Steve told me that this inverse relationship between assumed wealth and fungible value is extremely difficult for people to understand. Society has been educated to believe in a lye and build their life around it so that they won't interfere with the process of stealing. Steve said that people celebrate when they see the financial indexes growing. "They see this increase as newly gained wealth. They even pay taxes on the increase," he said and laughed. "Instead, they should measure the difference between the physical reality and what the indexes show, and count this difference as a measure of the inflation that has crept into the financial system. If they did this and saw the reality behind the facade, they would cry when the stock indexes go up. But society doesn't look behind the facade. Consequently, the pumping of money out of the physical economy continues. Society sees gold in the street while it wrecked the physical economy that its existence depends on. Society should cry when the financial indexes go up, because this increase indicates that the physical economy that represents their real wealth has been depleted accordingly. What people call wealth building is really a process of mutilation by circumcision, a process of amputation. They are slicing off what is valuable and throwing it to the dogs."

      "Eventually society will figure out that the higher its wealth indexes rise, the less people have in terms of real wealth as it has all been amputated by stealing," I said to Steve. "But isn't the circumcision a permanent mutilation. There is no recovering from an amputation, is there?"

      "That's what I have been talking about," said Steve. "You have to overcome the circumcision that causes the slide to hell. Sure the circumcision is permanent, but mentally a human being can put itself above it and heal its world by understanding the dynamics involved. And so, economies can recover from the disease of empire, but for that to happen society needs to recognize the underlying cause."

      I nodded in acknowledgment. "In proportion as the reality of a situation is being recognized, people's illusions about it collapse. I met the old professor in a pub, whom you had mentioned. He told me the same story. His whole world had turned to dust, so it seemed. He is devastated by it."

      "Oh, if this would only happen on a larger scale, Pete!" Steve sighed. "This would be humanity's salvation. If more people would wake up, and really wake up, they would begin the sea the cause and turn things around. Then society would create an economy that would actually work."

      Ushi shook her head and said that this is not likely to happen soon. "Today's society is not alert enough," she said. "It has been educated not to be alert."

      Steve said that I, of all people, should be able to recognize this, since the underlying mentality is deeply rooted in the Byzantine system. "Under this system people are told how to think, what to believe, and what to regard as reality. Thus, a lye becomes regarded as the truth, and woe be to whoever speaks the real truth. People hate you if you do that. 'Don't spoil my dream,' they say."



      Ushi contrasted Steve's perception with what Nicolai had repeatedly told her about the scientific sense of Christianity, which acknowledges the direct unity of God and man as a higher hypothesis of reality. "On this scientific platform, God and man are recognized as one in being, and the Christ, representing Truth, is not recognized as a mediator between God and man, but as an example of the forever established unity between God and man, the Intelligence of the Universe and its reflection in man. All is complete here. No circumcision is necessary here. No superiority is possible on this lateral platform. This means that we have the resources within us to 'know' the 'real' truth."

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