conception of the true life; he pronounces the principle of marriage sinful, negative; for the sinless, positive life is the heavenly one.[1]
- ↑ Inasmuch as the religious consciousness restores everything which it begins by abolishing, and the future life is ultimately nothing else than the present life re-established, it follows that sex must be re-established. “Erunt . . . . similes angelorum. Ergo homines non desinent . . . ut apostolus apostolus sit et Maria Maria.”—Hieronymus (ad Theodorain Viduam). But as the body in the other world is an incorporeal body, so necessarily the sex there is one without difference, i.e., a sexless sex.
