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I raised my hand and smiled. "Indeed, Ross, why would she make a provision for instituting a marriage between people that in real terms already exists as the reality of everyone's being by virtue of our common humanity?" I interjected when Ross looked at me. "Had she instituted a conventional marriage provision that institution would have stood in denial of a profound principle of truth that she had recognized. One can't deny a principle that has been recognized to be true, and proven to be true. One can't throw this away for the sake of convention. She had no choice then but to move froward with what she had discovered. There was no going back possible from where she stood."
"She couldn't institute a denial and get people to bow to it," Ross interjected. "So, she left the subject standing on a scientific platform as a challenge for society to recognize the underlying universal principle that reflects the universal marriage of humanity as the reality of us all as human beings."
"Are you saying that she challenged society to institute a community of principle, the Principle of Universal Love, all across the board on the social level?" said Fred in a tone of astonishment, shaking his head slightly. "Do you have any idea what this would mean in the political sphere if it could be implemented? Just look at the world, we are presently splintered into a thousand pieces along ideological lines, racial lines, economic lines, geographic lines, even religious lines. To build a meaningful community of principle, beginning with the simple humanist principles that the USA was founded on, extending across all the nations of the world, such a revolution in thinking all by itself could uplift civilization as has ever been deemed possible. Such a community of principle was Quincy Adams tallest hope. But his hope never came to be realized. He worked towards its, but was always blocked and sabotaged. Are you saying that this Mary has put the concept of a community of principle on the table in the most absolute sense possible on the home turf of our social existence? Maybe she put it on the agenda of humanity as a foundation for attaining everything that has remained so far as but an unrealized hope? This isn't just big, Ross. This is huge! But is it true?"
"It is true," Sylvia interrupted when she joined us by the fireplace. "It's scary to think of what she demands at the social level, but it's true. And it is also possible to move with that. It may pose huge challenges, but it is possible to move with the demands of an imperative principle that is greater than oneself. There was a time when we made some progress along this line, a few small steps perhaps."
Fred nodded. "That is big alright."
"It is as big as the fifty years of relative peace in the world, the kind of which hasn't been seen prior to Mary's time all the way back to the Renaissance, nor after her time, which became a century of terrible wars," said Ross to Fred. "So you must choose in which direction you want to look, or not look at all. One thing is certain, this Mary gave Christianity an excelsior extension with an infinite open door. Do you want to test that door, Fred? If there is a universal principle behind it, that principle is as valid today as it was then. That's the nature of principles. The principle of universal gravitation, for example, is always valid and always has been. There had never been a moment when it wasn't valid. Likewise the principle of flight that enables mankind to get its feet off the ground has been valid long before mankind has discovered it and learned to utilize it. The dinosaurs had utilized the principle of flight already 200 million years before us. What do we call them, the flying reptiles, the Peteroductylus? And then there are the insects of course. They have been buzzing around since the Devonian Period some 400 million years ago. Once a universal principle has been discovered it seems almost unstoppable. It continues to be utilized. Its validity never ends. Why should it be any different with the principle that Mary has put on the table and had utilized so profoundly in her own time that gave the world 50 years of peace?"
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