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"Are you saying that you didn't know about all of this when you came to New Delhi?" asked Tatsuhiko.
"I knew a little bit," I answered somewhat ashamed. "Ross discovered something of it around Christmas. I looked at it extensively and discovered a little more. The principle of universal marriage was found to be represented in her work. It became the authority to move forward. Sure, we thought we knew it all by then. That's the perception that I brought with me to New Delhi where it was put into practice possibly for the first time in history. I didn't know then, that we had recognized only a small part of what Mary had put on the table. It wasn't until we came down here to Aussieland, when I asked myself how the Platonic method could be applied, that more and more of what we had discovered became locked together. For this I had brought Ross' research books along. That's when I realized that we hadn't seen anything yet. It wasn't that Mary had put anything new on the table that we hadn't already discovered. She had merely put it forwards more elegantly, more clearly, and more scientifically, and of course she said: Heh guys, what took you so long? I knew all of this a century ago."
"I feel the same way," said Olive. "Everything that she put forward I had instinctively known, but she adds a new dimension of science. It's like looking at train tracks that seem to merge in the distance. Everybody knows that the tracks don't merge, so we don't fret over it, right? Then a teacher comes along and asks, 'Do you know why you see things the way they appear in your vision?' You shake your head, and he explains that the human being has a wide angle of our vision, so that close up, a five foot object may cover the entire visual field, while at the horizon this same field of vision can easily encompasses an ten kilometer long mountain range. This means that the entire mountain range gets squished together into the same field of vision that a small object fills close up. Once you understand the principle behind this visual process, you see the world differently; you see the principle manifested. You see the same images that you have seen before, but you also see why the images appear the way they appear. And that's what makes Mary's work beautiful to me. I still recognize what I recognized before, but I am also beginning to see now why I see what I see, and what principles are involved. That makes everything more solid, more profound. When I think back now to the day when Pete and I met in Sukhumi, everything that happened that day seems more beautiful all of a sudden than it did even then, because I can now understand the principles that were involved which made that day beautiful. I see a brighter world coming to light. Isn't it amazing what scientific thinking can do for us?"
"I think we will be even more amazed when we apply this process to sex and our humanity," I added.
"Who would have thought that the key to sexual satisfaction lies in the Platonic method of scientific development?" said Tatsuhiko.
"And who would believe that we have all already experienced the truth of that?" added Sylvia. "Haven't we?"
"There remains but one problem for us to solve," said Olive, calling us to attention. "How do we get the whole world to understand what we ourselves just barely understand? We can't just go to society and put up a flag and proclaim the beginning of a new world, a world of universal love, universal marriage, and sex being isolated from the marriage platform. They would laugh at us and put us in jail."
"The answer is simple," I replied to her. "We have to select the best development model and put ourselves in it. Evidently that is Mary's model. This means that we have to look at our marriage to humanity in the context of that model. Indeed, this is what her references to marriage are leading up to. She tells us in her chapter on marriage that the common perception of marriage is nothing more than a legal and moral provision for procreation. This statement puts it into the moral domain. Indeed, that is where society has put it for many centuries. Mary also tells us that what is worthy to be in the moral domain needs to uplifted into the scientific domain. In fact, she makes this a mandate, because she doesn't even bother to make provisions for institutional marriages in the moral domain. That domain lies below the level of the sunrise. The sunrise begins in the scientific domain. In the scientific domain, science becomes the gateway to the truth. That's how we get to the noon-day sun. Of course, as soon as we get into the domain of science, Plato comes along and asks, what does it all mean? Start a dialog with yourself and anyone who can help you, and find out. Ask questions. Of course, the questions in this case must be focused at what is at the leading edge of the truth about our humanity in terms of relating to one another. It appears that Christ Jesus, who grew up in the end phase of the Platonic environment suggested some possible answers.
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