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THE TRUE MARRIAGE.

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a mistake a most palpable, painful mistake-no statute law, nor congressional legislature has the right to enforce to rigorously compel the continuance of this distressing mistake through an unhappy, hálf-dying lifetime. Freedom is the soul's inalienable birthright, and in the enjoyment and practical pursuance of this God-given right, it should feel no icy shackles, be saddled with no unnecessary burdens, press no crimsoned thornpaths, drink no wormwood draughts, nor breathe the sociallypoisoned, pestilential air of dark dismal dungeons.

"The martyr's fire-crown on the brow

Doth into glory burn;

And tears that from love's torn heart flow

To pearls of spirit turn.

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born;

The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn."

Under the ice the crystal waters run. Up from the mud the lily comes to bloom. Above the clouds the sun shines in eternal splendor.

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"'Tis coming up the steep of time,

And this old world is growing brighter:

We may not see its dawn sublime,

Yet high hopes make the heart throb lighter!

Our dust may slumber underground

When it awakes the world in wonder;

But we have felt it gathering round

Have heard its voice of distant thunder!
"'Tis coming! yes, 'tis coming!

'Tis coming now, that glorious time
Foretold by seers and sung in story,

For which, when thinking was a crime,

Souls leaped to heaven from scaffolds gory!
They passed. But, lo! the work they wrought!
Now the crowned hopes of centuries blossom;

Their lightning of their living thought

Is flashing through us, brain and bosom;
'Tis coming! yes, 'tis coming!"

"IF you will harken dilligently to the voice of the Lord thy God; and will do that which is right in his sight, and keep all his statutes, I will put no diseases upon you. I will take sickness away from the midst of you, and your days shall be long in the land."-The Torah.

"The crisis presses on us; face to face with us it stands,
With solemn lips of question, like the Sphynx in Egypt sands;
This day we fashion destiny; our web of fate we spin;
This day for all hereafter choose we holiness or sin;
Even now from starry Gerizim or Ebal's cloudy crown,
We call the dews of blessing or the bolts of cursing down."

-Whittier.

"The future destiny of the child may be learned from the mother."-Napoleon.

"And the angel of the Lord appeared unto Joseph in a dream. And Mary thy wife shall bring forth a son and thou shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is 'God with us.'"-Matthew.

The human species, whether civilized or savage, is one. Color, facial structure, and cranial developments are anthropologically accounted for by climate, hills, mountains, fog-lands, pursuits, and locations-in a word, environments. Each race has its peculiar characteristics. The Semitic race, from the earliest records of time, was religious, having patriarchs, priests, and prophets. The latter were often called seers.

God being unchangeable and laws immutable, dreams, visions, and angel ministries ever existed in some form and under some name. The Joseph of the gospels was a dreaming intermediary, inspired by Israel's prophets. Dreams and visions were often used synonomously in Oriental lands in Bible times. "Your young men," said the prophet, "shall dream dreams and your old men shall see visions.” These visions of the night were prophetic presentations of coming out-putting realities.

Mary, the mother of the Man of Nazareth, was a Palestinian

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Semitic, sensitive and religious. Calm, trustful, prayerful, the overshadowing spirit of the gods was ever upon her. Sweet and tenderly affectionate were the sympathies existing between Joseph and Mary. Both were angel-guarded. Far-seeing and mighty are the plans devised in the heavens by parliaments of angels for the redemption of humanity. Moses, long in the paradise realms of immortality, looking backward and seeing in sorrow the baleful influences of his old teachings, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, blood for blood" retaliation, was more than anxious that there be raised up in Judea an inspirational mediator, a sensitive intermediary through whom he could unsay his unwise, earth-uttered sayings and be instrumental in instituting that higher system of ethics, the returning of good for evil and blessing for cursing.

Israel's ascended prophets sympathized with the highlypurposed work of the great Hebrew legislator.

The project from the beginning was in harmony with spiritual law. Jesus, in consequence with Joseph's dream-vision, was overshadowed-was spiritually begotten by the Holy Ghost, to use the poetic imagery of the East-was begotten by or rather under an exalted and most heavenly spirit influence. Joseph was the chosen channel. While in the negative purity of the unconscious trance Mary conceived. Joseph, in Judean parlance, was the father. not violated. Trance, vision, mesmerism, and psychic phenomena have already taken their positions in the psychologic pantheon of science. They were as true, though unnamed, 2,000 years ago as now.

After the flesh, Natural law was

Profound students versed in the chemistry of reproduction know from reading, research, and the study of bees, silkworms, and other of the lower orders of existence, that the male is not an absolute necessity in procreation.

"When Castellet," says Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin's coadjutor, "informed Ræumur that he had reared perfect silkworms from the eggs laid by a virgin moth, the answer was, ‘Ex nihilo nihil fit,' and the fact was disbelieved. It was contrary to one of the widest and best established laws of nature; yet it is

now universally admitted to be true, and the supposed law ceases to be universal."-Wallace, Alfred Russel, Miracles and Manifestations, p. 38, London, 1885.

Such distinguished scientists and anthropologists as Quatrefarge, Mivart, as well as eminent naturalists, confirm the statements of Castellet and Wallace. Therefore by parity of reasoning those who limit law, those who declare it indisputably impossible for Jesus of Nazareth, or any other individuality, to have existed on earth without the introduction of the masculine element; or that he could not have been begotten by spiritual by supramundane causes, step into waters beyond their depth. Science confronts them. Who is daring enough to use the word impossible. If there could be virgin insects, bees, silkworms, and other living intelligences, why not a higher order of beings when spiritually manipulated by the mighty embassadors that make holy the higher realms of immortality! The spiritual is the acting real, and who dares say of it, thus far and no farther. How little the wisest know of the mighty power of the gods, of celestial chemistries, or of the divine possiblities that pertain to those parliamentary hierarchies that obtain among the suncrowned souls of the Heavens. The wise are modest.

It is not doubted by any scholastic pathologist that the lifeprinciple from the masculine organization can be conveyed to the feminine receptacle without personal relation. This has been demonstrated. Moreover, when the parents are sensitive intermediaries, the new life-germ may be so charged with the vital magnetism of influencing guardians that the resultant being, the child, shall be like neither the earthly father nor mother, but be a copy of the spiritual model to which the angel guardian forces were subordinated. It is the spirit—the spiritual that moulds and fashions and inspires.

God is spirit and spiritual phenomena in that turbulent period of Roman supremacy were called miracles. Josephus and the Talmud are both witnesses to this statement.

Moses and Elias were the guardian spirits of Jesus from the sacred moment of conception. John, the beloved, so declares

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it. In night's softest, serenest hours of silence they magnetized the prospective mother. He was the wanted, the prophesied-of child, the desire of Israel, the to-be great wisdom teacher of the ages. At twelve, while entranced in the temple, he confounded the Jewish doctors of the law. Conscious of his mediumship, he exclaimed, "I, of my own self, can do nothing."

It is difficult for such of the Occident as are not students of the occult to understand the literature of the Orient. When Paul, in one of his epistles, wrote, "That rock was Christ, "he had no reference to granite boulders composed of mica, feldspar, quartz, and hornblende. When Jesus said, "I am the good shepherd," he did not mean to be understood that he owned a flock of grazing sheep. When he said, "I am the true vine," he had no reference to the garden grapevines that, climbing the walls, shaded the pool of Siloam. He spoke largely in figures and parables. When he said, "Except you eat my flesh and drink my blood," he did not intend to teach the practice of cannibalism. Flesh and blood were symbols of his doctrines and divine teachings. And so the phrase, “Begotten by the Holy Ghost," had a grand spiritual significance, but no reference to the supernatural. This is proven by the following Scriptural passages:

And he "breathed upon them and they received the Holy Ghost," the spiritual influx that comes and is imparted by divine deep-breathing.

And upon "the Gentiles was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost."

The "Holy Ghost fell upon them when they heard Peter." And "the Holy Ghost sat upon each of them,

they were filled with the Holy Ghost."

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And the "disciples laid hands on them and said, 'Receive ye the Holy Ghost.'"

These phrases "fell upon," "was poured out," and that "filled the people," is conclusive evidence that the Holy Ghost, or Holy Spirit, was a refined, etherealized substance the ether

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