She paused. "The temples of Khajuraho might be known some day as the greatest temples that were ever built in honoring the universal marriage of mankind by virtue of the divine in our humanity. You might want to see those temples," she added in a quieter tone.

      "The link that we find threaded through all of that kind of history is the Principle of Universal Love being rediscovered again and again in times of great challenges and great celebrations. It comes to light in countless different ways, often resulting in great epochs or renaissance. Unfortunately the link between the Principle of Universal Love and the name Israel, which has been one of the most profound links, perhaps equal in significance to what we see reflected in these temples, has largely become lost in the pages of history just as Mary's great work had been lost for a century. The historic loss might have been intentional in the advancing ages of a global imperial society. The big shift away from the Principle of Universal Love - away from what the name Israel stood for, and what those temples stood for - appears to have coincided with the wide general timeframe in which Solon of Athens had put a faint reflection of the Israel Principle onto the political table. It started a movement that the Persian Empire reacted to and shut down, just as in India the 'Empire of Islam' shut down the Hindu temple-building. The Israel Principle was evidently not acceptable under imperial doctrine. It was pushed out of sight and became subsequently lost by perversion. The same sort of thing might have happened in India with the Hindu temples. But this does not mean that the profound paradigm shift that the historic name, Israel, represents, cannot be repeated, or that the profound Hinduism that stood behind the temples of Khajuraho cannot be recreated. To the contrary, once a principle has been discovered and proven, it is easily put on the table again at any time to be utilized with the same effect to uplift civilization. Jacob won his freedom in a single night, Indira, and so can we. To some degree this is already happening between us. Shouldn't we be able to do this more fully? Why should Jacob's feat not be repeated in our time when the principle for it has already been established? Why should the temples of Khajuraho by regarded as bygone history, rather than as a timeless example of a principle that by its very nature as a principle remains valid forever? Indeed, why should the doom that has presently prepared for mankind not be lifted from the world in this way? Jacob's discovery of the Israel Principle resulted from his 'coming of age' as a human being. It was the natural response of a man growing up in the humanist sense. Should we all have the same capacity?"

      "Now let me surprise you again," said Indira smiling. "In historic terms Jacob's children are termed the Children of Israel. This usage of the term is scientifically incorrect. They were conceived and grew up in the old environment of division, tension, rivalry and conspiracy. They should continue to be termed the Children of Jacob, an I discovered that Mary treats them that way. The only religious leader that I know of who uses this scientifically correct terminology is your own pioneer in America, the great Mary Baker Eddy who had pioneered the science of Christianity in a scientific renaissance that spiritually remained a rather dogmatic age. She put herself at war with worn out dogmas by refering to children as the sons of Jacob. She even includes Benjamin into this context who was born after Jacob became Israel, because Benjamin he was still born within the context of the old rivalry between the two wives with each other for a superior relationship with Jacob. The old division was still there. Jacob might have raised his perception and become Israel, but his wives were still tied to old Jacob. They hadn't made the transition themselves. I think this is important, Peter, because the term, Children of Israel, is thereby reserved for us all as a universal identity of those who have 'grown up' as human beings. In this sense Mary does turn the world upside down, doesn't she?"

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche