"Isn't it ironic that sex is the one thing that people are most likely to destroy their marriage over," said Anton. "And why shouldn't they? The doctrines say that we marry for sex, because the doctrines don't allow sexual interaction outside of the marriage. Don't you find that notion terribly degrading that people marry for sex?"

      I nodded. "That thought is devastatingly degrading to all the lovely human interaction that we celebrate in our marriages, that sex should be uncoupled from, that it should be freed from. Of course, it takes a lot of courage to take such a stand."

      Anton began to laugh. "That sounds so funny," she said. "It's laughable really, that people behave as if they married each others penis and vagina and own it like a possession. Of course, if they didn't make this little thing the center of their emotions, what could they use to destroy their marriages over? You are right Peter, sex shouldn't even enter into the marriage bond."

      "Nothing should be allowed to enter the marriage bond that has the potential to cause it to fail," I replied. "That includes all the forms of sexual division and sexual isolation. All of these are separate issues. What have sexual issues got to do with love and with the bonds that love has formed? We should drop all the borders that are at the root of division and isolation."

      "Then our marriage becomes a universal bond," said Anton.

      "That's what we want, don't we?. If we are all in love with our own humanity that we have in common with every other human being on the planet, wouldn't a universal marriage be a right idea, because it has a basis that it totally real?" I asked. "Isn't the basic idea behind marriage, the idea that we unite with one-another, rather than isolate ourselves from one-another?"

      "We probably would unite more fully and more universally if sex didn't stand in the way," Anton suggested.

      "Oh, then we would probably find something else to divide us over," I replied with a grin. "But for now, sex is the issue. However, since we are human beings with remarkable capabilities, what would hinder us to readjust our perceptions not only of marriage, but also of sex, to where it is something universally beautiful and no longer a dividing factor? That would solve 99% of our social problems, wouldn't it, and our economic problems too? Our perceptions would no longer be so tightly confined."

      "If we could only do that," Anton sighed.

      "Why shouldn't we be able to do that if we reclassified marriage from being an institution, to becoming a science?," I asked. "That's what the pioneers tell us."

      I explained to Anton, Ross' discovery of Mary's structure for scientific and spiritual development; the four rivers and the four types of science corresponding to them, of which she identified one as the science of marriage; the marriage of humanity as a universal concept; a science, rather than an institution. I pointed out to Anton that this woman has also created a Christian church without the slightest provision for the conventional marriage institution of any type.

       "It is tough to perceive marriage as a universal concept," Anton interjected, " being build purely on the Principle of Universal Love."

       "But that is precisely what the woman is leading up to," I said to Anton.

      Anton just nodded. She didn't smile anymore. "This can have enormous implications," she added some time later after a long pause.

      "I believe that this kind of radical stand for the truth enabled Sylvia to boldly rip up the conference agenda that had been imposed on us," I said to Anton. "She probably realized that we aren't married to the UN and its doctrines, but are married to our humanity by virtue of the truth about ourselves as individual, sentient, intelligent, scientific persons of a universal humanity that we all share."

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