"I can well imagine how Indira would have answered him," I said to Ross. "She might not have answered him in so many words, but would have replied instead with a kiss. I can also imagine still another response that Tony might have gotten from her. 'If that is how our universal marriage comes to light,' she might have said to him, 'then Mary really had no choice, but to put the entire marriage concept into a category all of its own, and sex into another category that is totally separate from it, because you didn't say a word about sex in that regard, not even with your eyes.'"

      "How do you think Tony might have reacted," Ross interrupted.

      "Tony would have been honest, Ross. He might have said to Indira, 'that's not to say that you are not in my heart as a beautiful woman. You are in my heart just as you are, as a beautiful woman, excitingly sexy. I embrace you as that every day when I see you. Sex is an element that makes you exceedingly beautiful to me, because sex is in my Soul. I am no longer ashamed of it. I see it reflected in the things that you do, and I acknowledge them with joy. I see your wonderful female sex also reflected in the care that you take and in the thoughts that you express. After all, who else but you, would say, I greet you and I kiss you? There are shades of love, and there are shades of love, and they may both have the same object and produce the same outcome, and yet their flows can be different, and that difference is somehow related to the rich individuality of sex. Do I make any sense, Indira?'"

      I suggested to Ross that Indira would have responded with nothing more than a nod, or she might have summed up what he had just laid out before her, by saying, "Isn't that what we always do in our scientific processes?"

      "What would she have meant with that?" Ross asked.

      "Indira may have said to Tony, 'If you say that universal marriage isn't something that one can choose, that it is something that one is subjected to from the moment one is conceived; than it is something that will never go away. And you say that sex plays a large part in that when it becomes enveloped with all the bigger things of the fullness of our divine being, then why would Mary put sex into a separate sphere? Is she saying that both aspects must develop simultaneously, so that one feeds into the other? You seem to agree with that, as do I. That seems to indicate to you that sex is an element of our humanity that we need to culture rather than throw away, that we need to grow and explore, and uplift, while the driving force that moves us in that direction is our universal marriage. Whatever we culture in this context uplifts the universal marriage concept, over which we seem to have no control, except to enrich it. So you say that Mary was right to associate the concept of universal marriage with the first development stream that she identified as the first glow of dawn, and that sex becomes associated with the sunrise. There'll never be a sunrise without a dawn. That's not possible. The dawn feeds into the sunrise. Would you say then, Tony, that the very thing that has dawned in your heart, you might also love to hold physically in your arms as well, in a process corresponding to the sunrise? Would you see this as a process of acknowledgment to yourself, and to me, that you are not dreaming, that the unavoidable universal marriage of mankind that embraces everything, is real?"

      "'Is this an invitation?' Tony might have asked her," I said to Ross.

      "'If you want it to be,' she might have answered. 'Except, here is where the challenge begins. What are you going to bring into this embrace that uplifts both of us? Are you bringing yourself into this embrace in the form that John the Revelator had beheld humanity, as an angel that is a woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars, the stars in the heavens of rejoicing?"

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Stories about War from novels by Rolf A. F. Witzsche