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"Isn't it sad that this is even being considered as a solution," Sylvia commented. "We are trying to equalize the sexes by neutralizing our humanity. Instead of minimizing the sexual aspects of our humanity to the point of non-existence, shouldn't we rather develop all the rich and beautiful aspects that our sexual diversity brings to the human scene?" Sylvia asked. "Can anyone even estimate how much society throws away by minimizing and smothering its rich sexual diversity and individuality? I would like to suggest that as we become engaged in serious scientific efforts to reverse this trend, we will find ample cause for celebration, regardless of what form this may take on. Also, this celebration will have to become a continuous celebration, rather than being just an hour a day affair."
Tatsuhiko obviously liked the idea. His head popped up when Sylvia spoke of this kind of celebration. "Can you imagine anyone saying this in India?" He said.
"Not just in India, almost anywhere in the world," Indira corrected him. She looked at me and smiled. "What's your Christianity worth?" she said. "Does anyone ever say, I greet you and I kiss you? I acknowledge the existence of both rivers. I didn't know about Mary's work. Maybe Heinrich Heine did. Most likely we both had enough of a scientific perception to understand that this duality exists and needs to be acknowledged. But in Christianity's dogmatism, that's treason. This inspires in me a tremendous respect for Mary's efforts. What she did is more revolutionary than Ghandi's work. She stood before the world and said, be careful, Christianity, or for that matter any religion, is dangerous. She defined Christianity as the moral domain that is essentially a transitional stage that exists below the scientific level. She said, be careful with sex, because you have put it on a level where society gets stuck when no scientific development takes place, of our humanity as human beings. She is saying to me loud and clear, you don't want to be at this level. She is also saying that today's concept of marriage is at this level. So, be careful! She evidently expects society to work itself out of this volatile stage where the whole human development gets so easily mired in mythologies, limits, emotions, and dogmatism. Consequently, she makes no provisions for anyone to be stuck at this level. She makes no provisions for conventional marriages where the whole social scene becomes stirred together into some gray soup without coherence to universal principles. But she does say that Christianity, and with it the moral domain, is a part of the chain of the scientific development of humanity."
"At least it is supposed to be that," Tatsuhiko interrupted. "The real root of Christianity isn't found in Christ Jesus' work. The scientific method for human development was already put on the table by Plato and Socrates centuries earlier, which is very much reflected in Christ Jesus' work. Unfortunately, this scientific trend has been shut down by imperial Rome, and is still kept out of the public's consciousness by modern romanticism and impiricism. A lot of what we call moral and perceive as an aspect of Christianity, really borders on depravity, because of this regression, if it isn't depravity already. All greed based and related systems, are systems of depravity. Mary seems to suggest that the moral stage is the best you can get to, short of scientific development, but you don't even want to be there, you want to move up higher."
"You want to start with the sunrise," Olive agreed. "So you've got to start with the separation of sex and marriage as a first step, because they are separate issues, and take it from there in the chain of scientific development. Both sets of rivers lead to universal concepts, don't they, such as universal marriage and universal sex, since they are all elements of our humanity that defines us all and is reflected in us all. That's the only way you get out of the quagmire of nuclear war, and I mean isolation, division, theft, rape, murder, and so forth. That's what we get when we loose sight of our humanity, and the only way to get it back and let it unfold in our lives is through scientific development along the line of the Platonic and Socratic method. It always comes back to that. We see it reflected in Helen's work and we see it reflected in Mary's work. And we have seen it reflected in every renaissance in history. That is the common denominator."
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