Claim. Marriage is the cosmological event in which heaven and earth, east and west, vertical and horizontal axes converge — not a private union but a universal coming-together.
Elaboration. SMM stacks the spatial metaphors: “Marriage is the coming together of heaven and earth, east and west, north and south, and high and low” (1.2. The Blessing’s true perspectives on marriage, 139-64, 1986.1.26). “Man represents the heaven and woman represents the earth. Therefore, the two should come together in harmony and form parallel lines” (ibid, Blessed Family 344). The reach is cosmic: “The place where a man and woman embrace each other in love is the place where the universe unites into one. The universe originally intended by God at the time of creation, and fulfilled in the ideal of God, would appear like this” (ibid, 22-201, 1969.2.4). On the day of marriage, “the universe will follow you, chasing after you wherever you go” because a man’s bride represents “half the universe” and a woman’s groom represents the other half (ibid, 113-33, 1981.4.26). Marriage is treated as the literal axis on which universal order turns.