Science And Health

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The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint. Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER HI MARRIAGE What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. - Jesus. i T 51 THEN our great Teacher came to him for baptism, V V John was astounded. Reading his thoughts, Jesus 3 added : " Suffer it to be so now : for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness." Jesus' concessions (in certain cases) to material methods were for the advancement of 6 spiritual good. Marriage is the legal and moral provision for generation among human kind. Until the spiritual creation 9 Marriage is discerned intact, is apprehended and under- temporal stood, and His kingdom is come as in the vision of the Apocalypse, - where the corporeal sense of crea- 12 tion was cast out, and its spiritual sense was revealed from heaven, - marriage will continue, subject to such moral regulations as will secure increasing virtue. is Infidelity to the marriage covenant is the social scourge of all races, "the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Fidelity the destruction that wasteth at noonday." is reimred The commandment, " Thou shalt not commit adultery," is no less imperative than the one," Thou shalt not kill." Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. i Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life. 3 Union of the masculine and feminine qualities constitutes completeness. The masculine mind reaches a higher tone through certain elements of the Mental 6 feminine, while the feminine mind gains cour- elemenu age and strength through masculine qualities. These different elements conjoin naturally with each other, and 9 their true harmony is in spiritual oneness. Both sexes should...

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