Claim. Marriage exists so that man and woman, embodying the dual-characteristics of God, can unite into one being that resembles and houses God.
Elaboration. SMM grounds the rationale ontologically: “Why should you get married? It is in order to resemble the form of God. God exists with dual characteristics. He is a unified being in which both characteristics exist together in harmony. Man and woman were created to reflect the dual characteristics of God, and so, man and woman should come together in complete unity and harmony” (1.2. The Blessing’s true perspectives on marriage, 290-170, 1988.2.18). When they unite, “they resemble God. Only when a man and woman unite into one can they resemble God, who created us in His image. Only then can He reside in us” (ibid, 70-76, 1974.2.8). Marriage is therefore not a means of personal fulfillment but the condition under which the divine image is completed in a couple. Adam and Eve, had they not fallen, would have become “the body of God” — Adam representing the male characteristics, Eve the female — and their wedding would have been “where the kingship of the universe is established. … the kingship of love” (ibid, 143-236, 1988.3.19).
See also. dual-characteristics, purpose-of-creation