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Here Begins a New World.
a story from the novels
The Lodging for the Rose
by Rolf A. F. Witzsche

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      As the last week began, of our endlessly seeming conference that we had reshaped into a conference to rescue the world from its unfolding doom, it appeared that everything that could be said on the theme, had been said. Nothing fundamentally new had been brought up for several days, by then. But this changed, suddenly, after the weekend. I could barely believe my eyes when I saw Erica on the podium. She was the first scheduled speaker of the Monday of this final week.
      How long had it been since we had last seen each other? I asked myself. It must have been thirteen years, and even that last meeting had been for just a single day which had ended on an uncertain note. Still I remembered her fondly. Perhaps this was so, because she brought the first spark of that new dawn into my life that had changed everything for me, and made it more beautiful and more profound. Or perhaps I remembered her as the only person I have ever met who regarded it more important to devote her time to the scientific study of the dimension of love, than to devote herself to leading edge research in nuclear physics and biological engineering that she had spent countless years to get into. Or maybe I was just impressed by the astonishing fact that her appearance hadn't changed one bit over the years. She looked the same as I remembered her, except that her smile was more radiant.
      She opened her speech with her still familiar metaphor of a vast garden filled with all the flowers of the world, in which we live; in which every married person of humanity is bound by some 'sacred' code of conduct, as it were, to focus at only one single flower and become blind to all the rest.
      "The code does not permit such a person to look at the rich profusion of life that fills the garden," she said, "to be enriched by its beauty, the gentle shapes of life, the profusion of color, to say nothing about the slightest intimate touching and embracing that brings light to the soul."
      Then she spoke about the riches of the universe in a different context. She spoke about a garden that is richly endowed with beautiful ideas and infinite possibilities. She also spoke about her once favorite subject, that of nuclear energy development and humanity's scientific potential for creating for itself the richest and brightest future that could be grander than any ever imagined, and she asserted that this future is within our grasp.
      "This is also a part of that garden of humanity," she explained to the assembly.
      Then she spoke about humanity's fascination with developing poverty, its commitment to it, its devotion to an extremely narrow view of the world, one that is focused on primitive energy resources, a commitment that is required for a feudal world order which depends on an ancient economic system that is ideal for looting. She pointed out that humanity has committed itself to look at the world with an extremely narrow and tightly bound focus, with its eyes latched onto the absolute worst that mankind has created, while turning a blind eye to the riches at its very feet that abound throughout the rest of the garden of the universe of life and its potential yet to be.
      Erica also spoke about the fondi. She didn't say how she got in contact with them, but she was well aware of their determination to create a still deeper poverty than what has already been achieved by them, built on more devastating wars and for the express purpose of depopulating the planet which creates even more poverty as it disables mankind's development potential.
      "This devastating goal can only be reached when the mental focus is so narrow that nothing is perceived that is profoundly real about our humanity," she said. "That is why society's vision is tightly confined and focused on lies, so that the lies become perceived as reality."
      "Here, a problem comes to light," she said to the audience, moments later. "As the fondi's empire creates more and more poverty, humanity's garden becomes gradually destroyed by these efforts. The problem is, that humanity, being tightly focused on a single concept of economy, and the very worst of it, fails to recognize that the garden as a whole is being trampled under foot."
      Erica said that humanity is in extremely great danger of being destroyed from within, without anyone taking notice that this is happening. Humanity's narrow focus has prevented it from even acknowledging the depopulation policies of the fondi, to say nothing about fighting against these policies for its very existence. Erica suggested, however, that humanity's narrow perception is artificially generated in an effort to create a sanctuary for the fondi in which the fondi are able to develop their destructive policies unchallenged and unhindered. She insisted that this sanctuary of a stupefied environment can be destroyed and be replaced with a new renaissance of scientific development and spiritual awareness.

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