Helen said that my very presence with her that night, alone with her in her apartment, even involving deep reaching sexual intimacies, was the end result of the same kind of process. "It all happened naturally, because we created a truthful foundation for this to be possible, based on simple scientific discoveries that made the seemingly impossible, possible." She suggested that what happened between us, and was still happening, was the culmination of a long chain of events that began four hundred years earlier with the redevelopment of the Principle of Universal Love. "Countless people have contributed to that chain of events by which the USA was established," said Helen. "You're being here with me is indirectly due to all of these people's efforts in fighting for the Renaissance ideal of universal love. What is unfolding here tonight is a New Renaissance, isn't it? The onus is on us in our time, to carry forward the fight of the renaissance pioneers and to save civilization and humanity as a whole. That, of course, is the second reason why you are here with me tonight, to learn to understand the meaning of universal love, which is fundamental to this fight."



      Helen suggested during our conversation that the Treaty of Westphalia represented a tremendous pioneering step forward, in recognizing the universality of love. She suggested that we don't even come close to that anymore. "Love has been lost sight of on such a vast scale," said Helen, "that we couldn't recreate the Treaty of Westphalia if we wanted to, without having to rediscover the nature of universal love all over again, on which it was built."

      I agreed with Helen. To my knowledge, the Treaty of Westphalia had never been duplicated to the present day. "It really was a peace treaty," I said to Helen "and possibly the only 'real' peace treaty that has ever been put together. With it the peace of Europe was won." I agreed with Helen that none of the other peace treaties that I know of, especially those in recent history, are really peace treaties in that fundamental sense. "For instance, the treaty that ended the war between the British Empire and the newly formed United States of America," I said, "wasn't a peace treaty at all, but an instrument for imposing free-trade looting on America and France, which promptly wrecked their economies. Likewise the peace treaty that ended the British Empire's Opium Wars, wasn't a peace treaty, really. It imposed the open door policy for the Free Trade importation of British Opium into China. With that so-called peace treaty, a travesty really, the empire looted China and destroyed the Chinese nation. Neither was the Versailles Treaty that ended World War I, a real peace treaty. It was another travesty designed to wreck the German economy, or whatever was left of it after the war. It created the foundation for an economic desperation that traditionally brings madman into power, as indeed, it brought Adolf Hitler to power. In a very real sense, the Peace of Westphalia has never been duplicated in hundreds of years," I added.

      "With one exception, Peter," Helen interjected. "The exception has begun here, tonight. And we need to ask ourselves in that light why the Treaty of Westphalia has become irrelevant, Peter. Why has every Renaissance so far failed? Did you ever ask yourself that question?"

      I shook my head. "No one can answer those questions," I replied.

      "I can!" she said and began to grin. "It is really quite simple. The Renaissance failed, because the reverse paradigm shift back to Greek classical tradition, which created the Renaissance, didn't go deep enough. It wasn't carried all the way down to the grassroots level of society's social existence as we did tonight, and still do. The historic movements of renaissance didn't cause a revolution at the level of the heart. They had caused political revolutions, possibly the most profound political revolutions in history, but the resulting magnificent structures were all built on sand. They represented something for which no foundation existed in society, in terms of people's relationships to one-another as human beings. These periods of renaissance weren't periods of revolution at the deep grassroots level. Without a foundation, every Renaissance became vulnerable to imperial erosion and so became lost. It took Venice less than a hundred years to shut the Golden Renaissance down, beginning in the 1500s. The same happened again at the time of the Treaty of Westphalia. These two profound structures of renaissance were comparable to a forty story high-rise building, built in a sea of mud. The idea of Universal Love and Universal Sovereignty never filtered down to the grassroots social level to become a foundation to support the superstructure. It didn't touch the marriage level, or the sexual level. People remained as divided and isolated as before."

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