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Early on in my time at this Church, I read:
Every sexual emotion is a conspiracy against Science.
from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, given by Mary Baker Eddy, page 130
It took a while to understand, but the following answered it pretty succinctly:
Did God at first create one man unaided, — that is, Adam, — but afterwards require the union of the two sexes in order to create the rest of the human family? No! God makes and governs all.
from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 532
Therefore, any mortal mind counterfeit that tells us we are separate from God is a lie which must be exposed and destroyed, so we can get back to our conscious oneness with God.
But Mrs. Eddy married again after discovering Christian Science, and has the chapter on Marriage, so I wondered about that for a while. Is it a “suffer it to be so now” situation? Or can it be a good thing? Then I found these two quotes and feel more at peace with it.
The tendency of the desire for the sweet companionship of the opposite sex is divinely natural. Remember primarily the individual was equal and wholly satisfied. He was God’s image and reflection, Father-Mother. Learn not to condemn this longing, because it is about the only thing in a human being that indicates his divine entity. In the beginning man and woman were one, and mortal mind made the separation. Therefore the constant longing for completion.
from Fragments gathered from Unpublished Items ascribed to Mary Baker Eddy, page 181
What do you think of marriage?
That it is often convenient, sometimes pleasant, and occasionally a love affair. Marriage is susceptible of many definitions. It sometimes presents the most wretched condition of human existence. To be normal, it must be a union of the affections that tends to lift mortals higher.
from Miscellaneous Writing, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 52
Mrs. Eddy also wrote:
The sexual element is not natural, if nature is God, and it certainly is God, for matter is not God, and material sense has no law and no gospel on its side.
from Watches, Prayers, and Arguments, given by Mary Baker Eddy, page 170
To me it seems: Human “love” pulls us down to materiality; divine Love lifts us up spiritually.