The Occult Marriage at Cana

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 23 pages

Twenty-three pages in four movements, opening with the second chapter of John printed in the original Greek and then read as something other than a wedding story — an allegorical representation of the final Initiation, with Blavatsky's own analysis and commentary following the text verse by verse.

From there the study moves outward through three further treatments. The Divine Marriage of the Occultist takes up a correspondent's questions about the proper education of women and examines marriage from the highest philosophical, metaphysical and ethical perspectives. A third section states its position in its title — that there is no sanctity in worldly marriage of any kind — and appraises the religious, practical and political aspects of what it calls sensual marriage. A closing set of transcendental reflections draws on Isis Unveiled and on an unnamed Philaletheian. The arrangement is worth knowing before opening the file: the doctrinal reading of Cana and the practical discussion of marriage are two distinct arguments placed side by side, not one continuous one.

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