Your Marriage and Your Children
Listen, my child! Deep within your heart
Hear your father’s voice:
“We and our lives perish;
But the chain of life goes on!”
The traits you inherited from your ancestors and that slumber within you, and the possibilities your environment offers you are the raw materials from which you build your life. Give your full effort to be sure that you succeed. The unhappiest people are those who waste or misuse their lives through their own failings. Steel your body through physical exercises, sharpen your mind through useful activity, and promote your spiritual life by moral purity. “Become that to which you are called.”
Only when you have so built your life are you worthy to found a family and become the “seed corn of a new world.”
But do not believe that now you have done enough, and that your children will inherit what you have achieved and earned. People can overcome, purify or increase what they have accomplished or received from their environment; such things, however, are not inheritable.
Your “genotype,” that is, everything you can pass on to your children, is in you from the beginning of your life. It is preserved within you in special cells. These are separate from your other body cells, your phenotype; they do not grow stronger with your body, and do not change as your body changes. You cannot improve them; at most you can weaken or sicken them by poison that you take in to your body (alcohol and drugs).
The life of genetic material is a kingdom unto itself, almost independent of events in the life of an individual.
The genetic stream is like underground roots. When two such roots meet and unite, a person develops like a plant that breaks through the soil. The sun smiles on it, the rain falls, it is blown by storms, it wilts and atrophies, and finally dies a human death. Yet the genetic stream flows on, deep and broad, long after the sun and rain and storms of the individual life have past.
If you understand that, you must feel reverence for this immutable source of creation that you carry within you. And you must be deeply aware of the responsibility that you bear as the carrier of this source.
For on you depends whether or not the genetic stream flows on, or whether it dies forever with you.
If you leave life without leaving children, the genetic stream ends, the chain breaks; you kill the genetic material within you, which has come to you from thousands of your ancestors, who entrusted you with passing it on to future generations. This particular line of your race dies: that is real death!
This is the heaviest moral responsibility that a person faces. In his sober poem “To a Youth,” Hebbel warns: “Look down to the ground / at the life quietly growing, / study whether it is healthy / able to reach the heights!” One who spoke in such a way must have sensed the power of inheritance, knowing not the laws themselves, but understanding how they work.
Today, science has discovered through tireless research the incontrovertible principles of genetics. We act without conscience if we ignore them.
No scientist pretends to have learned the deepest secrets of life by discovering all the laws of genetics. Mystery and respect remain. However, the creator god who established the laws of life demands that we obey them.
Our knowledge of the laws of inheritance also show us that there are genetic streams that re undesirable, because they will bring to life people who are unhappy, and will cause only unhappiness and misery.
To understand that, you must understand several of the fundamental genetic laws. The German Augustianian abbot Gregor Mendel of Brünn discovered the most important of these laws in 1865 by studying plants. His work was rediscovered in 1900, tested and found to be correct. At the same time, others came to the same conclusion in a different way by anatomical research.
It was discovered:
For each inherited characteristic (whether of mind or body), a person has two genes, one from the father and one from the mother. If this person in turn becomes the father (or mother) of a new life, he passes on only one of his genes or her her gene to the child, so that the child too receives one gene each from the father and mother.
The two parental genes may be identical, in which case the child has two of the same genes for the trait.
They can be different, in which case the child has two different genes. In this case, there are two possibilities:
The result may be a mixture of the two genes (in some plants, for example, flowers may be pink if they carry red and white genes).
There is no visible mixture, but rather one gene determines the appearance. It “covers up” the other, without however eliminating the other gene. That is, for example, the case with the color of human eyes. The brown gene always dominates the blue gene, but children could inherit either the brown or blue gene. Thus, two brown-eyed creatures, each of whom carried the blue-eyed gene, could have a blue-eyed child if during fertilization both contributed the blue-eyed gene.
This means: You cannot determine a person’s genetic makeup from his appearance. To know the value of his genetic makeup, you must know his parents, his siblings, the siblings of his parents, or in short, his kin.
Recessive genes can be passed down over generations, without coming to expression. Brown-eyed ancestors who carry the blue-eyed gene can unexpectedly have blue-eyed children if the spouse contributes a new blue-eyed gene.
The significance of this law becomes instantly clear once you learn that a series of illnesses, among them serious ones like deafness, result from recessive genes. Replace blue-eyed with deaf in the above example, and you will see the significance of this when selecting a future husband or wife.
The matter of race mixing is of tremendous importance for individuals, and under some circumstances, of fateful significance for entire peoples. Here we shall discuss only the effects of race mixing in the genetic material of the individual.
What is race?
“A race is a group of human beings who share physical traits and spiritual characteristics that distinguish them from other human groups (in these regards), and always reproduce those like them.”
There are races that share characteristics and traits, such that when they interbreed, a relatively uniform type results. This is the case for the various nations of the white race – sometimes called sub-races. There are the Nordic who are taller, blonder, and more pronounced cheek bones, but then there are the Alpine who are usually shorter with darker hair. This is why white people in Germany or Sweden may look a little different than white people in France, Italy, Spain or Romania. And the Irish, Scots, and English may be known for having more red heads. But they are all related by blood and are of the same overall racial group.
It is not race mixing for an Englishman to marry a Russian or for an Italian to marry a girl from Norway or Canada.
You can also see how the other two major racial groups in the world have their own sub-races – people of the same race – but with some physical characteristics that sets them slightly apart. The Japanese look different than the Vietnamese or the Cambodians or the Chinese. Blacks in one part of Africa such as the Nubian blacks usually are taller with thinner faces and lips, while in other parts they are shorter, heavier, and have very thick lips and full cheeks. They are all of the same Negro race, but with different sub-race characteristics.
Again, it is not race mixing for sub-races to marry within their own major racial group. But, it is race mixing for the main race group to mix with someone from another race group.
Mixing people with members of a distant race leads to unhealthy results. Mixing, for example, with blacks, with yellows, and with Jews must be avoided. (Jews are a hybrid race meaning they aren’t a pure race – they are a mixture of all three – sometimes with a little more racial background than one of the other racial types)
Every healthy person with natural sensibilities rejects such racial mixing. Unfortunately, there were some even among our people who lost their natural sensibilities. Everything must be done to restore to such people’s natural consciousness of race.
Once you have read this, you will probably be nervous about the dangers presented here. If you have understood all the details of genetics we have discussed. you can perhaps begin to learn every possible detail about your kinship group. If you have not understood it all — which would not be too bad — you at least have come to understand that you may not view marriage as a way to satisfy your desire for companionship, but rather you must see it as the fountain of the future, the source from which will flow children and children’s children.
Here too remember: Do not despair! You need not sink into grave doubts and dark brooding. The state that makes clear to you the dangers of careless marriage also gives you advice.
Remember that you are white.
Keep your body pure.
Keep your mind and soul clean.
Take a spouse only of the same race
In choosing a spouse, ask about his or her ancestry.
Marry only out of love, But NEVER date anyone who would not be suitable for marriage
Do not seek a plaything, but rather a companion for marriage.
You should want and desire to have children and to raise them to be healthy, Christian, and dedicated to their race. DO not date or seek a spouse who would not agree to this.
And finally, always pray for guidance from God for his help in selecting the right man or woman to share your life with.