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		Spiritual marriage thus appears paradoxically central and peripheral to medieval social and religious life, usually orthodox in its support of clerical authority but frequently heretical, rigidly conservative and yet potentially subversive, especially in so far as the practice arose spontaneously among the laity, often upon female initiative.
		Further complicating discussion of marriage, and especially of women's autonomy within marriage, Elliott argues, is the movement of the church from periphery to center, and a concomitant change in its earlier egalitarian rhetoric.
		As female spirituality was shunted to the side, the previous model of virginal heroism was appropriated and recreated in the form of a masculine flight from marriage and the world--the widely circulated model of St. Alexis--replacing a female conversion of spouse to chaste faith.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmmr/bmmr-9410-weston-spiritual.txt (1618 words)

	Spiritual marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spiritual marriage comes from the idea of "love without sex." It is a practice in which a man and a woman live intimately without having any sexual relationship.
		Spiritual marriage is a concept that has a long history in Catholicism, and is also known as a "Josephite marriage" after the marriage between Joseph and the virgin Mary.
		At times, spiritual marriage assumed a particularly scandalous form, in which a priest or monk would take a nun or laywoman as a wife, but claim to remain celibate, and claim that they slept in the same bed but did not engage in sexual relations as a sign of their own willpower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spiritual_marriage (519 words)

	Spiritual Marriage
		In a spiritual marriage, there is an ongoing flow of gentle kindness and genuine concern.
		This is an active process, one in which you continually seek to understand your partner, to be in touch with his or her needs, and to respond to your partner with your whole being.
		If you view your marriage as a spiritual process, however, then problems are not obstacles but opportunities for growth and learning.
	www.iloveulove.com /spirituality/spiritualmarriage.htm (1079 words)

	Campaign To Privatize Marriage - Campaigns Wikia - A Wikia wiki
		By privatizing marriage, individuals and religious groups would be free to define marriage as they see fit, while the civil unions that would replace them in legal contexts would strictly be considered legal contracts, and would be available to any pair of consenting adults, and possibly even to larger groups.
		Many individuals see ending legal marriage (the marriage pronounced on you by the "power" of the state) as a way to restore spiritual marriage to its rightful place, as a union between two people and God in the context of their spiritual community.
		Gays are not attacking marriage, everyone who has participated in taking the power to marry away from the church and their spiritual community is participating in an attack against this spiritual institution.
	campaigns.wikia.com /wiki/Campaign_To_Privatize_Marriage (847 words)

	The Meaning of Marriage
		The first evolution of marriage was meant to aid in continuing our species in a somewhat safer environment from that of a lone woman being impregnated by a passerby, then left to give birth by herself in a nest of leaves under a bush somewhere.
		This spiritual rite of passage between two people becomes a pact, a "heart pact", and it must be made and kept sacred in order for romance and ecstacy to survive within the marriage.
		The marriage is comfortable, honorable, and allows the individual to maintain his or her own identity, while at the same time bringing to the marriage gifts of the spirit: humor, creativity, sensitivity, tenderness, understanding, and the gratifying sense of individuation.
	members.tripod.com /~Dr_Roth/index3-00perceptions.html (1693 words)

	Tools for a successful spiritual marriage
		Identify the spiritual lessons that you need to learn from the situation that you are facing, and you act from love, instead of fear.
		Your marriage stops becoming a battle of two egos, competing to be right, appreciated and valued.
		This applies to saving relationships and marriages as much as any other related issue that you may be working on, eg self-esteem.
	www.1lovespirit.com /save-marriage-spiritual.html (1150 words)

	Marriage: "Spiritual Leadership" (The Bible Speaks:Article) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Never was this made more clear to me than in a discussion with a woman, happily married to a man who had been baptized many years after their marriage, who told me she would not have married him had she known how hard it would be to worship without him for so many years.
		These are by no means all that families need from their spiritual leaders, but these are a good starter kit.
		What a tragedy for a family's spiritual leader if he is unable to lead his family to heaven.
	www.thebiblespeaks.com /Articles/Miscellaneous/Marriage/homeleaders.htm (713 words)

	Sermons - New Church in Australia, The -
		But if a married couple, believing in the eternity of marriage and having love truly conjugial as their ideal, nevertheless find in the other life that there is a hitherto unsuspected internal dissimilarity that separates them, they will each be provided with a suitable partner with whom they may live as married partners in heaven.
		These Sadducees were like that, and because their idea of marriage was manifestly restricted to the plane of the body, the concept of conjugial love, a love pure and clean above any other love of which mankind is capable, the concept of a spiritual kind of marriage, was quite beyond them.
		In heaven marriages are spiritual, and cannot properly be called marriages, but conjunctions of minds from the conjunction of good and truth.
	www.newchurch.org.au /sermons/eternal_marriage.html (2286 words)

	Baha'i Marriage and Spiritual Union
		The true marriage of Bahá'ís is this, that husband and wife should be united both physically and spiritually, that they may ever improve the spiritual life of each other, and may enjoy everlasting unity throughout all the worlds of God.
		The spiritual character of marriage must be recognized, for without it there is little "glue" to hold together the union of wife and husband.
		Marriage, seen in the light of the above passages, is one form of service to humanity.
	www.planetbahai.org /cgi-bin/articles.pl?article=128 (625 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Mystical Marriage
		In the Old and the New Testament, the love of God for man, and, in particular His relations with His chosen people (whether of the Synagogue or of the Church), are frequently typified under the form of the relations between bridegroom and bride.
		Here the mystical marriage consists in a vision in which Christ tells a soul that He takes it for His bride, presenting it with the customary ring, and the apparition is accompanied by a ceremony; the Blessed Virgin, saints, and angels are present.
		This festivity is but the accompaniment and symbol of a purely spiritual grace; hagiographers do not make clear what this grace is, but it may at least be said that the soul receives a sudden augmentation of charity and of familiarity with God, and that He will thereafter take more special care of it.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09703a.htm (874 words)

	RE: Spiritual marriage vs. Legal marraige
		spiritual marriage (there wasn't any money involved like this), and I have to agree with all the other posters, on a variety of things, including, if you're not ready, financially, to be a couple, you're not ready to get married.
		Spritual marriage is the vow between a man and woman before God to live out their marriage to one another according to the expectation described in scripture of a man and woman in marriage.
		There are no "spiritual" marriages in the Bible and you are to obey the laws of the land which require you to go down to the courthouse and get the application to get married.
	forums.christianity.com /fb.aspx?m=1397890 (5702 words)

	Religious aspects of marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In virtually all religions, marriage is a long-term union between two people and is established with ceremonies and rituals.
		The Bahá'í Faith sees marriage as a foundation of the structure of society, and considers it both a physical and spiritual bond that endures into the afterlife.
		By contrast, Buddhism does not encourage or discourage marriage, although it does teach how one might live a happily married life and emphasizes that married vows are not to be taken slightly (see separate article for details).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religious_aspects_of_marriage (428 words)

	Spiritual Geography - FAQs
		Spiritual Geography is a healing system that transforms the universally difficult experiences of divorce and separation into a meaningful, seven-part, spiritual pilgrimage.
		In all Spiritual Geography materials, travelers are encouraged to study sacred texts of their own tradition, and explore other spiritual and secular sources of information that seem valuable.
		It also has been suggested that the pilgrimage through the seven countries of spiritual healing is applicable to other forms of trauma such as illness, job loss, and death of a loved one.
	www.spiritualgeography.com /content/view/27/35 (732 words)

	Marriage Problems - Spiritual Geography: Spiritual Healing for Divorcees
		Spiritual Geography is a the first—and only—mystical system that translates the universal experiences of relationship trauma into a meaningful, purposeful, spiritual-healing pilgrimage.
		The seven countries on the Spiritual Geography map correspond to seven aspects or phases of healing a broken heart.
		The journey begins with the explosion of your relationship in the Country of Betrayal, and moves through intense emotions in the Country of Pain and exhausting struggle in the Country of War.
	www.spiritualgeography.com /pages/marriage-problems.php (355 words)

	marriagelicense.html
		A government marriage specifically means the couple obtains a State of Texas issued marriage license and this is signed by a person authorized to officiate a wedding - ministers, priests, rabbis, and various judges.
		A government marriage (with a license) means that the couple decided to make a legally binding contract with each other and voluntarily place themselves under the authority of state and federal laws which regulate government marriages.
		However, particularly if your commitment is also spiritually based, it would be appropriate to have such a ceremony conducted by a minister who recognizes same-sex marriages as 100% real as a spiritual matter.
	www.dfwx.com /marriagelicense.html (5290 words)

	The Divine Marriage and TheWay of Jesus/Yeshua
		In a Spiritual Religion, it is a sin to argue over manmade doctrine, because the Disciple learns directly from the Lord in the Inner Temple of the Soul.
		Marriage is the permanent intimate union of male and female.
		Marriage is built upon Spiritual Substance - founded upon Truth, Love, Absolute Fidelity, and the Light of the Most High God who Ordains the Union by virtue of its Purity and Oneness.
	p.webring.com /hub?ring=divinemarriage (1603 words)

	Marriage in Heaven, Soulmates
		But there are other elements besides spiritual for marriage - many people marry for financial reasons - for social status, for physical attraction; the reasons are too numerous to try to cite here.
		The heavenly marriage is based solely on the spiritual bonding of two individuals - and that is why legal marriage on this side is not enough to bond two individuals together here on the other side - there must be spiritual bonding.
		This is assuming, of course, that a particular marriage is a relationship that was truly made by God, and not a mismatch made by human beings.
	www.egogahan.com /Soulmates.html (1867 words)

	Spiritual Marriage: The Curse of Illicit Sexual Union
		We live in a world where the spiritual is superimposed on the physical, with the physical dovetailing into the spiritual.
		Spiritual marriages to demonic entities have become a source of hidden problems in our relationships.
		In his search for a deeper spiritual life, he was introduced to the Deliverance ministry where he saw first hand the power of God to heal, and set people free from demonic strongholds.
	www.authorhouse.com /bookstore/ItemDetail~bookid~32964.aspx (432 words)

	Stop Divorce, Save Marriage Alone. FREE. Drive third party away!
		I am giving a lot of these save marriage techniques away for free here because I hope that the information will benefit as many people as possible, as much as it has benefited me and also due to the encouragement of people whom I have coached.
		The reason why I compiled my own marriage rescue information here is because I found it hard to find a place where there was a compilation of a variety of spiritual and behavioral tools specifically for married women.
		marriage problem solving, marital problem solving, marriage communication, holistic marriage healing, self esteem in marriage, laughter and fun in marriage, marriage goal setting, communication in marriage problems, marriage strategies
	www.1lovespirit.com (1451 words)

	Marriage at Spiritual center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In this Marriage spectators you will be initiate to some of the best traditions to conquer married clashes and some of the quickest ways to reinstate love.
		Willard has saved no:of marriages from the pain of unsettled clashes and the tragedy of seperation.
		If your marriage is distress from disloyalty, we have reply to your queries that can direct you to revival.
	www.spiritualhub.org /marriage.htm (325 words)

	The Divine Marriage; The spiritual Meaning of Sex and Marriage
		In order embrace the fullness of her femininity, and take her place as a viable marriage partner and a source of intuitive perception, wisdom and understanding, it is necessary for a young girl's mind to be developed along feminine lines of thought and mental ability.
		The spiritual man who has overcome the forces of this world through the merging of his own inner opposites, is not as dependent upon the forces of nature to assist him, because he has reached a stage in his development where he has transcended the elemental powers of this realm.
		Unless the two walk the spiritual path that merges their divided natures into a new creation where the forces of male and female are negated through perfect harmony and Oneness, they have yet to reach the true and ultimate depth of the Divine Marriage.
	www.nazirene.org /spiritual_meaning_of_marriage.htm (9847 words)

	Gay Spirituality & Culture: Deep Thoughts on Gay Marriage and Spiritual Anarchy
		In general, the greater consciousness that develops in a human being, and the more spiritually enlightened one becomes, there is also present a deeper sympathy for homosexuals and a greater sensitivity to our common humanity and the need for justice to alleviate heterosexism.
		Marriage will be celebrated as the union of persons who complement each other in a complex variety of ways on the surface, but underneath it all, persons who mirror the Divine in deep universal structures.
		The spiritual cutting edge includes men and women who are finding innovative ways of both affirming a gay or queer identity and transcending it in a drive towards universal, spiritual, holistic impulses.
	gayspirituality.typepad.com /blog/2004/11/deep_thoughts_o.html (4450 words)

	The Interior Castle: The Seventh Mansions: Chapter II. Spiritual Marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Spiritual betrothal is different and like the grace of union is often dissolved; for though two things are made one by union, separation is still possible and each part then remains a thing by itself.
		But spiritual marriage is like rain falling from heaven into a river or stream, becoming one and the same liquid, so that the river and rain water cannot be divided; or it resembles a streamlet flowing into the ocean, which cannot afterwards be disunited from it.
		This marriage may also be likened to a room into which a bright light enters through two windows--though divided when it enters, the light becomes one and the same.
	www.sacred-texts.com /chr/tic/tic30.htm (2040 words)

	SPIRITUAL ESSENCE OF FOUR LAAVAA: SIKH MARRIAGE CERMONY
		However, the Spiritual Marriage between the Soul and God is eternal, because both are immortal and imperishable, thereby never die or take birth.
		The marriage is not a contract for the fleeting lusty pleasure rising from a purely flesh-fleshy biological function.
		Thus, the Sikh marriage (or any other marriage for that matter) is a sacramental knot under the roof of True Love, tied in the presence of Truth and Divinity.
	www.gurbani.org /webart29.htm (4134 words)

	Marriage and Spiritual Values - Equality in Marriage Institute
		You will spend time discussing where you will exchange your vows, but you can increase equality in the marriage you are establishing by also raising other spiritual questions.
		In The Hard Questions Susan Piver points out that while many of us may think religion is for when someone is born, marries or dies, those are the very times when we may find religion vitally important.
		To start a dialogue about your spiritual values, you might go beyond your decisions for the wedding ceremony and consider what you would do to make other passages in life.
	www.equalityinmarriage.org /nrsp.html (386 words)

	Marriage: The Spiritual Dimension, Page 1
		Individual partners must be walking a spiritual road towards inner wholeness and holiness before a marriage can characterize itself as whole and holy.
		The spiritual author and lecturer Ram Dass speaks about our overuse of "channels one and two": channel one being the superficial, material, pop-culture channel and channel two being the psychological/social role channel.
		Our own personal, spiritual quest (separate and conjoint) is a constant reminder that our connection to a broader context goes far beyond material and social roles to the deepest confrontation with the self.
	www.seedsofunfolding.org /issues/xv/features_3_2.htm (1160 words)

	School of Spiritual Integrity - Article on Spririual Marriage
		I often have run into conversations amongst Spiritual seekers who make statements about the advantage, even necessity, of being single and/or celibate so that one can truly focus on their Spiritual development and not get sidetracked in the mundane world of here and now.
		I was also informed that this kind of marriage, a true Spiritual marriage, done for this purpose, would help heal the mass consciousness by its very existence.
		So from my experience, when Spiritual seekers make statements about the advantage, even necessity, of being single and/or celibate so that one can truly focus on their Spiritual development and not get sidetracked in the mundane world of here and now...These are statements I would disagree with strongly.
	visit.elysiumgates.com /marriage.html (1855 words)

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