That souls are created male and female is
too plain for controversy from the references
cited in Matthew and Mark. In the account
in Mark Jesus says, in speaking of the bill of
divorcement, *'For the hardness of your
heart he (Moses) wrote you this precept,
but from the beginning of the creation God
made them male and female. For this cause
shall a man leave his father and mother and
cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be
one flesh: so then they are no more twain,
but one flesh. What therefore God hath
joined together let not man put asunder.'*

By careful reading the context shows that
it was against the principle of the separation
of what had been joined from the beginning of
the creation to which Jesus particularly re-
ferred, for while he expressedno disapproval of
Moses' granting them the privilege of divorce
under certain conditions, the restrictions and
limitations of which were designed to pro-
mote, on the whole, the highest development
of humanity while it had not yet attained a

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sufficiently quickened spiritual consciousness
for it to be possible for each to know his own
true companion, yet he says, **But from the
beginning of the creation God made them male
and female," and implies that God joined
particular male and female creations, for he
adds, ''What therefore God hath joined to-
gether let not man put asunder" although
he had just previously signified his approval
of Moses* action in allowing certain ones to
be put asunder under the then existing state
of enlightenment of mankind.
