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MARRIAGE
A symbol of the union of Wisdom (fem.) and Love
(masc.), or of Truth (masc.) and Love (fem.), or in a lower sense,
of mind (man) and emotion (woman). It also may mean the union of the
Higher Self (masc.) with the purified lower Self (fem.) on the
higher mental plane.
"There is in every particular of the Word, a marriage of love and
wisdom, or of good and truth. . . . The conjunction of good and
truth is called the heavenly marriage." - SWEDENBORG, Apuc. Rev., n.
29, 97.
"But the chief of all the mysteries for Philo was apparently the
Sacred Marriage, the mystic union of the soul as female, with God,
as male." - G. R. S. MEAD, T. G. Hermes, Vol. I. p. 216.
The marriage of Wisdom (Medea) and Love (Jason) is indicated in the
Argonautic Expedition :-
"Alcinous assented to give Medea up, provided she was yet a maid.
His wife Arete hearing this, lost no time in joining the lovers in
wedlock." The union of Wisdom and Love is rendered possible only
when Divine truth has been realised. Before this there can be no
true marriage between them, and Wisdom is, as it were, not virgin,
since it is conjoined to the things of the lower planes. Therefore,
until the hour comes when it is raised and purified, it cannot be
united on the higher planes to its complemental half.
"Those two Beings, viz. the Inward Heavenly and the Outward
Heavenly, were mutually espoused to each other, and formed into one
body wherein was the most holy tincture of the Fire and Light; viz.
the great joyful Love- desire which did inflame the Essence, so that
both Essences did very earnestly and ardently desire each other in
the Love-desire, and loved one another :- the Inward loved the
Outward in its manifestation and sensation, and the Outward loved
the Inward in its greatest sweetness and joyfulness as its precious
Pearl and most beloved Spouse and Consort; and yet they were not two
bodies, but only one,-but of a two-fold Essence; one inward
Heavenly, Holy, and one from the essence of Time,- which were
epoused and betrothed to each other eternally." - JACOB ВОЕНМЕ,
Mysterium Magnum, p. 79.
The marriage of the Higher Self with the lower Self takes place as
the evolution of the lower qualities or elements,--physical, astral,
and mental,-enables the potencies of the Self to be completely
expressed. When a given point is reached, that of perfection, then
the lower is absorbed, so to say, into the Higher Self, which may be
said to overshadow the lower, and so, since the latter ceases to
exist, the Higher state as such also disappears, that is, becomes
Something for which no equivalent term can be furnished.
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