"What hope do you see, looking ahead," I asked Helen.

      "There is no hope without love, Peter. I see a new Dark Age approaching that I must fight to prevent," said Helen.

      She asked me to look at our world with open eyes. Are we not back in the late 1500s again? We have created the same kind of world that existed then. We are controlled by the same axioms. Love has been banished from the world. Love is deemed to apply only in the smallest private domain, at the most intimate level. Love no longer applies in the world of commerce. It has become a dog-eat-dog world in which vicious competition rules. The same is happening in politics and anywhere else.

      She pointed out that love no longer applies in the world of finance either. There, people steal from one-another and loot the nations. Then she laughed. "Love, certainly isn't reflected in today's politics," she said.

      She explained that most democracies have been taken over by the old Empire for imperial objectives. That is why the oligarchy promotes democracy. They can use democracy as a front to buy themselves the power they want. With that power they rule the world, and they do it the fascist way as in all the dark periods of history. We have already roaming bands in Africa, raping the continent for its natural resources and killing the people, in order to enrich the various empires. You can't find a trace of love for the African people in the corridors of power anywhere in the world, only genocide. But it isn't just Africa that is being destroyed. The less developed nations of the so-called third world don't fare any better. They are being destroyed with looting and with debt-building schemes to the point that their populations are starving to death. Worldwide terrorism, as the chaos created by empire, makes sure that love stays well out of sight. The various empires finance terrorism on an ever-larger sale, for their combined goal of destroying the nation-states, especially those that still seem to function and have a future. Terrorism is nothing more than irregular warfare arranged by imperial forces to destabilize society in order to prevent its self-development. The methods may be new, but the objective is ancient. Terrorism is simply the most inexpensive and efficient kind of warfare there is, short of nuclear war. Terrorism has been used by the imperial oligarchy for countless centuries, especially religious terrorism, such as stoning people to death or torturing them to death during the age of the Inquisition in defense of dogma. And for us in the modern world, there is no love lost either by the imperial oligarchy. We have the terror of nuclear war looming on the horizon, while in our cities hospitals and schools are being shut down for lack of funds as huge flows of money are pouring into the financial bubbles and into the staging of wars that are designed to hide the bankruptcy of the imperial world-order. So tell me, what sets the present age apart from that of the late 1500s and early 1600s?"

      "Nothing," I replied.

      "You are absolutely right. Even the same ideology still rules. Thomas Hobbes is still admired, who bluntly states that love has no place in the world. He said that it may be tolerated in the small private domain, in the smallest way possible, if it has to be tolerated at all. As in the past, today's Hobbesians are still proud to announce that love mustn't rule anywhere, especially in politics, finance, commerce, religion, or international law. And society hails that crap and banishes love! Isn't that insane, Peter?"

      "It isn't insane from their standpoint, Helen. If they banish love in their war of empire versus civilization they banish civilization, they banish the Sublime that unfolds into civilization."

      "They banish God," said Helen. "While love is only one aspect of God, it is an important one. My American friend recognizes six more, that she all regards as synonymous, a set of scientific synonyms for God. She defines God as Principle, Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Spirit, Mind. Those are the Sublime elements that are greater then ourselves, which Hobbes can never overturn, but he can get us to close our eyes to them , Peter. Of course, if mankind is to be understood as the fullest representative of the "Sublime," or God, a scientific exploration of what constitutes God is required in order to develop a more-rigorous understanding of the nature of our humanity. While mythology has muddied these waters, science tends to cut through the mud and bring to light some of the basic elements. That is what my friend has done, because we can no more contemplate the nature of the human beings without considering those concepts that only a human being can understand, than we can consider nuclear physics without considering the various 'invisible' forces that give an atom its shape, such as electric forces, electromagnetic forces, the weak forces, and the still weaker forces of mass. These forces are expressed in an atom, but they reflect something greater. They reflect a variety of harmonizing principles that are incredibly intelligently arranged in their interaction without which the universe would not exist. Nuclear physics cannot be understood without a consideration of the universal principles that are expressed in the atomic structures, but which are greater than the structures themselves. Likewise the human being cannot be understood without a variety of aspects that we see expressed in our humanity, but which are greater than ourselves, and which nevertheless can be scientifically explored in order to gain a better understanding and appreciation of our own nature. Thus the usage of the term 'principle' must reflect this harmonizing quality and creative power that we see reflected in the universe. It renders such concepts as the "principle of evil" or the concept of "counteracting principles" as fundamentally false. A lot of sophistry is built on these false concepts that evidently need to be swept out of that way by an unfolding scientific sense of Principle as sublime and divine.

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