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Spiritual wedlock

Think of this, dear reader, for it will lift the sack- cloth from your eyes, and you will behold the soft- winged dove descending upon you. The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares. Then thought gently whispers:

"Come hither! Arise from your false consciousness into the true sense of Love, and behold the Lamb's wife, - Love wedded to its own spiritual idea." Then cometh the marriage feast, for this revelation will de- stroy forever the physical plagues imposed by material sense.