Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1213

1213. The above-mentioned growth is reflected not only in the many marriages that end in divorce; it reveals itself also in the form of "polygamy" and its legalisation under the concept of the "harem". What lies hidden behind this concept is thus in reality merely an organised authorisation – based on the superiority of "man" in relation to "woman" – or statutory protection of "infidelity" towards, and undermining of, the absolutely "perfect marriage". How could such a "man" keep to one wife and be "one flesh" with her? A "man" that has several wives, regardless of whether it be only two, or it be ten, twenty, fifty, a hundred or perhaps even more, is an extremely "split" being. He must share himself between these wives. He can thus give merely a corresponding fraction of himself, that is, of his being and his marital love, to each wife. But this, of course, is not "cleaving unto his wife" to the extent commanded by the divine commandment of marriage established by Nature. How can such a being during intercourse with one of these wives be "one flesh" with all the other wives? And how could each of these wives be "one flesh" with her husband, when he at that moment is engaged in intercourse with or is giving himself to another woman? That these wives, under the pressure of the moral dictates or commands prescribed for this by the flock or the community, are trained not to protest and perhaps even to a certain extent have accustomed themselves to seeing their situation as something natural, does not change the nature of their situation as an authorised breach of the sixth commandment or a violation of the natural, divine marriage.