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"Yes, we need to do this. We need to become angels," Olive continued and began to smile. "If this requires that we also become angels of a richer sense of sex, what greater incentive can we have? We must take up this task to become angels on the whole front and become successful, even though this has never been done before. We mustn't do this because there is no other path that we can choose. We must do this, because it is the brightest path that anyone can choose. It is not enough to realize that no other path exists that offers any hope, much less the hope for a bright new world. For six hundred years we have avoided to go for the gold. This task should have been taken up at the time of the Renaissance already. But we stopped short of it then. Indeed, the New Renaissance that we now seek is of a kind that has never been established before. I am hopeful that the footsteps that we can initiate here will move us towards that vastly brighter New Renaissance, and that these footsteps will suffice to keep us at least one step ahead of the looming disaster that is already breaking out to some degree all around us, which this progress can avoid. That is why our operation here is an emergency operation, as Fred has pointed out. Our task, literally, is to save humanity, our world, and civilization."
Olive stopped and took a drink. "We have all made a little progress already in our lives," she said quietly. "But a little is not enough. However, in order to do more, we need to use the best tools and the best methods, and that is where science comes in, and where the Platonic method comes into play. We have to utilize the brightest gems that the pioneers of humanity have created. We have to replicate their discoveries of universal principles, and then move beyond them. Those are the footsteps by which a renaissance is created. For this we journey towards the light of the Principle of Universal Love we have a long lineup of pioneers available to us as a resource, from as far back as Homer in ancient times, and all the way forward to Mary Baker Eddy in modern times. There have been countless discoveries made throughout history of facets of the Principle of Universal Love, and other pioneers have built their achievements on them, like Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon LaRouche have in America. Our own pioneering effort will have to be to take the train of humanist development several magnitudes further in implementing the Principle of Universal Love. We are looking for a Super Renaissance that is within our grasp, for which all the resources already exist."
When Olive was finished telling us why we were brought together, and the momentous nature of the task that lay before us as Fred had explained it to her before leaving Caracas, a great silence erupted. Nobody spoke for a long time. Nobody asked any questions. Everybody just sat there, at the beach in the sand. Eventually Ross stood up and went for a walk along the edge of the surf. Others followed. But we walked silently, stunned, looking out onto the sea and to the other islands in the distance, watching the endless recycling of the surf as if to ask how such a task as lay before us can actually be accomplished. Far down the beach I noticed Tony splashing in the shallow water as before. He must have jogged ahead. I wondered what he thought about our task to become angels of sex. I was sure he would like that idea, but would he be able to meet the challenge to not let it be anything small?
As I pondered in silence, I suddenly realized that the Platonic process has already begun. I was asking myself questions, questions that I had no answers for, but for which answers had to be found. I had begun a dialog with myself about the highest truth that I knew, the most profound that I had experienced, questions about our trials and victories, and questions about what Fred had really said when he said in the plane coming back from Caracas, that the world grinds on. Maybe that statement was his challenge to us. Grinding on is evidently insufficient. No decisive progress is made that way. He had challenged us to become pioneers; tightrope walkers; acrobats; race car divers; engineers of a new society, and that working on a tight budget with a pressing deadline, and all that reaching down to the grassroots level of sex and uplifting it. Fred asked us to be angels indeed, and more than that, to become angels of a new perception of sex in a down to Earth meaningful way. Evidently Fred asked us to uplift our perception of sex until the very notion of any division based on it appears so absurd that it will forever cease. Of course, when this becomes possible on the universal plane, the resulting fire of love will reflects itself equally in the political sphere, the economic sphere, and in the religious sphere as well.
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