The Middle Ages are strewn with wrecked lives–primarily these of illiterate girls who, starting by dabbling with magic in an empirical fashion, ended by confessing themselves as witches, devil-haunted in body as well as in mind, and pledged to sins against nature. Hurtful are women, my kids; because, since they haven’t any power or power over the man, they act subtilly by outward guise how they could draw him to themselves; and whom they (do not) overcome by power, him they overcome by craft. For a lot of angels of God accompanied with ladies, and begat some that proved unjust, and despisers of all that was good on account of the boldness they had in their very own strength. I would like you to love the truth with all of your coronary heart and soul and thoughts and energy. The persecutions which in consequence of this simple effort to inform the truth merely and clearly I suffered at the hands of those who deny the opportunity of angelic communication, want not be dwelt on here. For Jesus himself is alleged to be the little one of a union between an earthly girl and a heavenly bridegroom who (nonetheless godlike, and no matter the details of the relation) actually seems to have manifested to Mary on the occult plane.

The celestial being who, whether or not as God or an angel, turns into the Heavenly Bridegroom of an earthly girl, is better recognized to the literature of the Christian Churches than most individuals who will not be theologians are conscious. If this stuff are to be called teachings, sick masters must of necessity have taught unwell; if wages of lust, there may be nothing base of which the wages are honorable. Between the witch who held diabolic assignations as a devil’s mistress, and the psychic who has been educated to self-managed and reverent wedlock with an angel, it must surely be admitted, there is a large stretch of road. If it be objected that Mary’s Borderland spouse was not an angel, however God himself, and due to this fact Borderland laws may very well be laid aside in His case, I reply that modern philosophy holds apparent miracles to be no violation of natural laws, but to have occurred in accordance with some legislation as but unknown to us; for God by no means breaks His legal guidelines, and if He grew to become a Borderland partner to Mary, it should have been in accordance with Borderland laws. And among the non-churchly practisers of trendy occultism we too usually find a tendency, on the one hand, not only to justifiable freedom, but additionally to unjustifiable looseness of life; or however, to a rigid asceticism and unnatural suppresion of the sex intuition as impure.

All this stuff point to the necessity for some instructing as to the basic rules of intercourse morality on the Borderland–all the more, as spirit bridegrooms and spirit brides are rather more frequent than is generally supposed. Nevertheless, both are on the identical highway, and the downward grade is very slippery. And we, as made in His likeness, are bound by the identical pure legal guidelines as God. Moreover, as Mary and me are sharers in a standard humanity, she and me are bound alike, sharers within the glorious possibilities of Borderland. Only an occultist–and somewhat experienced occultist, at that–is aware of anything of the perils which await the creating psychic on the Borderland. This being so, I feel that I might confidently appeal to Freethinkers to contemplate fastidiously the evidence herewith submitted as to the world-extensive extent of marital relations on the Borderland. To all three courses, then–to Occultists, Freethinkers, and Christians–I respectfully provide this treatise for consideration in the hope that each may find in it one thing of interest and, mayhap, of revenue.

The Seats of the Senators of the primary Class shall be vacated on the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class on the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, in order that one third may be chosen each second Year; and if Vacancies occur by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof could make short-term Appointments until the subsequent Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies. This marks Jennifer’s fourth failed marriage and Ben’s second. This I afterwards added to, and issued in a typewritten essay for personal circulation. 2nd. An essay written by that lady coping with the marital relation along lines not known to one married couple in a thousand. Suffice it to say that, while my non-occultist readers who didn’t know me personally pooh-poohed the thought of a spirit husband, declared that I need to certainly converse from an illicit experience, my non-occultist associates, who knew my habits of life from day after day, might discover no explanation for the essay but that I should have gone crazy; and two physicians made efforts to have me incarcerated as insane.