The Myth in Marriage

								

development of intellect.
There are only a few examples of the manifestation of great love in
history. So rare are the people capable of its expression that the whole
world wonders and in awe has said that the Creator is Love.
And lovers have been set apart as belonging to the Great Mystery and
revered in degree as is the Source of Love.
One of the phases of this manifestation in people is the desire to give.
The lover withholds nothing from his beloved. There is one desire--to give
all. Thus is the mind expanded until it reaches truth never before seen.
Love is the enlightener of the soul. It is the all-seeing eye that
discovers the highest possibilities in man. Its eternal desire is to
fulfil these.
"I can do no ill, because I could not meet the beloved on terms of
equality if there were any stain upon my soul. My hands and my heart must
be clean."
Love's longing is to be entirely whole, clean and strong.
Love would never deceive. It is kindred only to truth and good.
All of life is sacred to the lover, and all life is sacred to him.
The lover is not so anxious that the beloved shall be perfect, as that she
herself, he himself, shall be without blemish. Love purifies the lover.
Love makes the lover clean.
There is no such thing as unrequited love, for to have loved is all the
compensation there is. The soul asks no more.
There is a sublime dignity in love--a majesty that suggests unlimited
power.
To love is an individual experience. The object of the love is only the
means to this end of awakening and purification.
When the lover asks aught from the beloved, he has descended from the
spiritual estate and begins to haggle and barter. Then it is not love, but
becomes something to buy and sell with.
Love radiates from the individual, as rays of light from its source.
When the lover wants to continue the ecstacy of the experience of
unselfishness, prolong the forgetfulness of his sordid self, he does what?
Just the opposite of what will secure for him this Nirvana! He begins to
demand. He asks her to be forever near him, she asks him to forever stay,
all in faith, believing that the soul-awakener is a person, when the
person has only reminded the soul of an ideal. For a time this person
keeps this ideal living before the soul of the lover.
Elbert Hubbard says, "I love you because you love the things I love."
There is a trinity in love. Lovers make the soul to see a similar ideal
which both love.
So long as each asks nothing from the other, makes no demand, this ideal
may continue to come before the mind, and remain there while the person is
present, and return at the thought of the beloved.

THE REVELATION



    The gay enchantment was undone,

    A gentle wife, but fairy none.--Emerson.

The ecstacy of feeling the presence of the ideal may continue for many
meetings and partings, until the lovers believe that each is responsible