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A Suggested Spiritualist Ceremony of Marriage . Opening prayer: "Lord of the Universe, Lord of the Stars, Creator of the Seen and the Unseen, we are gathered here on this special day to humbly ask your blessings for this company and the happy couple joined here in marriage today. We invite all our friends and families in the Spirit World to join us in our Celebrations of this Marriage, we ask that they also give their loving blessings to Simon and Mira - and that guidance and love be granted to them throughout their future lives together. And now we hand this service over to you Lord - knowing that we are in safe and loving hands. Amen. Dear Friends. We are all gathered here to see this happy, loving couple joined in marriage. Two lives - one path. MARRIAGE is a solemn undertaking - accepted by two people, not lightly or frivolously, but with deep thought and careful foresight into the future. Marriage is the binding of two lives on all the levels of existence. Physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Marriage is a very old undertaking - it was a formal institution long before any church or authority made it official or legal. In times long passed the WHOLE community was witness to the wedding of two people because the survival of that society depended on it. Any RESPONSIBLE person appreciates that the community needs to raise each generation in a right and healthy way, and as the care of young and old alike moves from generation to generation so society matures and progresses forward with each NEW age. In short, we are what we ALL as ‘a society’ make of our lives, of our children, and ourselves, it is ALL our responsibility to nurture the partnerships of the future and thus the hope of each new generation is fulfilled. Between these two friends, what started as a casual acquaintanceship has grow into a special relationship – and then they travelled beyond that place into the loving sharing future partners we see here today. Our day-to-day basis of living good lives relies on the foundation of good relationships between us all. But… the marriage of two people is based on friendship plus an extra thing …LOVE. Yes, friendship is based on Loyalty, Honesty, Reliability, Trustworthiness - all these things – but a MARRIAGE is based in the special knowledge of being LOVED - this is the ROCK on which marriage is based. How we treat the rest of the world depends on the love in our homes, in the most intimate part of us too - our spirit / our souls – this knowledge is inherent in us all, we don’t need to be told this. But is there danger on the horizon? What is the biggest threat marriage? WORDS? No. Words are only the children of THOUGHTS … and they can be changed ... So are THOUGHTS the threat to the institution of marriage? No. They can be changed …. All these things are governed by the SPIRIT within us all. SPIRIT IS ETERNAL. And in the spirit is where this marriage is based and will succeed. Here are two people who are not joining only the physical. Not only the words and thoughts of mind and emotions are being joined here today .... we are witnessing the joining of two SPIRITS - Joining in LOVE. Love is the key. In the words of The Apache Wedding Blessing ... "Now you will feel no rain. For each of you will be shelter to the other. Now you will feel no cold. For each of you will be warmth to each other. Now there is no more loneliness. For you will be companion to each other. Now you are two bodies, But there is only one life before you. As you go now to your dwelling place To enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon the earth." Now [NAMES] will communicate their love for one another not just through the vows spoken here in this place, but by the thoughts and emotions behind those words. And all this comes from their spirits joined in LOVE. Love is the rock, the base - and we are all here as witness to this - witnessing as the ancients did way back into the dawn of time, the love that sustains everything - two spirits love for each other in a very special way. We will now hear the VOWS from [NAMES] VOWS This declaration is a loving and binding contract of two physical and spiritual people. --- WE ARE NOW ALL GOING TO JOIN TOGETHER IN OUR COMMUNAL BLESSING OF THIS MARRIAGE TO THE HAPPY COUPLE ALL WHO ARE ABLE --- PLEASE STAND --- IF YOU WILL REPEAT AFTER ME… [NAMES OF COUPLE] … WE BLESS THIS MARRIAGE…… WE BLESS THIS UNION…. WE BLESS THIS JOINING OF YOUR TWO SPIRITS… JOINED IN LOVE … MAY YOU ALWAYS BE BLESSED… FOR ALL ETERNITY…. AMEN. Ladies and gentlemen please raise your glasses the new MR AND MRS -------- End.
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