"We totally disable the functioning of Helen's lateral lattice with these erected barriers," I said to her. "We trash the lateral model completely and say that it doesn't exist, and the model was developed in the process of healing when healing was needed in moments of a great crisis. And so by trashing the healing model we actually prevent the functioning of the real marriage process that Helen's lateral lattice represents had been for her a cause of some great healing."

      "The resulting social isolation that our tiny model and its boundaries impose, ties society ever deeper into the vertical world of the Byzantine model and the rape that unfolds in it," I said to Ushi. "Marriage expansion should be on the agenda and replace marriage limitation. Should we ever achieve this expansion, our marriage process would then finally be built on the Principle of Universal Love instead of the Byzantine model, a model without love that smothers everything."

      "The Byzantine model?" Ushi interrupted. "What has this got to do with anything?"

      "Anton said that Russia is celebrating it's the thousand year anniversary of its Christianization. As far as I know that ties it into the Byzantine Empire, the offshoot of the Roman Empire and its perversion of Christianity into a doctrine that serves an imperial state. As far as I know the Byzantine orthodoxy puts the divine Spirit on to and far out of reach, and mankind into the dust of the Earth, and in-between a mediator that tells mankind what the truth is."

      "My God, that's a perfect system for spiritual rape!" Ushi interjected.

      "Anton brought this up. I think it applies to her and is strangling her. The real Christianity puts the divine Spirit, the Christ, and mankind all on a shared lateral platform, each fulfilling a different office but having the same quality. Isn't that what really lays the basis for our rallying around the Principle of Universal Love?"

      "How else can this principle be implemented?" said Ushi, "except by our expanding circles of our universal marriage into ever-widening structures that demand us to focus more and more onto the lateral model that reflects the reality of our being. That's what Helen had discovered?"

      "Haven't we tried to implement this process from the day we met?" I said to Ushi again. "We asked ourselves the question that if the beauty of the rose lies in the gardeners heart, why should a gardener then be bared from acknowledging with joy the beauty of any rose, even that that which doesn't grow in his own garden? A rose is a rose, but its beauty lies within us, no matter where it grows."

      "But why is it that we ask such silly questions when the answers are so obvious?" Ushi interrupted.

      "I think we do this, because the vital questions needs to be asked again and again until we believe the obvious and live it," I counter her. "Maybe the answer isn't as self-evident as with assume. So let's ask who in the world would agree with us that the beauty of a rose doesn't really exist in the rose itself, but in the sense of beauty that a gardener holds in his heart, which the rose merely echoes. Who would agree that if there was no beauty in the human heart, we would see nothing in the rose, but thorns that sting us? But that is not the case. The rose is cherished as a beautiful object by mankind all around the world, where a deer sees only food and a rat sees nothing at all. I think that's significant, and maybe for Anton too. It echoes an aspect of the gardener's own being, but more importantly it echoes a spark of the soul of our humanity, because that's how we love one another, and cherish one another, and embrace one another, and we all agree that sex has a place in that embrace. But how can we love another if we cannot love ourselves?"

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