civilly as the right to the cooperatively aided universal development of efficient nuclear power, expanding industrialization, advanced transportation infrastructures, and so on. The development of nuclear power isn't just a nice little necessity for society to get going as a means for dealing with energy shortages. The large-scale development of nuclear power is a human right as a stepping stone to the kind of energy rich world that a humanist renaissance requires, which itself is another universal human right. These right need to be acknowledged, first by us individually, then being expressed as missions of government, science, and industry. And socially, too, the rights of the human being as a reflective divine being -- closed with the sun -- takes us far from slavery, even self-slavery, all the way to the right to express our creative powers for the enrichment of all mankind and future ages as immortal beings. Our claiming the right for an immortal existence has a far greater impact in the political world than we may ever realize. Here we find an expression of the universal marriage of mankind coming to light. My friend relates this to the sunrise.

      "Her third river, Hiddekel, is defined by her as 'divine Science understood and acknowledged'.' Ever since mankind was recognized as a divine being by reflection, 'made in the image and likeness of God,' a development has begun of the science of this discovered aspect of our humanity. The development of this science takes us back in time all the way to the early Greek Classical culture and its revival after the Peloponnesian War, by Socrates, Plato, and others, that became the precursor for Christianity and beyond. Indeed, this divine science, the science of the divine reflection in mankind, has a long history with profound scientific breakthroughs along the way. As the professor pointed out to you the very founding of the USA as a rebel republic against the force of empire is the result of the advancing concepts of this particular aspect science. For example it was recognized by the patriots of humanity that mankind's subjection to tyranny is not the legitimate state of a human society, that a human society has the inherent power built into its humanity to claim its freedom and its self-determination. That was understood. That was acknowledged. And that was what powered the American Revolution.  My friend relates this river with the heat of the day.

      "Her fourth river has a familiar name, Euphrates, which she defined in part as 'divine Science encompassing the universe and man; the true idea of God; a type of the glory which is to come; metaphysics taking the place of physics; the reign of righteousness.' Let's just look at one aspect,  Peter, that of 'metaphysics taking the place of physics.' Here my friend puts the idea put on the table that metaphysics always supersede mere physics in the development of civilization. The entire platform of civilization does indeed rest on essentially mind-created constructs of a type that simply does not exist in the natural world, but is instead a profound aspect of the human world that enables a society of over six billion people to exist on this planet, many with a high level status of living, 99.9% of which would not exist at all without these mind-created constructs. The natural world is not a rich world. Mankind lives in a created world. Poverty exists whenever the creative potential is denied.

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche