On Destiny and Marriage

Destiny and marriage, thus do I speak to the unmarried. It is neither one's destiny to be married too soon, nor is marriage for the destined too late.

Timing is everything, but Love has naught to do with Time. If you would be in Love, I would have you not glance at the clock!

A destiny and a marriage do you seek, yet do you seek your destiny and marriage?

For many are they who are destined to be married, but only as bats in their blindness find each other.

Many are the married who call themselves destined, yet their marriage is made of Time and a false destiny.

But are you willing to do this: to shatter false gods and false destinies?

Painful is the marriage of the all-too-many. They would convince the world they are in Love. Yet even when alone, they never knew what Love is.

The Woman of Urania is our First Love. Never could I know how to to give Love were it not for my First Love.

And for those who look for marriage in this valley of tears, I would have two stars cross in the heavens: thus do I call marriage.

Rare and hallowed is this marriage made in heaven. It would compel even the planets to revolve around it. Such is its will.

But the horoscope marriage, the marriage of the superfluous, this is only the destiny of madmen and the grave.

Yet True Love is also of the grave. It would die in itself in order to be reborn. It would burn itself to ashes in order to be sanctified.

But are you willing to do this: to enter the grave? Are you willing to give a hand to the ghost that frightens you?

Courage and death are inseparable. One needs great courage for the tomb. Yet many are the Don Giovannis wielding great courage, who are unwilling to die for what they love!

The rose of your affections can only grow from the compost of the past. So when your rose blossoms, be sure that it is much tended.

Blessed be the rose which blooms from the grave. But contempt be for the Hallmark marriage, which you can get anywhere. Although one must perish for Love, one must not perish because of love!

Thus speaks Ding Dong.