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"We have all recognized and experienced this development potential, have we not? As soon as one gets oneself out of the trap of self-confinement into untruthfulness, the door to the real world suddenly lies open with all the wide dimensions of our humanity coming to light. That's how truthfulness begins. It begins without anyone forcing the issue. From there, of course, it is but a small step to develop the same truthfulness in the larger world of economic and political considerations where the very same universal principles also apply. We truly have the potential with this process for awakening society, to revolutionize the world with the capacities that we all have as human beings, which we always had, that merely remained dormant and for far too many ages already.
"So, I would say that we have a challenge before us that is greater in scope, both in its potential for good and the difficulty in achieving it, than any challenge has ever been. It is a challenge that has apparently never even been defined throughout history, so that every Renaissance has therefore failed after a brief period. The challenge that we face in this arena is evidently so great that even we, who had begun to look at the universal principles of our humanity more than a dozen years ago, didn't succeed in building our world on these principles to any significant extent, until just recently. That's how deep the problems lie in that domain, the sexual domain, where a great deal of untruthfulness has dominated society for many ages. We too had been stuck in that dimension of closed-mindedness, where untruthfulness reigns, until one day a radical new idea emerged that shifted the whole scene onto a higher level than the one in which the problem is rooted. That process was carried forward into the arena of the Caracas conference, where I think we have made a difference at last. I think we have moved some people. Maybe even a lot of people. I certainly felt good about what we had accomplished, even if it was not Earth shaking. Naturally, in global terms, it wasn't enough. That is plain to see. In global terms we had barely caused a ripple. Fred was right when he summed it all up at the end with a sigh, saying, 'And so, the world grinds on.'"
"This means that we face a much larger task now. We face the task to raise the human scene to still higher levels, into a world that has never existed before on this planet, a world in which we fulfill our role as human beings to spread life throughout the universe. This world is within our grasp. It has existed in principle, always, as a world of human capabilities that have so far not been seriously developed. But we also face the horrendous downdraft of the Adam Smith centered Nazi emporium that spreads darkness and death around the world like an impregnable blanket that no sunlight can penetrate. We find under this blanket a fascist world of theft and death, brimming with fascist weapons; nuclear weapons. We will surely die under this blanket unless we create ourselves a New World in which this blanket has no place. The choice is ours. Whichever way we choose will not alter the design of the universe and the human being, or the eventual fruition of this design. If we choose not to live like human beings according to the design of our humanity, then we choose by default to die in a slow and agonizing manner as the nuclear cloud poisons the world that we, society, laboriously devote our lives to create even now.
"The universe won't be affected by our choice. Its design will come to fruition. If we blow ourselves up, a few will survive, and in a few thousand years, on in a hundred-thousand years after the next ice age ends, a new civilization will arise and carry out the purpose that is now laid before us, and this with the same human capabilities that we now intend to so carelessly throw away.
"And if that civilization fails, another will arise after the next ice age that follows. The universe is patient, and richly generous. The sun won't burn itself out for another few thousand million years. The design of the universe will come to fruition. Just look at the flowering tree in front of our beach. Each seed pods contains a vast abundance of seeds, and of the thousands of the pods that grow each year on this tree, a single seed may germinate during the next decade or two and take root, and create another tree. And so, in time all the islands here will become enriched with the red flowers of flowering trees.
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