"Didn't Christ Jesus warn us about that?" said Indira. "More than a millennium after the concession to barbarism was accepted by society Christ Jesus was trying to alert the people to beware that any concession to barbarism is unacceptable under the spiritual code of God's law, the rule of universal humanist principles. He seemed to have suggested that those concessions to barbarism should have been scrapped ages ago. It appears to me that he pioneered a still higher concept of law that is revolutionary in its implementation of the Ten Commandments and its principles."

      I nodded. It was wonderful to hear how much we understood each other. "Yes Indira, Christ Jesus' concept of mankind as having bee "chosen by God" comes to light with a vastly different meaning than the Zionist political identity of a superior group. Christ Jesus' concept presents the highest conceptual identity of mankind universally, the Christ identity, exemplified by himself. This higher concept of mankind, the Christ idea, of the universal divinity of man, was associated in public thought with the man Jesus at his time. Jesus had called himself the son of man as well as the son of God, drawing both aspects together, which made himself the Exemplar of the Christ idea, the highest sense of our universal humanity. In this sense the concept of a "chosen people" doesn't isolate anyone and divide mankind, but uplifts the universal identity of mankind as nothing ever had in the entire history of humanity. Unfortunately this tall spiritual concept that universally acknowledges the unity of mankind in divine Principle, that attributes to mankind the highest possible worth, has all been lost to countless forms of perversion."

      Indira began to smile here. "It could well be," she said, grinning by now, "that this tall image of mankind that you speak of had never been fully put on the table after Christ Jesus' time until Mary Baker Eddy reintroduced it in America, that you speak of as the work of Mary."

      "Indeed she did, Indira," I interrupted her, "but how is that you know about this in India when hardly anyone does know about it in America? You are full of surprises."

      "It's easy to be full of surprises, Peter, if one has Fred as a friend."

      "So it was Fred who told you about Mary Baker Eddy's work? He told you before I got here," I replied. "I gave me the impression that he didn't know about that."

      "He didn't until you told him, Peter. He said that you were alerted about it by someone named Ross, and that he got it from someone who had poked his head into her work half a century earlier. Yes it is surprising in the way it all unfolded. Maybe her work can help to repair the tragic loss that humanity has suffered by the imperial perversion of the divine face of humanity into some kind of sham image."

      "I suppose Fred must have realized, as we have realized," I said, "that India's Hinduism is the only major spiritual force in the world that is so profoundly anti-imperial that it defeated imperialism three times in its history. It defeated Brahmanism, Islam, and colonialism. In this sense Hinduism and Mary's work are related by effect. There might be other similarities that we don't yet see, since the effects are similar."

      Indira began to laugh. "The imperials aren't really all that smart," she said. "They are chasing after Islam to wipe it out as a competing imperial force, when the real threat to imperialism is lodged in India in the for of Hinduism."

      "Don't laugh so loud," I interjected. "India is the prime target. India is targeted from two directions at once. If you draw expanding circles around North Korea and another set of circles around Iran, the circles will overlap over India. If America dumps several million uranium bombs onto North Korea, and millions more onto Iran, the radioactive pollution that becomes a part of the air will converge over India. The long-term effects will destroy much of the population of India and disable the country. The bombs are already pre-positioned. So don't joke about this. Look at the horrors that the American uranium bombing has already spread across Iraq and Afghanistan. Look at the birth defects, look at the cancers, look at the diabetes. Hasn't India got an epidemic of diabetes already? Multiply this by fifty or a hundred. This is how India is targeted from two directions at once."

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