Gifts from the Lord
Joseph S. David
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he Lord has gifted us with everything that exists in the universe: the
galaxies in far space at which we marvel , the sun that warms our earth
and all the things we use that abound upon the earth. He did this by marrying
His Divine love to His Divine wisdom. Without that marriage there would be
nothing at all, not even empty space, just . . . nothing.
To represent that Divine marriage He made His creation reflect the duality
of His Love and Wisdom, especially in the animal kingdom and most especially
in the human race by creating us male and female. And then He gave out two
more gifts – one to female humans and a different one to male humans. Each
of the sexes was given a quality that could be raised up into the atmosphere
of heaven – the gift to the males into heavenly light and the gift to the females
into heavenly warmth, each sex with its own gift.
Her gift is an inherent love for conjunction with a male whose wisdom
she can attach to, which love can be lifted up to share the love of marriage that
the angels have or “into heavenly warmth.” His gift is a love of knowledge to
store in an understanding which can be “raised into the light of heaven” or the
wisdom that angels have. This difference in the two gifts is given expressly for
the purpose of making the two able to be conjoined.
Her gift is inherent such that she can scarcely avoid it, while his is much
more easily mired down in what is natural and he has to work harder to raise
his knowledge to the level of wisdom.
This basic set-up is important enough that it is given over and over again
in our primer for marriage, the book Conjugial Love. The concept is usually
worded: “The male is created to be a form of wisdom and the female to be a
form of love of the wisdom of the male,” with some variation. By rough count
it is openly expressed 12 times in the first part of the book in six of the 17
chapters there, so it is not an insignificant idea.
So the idea is that in marriage the gifts are shared. She grants to him her
love so that it may be in him as well, and he shares with her his wisdom so that
her loves may be effected. However, in both cases the gifts must be accepted.
He must accept her love and shy away from his natural desire to wish for other
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