A crowded St. Peter's Square, Rome
At present, each of us is normally characterised by the conditioning of our conscious mind, derived from our relationship with reality. This dictates the way we think, act and react, subject to the pictures and words presented in newspapers, on radio and television, and to the very tangible emotional influence of others, especially in large crowds responding to dramatic events.
The Pope's thinking must be affected by his cloistered life, by his official duty to uphold the statutes and building blocks of his religion, his powerful position in much of the world, and his relationship with the masses of Catholic believers. His audience think according to the circumstances of their practical selves. Because his circumstances are not the same and his mind differently oriented, he cannot think as they do. Their wishful spiritual selves emotionally identify with this religion, but overall they are only marginally influenced by his words. So the character we appear to be is not necessarily the real us, but ourselves in relation to existing reality, tempered by our morality, perhaps in the form of a facet of reality - religion. This reality, which I call the Machine, is not truly moral, therefore we are not truly moral. It is against our intelligent nature to commit crimes and inhumanities but we commit them nevertheless under pressure from the Machine.
In other words most of these people in St. Peter's square believe that it is human nature to be competitive and in conflict. They accept that in order to avoid consequent chaos and achieve some kind of stability they need to be ordered by governments and morally advised by church leaders such as the Pope.
Governments and religious leaders too would define human being as instinctive emotional intelligence requiring the control of authority supplemented by the guidance of religion. This is because in existing human society the financial and political affairs of the Machine come first and morality takes second place, to be observed only where the Machine permits.
In such a gathering only the leading figure is recognisable as an individual, but the entire crowd is made up of individuals. Each individual is apparently unique because the detailed range of everyone's experience, and their reaction to that experience, is necessarily different. The Pope's position is certainly unique, so his outward individual activity is different again.
BUT..... in respect of humantrue moral responsibility every one of these individuals is the same. A more accurate definition of human being is that notwithstanding their many differences of superficial character, personality and position in the hierarchy, each and every individual, deep within, is fundamentally the same in that each has a postconscious mind whose function is humantruth.
AND..... in order that it shall be possible for every individual to personify the common humantrue moral responsibility, it is vital that the worldwide framework of life, the entire structure of human society - our ideal reality - must also embody the humantrue principles and practices for which each and every individual is responsible.
Pt.VII REALISATION
DECIDING THE CONSTITUTION
Original Chapter
42 Definition of Human Being
Subchapters
42a St Peters Square
42b Keeping Order
42c Autoprogress
42d Hierarchical Pyramids
42e The Great Depression
42f Reform
42g Dictatorship
42h Inverting the Pyramid
42j Community
42k Moral Guide
Next Chapters
43 Code of Individual Behaviour
44 Framework of Life
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