When their union with the supposed Devil was primarily based on the faithful tender love of one lady for one man and its reciprocity, in accordance with excessive moral standards, then was the union objective and natural. Some picturesque stories have been informed of such girls, to whom the spirit lover has appeared in the guise of a handsome youth vainly wooing his earthly love night after night. However, it is attention-grabbing to notice in connection with this the file within the Apocryphal Gospels as to the looks of an angel customer to Mary within the guise of a handsome youth, and the opinion expressed to Joseph by the virgins left accountable for her during Joseph’s absence, that it was the angel who had made her pregnant. However, the Roman Catholic Church has seemingly provided for the high customary of mentality required from a spouse of Divine Science on the Borderland by ascribing to Mary not solely the name, however the attributes of “Mother of God”. My very own concept of it, nevertheless, is that such a conception–if conception there have been–would require Mary’s mentality to rise not solely to the usual of an angel however to the omniscience and all pervading tenderness of God, to ensure that her to be so completely his partner on the Borderland as to conceive and bear a child to him.

Exodus XXXIII, 21, 21.) That is the energy of the one Catholic doctrine concerning Mary’s stainlessness in life; and from the Apocryphal Gospels, it appears that Mary had had the benefit of being introduced up as an orphan in the temple under the eyes of the priests. In the primary place, the witch (poor lady) lived in days when the physiological relations of husband and wife occupied a far decrease place in widespread estimation than it did in the days of Mary and furthermore, within the Orient, Mary’s house the relation of husband and spouse had then and nonetheless has a holiness on its physiological aspect which is international to European or American habits of thought. Though I’m not at all a Romanist, I emphatically say that from the occult standpoint the immaculate life of Mary for an extended interval previous to the Annunciation and until a minimum of the birth of Jesus is the one foundation upon which the possiblity of the mysterious conception of Jesus as a Borderland little one can relaxation.

Are we not all convinced that that is what God means by putting us, who will not be witches, in a world the place every of us has to wrestle with opposed circumstances in bitterness of spirit? Having once attained this excessive aircraft, it is unlikely that she would ever descend to a decrease plane afterward: in order that, precisely talking, the Roman Catholic doctrine of her immaculate life should have been absolutely perfect on all points, or she could not have conceived a child by a heavenly bridegroom (which is of God; for God does not break his personal legal guidelines.) Nor is it seemingly that the heavenly bridegroom would break his laws with a purpose to beget a child upon an earthly lady provided that girl were suitably educated for sometime for the occult espousal, and offered that God has a tangible form, as He appeared to Moses to have when he had Moses remain in the cleft of a rock while He handed by.

But the clearest and most convincing manifestations of the objectivity of the heavenly bridegroom at all times come when the psychic is most clear-headed. But I am inclined to suppose that the very lingering of these subjective experiences indicates that her psychic hallucinations have been usually not solely resulting from hypnotic strategies by her spirit lover, but additionally the outcome recorded in her subliminal consciousness of a veridical phenomenon which she at first encouraged, whether or not by harmless curiosity or by means of the romantic and tender sentiment of a pure coronary heart, or by the grosser impulses arising from a luxuriant and untrained imagination, it issues not. But in the case of a spirit lover who has as soon as been obtained (whether as husband or only communicating spirit), it would appear as if his hypnotic strategies usually outweighed that of the priest. When the supposed Devil’s mark showed non-sensitiveness to pin-pricks, it was probably a case of auto-suggestion–or, within the case of some, a hypnotic dulling to pain prompted (oftentimes in mercy) by the angel guardian. And this, I believe, will probably be found to be the case with the witches. So long as she is lacking in any of those necessities to the wife of a heavenly bridegroom, just so lengthy will her guardian persist in putting her though a course of training–a coaching which she must bear till she passes her examination and is promoted into the next class, there to take up still extra superior lessons in psychic discrimination and psychic self-control.