Besides the Ethics section which is the best globally in it's kind, I am going to be including more things in it as "Life Ethics". Among these there will be marriage and other important topics. All of these will be explained from the standpoint of the Gods and how they advise us to live our life in the highest potential and in the best manner possible, for OUR sake, not as empty rules that exist for the sake of "whatever" else.
Now, in regard to Marriage, it has not been stated before in these forums. There will be a Ritual for Zevist Marriage that I will write soon, same as Baptism. Unlike the enemy religions, our Baptism will be done once when the girl or boy is 40 days old, a beautiful Ritual to our newcomers the blessings of the Gods. At 12 to 14 years old, there will be another Ritual where the child is now of consciousness and can make a decision (That is up to the parents to decide), if they will be of us.
That will also be a test of the parents, so that they can show the goodwill and love of the Gods to their children, nor try to keep them with us under the threat of hellfire, but by teaching them to follow by example and respect.
Celebrations and ceremony, are parts of these; the most important and beautiful aspects of human existence where two people become one unity toward the world and in themselves.
As the enemy has corrupted humanity and has dropped them to a really lesser level of existence, important life passages such as marriage, adulthood, or baptism of a human being, are all merely empty forms without content. The marriage of people has entered a state where many people do not want to do it, or simply circulate around life without even considering it anymore.
The marriage professed in Zevism will not be a typical marriage where you just sign documentation in your local municipal office. It will be a holy sacrament to connect two souls together. It will be a serious thing for grown ups; where both people will mutually agree on matters to continue as a singular family.
Everything in this world received the importance that we ascribe to it, and most people out there don't care to live a fruitful life that causes generation. Marriage is a major power, not only against loneliness and the problems of life, but also about pleasure and reaching higher states with a person that you truly love and they love you back. People nowadays break their marriages for crickets, as society is taught for couples to undervalue one another. Sacredness is being besieged. If we don't make things sacred for ourselves, they cannot become suddenly on their own.
There are not happier messages for me to receive from people, other than: Success messages, pictures of your babies when you have them with your partners (It makes me feel most happy to see your beautiful lives), but also personal development. These things give me courage to go on. A happy family is literally a gift from the Gods, of all the things in the world, it's the most happy occurrence to see two people truly in love with one another.
Love in general is something all people want and seek, but many don't want to make the necessary efforts to have it. The enemy has also preached that "love" is something one simply just arbitrarily deserves, when one is a psychopath or a sociopath, and love has become a currency that exists very little in this world, it's rarer than the gold of the earth. Those who receive love from the Gods or the community, will understand full well what I mean, same as people who found someone they truly loved and fought to make it work. Love is not to be taken lightly and it's not a game of nonsense.
In marriage or even love relationships, two people come together to literally heal themselves. This is why love hurts. Love can sometimes hurt because it's healing you, teaching you lessons, and yes, love also sometimes can be against your false ego. But at the same time, the power of love is the strongest power you can have inside your chest, higher than all the other powers of the world. We long for love for good reasons. As thus you will see that Lady Astarte is representing love, but also simultaneously, war. Because love also brings war with it, this war that one needs to wage to control one's false ego, in order to receive boundless power that comes from love. It's the mysterious force that humans seek and very rightfully so.
Closing this topic, there are some holy things in this world. Many people worship only money, objects, material things, handbags and many other things. You know very well if someone came here to emphasize wealth and security, I am the person who did this. But there are too other things to this life, that society keeps from us. As we seek replacements for the holy things in life, many times we focus on things of a lesser scale, only to get a little "something" that is truly elsewhere in our lives, getting none in the end.
The world is being lied to and people are told only financial acquisitions are going to make you more happy than loving someone and being loved back. Financial acquisitions on their own, matter certainly for "one's self", but their primary importance is to help other things that we love too in a good balance. The "only for yourself" ruling ideas of the time right now are false.
Yes, these things are fundamental too in existence, great in themselves, but they are not the full purpose of life and existence. They are very important foundations to build things other better things above them.
Having people that you trust and cherish in existence, is the true treasure of existence. You are being lied to. Parents know what I mean here. Those who have been loved by the Gods know what I mean here in the tenfold. Allow them to love you and to help you. You can be destitute and still have the treasures of the whole world, only if you know these things.
These holy things are the love of family, the love for ourselves and the love of the community and the Gods. When this gap is closed, then a human being has moved into newfound consciousness. Marriage has a lot of things in common with the service of the Gods, and the community also teaches responsibility and love, the two things children need the most to grow.
That is why in the past they said as a code "The Priest is married to the Goddess" - that is a code of conduct, not an objective statement. The same passion needed to maintain a proper marriage, is very close to the reality of being emotionally connected to the Gods and greater endeavors. It's about devotion and dedication.
Let all marriages and all baptisms that commence in the future and in our blessed community, be fruits of the love of the Gods, sweet and beautiful for all those in them.
If I am happy for one thing in this life, is that I brought people closer in the community and showed them the love and power of the Gods. I am happy for everything else too. But that is the most irreplaceable gift in the universe. Cherish it and let it grow you to the beings you are meant to become.
-High Priest Zevios Metathronos