June 3, 2023 1:31 p.m. 
Dear Nikola,
Your adoption as transient family
members the two Latin American "distant relatives" whom you met on the Bus 
from Boston to Portsmouth, reminds of a story perhaps 85 years ago from my 
childhood. I was in second grade in the Pestalozzi Schule in Braunschweig. My
teacher was Walter Hirsekorn, who was a member of the Party and came to class
with the Swastika pinned to his lapel. He often brought his violin to play
melodies with which we children could sing along. Herr Hirsekorn was very fond
of me, so much so that my mother phantasized that where it was customary for 
a teacher to remain at the same class level and each year to teach a new group
of students, Hirsekorn had arranged to accompany the class of which I was a 
member from 1st grade to second grade to third grade in order to protect me. 

Herr Hirsekorn taught all subjects except "Religion". In Germany there has 
never been a separation of church and state. In the first session, the
religion teacher expressed his confidence that in the household of each
of his pupils there was available a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf, because
that would be the topic of our next meeting. I reported this to my mother.
She was aghast; knowing that then aged 7, as now, aged 93, I could not
be trusted to keep my mouth shut, and might precipitate a catastrophe if
I blurted out "My mother says Hitler is a criminal." So she confided in
Herr Hirsekorn, face to face, since telephone talk might be overheard.
Herr Hirsekorn told her not to worry, to send me to school as usual,
that he would take matters in hand.

On the appointed day, the Religion Teacher opened the session with no
mention of Mein Kampf, but with the question: "Wer von euch kennt die
Geschichte vom Guten Samariter?" Which of you knows the story of the
Good Samaritan. I raised my hand, and was allowed to tell it. Perhaps
that explains why your inviting the two Latin American strangers to your home 
for dinner, and I infer also for lodging, is so congenial to
me, - especially inasmuch as I feel guilty for my own inability to be
so generous. I am also embarrassed, ashamed and helpless to be
living in a society where such generosity is considered subversive
and where a person incapable of concealing such generosity runs the
risk of being committed to a hospital.

What does it mean that you should identify the two Latin American
strangers as royal, yourself and perhaps also me as royal?  What is
royalty? I hear an answer in Bach's Cantata #71, Gott ist mein König,
God is my King! This music translates your proposition, there is 
something royal about these visitors into an hypothesis that there
is something divine about them, an hypothesis corroborated by the
Quakers who propose to identify "that of God in every man." This
statement throws open the portals of theology.

Where, who, what is God.
Where is God? In the Garden of Eden, In the burning bush, 
In the clouds of heaven, or in His Kingdom within you.
Who is God? "I am" or "I will be" or perhaps "Being", "Essence"
Exodus 3:14
14 And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.
καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεὸς πρὸς Μωυσῆν ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ὤν καὶ εἶπεν οὕτως ἐρεῖς τοῖς υἱοῖς Ισραηλ ὁ ὢν ἀπέσταλκέν με πρὸς ὑμᾶς
14 Dixit Deus ad Moysen: Ego sum qui sum. Ait: Sic dices filiis Israel: Qui est, misit me ad vos.
 14Gott sprach zu Mose / Jch werde sein der ich sein werde. Vnd sprach / Also soltu zu den kindern Jsrael sagen / Jch werds sein / der hat mich zu euch gesand. 

God is an otherwise unknowable virtual person projected by the language 
of society into its midst. God's function is to serve as the common 
denominator of the individual subjectivities of its members. Posited
in Genesis 1:1, In the beginning God created heaven and earth, the questions
arise who created or whence is God, and since a beginning implies the stream
of time in which it occurs, who created and whence is time.

My tentative solution, mindful that subjectivity as truth ascribes 
to God not an objective, but a subjective existence which arises with
an awakening of consciousness. I postulate that the subjective God awakens 
concomitantly with his creation of an objective world.