Claim. Conjugal love is the universe’s horizontal completion of God’s vertical love. When a husband and wife unite, they complete the four-position foundation with God, and the resulting unity is — on SMM’s view — the cosmic-structural point on which the order of the universe rests.
Elaboration. The cosmological weight is asserted directly: “The perfection of the love of a man and a woman is the perfection of the universe. The day this love is shattered, the order of the universe will be destroyed and the entire vertical world will collapse” (4.1. Conjugal love is the flower of the whole universe, Blessed Family-544).
The four-position frame supplies the structure: “When a man and a woman are joined together in love, they must live together on earth for a hundred years, and even after they die they are to live together eternally. Although they have two bodies, they become one body, and as they rotate together they create oneness. When their two bodies become one, they come to rotate with God and establish a four-position-foundation of love” (ibid, Blessed Family-344).
The dual-characteristics framing makes the gendered roles non-incidental: “Man is a being having God’s yang image, and woman is a being having God’s yin image. A married couple is like the wrapping of heaven and earth in a cloth. They can feel the heart of God’s ideal love” (ibid, 13-67, 1963.10.17).
Significance: marriage is not a private contract but a cosmic-structural office. The intensity of the language (“universe will be destroyed”) is consistent across the leaf and is the doctrinal basis for the Blessing’s centrality.
See also. blessing, four-position-foundation