366. Les mariages dans le Ciel

Puisque le Ciel est composé du genre humain, les anges y sont donc des deux sexes ; puisque dès la création la femme a été faite pour l'homme et l'homme pour la femme, et que l'amour est inné dans l'un et dans l'autre, il s'ensuit que dans les Cieux, il y a des mariages comme sur la terre, mais ils diffèrent beaucoup des mariages terrestres. La différence entre ces deux mariages sera maintenant décrite.

Catching" is used in a variety of ways in the Bible, both positive and negative. Thieves get caught; the Egyptians caught up with the Children of Israel at the Red Sea; a ram got caught in a thicket for Abraham to sacrifice instead of sacrificing Isaac.

In a more positive sense, Jesus caught Peter when Peter was walking on water and started to sink, and the baby in Revelation was caught up to heaven before the dragon could eat him.

In all these cases, both positive and negative, being caught represents a communication and even conjunction between spiritual states. Sometimes it means higher states get ensnared in the falsity and evil of lower states; sometimes it means higher states reach out to and elevate lower ones by sharing deeper truths and describing more exquisite desires for good.