One with you within the germ

Have you ever seen two things precisely alike on earth? Have you ever seen two men or two women exactly alike? 

No two germs are alike any more than two people –

If we were to examine a spiritual germ of a man not yet incarnated, we would see a little ethereal globe, transparent and translucent, and within it two forms; perfect in every respect, with this difference – one is male, the other female; they are exact counterparts of each other.

This is the undeveloped germ of a man or the angel yet to be and within each germ are two forms, male and female; they are one – the germ of an undivided angel. 

Can the half of one germ fit the half of another form or be the actual half of another germ?

We may take a bushel of apples and cut them all in halves and unless we get the real half of each apple that was cut, we might put an apple together whose halves do not belong to the same apple, might we not?

Now these germs, when they are born into the flesh, are necessarily divided, for if they were not born on earth in two forms – male and female – there would be no propagation. But angels do not propagate and these divided halves are again joined to make the complete angel; yet they are still in two forms. They are united to a corresponding other self or female half. Not one is separate or alone.

The great changeable laws of nature provide for all things, for if the germs were not male and female in one, there might be more males and females or the reverse and what harmony or happiness would there be if some had to live without their corresponding half; in other words, if some had to live as females, without a male, forever, and the reverse; that would be living as halves and not as a completed whole; while others would be complete – but such a thing is not possible, for if it were, heaven would be a pandemonium instead of heaven!

Adapted from Oceanides – A Psychical Novel, Carlyle Petersilea, Progressive Thinker Publishing House, Chicago, 1915