This entire two-part course should be taken whether you are living the hierosgamos as married or solitary.

We will read two articles, a Jungian “secret” and a Christian “secret.” 1.  ASecret That Can Transform Your Marriage in The World of Jungian Psychology (five very short “chapters”) and 2. Towardsa Spirituality and Theology of Marriage in The World of Christian Theology(four parts)

Read the Introductionpage TwoSecrets to Transform Your Marriage then hit the go back button and comeback here for the study plan.

The Jungian Secret:  A Secret thatCan Transform Your Marriage (five chapterson onepage).Complete these chapters and the exercises by following the study plan below:

1.  Read Chapter 1, titled: do the exercises, send your answers and a report to theAbbey Council with the subjectline: Jungian Marriage Secrets 1

2.  Read Chapter 2, titled: do the exercises, send your answers and a report to theAbbey Council with the subjectline: Jungian Marriage Secrets 2

3.  Read Chapter 3, titled: do the exercises, send your answers and a report to theAbbey Council with the subjectline: Jungian Marriage Secrets 3

4.  Read Chapter 4, titled: do the exercises, send your answers and a report to theAbbey Council with the subjectline: Jungian Marriage Secrets 4

5.  Read Chapter 5, titled: do the exercises, send your answers and a report to theAbbey Council with the subjectline: Jungian Marriage Secrets 5

The Christian Secret: Towards a Spiritualityand Theology of Marriage
Keep in mind this is from mainstream Christian theology (as in patriarchal),but this article has some very good points and downright liberating exercises(or we wouldn’t make ya read it, now would we?)

Read the four parts of this articleTowards aSpirituality and Theology of Marriage according to the study plan below

1.   Read Part One,titled: Marriageas it was Meant to Be, do the exercise, send any comments or atleast a report that you’ve done this section (you don’t have to send youranswers for this one) to the AbbeyCouncil with the subject line: Christian Marriage Secrets 1

2.  Read Part Two, titled:Marriage,the Fall, and the Coming of Christ send a report/comments to theAbbey Council with the subjectline: Christian Marriage Secrets 2

3.  Read Part Three,titled: Marriageand the Interior Life do the exercise (Katia loves this exercise!We are all Hildegardes of Bingen or other mystics living the Interior lifeeven if we have a pack of kids and an ornery spouse).  Send yourideas/answers from the exercise, any comments to theAbbey Council with the subjectline: Christian Marriage Secrets 3

4.  Read Part Four, titled:InnerMarriage send a recap/summary of it to theAbbey Council with the subjectline: Christian Marriage Secrets 4

Thanks to Inner Explorations and ILuvULuv for putting all of the abovefabulous material on line for the likes of us.

Passion by John Pitre. Notice how the monks are NOT building, but are TEARINGDOWN the monumental erotic passion. This man-made erosion of the sacred marriage,destroying its very base, causes sexuality to topple over into the realmof degradation and shame. This is what happened historically to the hierosgamos, but in the modern era we are slowly rebuilding it.