Building a Spiritual Marriage

An introduction

1. Background

• A Heaven from the Human Race - why God created the universe in the first place, and its connection to marriage

• The Purpose in  Marriage - why God created it, and review of some important misundestandings of just what it is

• The Eternity of Marriage - death does not end true marriage

• The History of the Conjugial with Mankind - the spiritual history of marriage, beginning with the Golden Age

• Re-establishment of the Conjugial - focusing specifically on recent spiritual history and marriage 

• "Above Every Love" : The Relation of Conjugial Love to Other Heavenly Loves - just how fundamentally important spiritual married love really is to the world, and how spiritually deadly its opposite.

• Conjugial Love: Table of Contents - from that volume of the Writings

2. Building a Marriage

• Principles Relating to the Selection of a Marriage Partner - spiritual guidelines to help in making this most important of decisions, including the concept of "similitudes"

• Before Marriage and After Marriage - a book combining discussion of  the ideals and their  practical application in both courtship and preparation for marriage and working out problems that arise after marriage.

• Marriage Love: The Vision and Its Realization - starting at square one

• Friendship in Marriage - it turns out that, spiritually speaking, true marriage is in fact based on friendship, a very special kind, but friendship

• Tenderness in Marriage - not what you'd expect, viewed from our culture's distorted concept of what "tenderness" means, but a powerful tool for achieving marital happiness

• The Journey of Life - a reflection, based on the correspondences of the story of Exodus, on dealing with the challenges of life and marriage.

• Playfulness in Marriage - a maybe surprisingly important key to a happy marriage

• Some Thoughts on Masculinity - its spiritual basis

• A Name of Glory and Honor - the name "wife"

• Beauty, Innocence and Love - where real beauty originates

• Genuine Love in Marriage - achieving "true love," the real, spiritual kind

• Correspondences in Marriage - a clarification as to what the symbolic, "correspondential" relationship between God and church and man and wife really is, according to the Writings.

• Idealism and the Real World - thoughts on hanging on to the dreams you started out with

• Blessings in Marriage - sometimes they don't come easy

• Marriage and Regeneration and Safeguards of Marriage - the central role marriage can and should play in helping both partners improve their spiritual state

3. Issues in Marriage

• The Seed of Man and The Primitive of Man  - the spiritual basis of sperm cells and what occurs spiritually during intercourse

• Human Prudence and the Love of Offspring: A Compilation of Passages from the Writings - an extensive collection of teachings from the Writings pertinent to decisions about birth control

• Spiritual Offspring - the spiritual results of conjunction of man and wife, both here and in heaven

4. Dealing with Problems in Marriage

• The Marriage Covenant and Marital Separation - the seriousness of the marriage bond, and what the Writings teach as solutions to particularly serious marriage difficulties

• The Falsity of Adultery - just how bad it really is, and how spiritually deadly

• Apparent Love in a Covenant for Life

• Divorce - only an option for a limited, and God-specified, set of grave situations

5. Permissions in Disorder

• The Second Part of Conjugial Love - tools provided by a merciful God to help control lust, particularly fornication, when it cannot be avoided

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