834. No man or woman at the present terrestrial human stage of evolution is therefore born with the ability to give itself totally to a being of the opposite sex. It is true that beings marry, both of them mutually believing that they have given themselves entirely to their partner, and as a result they equally mutually believe that they completely own each other, but this is not the case. The duration of this ecstasy of possession (or perfect happiness in the marriage) is already so short that it bears no logical relationship whatsoever to the period of time for which it is intended, namely, the duration of the physical lifetime of the marriage partners in their present earthly life. The fact that one attempts to remedy this drawback in the marriage by means of an official marriage certificate cannot ensure that this ecstasy of possession lasts, even though these measures can of course be said to be a firm support for the marriage after the ecstasy has come to an end. It is this paradisiacal period of ecstatic happiness in marriage that is indicated by the term "honeymoon". If this period were to last for the whole of the married partners' physical life on Earth, there would never ever be any need for legal or judicial measures regarding marriage. Two beings, who mutually mean total happiness for one another and who at the same time mutually own one another totally, cannot possibly need other beings to prop up their happiness.
      But this state of happiness is possible only in a "paradise" in which one does not eat of the "tree of knowledge". Since this eating, in the form of the "new sphere of interest" in each of the sexes, is a steadily increasing vital need for terrestrial human beings, it is not so surprising that their disposition towards the fulfilment of the laws of this "paradise" has to be propped up using more and more crutches in the form of judicial statutes, or can be sustained in only the marital "wheelchair" that we call a "marriage certificate". The fact that these beings in the "spring" of each of their earthly lives, in the form of the "honeymoon", are given the opportunity of experiencing a short backward glimpse into the "lost paradise" cannot cancel out the incontestable fact that the great commandment of the Almighty is now, with increasing speed, carrying them towards a new radiant paradise on hitherto unimagined towering mental heights or glowing summits.