Many Mansions by Gina Cerminara

Author:Gina Cerminara [Cerminara, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Published: 2019-06-25T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The Lonely Ones

In any consideration of marriage from the long-range point of view of reincarnation, the question inevitably arises as to why a given lifetime does not include marriage for some men and women. Even though they are reasonably attractive physically, and temperamentally normal, some people seem never to have the opportunity to marry. Is there a karmic explanation for this, one wonders, in the Cayce readings?

The French have a brilliant epigram on the subject of the married and the non-married state: “Marriage is like a besieged fortress: those who are outside want to get in; those who are inside want to get out.” Cynical though it may seem, there is much truth in this observation. Marriage has brought so much psychological misery to so many people that it seems almost suprising that other people should still consider the married state a desirable one, that they should still be able to disregard its many threats to peace of mind and see only its promises of felicity. And yet—despite the common knowledge that marriage has its very real difficulties—the unmarried generally have a sense of having been cheated of something precious—a sense of frustration and failure.

The sexual element of this situation, of course, is an important one; and the frustration of non-marriage, in “civilized” countries at least, has been the equivalent of total or comparative sexual starvation for the woman, if not for the man. In primitive societies this is not the case. But in our present form of Western society, the single state represents a kind of frustration, and even carries with it a kind of disesteem. This is especially so in the case of the unmarried woman; and the cases that follow are all of women because in the Cayce files they were more frequently concerned about the matter than men, and their cases more conspicuous.

Alone. There is something desolate in the word, something unspeakably sad. Just as “for the last time” is perhaps the saddest phrase in the language for lovers, so “I am lonely” is perhaps the saddest of all sentences to have to utter with regard to oneself. Without spiritual illumination, aloneness after love, or aloneness never having known love, is one of the most sterile, most thwarting of all human conditions.

The major life problem of the woman whose case is described below has been a constant sense of aloneness. She is a social secretary in New York City—a Norwegian woman of poise and considerable physical attractiveness. She was forty-seven at the time of her first reading from Cayce. She had at that time been married twice; the first husband died shortly after marriage. She married again—this time to a man much older than herself, and the marriage was so unhappy that she soon obtained a divorce. She had no children. All the members of her family had died; she literally had no one. Her position as social secretary brought her into contact with people, but it was a superficial contact. She would have liked to remarry, but the opportunity somehow did not present itself.

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