"I greet you and I kiss you is a beautiful greeting, Indira," I called back to her. "No one has ever greeted me like that before."

      "And most likely, no one ever will," she replied from the kitchen.

      Moments later she appeared with a fresh pot of tea. "Perhaps the words of the greeting are exceptionally beautiful, because they reflect the correct model," she said as she refilled our tiny porcelain teacup. "Actually the words are not really my own, Peter. Like the words of your song about beautiful things, so the words of my greeting are taken a well known profound poetic work. They are from a poem by Heinrich Heine, a German poet. The poem is especially beautiful when set to music. The words for my greeting are the refrain of the poem. The phrase, 'Sei gegruessed, Sei gekuessed' is repeated over and over in this poetic song as if the refrain was a song in itself, a song of life within a song about love."

      "In this case the phrase is worth repeating over and over whenever we meet and part," I suggested.

      I turned towards her and embraced her. "I love to hear the sound of those words, 'I greet you and I kiss you.' And I love to hear you say them," I said to her. "May I have the honor to share this wonderful phrase that you have coined, to greet you likewise in return? The greeting is so rich in meaning."

      She nodded and smiled. "Rich in what meaning?" she asked.

      "My dear friend Helen has recognized three fundamental elements of our humanity, and a fourth one vaguely," I said to Indira. "She has defined one of these as our universal kiss. She calls it the element of our peace."

      "That's a beautiful concept," said Indira. "Our universal kiss as an element of our peace! Is this a new concept?"

      I said that it was quite new. I explained the concept of Helen's lateral lattice and the healing that came out of it. I also explained that Helen's visualization of the lateral lattice concept is essentially a visual construct of the Principle of Universal Love where all love flows laterally, where no one stands above another or below. "I don't know where Helen got this perception from," I said to Indira. "What matters to me is that the principle that she has discovered has become her life, and now mine too."

      "Isn't it plain where she got it from?" Indira interjected. "The Principle of Universal Love lies at the root of Christianity itself. From what I know about Christianity, the whole of Jesus' life, the man who founded Christianity, was a sublime summary of a religion of universal, unconditional, divine Love. That's what he lived for. Love was his life. He lived the universal kiss."



      I agreed with her completely. I suggested that Jesus had actually defined in his life what in the oldest Indian writings, the earliest Veda, had said about God, that God is indefinable. "Evidently that applies to love too," I said to Indira. "The early Veda defines the 'One Truly Divine,' as the 'One of Many Names' or the one that can have no name. A specific name would be too limiting, but with no name its range its infinity. This Vedic concept is reflected in mathematics. Anything divided by zero is infinite. That's essentially the same as giving love all names in the Universe. That's why Truth cannot belong to any specific culture, person, or religion, but defines all mankind."

      "Perhaps Truth cannot really be defined with words," added Indira, "but I think it can be defined in life."

      "I am sure the life of Christ Jesus gave us the most profound expression of that idea," I said to Indira.

      "Sure it did," she agreed. "Out of the same background the Renaissance emerged fourteen centuries later. In the dynamics of Jesus' life the idea of the divine Principle as universal Love was brought to light as never before. But Jesus didn't create this principle. He merely exemplified it for us."

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