Indira was all smiles.

      "But there is more," I added. "The same column in the second half relates to the manifestation of the first, which is in this case the manifestation of universal marriage. The river for this column is related to truth. Mary defines this river as, divine Science understood and acknowledged. To me, the concept of divine science, means the science of the divinity of man. That's the environment for the manifest of our universal marriage that we should be looking for; an environment of Truth, and the divinity of man, understood and acknowledged in its science."

      Indira's smile became brighter. She loved this.

      "And there is more," I added. "That's what the river of this development is all about. But the science associated with this river is also astonishing. Mary described it in various ways as, the science of human dialog. That adds an another profound concept to the concept of universal marriage. It becomes less and less sexual and more like the science of dialog that is Plato's science. In this sense, our universal marriage is carried by the science of a dialog of asking and contemplating complex questions within the sphere of a complex language, in order to understand in science what the eye cannot see, namely our oneness as human beings. This dialog is fundamental to every renaissance," I explained. "Isn't that a profound concept for defining the manifest of out universal marriage?" I added. "Naturally, sex has nothing to do with that. It has its own role to play."

      Indira was beaming.

      "If this is how we understand the nature of universal marriage," said Olive to Indira, "I gladly join hands with you all. I can't imagine anything more profound than this."



      "You are extending a real and great privilege that I'll gladly accept," said Sylvia. "I'll gladly join you all in your profound acknowledgement of freedom resting on universal love and universal sovereignty. It also occurs to me," she added, "that we can look at Mary's two halves of her matrix as representing universal love in the first half, and universal sovereignty in the second, since sovereignty is the manifest of love, and love has no meaning without that manifest. If we look at Mary's work in this way, we can say that her work truly is the scientific continuation of the principles of the Treaty of Westphalia, especially since these principles are now carried forward through her work, into the social domain."

      "I am just amazed that Mary was able to do this at all," said Tatsuhiko. "You are saying that she put all of this in place a hundred years ago. I thought we were the leading edge pioneers, stretching the envelop to the limit. I thought we were daring. I thought we were going way out on the limb against every religious doctrine in existence; separating sex and marriage; uplifting marriage into universal domain; introducing universal love and universal sovereignty into the equation. I thought we were pioneers, way ahead of our time. Now you are saying that Mary has put all of that on the table in late 1800s, in the midst of the rule of religious fundamentalism with its stern and rigid dogmas. She was not only a genius, but a quite daring girl at that! It must have taken immense courage to take such a stand for the truth."

      "But she did it, Tatsuhiko," I replied. "Precept for precept, she had put down what we have finally re-discovered with a lot of toil, sweat, and agonies, and a lot of courage, and that in our modern more liberal world. When Steve invited me for dinner on the day when we first met, the whole evening became a Platonic dialog between me and him and Ushi, and the end result was a complete separation between marriage and sex, as if the two were separate issues, and they were treated separately from that night on. In that process, through that dialog, both aspects became elevated far beyond their conventional significance. And yes, Mary had put this on the table a hundred years ago. And she was right on the mark. The intimacies that we developed in our process of coming closer to the truth, I mean the sexual intimacies, became a great joy rather than a mere pleasure. The separation of sex from the dimension of marriage established a sense of unity between us all that would never have been possible otherwise. And amazingly, what came out of it, literally did alter the world. But it is far more amazing to realize that Mary had put all of that onto the table of humanity more than a hundred years before we even dared to think of it, and in a clearer and more profound manner, than we had actually done. And what is worse to our shame, I hadn't seen a lot of that until just days ago when I took another look at Mary's work on the plane coming here. That's when I really found out that our pioneering work had been predated by more than a century."

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