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man, and therefore exists wherever hui
man beings exist
The utterances Of Jesus were general
~ obscure In their meaning, except when
relating to practical conduct Jesus gen.
orally taught doctrines in parallels and,
as the Scripture says, without a para
Die, spake He not unto them. Some
times He absolutely refused to give
definite answer Obscurity in the sayings
OF Jesus was intentional, for He spoke to
sensuous-minded community, who
could not understand spiritual truth. The
/ parable reached those who could see the
truth In the image, but protected others
from SHINING against light. Many of the
sayings of Jesus cannot be taken in their
most literal form. For instance, He tells
us to resist not evil Taken literally
this would prohibit us from Furnishing
criminals. You must understand the
text in the sense In which Jesus said My
words are spirit and are life
In all the Scripture there is an inward
meaning which is as the soul within the
BODY of the letter. AS to the text, the
question about. marriage was not the
point of the inquiry. The Sadducees were
Inqu1r1ng about. the resurrection, and so
you find that Jesus dismissed the subject
OF marriage IN few words and then
spoke on the real topic at issue-the
resurrection. Remembering the ways of
Jesus, We should not expect the text to
oe clearer in Its most external phase. be-
cause He was speaking to the Saddu-
Gees, who say there Is no resurrection
tnat is. who were materialists.
AS to the marriage relation, 1t is
founded on the existence of sex in mind
and spirit. In the two sexes God has ad-
Justed the elements of human life with
d11terences sosthat there Is an innate and
concrete attraction between the mascu-
line and feminine forms Of life Man
loves the woman and appreciates her love
or his wisdom from the Lord. The wom-
an loves the man and appreciates his de-
sire for her love, which is from the Lord.
mus each loves the other and God in the
other. Each Is a complement of the
other, having those characteristics that
the other lacks. Thus sex is distinc-
ton In the tnmost form Of the SOUL It
exists In the external form because it
exists In the Utmost mind. Hence the de-
sire and attraction for union are perma-
nent conditions, which exist wherever
men and women exist. but this attrac-
ton partakes of the quality of the life
of each individual.
In low and evil men the attraction of
sex is unregenerate and of low form,
but in regenerating men and women this
mutual love 1s regenerated and purified,
and 1t exists in its highest form in the
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count of creation, God ordained mar
riage between the first man and woman.
The fruits Of the spiritual union in
heaven are the spiritual states Of mind
produced in the parties mutually.
No person who has lived on earth in
a sincere and happy marriage would de-
sire to think that there would be no
further spiritual association with his or
her partner in the next world. Men and
women who have grown old together,
loving together, thinking together, work.
ing together, walking with the Lord to-
gether, look forward to a continual union
Of light in the spiritual world,
Every regenerating married man or
woman knows by experience that his or
her marriage is a nursery Of heaven, re-
sisting selfishness in every form and Gull
tivating the finer virtues, and that where
ever there is a true marriage on earth 1t
leads the parties nearer to the Lord as
well as nearer to each other. They know
that these spiritual conditions will not
end at the grave"