"Put off thy shoes from off thy feet

for the place whereon thou

standest is holy ground/'

The question naturally arises that if this
be true of one man and woman, why not true
of any man and woman joined in legal wed-
lock? Because, in the first place, this is
unquestionably the information intended to

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be given by the symbol of Aaron's rod bud-
ding, and its having the power to remove the
murmurings of the children of Israel (the
impotence of the capacities or the powers of
man, which take rise from his ideas or imder-
standing of the truth — the facts concerning
all life) that they die not, and the emphasis
laid on the fact that the stranger that came
nigh was to be put to death. But independ-
ently of this, by this new understanding
there is found to be present in the love rela-
tion of true spiritual mates, an element of
sacredness and worship which I believe you
will agree with me is anything but commonly
experienced. The chastening that the soul
has received before it is able to find its mate,
and the rest found in the union with the other
soul through the Christ consciousness, pro-
duces a quality of love that can exist only
between two such individuals, and is neces-
sary as the magnet to attract the current of
electrical and spiritual force, which alone
possesses transforming power. In this, as
everywhere throughout the universe, the
spiritual and physical are related, therefore,
the right spiritual conditions are necessary
before the right physical conditions can exist.
