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She nodded. "In its smallness society becomes genocidal. The small mind is a deadly mind. That is reflected in the various types of genocide that you have listed."
I suggested to Anton that mankind's 'coming of age' as a society of human beings will alter the history that has darkened the face of mankind. "The Byzantine model is a model for imposing lies. 'In lies we trust!' has become the great watchword. But a lie has no truth, and having no truth it has no history. Its seeming history can be erased. The 4000-year-history of the whore of Babylon which still rules, which the Byzantine model reflects, can be ended forever and be erased and be forgotten."
"How far back does the rule of the whore of Babylon really go?" said Anton.
"What does it matter. When an error is discovered to be an error that hasn't got the faintest trace of truth, what does it matter for how long the error was believed to be the truth? We need to move forward, not backwards."
I suggested that one could find the beginning of the hierarchical doctrine already manifested thousands of years ago in the perversion of the Mosaic Decalogue. However, I added that once the perversion is recognized as a lie against the truth, the weight of this historic lie is lifted off. "The disabling aspect of its seeming history then no longer bears down on society's living," I said to her.
"What are you saying, Peter?" Anton interjected.
"I am saying that reversal of false history can have many faces of liberating expressions. "In the original version of the Decalogue, for example, in the reference to marriage, the German translation admonishes one not to break what is honorable, like the bond of love between people, the bond of grace. This text doesn't impose social division, sexual division, economic division. In fact it seems designed to prevent these divisions with honor.
I told her that Steve's research shows that practically the entire Decalogue has been turned upside down by superimposing a lie that gives the Decalogue a new meaning. "In this perversion of the Decalogue the sexual division suddenly appears, and the marriage isolation, enforced with the death penalty. But now that the perversion has been discovered, its hold is gone. We can let go of it and focus on the truth of our spiritual nature as human beings in which honor, love, grace, intelligence, and so forth, play the central role. In the flow of this getting back to what is true the marriage concept suddenly becomes free, joyous, rich, and beautiful, even though great challenges are attached to this revolution of getting back to the basic truth about our humanity."
"Are you suggesting that the Wright Brothers should have pioneered supersonic flight, because the principles existed even then?" said Anton. "That is what you are saying with your high-level marriage concept against the background of today's world."
"We are in a boundary zone," I said. "Here we face rather profound challenges, and nobody really knows what to do. We have the same in politics. Take the case of modern America in which the imperial President of our country now attaches a signing statement to almost every law created by our Congress and our Senate. With these statements the President gives these bills of legislation a totally different meaning as he signs into law."
"Isn't that illegal?" said Anton quietly.
"Of course it is," I said just as quietly. "But everybody stands aside and lets it happen. The process is presently destroying our Constitution and with it our country," I said to Anton more emphatically. "But tragically, nobody dives a damn. Our country was designed as a republic with a form of government that is completely lateral, in which nobody can become a dictator. Each branch of government has a specific role to play, with a provision that none can override the other. For example, our President can't legislate. That's not his task. And our legislators can perform the executive functions that assures that the laws are faithfully carried out. That's President's job. On this platform everybody stands at the same level. It's a lateral government. But our President totally altered the nature of our government. He turned it into a vertical structure and declared himself to be its king. He gave himself the right to alter the face of the legislation and to disobey the laws of the legislature if he so chooses. In effect he tore up the Constitution that he swore to uphold, and tore up the republic that we once were and replaced that republic with a dictatorship."
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