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1. There is nothing Christian about marriage,
and the notion of a 'Christian marriage' is a contradiction in terms, since
Christianity is about denying the World in the interests of heavenly salvation,
whereas marriage is a reflection of the World or, rather, of the relationship
between worldly and super-antiworldly bodies, viz.
woman and man, which resembles the attraction of the earth and the sun. In fact, when love of a particular woman
takes possession of a man's heart, he becomes possessive in his attitude
towards her, and this possessiveness, analogous to that of the sun for the
earth, is what is institutionalized by and through marriage, whether within or
without the Church. Such possessiveness
is akin to an emotional gravity, the will of which is to suck-in the beloved
towards itself and effectively take her over, rendering her will passive to its
demands. There is nothing Christian in
this, the most heathen of all passions.
On the contrary, it signifies the rejection of Christian values in a
context, governed by the blood, which has its powerbase in the heart, that seat
of the soul and ally of the Devil.
2. If we think of the soul as the metaphysical
quality of the blood, and blood as the element of the heart, then heart + blood
= Hell, which is the emotional quality of the Devil. Conversely, if we think of the spirit as the
metaphysical quality of the air, and air as the element of the lungs, then
lungs + air = Heaven, which is the spiritual quality of God. God and the Devil are within us whether or
not we are conscious (aware) of the fact, but only when we become tuned-in to
either the lungs or the heart will God or the Devil be the principal
experience. Hence when we tune-in to the
lungs, through meditation, God is all that we are aware of and we accordingly
become divine. When, by contrast, we
tune-in to the heart, through love, then the Devil is all that we are aware of
and we accordingly become diabolic.
3. God, being spirit, seeks deliverance from the
World, since spirit rises-up on the lightness of air and naturally or, rather,
supernaturally tends away from the flesh.
The Devil, being soul, seeks dominion over the World, since soul is
attracted by the heaviness of the flesh and antinaturally
or, rather, super-antinaturally tends towards it. The deliverance of spirit from the flesh is
salvation. The domination of the flesh
by the soul is damnation. The lungs
deliver and the heart enslaves. There,
in the human predicament, is the Faustian dilemma of 'two souls, alas, within
my breast do dwell', although we have the freedom to choose between them and to
accept or reject the World in consequence.
He who speaks of and through the heart has made his pact with the
Devil. He who speaks of and through the
lungs, by contrast, has made his peace with God.
4. He/she who, by contrast, speaks neither
through the heart nor the lungs but through the brain and/or body (sex organs,
womb, etc.) is neither diabolic nor divine but human-all-too-human, and for
him/her the decision - if possible - of God or the Devil has still to be
made. Perhaps it is still true that many
are called (to life) but few chosen (by the Devil or by God), and doubtless
sitting-on-the-fence has its amoral attractions and even advantages. It does not, however, have eternal sanction,
and it is not, as we have seen, One with the will of either God or the
Devil. The Devil is not future but
past. God is future and no past. When God has His day, the fence will be torn
down and no-one continue to sit upon it.
The meek shall be saved from their sins and only the graces of Heaven
prevail - for ever. The meek may now, as
the People, have inherited the earth, but it remains for God to inherit the
meek. Only when He does so, will the '
