WOMAN - MATRIMONY - FAMILY
604. We must be able to see the woman in Sophia as well as Sophia in the woman.
[Sophia is the most superior archetype of woman and womanhood.]
605. A woman can get to the nigredo if she follows the instructions of a man; a woman can get to the albedo if she advances together with a man; and a woman can reach the rubedo if she becomes one with a man.
[The nigredo (black, blackness), the albedo (white, whiteness), and the rubedo (red, redness) are the three ascending hierarchical grades of alchemy.]
606. Where is marriage established? At as many levels as we distinguish in man according to the traditional point of view. If we distinguish physical, psychical, and spiritual levels in man, marriage, likewise, has to be established at physical, psychical and spiritual levels. And if we decide on five, seven or nine levels, marriage has to take place at five, seven or nine levels accordingly.
607. If marriages are established in »heaven«, -as Christian and, particularly, Catholic tradition claims-, then how can anybody interpret marriage from such a materialistic point of view and have only earthly aspects of marriage in sight, according to which a widow is set free from the matrimonial bonds and can freely marry someone else again?
608. Polygamy can only be perfect when the number of wives is a prime number minus one, in which case the number one - despite the fact that it is not a prime number - must be considered as prime. Accordingly, the number of wives can only be zero, one, two, four but by no means three!
[The reason why the number of wives is ideally a prime number minus one is that in this way the number of wives is completed by the husband, - which is always one -, so the number of participants in a marriage will always be a prime number. It is well-known that prime numbers - including the number one - can only be divided by one and by themselves. Thus, every prime number is such an ideal, stable, closed and perfect formula disintegrating and being disintegrated with difficulty, which, on the one hand, is characterized by harmony, and on the other hand, is characterized by autonomy (it also refers to the 0+1 formula, in which zero represents the number of wives, while the number one represents the number of »the husband«.). Odd numbers, to a limited extent, bare similar qualities [to prime numbers], while even numbers - except for the number two - are imperfect, though closed.]
609. This century there have also been efforts to legalize polygamy, although the number of wives, diabolically, is supposed to be a maximum of three.
610. Whereas parents are considerably responsible for their children, it does not mean that they must entirely devote their lives to their children. Everyone has to do their duty, first of all, strictly towards themselves.