"AIDS probably wasn't invented on purpose, Ushi," I replied. "It probably came out of the caldron of poverty. However, isn't it interesting what is happening in the context of poverty, Ushi? The closer we come to implementing the Principle of Universal Love, and the wider the gates are opening up to expanding the wonders of universal love, the more paramount becomes the care for one-another so that not the lightest injury in any form can happen. And that includes creating a richer world."

      "That's the real test of the Principle of Universal Love," said Ushi. "But that is also what we had relied on from the beginning. Love becomes our security and guarantor, possibly in a much more powerful way than anything else does. If there is the slightest doubt that this protection isn't happening in our dealing with one-another, then there is something spiritually lacking. In this case one has to reexamine oneself. Sloppy thinking and living just doesn't have a place anymore in the complex domain of the Principle of Universal Love."

      "There is another factor to be considered," I said to Ushi. "This factor must likewise be carefully considered. It is a vital factor that we can no longer afford to ignore. That factor is that it is not right that I spare Sylvia the challenge of having to consider the Principle of Universal Love, which is a universal principle that uplifts and affects everyone. It is a natural principle that one cannot get away from, certainly not by ignoring it. Ignoring it leads to unpleasant consequences. Sylvia disserves to be protected from that, as does the whole of humanity."

      I told Ushi that I agreed with her that the isolation that has been developing between people and nations has become a mortal threat in the age of nuclear weapons, far greater than any other threat we have ever faced. I suggested that this means that we need Sylvia's help to eradicate the threat. We need everybody's help. So it is in Sylvia's interest that I solicit her help. It would reflect the Principle of the Advantage of the Other that came out of the Second Renaissance. We can certainly protect ourselves against infectious diseases by living intelligently and with the care of infinite love, but we cannot protect ourselves and our world, and everybody else's world by ignoring the Principle of Universal Love. So it is in everybody's interest that we acknowledge the Principle of Universal Love. There is no defense possible in a nuclear war to protect society. We can only prevent the war, and for that we need to be living intelligently with one-another on the platform of the Principle of Universal Love. Indeed, war has never been a technical issue, or a political issue. Nor can one resolve it by political means, because it isn't a political problem. War has always been fundamentally a failure of human beings in relating to one-another with the care, respect, responsibility, and the love that should be the hallmark of a human civilization."

      "Divisions and isolation are components of a larger failure that must be overcome," said Ushi. "The may be the most major components of that failure. We must address what lies at the root of this component."

      "Our life literally depends on our success in dealing with this issue," I said in total agreement. "Sylvia doesn't have the option really, not to take the required responsibility for overcoming this failure. No one has that option. Sylvia is as much a part of this world as we are. She cannot be exempted from the responsibility of having to address this vital issue. No one can be exempted from this."

      "Are you saying that war, being a human failure, precludes the possibility for finding a technological or political solution that can be achieved to compensate for this failure? Are you saying that nuclear war must be addressed strictly as an issue of the failure of human beings in relating to one-another?"

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