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"Marriage should be a platform that uplifts civilization," he said at one point. "It should be a platform that shift the focus onto what is good and beautiful in human nature on as wide a platform as possible without ignoring the human need."
He said that this platform already exists. "The marriage of humanity already exists in truth. It's an aspect of the reality of our being. We are married to each other in appreciation of our humanity in which all unity is founded. Except we stop too soon and close the door in a fearful privatization. All that we need to do is, that we become honest enough with ourselves to the demands that love itself imposed that are all too often quenched as our moulds for love are too tiny to provide space for love to unfold. All that we need to do is take note of the larger dimensions of love and embrace and embrace their wonders with all our heart and soul and mind. The idea of a universal union should become the seed kernel for advancing our perception of the unity that already exists in truth, that binds us all as one as human beings, especially across the sexual divisions that keeps the whole of humanity divided at the present time, and this more deeply so than all the political and economic divisions that are destroying our world. Love should be given the 'space' to be, without it ever becoming a boundary itself to the affections of the heart by which its unfolding would stop."
He said that he found in his research the realization that the scientifically spiritual concept of marriage unfolds on that higher platform where all those lower aspects centered on sex, sexual divisions, boundaries and isolation have no relevance, but pertain to something else, without ever loosing sex itself as an element of our humanity.
He paused at this point and laughed. "Can you imagine what this means?" he asked. "It means that a wife or a husband should not inhibit another's moral intercourse with others of the opposite sex, or the same sex, that may be unfolding from advancing affections. Instead, they should encourage that wither sphere of thought and action by exploring together the appropriate platform on which this can be done. That higher platform that unfolds from one of the countless facets of love should be the kind of platform that assures that no one becomes hurt and everyone becomes enriched by the process."
Ross became very serious after this. "Can anyone imagine a husband or a wife actually doing this?" he asked. "This is hard to image, isn't it? Nevertheless, this should be the standard. In fact, it should be the standard in all relationships between human beings."
Ross suggested that if this truly became the standard for relationships between people, the need for consummating relationships with special ceremonies would become obsolete, or the need for creating treaties between nations that all too often broken anyway. He suggested that our cultivated unwillingness in responding to the truth might be the reason why nothing functions well anymore in the world. He suggested that the imperative for stepping beyond that barrier might also have been the reason why no provisions were made for such narrow institutions that perpetuate the barriers in the scientifically oriented church that he had researched. Ross pointed out that the master Christian, Christ Jesus himself, had actually pointed out that the encumbered marriage model that existed at his time would fall away once people became more sensitive to the all-embracing demands of Truth, Life, and Love. Ross said that when this happens a whole New World invariably begins to unfold.
He stepped away from the podium after this, and from his papers and his prepared speech. He only brought the microphone along and stepped forward to the edge of the platform to create a more intimate setting.
"If one were to take away this day our present marriage model that is centered on the ownership of one-another, a model that is circumscribed by boundaries and an inward oriented focus, which is a very poor model, - if one were to take all this away," he said, "then the larger political platforms that are build on the same ideology, the ownership of people, creating division, isolation, domination, and war, would also become invalidated."
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