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"Fred is paying for it. And I believe he is paying for it out of his own resources," Olive replied. "I told him that the project was needed, and I told him who needed to take part. He promised to take care of it. Apparently he has. So here we are, and the project is unfolding. We certainly are making progress. Already a number of profound ideas have come to the surface, that appear hard to surpass, and we only just begun."
"So what are we going to do for the rest of the four weeks?" Tatsuhiko asked and laughed.
"I promised Fred we would make every day count," Olive replied.
"In this case let's start with a celebration," Sylvia suggested.
"Another marriage celebration perhaps, celebrating the commitment of all of us to one another," Indira suggested.
"No, why would we want to celebrate something that is already the reality of our being?" asked Sylvia. "We could celebrate the idea that enabled us to make that discovery. That would make sense. But Olive promised Fred that we would make every day count. I think we should have a celebration that moves us further ahead. I think we should have a symphony concert, followed by some poetry, followed by some scientific discussion. All of these are aspects of our humanity that relate to our love of the good and the beautiful and their immortality. That makes them aspects of our universal marriage, of our commitment to our humanity, and thereby to each other. These things are worth celebrating, and celebrating them will enrich us and our perception of our humanity. We should have such a celebration every evening."
"Are you suggesting to stage a symphony concert right here on the beach, in the after-glow of the sunset?" Olive asked excitedly.
"Yes," Sylvia replied. "We've got CDs on the boat and a sound system with speakers that can be set up on the deck. Make a request," she added, speaking to Olive.
"Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto Number Two," Olive replied. "We've got a recording by Vienna Philharmonics. I saw it in the collection on board, and I played when the recoding was made."
So it was, that after dinner, and after the sunset, the great Rachmaninoff concerto rang out into the stillness over the Coral Sea. We were able to do this without any reservations, since we were the only people on the entire island. As far as we could determine there wasn't anyone else around. There wasn't much poetry, however, on the boat. That meant that we had to make up our own.
Towards the end of the day's celebration, after the music and the poetry, Olive suggested that we were only half done. "We have committed ourselves to two separate development streams," she said. "One of these is for the development of our universal marriage that we just celebrated. The other development stream that flows in parallel, but separately, is the one for the development of sex. This means that we need a celebration in this realm also. Our dual development objective must involve a dual celebration. But what have we got in store to celebrate that moves us ahead? Plato demands us to ask questions. So I am asking the question?"
"Isn't the answer plain?" I said. "Mary included with each of her references to sex, a reference to the basic architecture of her structure. This means that the scientific development of sex involves the scientific development of the basic architecture of our humanity. There, we find ourselves as men and women. Mary suggests that the blending of the masculine and feminine nature of our humanity, and the associated qualities, constitutes a type of completeness. Maybe we can celebrate that? The female qualities of care, compassion, and gentleness, and the male qualities of strength, generosity, and determination, are certainly worth celebrating since each one of us incorporates all of them to some degree. We need to discover them and explore them, and explore further the avenues in which they can be applied to change our world and uplift civilization.
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