"The question that has been put before us in this age, is whether we wish to be a part of that world that spreads life through the universe; a part of that kind of human culture that develops the human capability that now lies largely dormant within us; a society that has the passion to live and to bear all cost, and endure all efforts, to achieve that. We won't develop that passion by shutting ourselves off against one-another, but we can develop it by embracing one-another with such honesty, and such joy, that we regard ourselves and one-another as the most precious jewels that have ever been designed, and protect and enrich one-another accordingly.

      "If we reach this high passion in which all that is good and beautiful comes to light, which is a part of our humanity in which sex plays an uplifting role, which has been smothered for centuries together with music, drama, art, science, technologies, and economies, then nothing will hinder us to fulfill our design and to go beyond it. But if we don't have this passion to rouse ourselves out of the dust we will surely die, and the present civilization will die with us. As for myself, I think the choice is clear. That is why I am here, to help arouse that passion for life that will lift the dark blanket of Adam Smith from the Earth, and all of that in human stench which hides behind it.

      "Can we do this?" I asked.

      I suggested that we could. I suggested that we might consider something which Christ Jesus had once hinted at with his famous promise, referring to the Christ idea, that whenever two or three are gathered together in his name, the divinity of the human being, there would he be, the Christ-Idea, in the midst of them. I pointed out that Mary had said essentially the same thing. She once told the students of her class, that even the few of them who were gathered together in that classroom would be sufficient to change they world if they were of one mind, for then the world would feel the essence of that mind.

      I suggested that she wasn't talking about the human mind in its smallest private sense, but in the universal sense as an element of our humanity that binds us all together into one through the common recognition of universal principles. "In this universal domain, in universal marriage as a community of principle, the spark of a single profound idea that a single person may draw from the depth of our infinite human Soul, has the potential to light a fire right across the whole world as it finds an echo in the Mind of humanity where we find our potential to recognize Truth. This completes the circle.

      "In this manner, with ever higher expressions of truthfulness unfolding in our life, be they sexually located, or socially, or spiritually, or even scientifically, we cannot help but to have an impact on the whole world as we bring light to the world in which we have our being by bringing all that we truly are, into it."

      With this said, I turned the tape recorder off and sat down and continued my breakfast, which ended the formal portion of our day.

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