Manu: If you have any questions, I will take them now. Are there any?
Question: In the message of Swedenborg, concerning a marriage in heaven, he told us, as an example, that some of the spirit of a man and of a woman becomes united and lives together. Would you teach me the fundamental meaning of man and woman in that case, and what kind of value it involves?
Manu: Well, it is a good question. I think I wanted to talk it, but this person may get tired, so I wanted to pass on it. But it is the topic now. All right, I may think I am going to speak about this, all right?
There is the "love of marriage" which Swedenborg was talking about.
In this, the marriage is grouped into "gold age," "silver age," and "copper age." What about the persons who are living gold age as its ultimate? The two are being united as one. When we look over them spiritually, the spirit of man and the spirit of woman are being overlapped. They can be seen so.
There is a word, "He is she and she is him," but the word is meant that they have ultimately encountered their own spiritual partner, and it is a figure in which they have already been united. It is referred to as "fusion," as I have been saying since a little ago.
I personally do not like to use the word "marriage," though it might produce some misunderstanding for you. I feel a sense of tradition, custom, or duty in the marriage system, so, after all, I do not like to use such a word like a marriage or husband or the like.
So, I say something like "a partner of spirit."
But, well, on this ground, people use the word marriage, so I use the word marriage too. But the marriage is that which has been originally blessed by God.
As I have told you now, in order to go back to God's world, one encounters the partner who one has been parted from the originally, and once they have encountered one another, they attracted to one another as if they were not permitted to live separately.
In our world, there are the ones who exist as energy entities, neither of them is a man or a woman, but includes everything and has been completed.
It is that which Swedenborg was referring to. When viewed spiritually, it has been united as one.
Even in a spiritual region, there is a marriage. A ceremony for the wedding is created, when they want to live together being blessed.
And, looking over the messages of this time, I think it might be funny like, when it is higher than Sinkai, a higher spiritual region of the sixth dimension, there is no marriage, there is no case in which a man spirit and woman spirit live together attracting each other. A strange stereotype is going to be settled. So, I think I want to correct it a little.
That is not correct.
If we had lost such a Roman from this world, I could not live on.
Though I told before, "I am a romanticist," God's world is very romantic, you fellow.
I would like you to understand those things.
Those who are loving each other are being attracted to one another, and take hand together, encourage each other, raise each other, and are going to live to love other people.
It is the world God has been wishing for.
And, as I am saying always, "God itself is a great artist." Therefore, if that which only pursues rightness is God, there would be no need to create the world being colored with beauty. I think so.
Though, in all the places, in all the beautiful colors, and, though you have heard a little while ago, also in the universe a melody like a beautiful symphony is being heard, a harmony is being heard. It is not only a useless incidental product, but there is a great love, art and a touch of color, plentifulness, in the expression of the love of God's will.
But this plentifulness has been pushed out, well, how can I say it, as something discordant in the people who are seeking the law. That which is to be the allowance and plentifulness may be, in some sense, a touch of artistic color, the plentifulness of sound. Though you have drinking tasty beer a while ago, it would be much better to drink a tasty beer and wine than dink a poor wine.
We have such a joy, haven't we?
Like this, going to live together with a loving woman, loving each other in a trance. With such a joy, the life would be much better.
That totality has God already held in its inside.
As was told before, though I said a claim was coming back when El-Ranty was saying it, as of the climax of sex, it is not dirty, but it has already been given to humankind as their joy.
It being embedded, we have been created resembling the figure of God. This body itself has also been created resembling the figure of God.
What it meant is, in us, in this body, the wisdom of God, the divine truth and will of God are filled, when we study our own spirit and body.
You could be enlightened. You have been created with the answer being embedded in you by God. As your own miniature figure of love, the children of God have been created.
Hence, to go to the final, as told while ago, it is the gold state of a marriage, that is, he is she and she is him, which becomes a united energy entity beyond sex.
There, you are going to express a much deeper love and over all.
You are going to express the figure of love, in the true meaning, to its ultimate. It is saying to people what the ultimate figure of love is to be.
It is saying that.
Though there are words such as the iron age and copper age before the gold, it is, well, in the case of the iron age, they are loving each other, physically they are loving each other, but they are bound to the customs of the society. It is becoming unfruitful; it is different from loving each other in a true sense. In the age before that, there is no love at all, but only in terms of custom and duty co people maintain the style of marriage.
Since such a landscape of history has been sustained in those words as marriage or husband or wife, I do not like to use those words. But certainly, they are filled with the splendid love of marriage and joy in the form of the husband and wife that God is really wishing for, in the love of marriage blessed by God in a true sense. In such a form, the love of sex, well, so called sex or love of sex comes out when you possess physical bodies.
After all, there is such an animal-like aspect, concerning the bodies you are wearing on this ground, being material substance, in the process of bearing babies on the ground.
But, that which is the most important is that the figures of a man and a woman in heaven are the template.
As a creator that gives birth to a baby, as a creator of the resemblance of God, the children of God are given as, creating artistic works, producing various thoughts, making babies. The capacity to create through those are inside of us as a part of creator, but, to say more ultimately, that which we need the most of is to go back to the original figure of a man and a woman, the original figure of the couple of a man and a woman, the figure of being united, which is the original ultimate figure of a man and a woman.
It is love itself.
(Channeled message from Manu ： August 20, 2005）
source of reference： "Messages to the Children of God in the Space Age" (Kindle)
