What is necessary is for love to truly exist between husband and wife. Without love, the Divine Mother cannot awaken within the physical body, since She does not reward ambition. The only requirement for marriage is that conscious affinity within the spheres of thought, feeling and will exist. What will verify your destiny with a given partner is the confirmation of love within the profundities of the heart. Internal experiences are wonderful too, but they will only confirm what you know within your practical, daily life through the knowledge of the heart, which is the Temple of your Innermost and Divine Mother.

As for past sexual partners, those ties will remain with the individual throughout eternity until paid through the final processes of purification. For more information about the topic of sexual alchemy, initiation, and the psychological work, study the following resources: