Anton shook her head as I spoke.

      "Right, Anton, that's what everybody thinks," I said. "That's what the whole world is coerced to think. People are only saying this, because they haven't dared to live in the real world for a long time. Universal principles are the reality. We wouldn't have a civilization without them. We are turning our back to them, and the consequences of living without them are real too. That is why the world is collapsing into poverty, fascism, and war. These are the consequences. Nothing works anymore. That's the result of stepping away from our humanity by stepping away from its most fundamental principle. Sure, it's scary to turn this around. It took mankind a hundred years to do this and create the Golden Renaissance. That's proof that it can be done. Even now, if you give the Principle of Universal Love half a chance, it is possible to accomplish even more than what had been accomplished during the brightest eras in our history. Once we are daring enough to take the first few steps we will recognize that this principle will work just as it did then, because nothing else can work, Anton. How else can you develop grace to light up the world with it? I say it is possible to implement the Principle of Universal Love, even today. Otherwise we have no hope. Why should society refuse to consider this option?"

      "So, you are saying that politics built on grace appear only esoteric in dreams, but never in reality" said Anton with a smile. "This means that in the real world, politics with grace are essential. If that is the case we have a long way to go, because I cannot follow you where you are leading to."

      "The politics of grace are essential," I interjected. "We need a new renaissance. We are doomed without it. Yes, the Principle of Universal Love is essential in politics."

      Anton just shook her head and smiled.

      "Love is still the greatest thing in the world," I continued. The more-universally we can uplift ourselves to embrace it, the brighter our world becomes. The fact is that the most powerful thing that you could do for your country right this minute is to begin dancing with me. Break all the barriers that have been erected against love and inspire others to do the same. Make love universal. Make it applicable on all levels. If you do this you will change the world. You will uplift it. That's not esoteric, Anton. Inspire your country's leaders to bury everything that lacks grace. Tell them that whatever lacks grace leads to certain doom. You must bury that doom. You must obsolete war and replace what you bury with the new policies that are based on the Principle of Universal Love as Franklin Roosevelt had done in America to some small degree. Why shouldn't you do it and go further? What would hinder you?"

      Anton shook her head again. "You are expecting too much?"

      "No you are expecting too little, Anton. I read a novel once, a science fiction novel about a discovered principle that enables a people to transpose themselves in physical space to wherever they want to be, at an instant. While we may never have the capability to shed the physical inertia that's built into the design of the universe, what would hinder us to shed those limits in the mental space where limits don't really exist. Why shouldn't we take giant steps in the mental realm? There exists no principle of inertia in the mental realm. We create the limits ourselves that we experience in the mental real and we can step beyond them. A universe of grace is possible in real terms. We should certainly strife to achieve the possible, shouldn't we?"

      "That sounds like a revolution to me," Anton interrupted.

      "Oh yes, it would be that. But that should be familiar to you. Wasn't your country built on a revolution of some sort?" I countered her. "I thought revolution is in your blood in Russia. I'm merely expecting a much bigger revolution, a real revolution of great daring, facing the most scary, facing universal love. Could anyone go further and face a greater challenge? If your people in Russia would refocus their minds onto the Principle of Universal Love, they would discover it in grace as an emerging institution of great power. Then you would find your life no longer hanging in the balance, precariously, as it does now."

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