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"Isn't that also how the USA came to be?" Indira asked. "Fred told me that the European pioneers of the New Renaissance, the Westphalian Renaissance, had this beautiful dream to create a model republic, a true nation-state republic that would be free of oligarchism. He told me that while this had been impossible to do in Europe, the distant colonies in America offered the kind of sanctuary and intellectually pioneering environment in which that lofty idea could come to fruition. So, they organized a wide-based support around that idea and made the dream come true. Maybe that is why Fred sent you here to far away India with a different culture to do the same kind of pioneering thing. Maybe he expects us to build the kind of foundation here, away from your home base, that can't be readily built at your home base where everyone is still too tied down with limiting problems that are becoming evermore difficult to resolve."
I didn't reply right away. I hugged her instead. "Can you imagine how such a breakthrough could change the world?" I said to her a while later in front of one of the brightly lit shops that had caught our attention. "Can you imagine what could happen when people catch on to the principle that is involved? Can anyone really fathom the great depth of Mary's discovery of the truth of mankind's universal marriage that she has put on the table? Just look at what is already happening between us in those few hours since we first met. For instance, how many people have ever said to you, Indira, that they are grateful that you are alive and exist in the world and bring light to it as a human being? How many have said this, Indira? How many have ever told you that you are precious beyond measure, and that your commitment to this universal kind of love is like the sunshine as all love must be, and is a miracle beyond compare?"
She raised one finger.
"Now imagine what the world would be like if this kind of appreciation for one-another were to become common place throughout the whole of society. Wouldn't it end wars forever and establish the brotherhood of all mankind in its universal marriage to one another as a monumental truth? The word Dalit would be spoken no more."
"Oh you dreamer," Indira replied. "Still I love you for dreaming such wonderful dreams. But will we ever see them come true?"
"That depends on when we take the first steps, Indira, and how daring we are going be to take those steps and turn them into giant leaps forward. Maybe there is more than just dreaming involved," I added.
I told her about the Christmas story that Ross had read to us in front of the fireplace, the weapons mythology story that had been submitted to us. The story is that of two kingdoms. One king wanted more gold. His alchemist couldn't produce it, but he could make steel for better weapons, which would enable the king to have all the gold he ever would want. And so the king started an arms race that mushroomed and eventually destroyed both countries. Shocked by this ending we had agreed upon reading the story that it had a dreadful outcome. Consequently Ross had challenged me to write a better ending. I told Indira about the new ending that I had created for the story. "I suggested that the king's daughter should be present with the king. In my ending the daughter intervened when the king called for gold and was offered a better weapon instead. She challenged the king with a broader recognition of the universal marriage of mankind and demanded that it be implemented as a practical platform, a kind of new social and political platform that creates bonds between people. She pointed out that the butterflies cross back and forth between the kingdoms, asking the king why his people should be 'smaller' than the butterflies that his people couldn't do this little thing that the butterflies do so easily? Let's be greater than just butterflies, but we can't be greater with swords in our hands. She demanded therefore that the king send ambassadors offering gifts of things the kingdom had in abundance, which the others need."
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