Tony looked at me with his questioning look again.

      "No Tony, it's not me who is saying this," I answered. "Mary says this. John says this. Tolkien says something similar. He relates it to sublimity. I'm just trying to put the pieces together, that's all. The final answer as to why all of that is, must of course be your own. I am in the same boat, too. So, what must my answer be, to myself? That answer must be something that is both simple and profound. I think that answer has been popping up throughout history, right in front of our eyes. In every bright period of history the Christ idea has reemerged as a kind of inner voice that has been speaking to humanity of the divinity of the human being. Christ Jesus essentially defined every human being as the Son of God. This idea obviously scared the rulers of the Roman Empire, and rightfully so. If this idea had been developed to its logical conclusion, it would have destroyed the Roman Empire's imperialism and turned the entire Roman society into a humanist society. If that had happened civilization would not have been trashed as it was, so that humanity might have stood on the moon in 800 AD, if not sooner. This potential did exist at the time. Twelve centuries of dark ages would have been avoided, but they weren't, because the Roman Empire had demanded its agents to eliminate the one man who most represented that idea of the divinity of humanity. They took him and nailed him to the cross in order to kill with the man the Christ idea, the divinity of humanity that he represented. But they couldn't kill such the idea. That type of destruction lay far beyond their capability. What Christ Jesus had represented lived on in the hearts of humanity. By the time the Romans had killed that man, called the Christ, his profound idea had already spread like wildfire. Alarmed by this advancing movement the Romans rounded up all the Christians and got their bodies ripped apart alive in huge public spectacles of gore, in order to rip up the very notion of the divinity of man. Still, the Christ idea kept coming back throughout history. It kept coming back, because it is a profound idea reflecting universal principle, an idea of truth that is rooted in the principles of the universe. Mary defines her second development stream as the development of the Christ, meaning the Christ in us, and that is the development that she relates to sex, which John the Revelator defined as 'clothed' with the completeness of absolute white. He defines his most profound vision of mankind as an 'angel,' humanly manifest as a sexual human being, being 'clothed with the sun' and having power in the universe."



      I told Tony that I had recognized long ago that this Christ idea is an idea that represents the completeness of every human being, in every aspect, and not just sexually. I suggested to him that sex stand in metaphor for the entire larger scene in which the human being comes to light as the brightest species in the known universe.

     "For instance, the image of God cannot be sexually divided," I said to Tony. "That means that each of us has both the male and female element of our humanity already deeply anchored in our Soul, and we know this. We are aware of this. We even acknowledge this. We just haven't found the courage yet to recognize that we all share one divine Soul that defines both our humanity and our divinity, together. Nor does it end here, Tony. Our completeness in this divinity includes infinitely more than what the sex concepts represent. It includes a whole array of much 'larger' elements than sex. This profound and boundless completeness is really what the Christ represents in the scientific domain. It represents our higher 'sexual' identity so to speak. It includes the element of generosity, integrity, and industry, all of which are intertwined with love. And it also includes a whole lot more, which we have not even begun to explore yet. It seems to me that all of these big elements, like generosity, must be represented by the little elements, like the male and the female of our humanity. If this doesn't happen, the sexual scene disintegrates into a scene of rape, and so do the economic scene, and the political scene for the same reason. With this rape we will destroy our world if we don't watch out. That has been my personal experience with Antonovna, as you know. It also has been society's collective experience economically, and politically. It took me twelve years, Tony, to get myself out of that small 'rape-like' mentality at the personal level."

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