Sacred Marriage
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angeliquemb9Okay, my research takes me so many different, and often weird, places. :) When my day started, I was doing some updating on Angelika's book, and thus had the four humors on the brain. Then someone posted on a FL discussion board that the country suffers from apathy - which of course connected with the humor of phlegm, and my mind's trying to figure out how one would cure such a problem among an entire nation, since normally, you would then increase the amount of yellow bile - for people in the northern parts of the world, increase the peppers, ginger, cinnamon - but then I got to thinking that people in Louisiana are equally as apathetic, and their diet has plenty of fire in it, so that wasn't it.
And at this point, you're likely going, what does that have to do with Sacred Marriage? <grin> I'm getting there... Okay, so going about it from a Chinese point of view, you still need to fight water with fire, but you can be sneaky and go about it by first adding more earth and air. From there, I ran into someone who'd written an article regarding balancing 16 bodily humors - ooh, more complex, why wouldn't I want to learn even more new stuff? </end sarcasm> - and found she has a unique way of looking at things. So let's see more of her articles - and found this one on Sacred Marriage.
Now, even taking government out of the picture with regard to marriage, it's still basic contract law to those who don't make it religious, and covenant law to those who do. This gives an entirely new way of looking at marriage, which actually goes more by how Baha'is look at things - it is an intent to walk with God, creating an Intentional Field in which the two individuals walk together to create an abundance of power and healing energies to achieve the work of God. For Baha'is, the marriage vow is, "We will all verily agree to abide by the Will of God." That's it. Said in the presence of an approved witness, that can be the totality of the wedding ceremony, because the focus is not to be on the wedding, but on the marriage.
This concept would change the foundation on which much of our societies are based - the "family unit". And while the author believes that the Sacred Marriage would rely only on the two people within the marriage to determine what might be best for the individuals involved, I'm not sure she's taken children so much into account. If you had an entire society that believed in Sacred Marriage, then everyone would be working for everyone else's "greater good" so to speak, but that would boil down to judgment - whose judgment matters most in making that determination? To my way of thinking, it would have to be God, or the higher selves of the people involved in conjunction with God. People within a society of that nature would always take care of the children involved, thereby invoking the "village raised children" concept. Some people are just naturally mothers and fathers, and compelled to guide, assist, cuddle and care for the young. The two people within a Sacred Marriage vow might not be those people, but again, I think this would involve an entire societal change.
Interesting concept. Not sure about the practicality. :) But the author herself is still searching to figure out who she is, so she'll be an interesting one to watch.
And at this point, you're likely going, what does that have to do with Sacred Marriage? <grin> I'm getting there... Okay, so going about it from a Chinese point of view, you still need to fight water with fire, but you can be sneaky and go about it by first adding more earth and air. From there, I ran into someone who'd written an article regarding balancing 16 bodily humors - ooh, more complex, why wouldn't I want to learn even more new stuff? </end sarcasm> - and found she has a unique way of looking at things. So let's see more of her articles - and found this one on Sacred Marriage.
Now, even taking government out of the picture with regard to marriage, it's still basic contract law to those who don't make it religious, and covenant law to those who do. This gives an entirely new way of looking at marriage, which actually goes more by how Baha'is look at things - it is an intent to walk with God, creating an Intentional Field in which the two individuals walk together to create an abundance of power and healing energies to achieve the work of God. For Baha'is, the marriage vow is, "We will all verily agree to abide by the Will of God." That's it. Said in the presence of an approved witness, that can be the totality of the wedding ceremony, because the focus is not to be on the wedding, but on the marriage.
This concept would change the foundation on which much of our societies are based - the "family unit". And while the author believes that the Sacred Marriage would rely only on the two people within the marriage to determine what might be best for the individuals involved, I'm not sure she's taken children so much into account. If you had an entire society that believed in Sacred Marriage, then everyone would be working for everyone else's "greater good" so to speak, but that would boil down to judgment - whose judgment matters most in making that determination? To my way of thinking, it would have to be God, or the higher selves of the people involved in conjunction with God. People within a society of that nature would always take care of the children involved, thereby invoking the "village raised children" concept. Some people are just naturally mothers and fathers, and compelled to guide, assist, cuddle and care for the young. The two people within a Sacred Marriage vow might not be those people, but again, I think this would involve an entire societal change.
Interesting concept. Not sure about the practicality. :) But the author herself is still searching to figure out who she is, so she'll be an interesting one to watch.
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