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Chapter 3 - How Was Love Squeezed Out of the World?When I came back to our camp, Olive was still talking. "What really is it," she said, "that we acknowledge to be fundamental to civilization? Is it the political acknowledgment of the Principle of Universal Love and the principle of universal sovereignty? That's what we got out of the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. This particular shift was gained as the result of horrific tragedies in war. Half of the population of Europe was destroyed in a horrific wave of killing. After eighty years of ravishing one another that brightest pioneers caused society to wake up and revert back to the Renaissance principles and build on them a new foundation for civilization. The same thing happened 300 years earlier when financial insanity collapsed the European economy so deeply that the Black Plaque massively wiped out the weakened population. People must have wondered what human existence is all about. There had to be more to it than suffer and die. On the basis of Plato's method for scientific discovery the long established Principle of Universal Love was brought back to the foreground. The Golden Renaissance resulted from this paradigm shift. Unfortunately, in both cases, the driving impetus for reverting back to the Principle of Universal Love was a great tragedy. We can no longer afford this kind of platform for making progress in the age of nuclear weapons, resource scarcity, and an approaching Ice Age. We are challenged to find a more intelligent platform for making progress than reacting to great tragedies. This means that we must choose to resort to the Principle of Universal Love now, before the tragedies happen that we may not survive. For this shift to become universally effective these principles have to be universally applied all the way down to the grassroots level and uplift the way society regards one-another as human beings, including the way it regards marriage and regards sex. For this to be possible the Principle of Universal Love has to be developed to the greatest extent possible. It has to become a light that people will want to resort to for its brightness. The change must never been seen as the lesser of two evils and a sheer necessity for survival. The Principle of Universal Love offers infinitely more than that. It offers a whole New World, a world of such brilliance that the present world of terror, poverty, and tragedy, comes to light as the tragic Dark Age which it really is. We must go for the light of the New World, because of its golden promise. That must be the incentive. This is also what we have never fully developed in the past, or have even allowed to unfold at the grassroots social level. I would say that without a foundation in social domain, rooted at the grassroots level, cannot be developed. Whatever comes out of it as political construct, like the Treaty of Westphalia became, is bound to crumble, and has crumbled. The Renaissance has become lost repeatedly, and the principles of the Treaty of Westphalia are being laughed at today while a new fascism sweeps the world that is becoming evermore vile and inhuman. And that is where we are today. In spite of the greatest political achievements of all times that dotted the historic landscape like precious jewels, we are staring into face the same horrific tragedies once again that have made this period also one of the blackest in terms of our failure as human beings." "This is the failure that we need to address," I interjected. "We need to address it now, beginning in our own consciousness, utilizing the Platonic method. This means that our highest priority right now is to put marriage in its place, and to put sex in its place, and that we become angels unto ourselves by guiding one-another to the goal of uplifting both sex and marriage to a higher level that reflects the boundless dimension of our humanity. These are the key obstacles that stand in the way of the development of the Principle of Universal Love. The light of its promise that Olive spoke of, evidently is the light of that kind of love with which Mary had healed the paralyzed woman in the moment of her carriage's passing by. It is evidently also the kind of love that caused the train or the imperial crimes against humanity to stop for 35 years in which this light was shining brightly. Mary's pedagogical structure doesn't provide the answers as to how this is done. It only lays the goals and the processes before us that can get us to where we want to be. Mary isn't a dogmatic dictator. She merely resents her rivers of development that we might utilize them for our own paradigm shift to become angels in the scientific sense. That's how we build our New World of light. As angels of Science we will inspire society to uplift its concept of marriage to one-another to reflect more and more the universal principles of our universal humanity and uplift our perception of sex with the Principle of Universal Love." || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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