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Chapter 2 - A Marriage Celebration.My own private project, which I felt was of utmost importance, was to write a book about the long and intimate journey that had brought us all together in China. We had been forced to escape from the political persecution in the 'Land of the Free.' But that wasn't the real reason for which I hoped we would all come together. And even now that it was done, it was but a step, a step in larger journey that had already been planned. Most of us were aware of that. When I talked about this at the dinner table, I suggested that our meal together could be seen as the beginning of the greater marriage celebration that we had been talking about on and off for some time, that we all may have felt would eventually unfold. I suggested therefore, that we might regard our grand reunion celebration, as the beginning of that, although the word beginning was not a perfect choice of words since it also implies a possible ending that would not apply. Steve suggested that we might see the celebration as an opening step to a universal truth and its underlying principles can have no ending, which unfolds its light evermore as we move forward, whereby it enriches our days. I referred to Erica's dream in this context, of the people who had built a temple in which to celebrate their commitment to honor one another and to enrich one another's life beyond the level of merely fulfilling one another's human needs. I suggested that the people in that dream became engaged in honoring a bond to each other that no one could define, that could only be defined symbolically by building that temple which had evoked an endless celebration. Steve suggested that we should not see ourselves as bound to obligations, as marriage is often perceived. Instead we should see our larger marriage unfolding as a privilege to explore the infinite; to experience in our lives the boundless dimension of the universal marriage of mankind; to discover aspects of truth about ourselves that already exist; to embrace one another as children of a single humanity. He said that we should see it as a privilege to enrich one another as a means for enriching our world that we all share. Steve suggested that the reason why humanity has never allowed itself to have the privilege of universal love, evidently reflects a lack of awareness that this principle exists only in conjunction with the principle of universal sovereignty, just as universal sovereignty can only exist in conjunction with universal love. He suggested that without the conjunction of these two principles neither of the functions and no one is safe. He suggested that this might have been the reason why the marriage institution never developed beyond the limits of its smallest form. He suggested that the opportunity never existed before, for a people to step beyond those limits, because the privilege to do so unfolds only on the platform where these two principles coincide and become the fundamental principle of civilization. Steve then addressed himself to our two Chinese ladies, Mai-seong Wong, and Wai-yi Chan, and explained to them that on the platform of the universal marriage of humanity, no one is sovereign over another since each human being is sovereign in itself. He also explained that each unfolding form of love is sovereign, so that each bond that love has forged is sovereign and needs to be honored as such, as an honorable bond. Ross suggested that the privilege of universal love is built on an extremely tall platform. "On this platform we enrich one another's existence; we uplift one another with our love; we build a richer, wider world. This poses a challenge to each one of us, because an empty person cannot reach that high." Ross explained that a human being has the potential for great riches within, which our love for one another and ourselves causes us to develop. "With these we enrich our world, and honor one another as we honor ourselves," he added. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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