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44 too strictly guarded against and it behooves every one who endeavors to live the higher life not to try to aspire to the Uranian rays until he at first becomes thoroughly imbued with the altruistic vibrations of Jupiter, for more misery is brought into the world by those who have aspired too high and fallen low, than by those who are not sufficiently aspiring. Pride goes before a fall, is an ancient and very true proverb, which it behooves every one of us to take to heart. The Christ took part in the marriage at Cana, Marriage is a regular Christian institution, and must exist until abolished in the kingdom to come, because the bodies we have will not wear out and therefore there will be no need of marriage ta generate new ones.

Let it also be understood that although the minister who marries cannot mate, the finding of the mate should be done before the marriage ceremony is undertaken and not after.

As we have seen in the foregoing; Mars, Venus and Uranus mark three stages in the emotional development of man. During the stage where he is only amenable to Mars, animal passion reigns supreme and he seeks unrestricted gratification of all his lower desires in the intercourse with his fellowman but particularly with the opposite sex; during the stage where he becomes amenable to the rays of Venus, lave softens the brutality of his desires and the animal passions are somewhat held in leash; he is even, under the higher phases of this planet, ready