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Chapter 1 - A Mission to Revise HistoryOn the plane returning from Caracas Fred had handed me a napkin that he had kept from the meal. The 'meal' had consisted of a bag of peanuts and a glass of water. Fred had made notes on the napkin while eating the peanuts. Then, just as we were about to disembark he handed the napkin to me. "Your mission plan for after Mexico," he said with grin as he pulled the napkin out of his shirt pocket. He watched my reaction and then laughed. "The Caracas Conference has been both a success and a disappointment," he commented while he motioned me to tuck the napkin away. "Every renaissance in history has failed," he said, "because the paradigm shifts to the Platonic and Socratic method of thinking didn't reach down to the grass roots level of society's social existence. We have made an attempt at the conference to correct that. We have opened Pandora's box on that issue, but to judge by the comments that were made during the victory gathering, no one understands the significance of what was achieved, much less is prepared to move with it. We are still at the stage where the concept of universal love and universal sovereignty had been accepted as an essential foundation for civilization, in theory, but not on the kitchen floor. The needed deep-reaching shift hasn't been accomplished in Caracas, nor had it been accomplished during the Renaissance before our time, or during era of the historic Peace of Westphalia in 1648. I observed the same failure in Caracas, in principle, that had caused the Renaissance to fail. We have achieved more than you might have hoped, but not enough. This tells me that our efforts have been too superficial. I think we have tried to create a grassroots renaissance without actually employing the Platonic method on which every renaissance to date has been founded, even though none of them did go far enough. We need to address this failure, Pete, and you'll be the one to do it," said Fred. "I'll give you a one-month commission to come up with a solution." "Me?" I answered. "What you asked can't be done." Fred nodded and smiled. "You always underestimate yourself," he said quietly. "Why shouldn't you be able to do this? You have Plato and you have Mary's pedagogical structures. One way or another this needs to be done. To put it bluntly, we've failed in Caracas. There is some evil now moving in the background that is threatening civilization as never before. We didn't reach deep enough to rout it out. I don't know what this evil is, but the grape wine tells me that there is something big brewing. So I think this is not the time for us to put ourselves to sleep. Your mission is to wake up to something equally big, I just don't know what this is." "You are asking the impossible," I interjected. Fred shook his head. "If you can't do this thing nobody will," said Fred. "Remember, it was you who came to me all exited some years ago and told me about this incredible story you were told in Aladdin's Palace, by that woman you had a crush on. Do you remember the story that she told you about Mary? It wasn't really a story. It was more a historic fact that you found so amazing then. And it is an amazing fact, Peter. I'm making it your challenge to repeat it." "Now you're nuts," I replied. "The amazing fact that you want me to repeat is that for the period between the end of the American Civil War and the year 1913 all the great atrocities in the world had stopped. The train of war had stopped on its tracks and it wasn't let loose again until Christmas time in 1913 when America gave its sovereignty away. This 45-year span of peace was the only major period of peace that we had in the entire time span since the Venetian Empire began destroying the Golden Renaissance in the 1500s. This period is also significant because it matches exactly the time when Mary, that is Mary Baker Eddy, made her profound discovery of the divine Principle of scientific mental healing, which she practiced and taught others to practice, which she called Christian Science, which had been practiced all over the world. The woman in Aladin's Palace told me that is period of peace had lasted right through until Mary's death at the end of 1910 and a couple years beyond that. It appears that she had not only healed people physically. She had also protected history and civilization. She had revised history. That amazing thing that happened during the time of her activity was totally unnatural for the way history had been. Before the time of her discovery the world was a hell. Then suddenly this hell was suspended. The opium wars in China had come to a halt. The Spanish Inquisition suddenly ended. The Civil war ended. A few minor things happened in Asia doring that period, and our President McKinley was assassinated in 1901, but that's all what happened in the entire 45-year period. Then as soon as this Mary was dead all hell broke loose again. World War I happened. World War II happened. Then the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and countless little wars all over the world. We have never had a time without war since her death. That's what the woman told me when we went to Aladin's Palace to talk. You can't possibly expect me to mach Mary's feat in this, if indeed there is a connection." || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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