I explained that apparently such cases were not uncommon. I also pointed out that Mary Baker Eddy, who had been that woman in the carriage, had devoted a portion of each day in support of the whole of humanity, right until she died in December 1910. I added that this is where the profound historic fact comes into play that I mentioned earlier.

      "Here is your answer," I said, turning to Tony. "The historic fact is that the period of her profound healing activities from 1866 until shortly after her death in 1910 was a rare period of peace in the world in which no terrible things were thrust upon humanity, with a few minor exceptions. Prior to 1866 a whole sequence to terrible wars and similar things happened to humanity, one after the other, ending with the American Civil War that was won in 1865. Even the British Opium Wars against China had ended by this time, as well as the hated Spanish Inquisition and the horrific Taiping Uprising in China in which an entire nation had been betrayed and millions were killed. The entire train of these unspeakably horrific atrocities, which had been in motion uninterrupted from as far back as the Renaissance, came to a halt in 1866. It didn't get rolling again until 1914. There hasn't been such a major period of peace since the Golden Renaissance in the 14th and 15th Century, which the Venetian Empire set out to destroy in the early 16th Century. Indeed, they did destroy the Renaissance with staging a huge religious conflict that culminated into eighty years of war including the Thirty Years War that was finally shut down in 1648 under the Treaty of Westphalia. In this rage of madness until 1648, that was no longer a war but religiously motivated insanity, half the population of Europe was butchered to death. Entire areas we depopulated. When the famous Treaty of Westphalia ended this madness, in the background of this peace, the long standing form of terror of the Spanish Inquisition, the legal murdering to 'purify society' by eliminating dissidents, raged on, though to a lesser degree. On the imperial scene we saw the Seven Years War being staged next, in Europe, followed by the British war to block America's independence, followed by the French Revolution and the Jacobin terror that was designed to wipe out the scientific elite that had inspired the American independence. Then the Napoleonic wars took over from the French Revolution, they spread the same terror across all of Europe. Thus, for 350 years the world has been in this kind of terrible mess. But all of that ended in 1866. Suddenly the entire train of terrible things stopped. It didn't get restarted until World War I was unleashed in 1914, followed by World War II, followed by the Cold War and then the war on culture and a whole string of economic wars ending in a globalism that made colonial slavery appear mild and small in comparison.

      "The only period of calm on the troubled seas of the world was the period when Mary Baker Eddy put her mark on it," I said and paused.

      "Whether the period of peace was the result of her influence will of course never be known," I added a moment later. "Only the timing suggests that there might be a connection. Fred's take is that we cannot afford to discount the possibility that such a connection exists. He also suggests that the fondi are keenly aware of that connection, especially so in the present period when their Empire is being shaken to its very core. Fred thinks that the whole of humanity is presently in great danger with the Empire struggling for its very existence. That kind of struggle under the banner of empire usually ends in immense wars of insanity in a last-ditch imperial quest to set up a police state wherever possible. In such a case there is no telling what they might do to humanity, especially in a world that is intensely set up for nuclear war and nuclear preemption. Fred tells us that if there is a one-in-a-thousand chance that Mary had held back the terrible train of atrocities against mankind for forty five years single handed, then we must pursue the principles that she worked with, and that we must utilize them to hold back the specter of nuclear war which humanity may not survive, especially with an Ice Age standing on the horizon. Our task is to accomplish that mission. Fred told me that since we had already discovered Mary's pedagogical structure and had all worked with it to some degree, which is something no one else had done to his knowledge, we were the only people qualified to carry out this project for mankind. Fred thinks that Mary's principles of universal love have the potential to hold back the onslaught of nuclear war, just as Mary held back the onset of World War I throughout her own time. Fred suggests, that if his understanding of history is correct then we've got a chance if we develop the same kind of love. He keeps telling me that World War I had been on the horizon for decades before it finally erupted, but that this outbreak had been stalled, and he contributes this stalling to Mary's efforts. He keeps telling me that we've got to do this again to prevent nuclear war, and prevent it for all times to come. Fred thinks that four weeks should be enough for us to accomplish that. That is really why we are here."

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