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Steve nodded. "This happens in all aspects of healing, because it takes too much honesty with ourselves to pour into the human scene flood tides of love. Who even acknowledges the Principle of Universal Love? But even if society were to do all of this fully, they would still miss half of the story of the parable."
I nodded slightly.
"OK, Peter, tell me what that missing half is. What is a part of this process of pouring into the human scene flood tides of love? It is something greater than creating a richer world. I think the Apostle John had recognized that two thousand years ago."
"John suggested that love brings us into the sphere of thinking where we see God," I said to Steve cautiously. "That's the sphere of coming alive where mankind actually begins to 'experience' God. John suggested that who doesn't love on a universal plane cannot 'see' God and therefore has no part in God. Such a person literally missies reality, even his own reality. That's like saying that without universal love a person doesn't measure up to what a human being is, and therefore doesn't qualify for the term. Consequently civilization disintegrates."
"That's powerful stuff, eh?" said Steve. "That's why all the religions have failed. They missed the key elements. They have become but so many variations of a failing theme. Some have come closer than others, but they are all hollow. They miss the core element, the fundamental substance, the divinely royal way. Love is the royal way. The Principle of Universal Love is the principle of the Royal Dance of humanity."
"That's why I think we need a new renaissance of competent living based on the Principle of Universal Love," I interjected. "Ever since we met, Steve, I was fascinated with this great challenge of coming to terms with the demands of the Principle of Universal Love. We both were."
Steve just laughed. "Right now, I would be happy if you could manage to start an emergency education of your President, just to stop him from blowing up the world so that we might have a chance for a new renaissance to be created that brings to light the Royal Dance. You can't pull a renaissance out of a hat, just as you can't implement the Principle of Universal Love with mere slogans. It takes a deep overturning in every arena of human living, flooding out all the sewer paradigms with the light of what we are as human beings. Here love begins. It takes a great humanist effort to create a renaissance, the kind of effort that Franklin Roosevelt had once made to inspire our nation into living like human beings. If he hadn't done that, Hitler would have overrun the world and most of us would be dead or be saluting the swastika and shouting Heil Hitler. We need the Roosevelt kind of renaissance again that saved us from this potential tragedy, and then create a still greater renaissance of love. We need to flood the world with healing, with love, to be true to what we are as a people clothed with the sun. We need this kind or renaissance again as a starter and build on it the bigger renaissance that enables us to survive the return of the Ice Age."
"Getting our incompetent would-be king to resign appears to be terribly hard, but it is probably the easiest part of what is required. To find a competent replacement from a society that lives in the sewer will be much harder. In a world that is saturated with boisterous priests and Levites, you have to look far and wide to find a Samaritan who understands the principles of economics and civilization, who understands what a human being is. My guess is that this second step will prove to be impossible, because the deeper a society has drifted into the sewer, the harder it is for it to find a way out of it."
"Not taking this step however, no matter how hard it may be, will break the back of America," said Steve. "America will collapse as a consequence of such a failure, such it happen. That's what I fear may indeed be happening, because I see no universal movement happening to rebuild our sense of humanity that would prevent the collapse into a new Dark Age without the slightest hope for a renaissance."
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