What is marriage?

 Marriage

Some spirits, in the spirit world, do not care for the counterpart of earthly home life. That may be because the habits of mind and the character with which they come over are opposed to it; but still, with all, there must be some choice of companionship, some affinity with one more than another, and to most, the special companionship of one is almost a necessity for the happy development of their being. This is especially a characteristic of modern and western nations.

Such companionship is a blessed thing and is the true marriage of which the earthly is only a broken shadow.

But there is one great point of difference.

This marriage is not necessarily between those who—on earth—were of the opposite sex; the body is cast off, and the psyche knows nothing of male or female. 

All are one in their great Head, the Head of the whole human family, the most perfect Man. 

It is the two types of character, which, on earth, are generally masculine and feminine, that are best suited to become one in spirit; therefore, it is not strange that real union on earth should often be continued here, although it is not necessarily nor always so. 

Here the great power of insight that spirits have into each other’s true being prevents mistakes, and the affections, and the reason, being united, all discord and disappointment are prevented.

Yet occasionally spirits see some grow in such different ways that they fall apart—but without any bitterness. These unions are unions of perfect responsiveness and sympathy—each can speak more fully to the other.

A greater power both in giving and receiving constitutes the bond.

Still from Hubblecast 92—26th Anniversary | NASA/ESA