Claim. Restoration scales by investing more love at each larger unit — family, tribe, people, nation, world — and forgetting what was invested, mirroring the principle of re-creation.
Elaboration. SMM gives the operational rule: “You must invest your own family in order to connect to the global family. You must invest in order to accomplish the larger purpose. This is the principle of restoration, the principle of re-creation … Because the tribe is larger than the family, love the tribe. Because the people within a nation are greater than a tribe, love them more than you love the tribe. Because a nation is greater than a people, love the nation more than you love that people. In this way, you invest in stages, investing more in each stage, and then forgetting what you invested, so as to reach the higher levels” (CSG 13.1 §5, 289-208, 1998.1.2). The dynamic is give-and-take writ large: “A subject partner and an object partner seek to become related to a larger level object partner. Then, based on that relationship, they should become subject and object partners and create unity.” The result is the disappearance of national boundaries “centered on true love.” Homeland restoration is therefore continuous with family ethics — the same investing-and-forgetting that constitutes true-love within a family scales without break to the global level.
See also. give-and-take-action, family