We both realized that evening that we were no bound to each other by any form of pretending, but appreciated each other for what we discovered was wonderful and totally real. We also realized that we had boldly moved away from the vertical model to Helen's lateral model without actually thinking about the transition in such terms. We had simply responded to each other honestly. This had been enough to let what is real come to the forefront. We realized that we had done this from the moment on when we first met on the beach in Leipzig, without realizing that we had taken a giant step in a direction that has the potential to shake up the world. It simply seemed the natural thing to do back then. Steve had moved in the same direction in his own way. His response to our out-flowing love for each other was a daring response for a man to a faint perception of a principle that offered itself as a gateway to a brighter world. He invited me into home for the evening and the night, even to spend the night with Ushi. Our combined move towards the lateral model of universal love became the basis for a love and unity with one-another that we recognized was grounded in our self-love as human beings. We were beginning to discover from that time on what love really is. Steve had boldly declared, "we bring to each other our love to enrich one-another's existence." We had realized from this beginning that the very core of our love for one-another, whether it was sexual or otherwise, was ultimately rooted in the spiritual dimension of our humanity that stood far above all the limiting ancient conventions that had made the world dark, cold, and small. We had chosen the spiritual dimension of love and had allowed it to enrich our lives by not imposing limits on it. We had realized that there could be no shame in allowing love to flow freely, even if its dimension included sex that is a part of the human dimension.

      I found it strange later on that the question had never been asked before why sex was deemed OK under the vertical model of the small marriages, even to the point that it was deemed natural in the sewer of its prostitution, while it was deemed unacceptable in universal lateral relationships where we stand side by side with one-another as human beings. The question wasn't asked, because nobody understood enough of the Principle of Universal Love to ask it then. However, it quickly became apparent that under the lateral model the demand became immediate that the sexual dimension becomes uplifted along with everything else to the higher ground of universal love where it can add to the strands of light. For this it had to become more profound, than its conventional form required. It had to become enveloped with honor, creating an environment where sexual abuse becomes impossible. Why should a person not want to embrace every element of its humanity on that higher platform, even sex, or especially sex, and uplift it with honor, and celebrate its dimension from the infinitesimal aspect to the infinite, including the humanity with which we touch one-another?

      On this basis the brief time of just a single day that Ushi and I had shared in Leipzig when we first met, became a time that was so remarkably rich in sexual sharing and appreciating that its light had never really faded. The light continued when we met again in Cozumel. And now it continued again in the cold world of Russia. Our time together in Russia became a warm time that superceded the weather, that was rich in hugs and kisses and a great joy in one-another, a joy that was carried forward into the dinners that we had planned, and into the theater afterwards. My trouble with Anton stood in the background like a denial to this wide-open freedom of our universal love. Anton had emerged on the scene with the built-in demand that I help her to overcome her self-isolation and get her life back. Ushi saw this too. However she didn't see it as a crisis, but as an interesting challenge that could be met. Of course, none of us had any idea of how to proceed, except on the theoretical level. Ushi said that the existence of a challenge merely indicates that we haven't yet looked into the principles deep enough by which the challenge will ultimately be met by the principles involved, and not by anything of our personal persuasion. She said that the challenge thereby becomes a challenge of discovery, a challenge that we had to meet first and foremost ourselves. Looking back she also said that we barely recognized the principle behind our own expanding freedom, and that by exploring how to deal with the barriers in Anton's world, we would also be exploring ourselves for the further discovery of still greater freedoms such as we couldn't imagine as yet.

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche