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Franchezzo
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In the Dark Realms he finds that his main impetus to repent and change is his desire to one day be with his beloved. To do this, he must rise to a higher level of spirituality.
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“What is the reason for becoming man and wife?”
This question is posed in “The Wedding Song.” The answer is, “love that brings you life.” The Song speaks of Twin lovers “drawing life” from each other and “giving it back again.”
There are many purposes for marriage, even the eternal marriage. Not to be minimized is the great pleasure and happiness to be experienced by two destined ones.
However, from the perspective of Universal Intelligence, which shepherds the evolution process of humankind, two cosmic lovers are brought together to receive a more complex and advanced “life.” It is the life of higher sentience, greater spirituality, and godlike maturity. Read all about it in “The Wedding Song.”
But notice (as discussed in this article) the pattern extending all the way up the “foodchain,” to the highest levels of creation. Nature’s insistence on cooperation does not end with the beasts and flowers of the field. What’s really interesting here is that this principle of mutualism reaches to the highest pinnacles of evolutionary prospect.
"I know me and, trust me, I wouldn't go to all the trouble of developing myself to the nth degree - if it weren't for you"
As we’ve discussed in other articles and books, man and woman would not develop themselves spiritually, to the degree desired by God, if they weren’t in love, wanting to please each other, and if that brass-ring of evolutionary progress weren’t linked to finding, reaching, and caring for each other.
A Spirit Guide confronts Franchezzo: "So, you think you’re willing to repent now in order to be with this purest of women? You haven’t repented! This is just more manipulation from you!"
“Hast thou repentance even now? Search thine own heart and see, or is it but that thou dost suffer and would be free from suffering and gain even yet this thy great desire? Is it for thyself or for those thou hast wronged that thou art sorry?"
"Yes, the Guide was right. I'd only suffered and was only longing for her."
And I knew as he spoke that I did not truly repent—I only suffered, I only loved and longed. Then again my beloved spoke and asked me, "If I was there and could hear her to try to write one word through her hand that she might know I still lived, still thought of her." My heart seemed to rise into my throat and choke me at her voice, and I drew near to try if I could move her hand, could touch it even. But the tall Spirit [Guide] came between us and I was forced to draw back.
Later, Franchezzo is also called to task by the two brothers of his beloved (now on the other side, probably killed in some war).
They called on him for once in his life to be a man and just let her go, not to trouble her. She was too good for him, they said.
I replied that I loved her and could never bear to leave her more, never bear to think of any other loving her as I had done. Then they spoke of myself and my past, and asked if I could, or dare I think to, link myself with her pure life, even in the misty fashion in which I still hoped to do?
“When it’s her time to pass on, she’s going to be so far ahead of you that you’ll never catch up! – so just let her go!"
How could I hope that when she died I should meet her? She belonged to a bright sphere to which I could not hope for long to rise, and would it not be better for her, and nobler, more truly loving of me, to leave her to forget me and to find what happiness in life could yet be given to her, rather than seek to keep alive a love that could only bring her sorrow?
“She only thinks she loves you. She doesn’t know the real you. She’s just in love with the idea of love.”
I said faintly I thought she loved me. They said, "Yes, she loves you as she herself has idealised your image in her mind, and as she in her innocence has painted your picture. Do you think if she knew all your story she would love you? Would she not shrink back in horror from you? Tell her the truth, give her the choice of freedom from your presence, and you will have acted a nobler part, shown a truer love, than in deceiving her and seeking to tie her to a being like yourself. If you truly love her, think of her and her happiness, and what will bring it—not of yourself alone."
Then the hope within me died out, and I bowed my head to the dust in shame and agony, for I knew that I was vile and in no way fit for her, and I saw as in a glass what her life might still be freed from mine, she might know happiness yet with another more worthy than I had been, while with my love I would only drag her down into sadness with me.
Now, something new in Franchezzo’s sorry life – his very first unselfish thought!
For the first time in my life I put the happiness of another before my own, and because I so loved her and would have had her happy, I said to them, "Let it be so then, tell her the truth and let her say but one kind word to me in farewell, and I shall go from her and darken her life with the shadow of mine no more."
So we went back to her, and I saw her as she slept exhausted with her sorrow for me. I pleaded that they would let me give her one kiss, the first and last that I would ever give. But they said no, that was impossible, for my touch would snap forever the thread that held her still to life. Then they awoke her and made her write down (via mediumistic channeled writing) their words, while I stood by and heard each word fall as a nail in the coffin where they were burying my last hope for ever.
She, as one in a dream, wrote on, till at last the whole shameful story of my life was told, and I had but to tell her myself that all was forever at an end between us, and she was free from my sinful presence and my selfish love. I said adieu to her. As drops of blood wrung from my heart were those words, and as ice they fell upon her heart and crushed it. Then I turned and left her—how, I know not…
Editor's note: Throughout the entire book, in all of his dangerous travels in the Dark Realms, Franchezzo often comments that the only thing that kept him going was the hope and promise that, if he did well, if he helped others courageously and selflessly, he might yet elevate himself spiritually and be ready to meet her, and be with her, as an equal, later on.
And this -- what biologists term "causal efficacy", an organism's own determination to rise above and to evolve -- as per "The Wedding Song," is "the reason for becoming man and wife."
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