A science fantasy that unfolds on earth. The story begins in India on the wings of a discovered revelation of the "science of the universal marriage of mankind." The science behind the fiction appears to be from as far in the future as it is old. Nevertheless, it gradually seems to work; though rarely does one fully trust it, or yet understand it. When the higher aspects of universal love begin to permeate the mental landscape, even in politics and in respect to sex and the erotic, surprising events unfold. Breaking the 'glass barriers' is actually more a scientific process of seeing through them, by which the barriers become dissolved. This novel is the fifth of eight novels in the epic science fiction series, The Lodging for the Rose. The romance that unfolds, almost from the erotic, becomes uplifted by a science that appears to be from out of this world and our time. The novel unfolds a series of intimate romances that gradually begin to shape the life of many people, even the course of the world. The barriers that are encountered exist in many domains; including the social, civil, moral, as well as the romantic, sexual, and the exotic. One even finds that the scientific process of breaking the 'glass barriers' sets the stage for a radically brighter New World.