| OCR Text |
Show •fit maturity varies from one s i s t e r - w i f e to another. A pecking order is tfeta established to determine who has most domestic leadership, who has secondary power, and so on. The primary domestic leader quite obviously has considerable pull with the s p i r i t u a l leader, just as the body has considerable influence on the mind. Although each sister-wife depends on her husband for her resurrection from the dead, this dependency i s regarded with varying degrees of respect. „ S t i l l , she *-must become ;*' worthy of resurrection ','y'~,- with the eternal family by oroving her capacity to harmonize , ,.\ with other members of the family. - / \ It is only s l i g h t l y different for the children, except • •> that children have more parent-figures than a young sister-wife and that the children do not have children of t h e i r own .•foatdopt whon they prew Because we children had been sealed to our parents through their sacred,- secrs-t ceremony joining them and t h e i r progeny for time and eternity, i t was quite natural that I should see my l i fe as joined forever to my f a t h e r ' s l i f e . We would always be bonded, and I would always struggle for an identity of my own, an understanding of the soul which God had made me. We would always be part of one another in the way that my mother and Aunt Helga would always be two halves of an entity. For my s i s t e r s , who had entered the Principle, giving birth with my f a t h e r ' s help was the most natural sort of extension of their dedication to him and t h e i r acceptance of his view of them. But for me, the black sheep, my r e l a t i o n s h i p to my father bore MidtfUCT of a complicated but S&fcteer -innocent Electra complex. I felt that my father had asserted himself where he usually kept his dirtjncir with, kin r ^ * < ^ " * daughters, influencing |
