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"I think we are all moving along this path," I interrupted Olive. "The universal economic development of the world is something that we are all married to in one way or another. It's an element of our humanity. We have already acknowledged this. My own Africa project unfolds along the same lines. It too, is a project to develop the world. If we don't aim for this great universal goal, Africa is lost. If we don't aim for the big price, we won't get small price either. We'll be too poor to get anything done, and we will all die in this self-created poverty. That's how we rescue Africa, and India, and others. That's my goal, and I won't stop till the job is completed."
"That's dangerous. Watch out!" Indira interjected.
"It probably is," I replied. "But life itself is dangerous. One way or another we will die. Even people who dream away the hours with trivial pursuits and numbing entertainment, mired in booze and illusions, who never really live at all for anything of value, are going to die. So, I'd say, we might as well live for something grand, something profound, something that makes life worth living. We weren't born just to put in time, like so many inmates who are serving time in the prisons around the world as if this solves anything. We are human beings. We are put in a position to shape the world. We certainly have the potential for that."
"Oh I can well imagine that Plato would smile, hearing you say that," said Sylvia.
"But he would immediately ask, what does this mean for us, individually?" said Olive.
"I would answer that our universal marriage must reflect all this, because it must reflect all the elements of our humanity," I replied. "That's what binds us together. That defines for us the necessary dimensions of universal love. Universal love can't be anything small, nor can universal sovereignty be anything trivial. Love is our inspiration, and sovereignty its manifestation, and both reflect our humanity."
"Isn't that the way Mary presented her matrix structure?" said Sylvia. "She divided the whole thing into two halves. Each contains two rivers of development. The first half represents the individual domain where we find love and inspiration; the universal kiss; and universal economic development. The second half represents the outwardly manifest domain that deals with truth and scientific development towards it, and an understanding of it. When we overlay these two halves, they coincide. The development stream for our universal marriage coincides with the development of the universal dialog of man, of science understood and acknowledged. And our economic development, the development stream of the spiritual ecology of man, coincides with the power of scientific development. This means that our peace and truth coincide, and our joy and power. And all of these are elements of our humanity that we can't get away from even if we want to. The science of marriage coincides with Helen's concept of the universal kiss, and their manifest, our universal marriage, and all of that coincides with the element of truth. It seems we can't escape those dimensions. Helen put them on the map. Mary put them on the map. We have to the same, and more powerfully. And why shouldn't we? We have the rivers that Mary has laid out for us, what more do we want? We know that Helen has recognized in her own unique way what Mary is sawing much more profoundly. And Plato tells us that we have to draw all of this together and ask a lot of questions as to what it all means, even to the point of asking ourselves how sex fits into all this."
"I can tell you how sex fits into this," I responded to Sylvia. "I can tell you were Mary has put all of her references to sex. Mary has provided two such references, boldly pointing to sex. We find one of them in each half of her matrix. Also, we find these references located in the same column in each half, and at the same position within these columns, so that both references coincide when the two halves are overlaid. The interesting aspect is that these references are not located in the columns or rivers that deal with marriage, as one would expect. She is saying to us that sex and marriage belong to totally separate development processes and are not related or interlinked with one another at all."
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