There is nothing so deep as conjugal love to
move the heart, soul, and the body. This can be truly said because conjugal
love has the same root as worship. The reason true love
between a man and a woman and divine worship have the same root is that there
is a Holy Marriage in the Lord. The Holy marriage in the Lord is between the
essence of the Lord and his human body. This bond (was always there) but forged in a new way by Jesus Christ in
the process of the glorification while he lived on earth. The culmination of the
process is that He made his body divine, something that only He has done, and
never will be done again. It is enormously instructive to understand that this
process was performed in the face of the most dire situation, and the greatest
evil that has ever existed, or ever will exist. If Jesus had not come humanity
would have been lost in an eternal darkness. (I cannot substantiate this now
but have written a book about it). The point here is the greatest evil had to be
matched by a greater love, and the divine truth of love is the most powerful
force in all the universe, and with this power within Him Jesus defeated all
the forces of evil, and put heaven and earth back in order. This battle was
waged in the body of Jesus, step by step, by profound skill, awareness and love
– against forces that constantly raised the stakes to destroy him. We see it on
earth in the gospel stories, but this is only the tip of the iceberg compared
to what he was doing at the same time in the spiritual world. The ‘one’ who does
it provides redemption, and we love Him for it. This feeling of love for
redemption is the essence of worship. There is something innate in the human
soul that recognizes this – we respond to true acts of sacrifice and skill when
a man or woman puts their life on the line for others. This is why Jesus said,
“There is no greater love than to lay down your life for another”, and this is
why we honor heroes of the military and the service, why we have ceremonies,
why we need bereavement ceremonies for lost beloved ones in our life.
We have the same feeling
for our true beloved, our wife or husband, if it is true conjugal love, for this union takes our soul, like redemption, to depth, peace, skill, and happiness that it could never reach otherwise. There
are many great loves such as love of children and love of friends, but the highest
love is true marriage love. This is why at the end of Interstellar after all
they had been through when Cooper finally reunites with His daughter (who he
has yearned the whole movie to see again, and who now is older than him) – his old
daughter tells him she herself has everything she needs now with her family, - and
that he can go. He asks, “where” like
a man who has not ‘got it’ yet; and she says one word, “Brand”. Brand is his
true conjugal love. He steps back dazed as the true state of his underneath
love rushes into his awareness. All this is rife with meaning for it is women
who are the true conductors of conjugal love for men. And the story reaches
into Biblical proportions and meanings because he is seeking to live with
Brand and begin life on a new planet, like Adam and Eve, or the Noah story. The
meaning is made even greater when we contemplate the sacred purpose of
conjugal love and why it is the highest of all loves, - and that is, that conjugal
love is governed by the Lord’s providence to continually perpetuate mankind, and
in a higher way to populate the Lord’s heavenly kingdom, which is the end
purpose of life. For all angels of heaven are former humans.
We see the heavenly nature
of true love in movies like ‘Gladiator’, and 'Braveheart'. In these movies
after the main character goes through enormous struggles for a great purpose they
are killed by the treachery of the enemy – which in itself is a clear Christ
parallel. Through their life they have the skill, heart and determination to
accomplish great things for their people against a ruthless enemy – they help provide
justice and redemption to the people. In a way, like all heroic efforts, they
give people their heart of integrity back. At the end of each of these movies they are suffering and die in
sacrifice for their ideals, and yet they are inwardly at peace, for they see in the
spirit their wife reaching to them from heaven and assuring them. This is the
peace and promise of heaven, for conjugal love is the very basis of heaven. It
is the very basis of heaven because the universal principle of life is that
there is a marriage between love and wisdom; this is the universal in every
particular because it comes from the holy marriage between Gods essence and His
human.
In the movie ‘Starman’ all
of these themes come into play, and are combined because worship and conjugal
go together. In Starman the alien is at once wise, possessing unknown powers of
healing, technology and resurrection, but he is also profoundly innocent, knowing nothing
of life on earth, but taught by a normal, kind, loving woman. She is barren,
but he gives her a child when they eventually make love. He tells her she will
have a child, and that it will be a boy, that he will be a great teacher on
earth. The alien is a Christ figure, along with the child. He says, “shall I
tell you what I find beautiful about your planet. You are at your best when
things are worst”, echoing the theme that the Lord entered the highest state of
love that redeemed the world when the greatest state of evil threatened to
destroy all. The nature of the child's inception echos the virgin birth in the Bible. Starman has been using secret little spheres that have given him the power to withstand enormous explosions and to resurrect Jenny when she is shot. Starman gives the woman one of these secret balls at the end while beautiful strains of music evoke deep feeling, and tells her to give it to their
son, and he tells her that the boy will know what to do with it. He fulfills
the woman’s life through true love for each other. The balls are potentially full of symbolic meaning. Carl Jung interpreted the ring-like spheres of UFO's as projections or yearning for wholeness in the self. Because the child will know how to use them, and he will be a teacher, I would say they represent the internal skill to come into the
wholeness of self that leads to fulfillment. The balls are containers of the union of love and wisdom that carrie with them all the information to achieve their ends. For each individual the ball represents
the unique gifts given from creation to be of use in life on earth, and in the Lord's kingdom.
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