Do you believe that there is marriage in heaven? Are we restricted to only one party over in the afterlife?

Blessings and Light of Love

Alan

Define marriage. What's the purpose of the marriage?

Do you think there are men and women in the astral or only gender-less souls?

How about gay-marriages?

Beau wrote on Jan 24^th, 2011 at 8:56pm:


But wont our earthly partners still have a special place in our lives in the afterlife,, I include gays in this comment.

The Mormon church has a strong belief in marriage in the afterlife, I am not a Mormon , however and do not agree with them.

What about our dearly beloved earthly parents and siblings, do you think that they might have a special place to us in the afterlife. The heaven I am talking about is the first heaven I know as we progress towards the infinite light we will shrug off all our earthly connections and merge into the great human mandala

Blessings and light

Alan

Could be. According to esoteric lore, each one of us was originally androgynous and split off into male and female essences -that means polarity wise, not that one is always male or female in incarnation, if you see what I mean.
So from that point of view, we've sunk down into the ELS to work our way back up and at some point we will re-merge with our literal 'other half' and become one being.
I know that's a different concept from the disk idea, but it also explains some of the more telling impulses for that one exclusive soul mate: our missing other half.
So I would suggest that as freewill is an integral part of our path both here and 'up there' then we can choose to marry that lost half. The only thing to remember is that is really would be 'forever' in linear time and I would guess that there are no systems for divorce! 

But then you'd know that the person chosen was another part of you anyway so that wouldn't arise. I see no reason why you can't 'renew your vows' to your beloved between lives if you want to. Mind you, the beloved there might not be the one here, and that's another can of worms entirely! 

Best wishes,
David.

Beau wrote on Jan 25^th, 2011 at 9:11am:


If you try to think of marriage and family in the afterlife the logistics of it will meet with a real sorry mess. Say I want my wife children and grandchildren to continue as one family in the afterlife, where the heck would it begin or end. Each of my adult daughters have their own family and so will my grandchildren want theirs close. If we insist there is marriage in heaven the offshoot of this silly idea would be a colossal family of billions of members most will have no idea who each of they are in relation to the other,Heck guys do you get my drift?

Alan

Alan McDougall wrote on Jan 25^th, 2011 at 9:24am:


Hi again Alan,
this not be quite the 'sorry mess' that you allude to, simply because various people in our families will be part of our soul groups anyway, according to Newton's books on Reincarnation (not that that has any credence with some here, but I just thought I'd point it out).
Plus consider the possibility that when you get back over there you will almost certainly have a different attitude/overview to the life just lives and the family you were involved with.

Best wishes,

David

...and not only those we love, but what about those we hate (or dislike greatly) here in this life?  ...maybe we will find when we get there that THEY are actually ones we LOVE ...hmmmm, maybe we should not hate them here afterall....

If we are all one, with no separation in the afterlife, then it seems there would be no marriage, maybe.