"The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a certain king, who made a marriage for his son." Jesus spoke thus, striving by parables to open eyes blinded by material belief, to perception of the heaven of spiritual consciousness. His words were not comprehended. They could not be, while heaven was believed to be a locality wherein personal sense, divested of its inharmony, but with all its relations and conditions, remained. Personal sense and its conditions are one; it can never be separated from its inharmony; they must be destroyed together. Personal or material selfhood has no part or presence in the kingdom of God.
When questioned as to whose wife the woman, married to the seven brothers in succession, would be at the resurrection, Jesus replied, "In the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage," etc. Many, in view of this declaration, have questioned why Jesus so often illustrated heaven by reference to the marriage state. The heaven of which Jesus spoke was the harmony and unity of Mind. Marriage is significant of unity. Unity or oneness of Mind is harmony, or heaven.
The kingdom of heaven is said to be like unto a king who made a marriage for his own son. The marriage is represented as not to be, but having been made. A king is a ruler, his son is next in rank and partakes of the dominion of his father. Infinite Mind governs all expressions of Mind; spiritual man is forever one with "the Father"; this is the marriage that was made. Mind and its idea, man, existed "from everlasting to everlasting." The table spread so abundantly for this wedding feast is the understanding of God, in contrast with the meagre diet of belief in Him. "Wisdom hath builded her house.... she hath also furnished her table; as for him that wanteth understanding she saith... come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine which I have mingled."
