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For the benefit of those who had not been at the conference in Caracas, I described our last days and nights in Caracas when Erica became the center of the scene. I described it as an explosive exploration of the potential of our humanity, which was so intense and so captivating, that it almost extended around the clock. There were days when we were sitting in the hot tub at two in the morning discussing nuclear fusion technology and its potential for humanity. He had talked about the potential for converting ordinary rocks into metals that would give us building materials with an infinite supply, with which to build our bright new future. We talked about the exiting potential to move agriculture indoors into buildings thousands of acres in area and fifty stories high, with self-contained and fully controlled environments. We talked about a world without hunger and without poverty, a world in which the very concept of world hunger and poverty no longer exists. We talked about all of these things as the potential for a world that was very close at hand should we decide to go for it, because such a world would be the natural outcome of our humanity if our humanity would be allowed to be developed.
I explained that on the very first day that I met Erica in Leipzig, in Germany, I had loved her and cherished her to a large extent for her excitement in all of her efforts at uplifting humanity. She looked for the realization of all the possible attainments in creativity, the likes of which far supersedes most people's tallest dreams. And even at this time already, the sexual dimension was boldly in the foreground, but on the sideline where it will likely remain forever.
"Anton," I said, "had witnessed this higher level unfolding of optimism and enthusiasm that Erica brought onto the scene in Caracas, but she hadn't made any driving commitment for its realization." I suggested that she might be sitting in Moscow at this very moment, pondering those higher level demands. I also suggested that it won't likely take another dozen years for her to acknowledge herself as being a part of the larger community of principle that uplifts the whole of humanity, which comes to light as something greater than oneself. I pointed out that Anton has a beautiful mind that she has just begun to open up to the wide horizons of the complex domain, to the point that she has begun to recognize the existence of universal principles that she can build on to recognize more. "But the footsteps ahead must be her own footsteps," I said firmly. "If we were to invite her here and push her into the sphere of higher demands, we might be committing coercion. I have done this once. I won't do it again. It doesn't work. Anton needs to find the imperative in her own self-love. And she'll find it there. I think she will join us by her own self-empowerment. She is that kind of a dynamo. She won't be contend to sit at home idle when work is going on here that is urgently needed to protect and uplift humanity. When she gets here by her own choosing, I think she will be with us without reservation, slugging it out with us on the front lines of leading edge explorations. Universal love is a privilege never a duty. As soon as she realizes that, she'll be here, and she'll work from this standpoint. She'll regard it as a privilege then, as I think we all do."
"Isn't it a bit harsh not to invite her?" Sylvia asked. "You have come so close in Caracas. Surely, she would expect to be invited."
Olive shook her head and said that she had asked Fred not to invite her, but merely inform her of the project. "She'll discover it as a privilege, and that will mean to her a great deal more. But more important than this, she'll discover love as a privilege."
"Mary would agree with Olive," Ross interjected. "She pioneered this pattern. She created her church without a provision for establishing marriages on the small institutional platform, while she put the reality of the universal marriage of humanity on the table for people to discover and to reach up to and acknowledge. However, she didn't make this discovery and acknowledgment a duty. She merely opened the door to it and extended the privilege for people to align themselves with the truth. She made it a privilege for people to respond to the Principle of Universal Love. She also kept the door open for people who didn't discern this privilege. She gave them the option to have the small marriages that they desired instituted in their life by other churches, according to the prevailing ceremonial and doctrinal traditions.
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