Christianity as creative myth

from the bondage of them until one has, as Jesus said (St. Matthew 5.26), ‘paid the uttermost farthing’.

Love then, properly understood, is not just morally good; it is the most profound practical wisdom. So long as races, nations, religions and individuals believe that only they and those who agree with them are right and all others are wrong, and that the ‘truth’ which they ‘know’ is the only truth, and so long as it is believed that economic competition and political confrontation are the right way to carry on, there can never be any world ordering. Those who are to be the new guidance of mankind, which Mitrinovié called Senate, will have to be ‘wise as serpents and harmless as doves’ (St. Matthew 10.16). They will have to understand, and be able to act upon the knowledge that there can be no true socialism or Organic World Order without the reconciliation of all different individual and functional meanings and points of view. And they will also have to understand that this does not require agreement between them, but mutual recognition of their respective validity and significance. It is only through love that a pan-human organism would be able to co-function, that is by the mutual acceptance of all that they are ‘members one of another’ and by everyone acting with that conviction. This demands a vision of humanity and of its mission and destiny which goes far beyond what the Churches now purvey as Christianity. It demands the active realisation that the whole of Mankind is really One. As Mitrinovi¢ wrote, ‘Christ-essence, Christ-principle, is the experience, the truth, the knowledge, that all souls are contained in all souls, and that in the centre of each of all the souls, the same, the very same universal is living and present’.14 Manly Hall called it the Gospel of Identity, ‘The thing in you that says “I am” is identical with the thing in me that says “I am”. So there are no longer two who can be friends, but rather one that cannot be divided.’

In the New Britain World Affairs Mitrinovi¢ asked the question, ‘Is that Western saying true—that all things are different from one another, and they all are what they are and therefore things and values exist for themselves and for their own sake? Is that man wise who said in his heart that Divinity is nil and that there is no God.’ And he answered his own question, ‘All things

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