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I began to laugh. "Reality often appears magical in comparison with what we have made of it over the years, Indira. You just confirmed that. But what did you just say about me renting the apartment? Am I?" I asked astonished.
"Sure you are. We both are. For the price of a hotel room for two weeks on the diplomatic price-level, we are renting the entire suite for a whole year. Fred suggested that we do this. He didn't tell you, did he?"
I shook my head and laughed. I figured he might be laughing too, just about this time.
"I supposed that Fred omitted something else too," she said and joined my laughter. "I bet he didn't tell that our living together makes me officially your wife."
"And so the magic continues," I said and began to grin.
"Fred suggested that this arrangement shouldn't surprise you since it reflects the principle of the universal marriage of humanity that you have discovered and are here to prove. So, why shouldn't we live together on this platform as man and weib, as they say in German?"
"Right!" I agreed. "Why indeed shouldn't we accept what is already firmly established as the reality of our being? Isn't it our privilege to bring the forever established reality to light? However, I wouldn't call us man and weib, or husband and wife as we say in America. These are vertical concepts. They belong to the vertical model, the imperial model of top-down control by which we staged into role-playing. The correct marriage model, that of the universal marriage of mankind, unfolds laterally, in a lateral lattice in which we stand side by side, bound to one another by countless strands of love rather than institutional arrangements. On the lateral platform, the only role that we perform, or can perform, is that of a human being moved by the Principle of Universal Love. I would say we live together here as two human beings bound by nothing but strands of love. This doesn't mean that we can't run a household together. Those are secondary things. The primary demand of the Principle of Universal Love is that we lay aside all vertical models of interrelationships, since they have no foundation in principle. And that's totally new. It might never have happened in all the history of civilization. We are committed to build our lives on the lateral model, which is the very manifestation of the Principle of Universal Love. Do I make sense, Indira? What we have before us is incomparable with anything else. We are entering a brand new world."
Indira had left the balcony while I spoke and gone into the kitchen, to make another pot of tea. "You make perfect sense," she called out to me. "I think we are already more closely bound to each other in this lateral relationship, by our community of principle, than we dare to acknowledge. We are human beings and nothing else. That has some scary implications. But what more could we possibly be? What greater reason could we have to be united? In fact, we are already more closely bound to one another on this basis than most married folks will ever be, did you realize that? Married folks are bound to role-playing. My greeting to you at the airport was my acknowledgment to you that I am living for something more profound. That's how it will forever be. That's what I mean when I say to you, 'I greet you and I kiss you.' The two are the same. However, there is something bigger involved with this lateral kiss than what the common concept of a kiss implies. It isn't a vertical kiss something that limits and confines. A lateral universal kiss, then, is the opposite. A lateral kiss isn't a passive kiss as many kisses are that are casually given and are scripted into the parameters of a specific social role. But the active kiss, which my greeting reflects, is something big and profound and incomparable," she called from the kitchen.
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