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"That's what Christ Jesus was confronted with when the 'priests' of his day brought to him a woman who was clearly guilty under the priests' home-cooked privatization laws," Steve continued. "The woman had violated the sexual privatization law. The evidence apparently was clear; and so was the penalty. The law demanded the death penalty. The prescribed death penalty was to be carried out publicly. It was to be carried out by society itself. And it was to be carried out in the most dehumanizing manner possible by throwing stones at the accused woman until she would cease to be alive."
Steve paused for a drink, then continued. "Everything that could have possibly been done by the priests in order to tear to shreds the very notion of the divinity of man, had been fully carried out by the priests. This bloody rampage of legal murdering, the murdering of love itself, has destroyed the whole of society from the inside out, just as it destroyed the grand divine qualities of generosity and truthfulness that is inherent in every human being. In this manner society became self-destroyed. Nor has this warfare by society against itself ended. We need a new passion for life; the light of truth; the fire of an uplifted universal love."
"That fire is already lit and is being stoked, even here on this island," said Tony. "It is carried forward by the most noble-minded patriots of humanity, which is us." He began to laugh. "The fire is stoked whenever the goal is adapted to create a nobler, richer, and more humane humanity expressed in a more generous and loving society, bright with integrity and honor, resplendently white. However, even as we fight for this good and our goal is to ennoble humanity, which is a wonderful goal, one element of the truth is being ignored by us, namely that the human being is already the complete image of the divine. Nothing needs to be added to our humanity that isn't already there. Love, generosity, integrity, etc., are all built-in elements of our humanity. The fact is, we couldn't add them if they weren't there, no matter how desperately we wanted to add them. The fact is, they are there, and that is why we know about them. But that is not how we see ourselves. We deny what is the reality of our being. We deny most of it. We behave as if that reality didn't exist. We put our heads together in brainstorming sessions and work to enrich humanity. We have done this countless times, haven't we? Still, that process is self-defeating. That is why we have failed. In scientific terms, all that we can do to uplift humanity, is to promote a growing awareness throughout the world of the riches that society already has as the tallest species of life on the planet, complete with generosity, integrity, love, honor, and so on. Pete is right, that when this recognition is made, the very notion of privatization won't be thought of anymore. The words won't be spoken anymore, because they represent self-denial, which is a form of self-destruction. All of this has to start here, at the home plate."
Steve smiled and asked us all how we would go about defending the woman who stood before Christ Jesus to be judged of the offence of having had sex with another person who wasn't her husband? Steve asked this question and looked silently at each one of us.
"How would you represent the Christ idea of the divinity of the human being?" he added moments later.
He paused to allow us to ponder. "Obviously, we couldn't allow the woman to be murdered by the law of a system that is designed to tear the divinity of the human being to shreds," he continued. "According to what we are told about that incident, Christ Jesus understood instantly the very core aspect which Pete hadn't understood at all when he had been confronted by Helen.
Christ Jesus has understood deeply what Pete hadn't recognized for many years after meeting Helen, namely that the issue that had blocked him from responding to her invitation had nothing to do with a human being responding to his or her sexuality in a deeply human manner. The blockage had been an issue centered on property rights. The privatization of sex had made sexual intimacies an issue of property rights, the very issue that the power of the priesthood had been founded on, who had 'privatized' the sovereignty of society into their own hands. The priests couldn't allow an infraction against the foundation of their power to proliferate. The death penalty assured that this wouldn't happen. But Christ Jesus, unlike Pete, had instantly invalidated that entire privatization law in his mind, and had built a defense for the woman on that basis, just as Helen had done so for Pete. Christ Jesus had simply asked all of the woman's accusers to look deep into their Soul and to be truthful with themselves as to whether they could find a basis in their Soul for that cruel law.
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