Ida Craddock was a forceful public exponent of women's rights and sexual freedom in the 1880s. Though a single lady, she explained having detailed knowledge on these subjects because She Was Married To A 'Heavenly Bridegroom' An Angel. She claimed her angelic lover visited her at night to have sex, and to teach her enlightenment through A Divinely-Inspired System Of Sexual Initiation In this work she details The Tradition By Which The Virgin Mary Was Impregnated and Merlin was conceived. Her exhaustive work scours biblical sources as well as many other spiritual traditions to extol The Secret Practices Of Women Who Marry Angels, deity, and other spirits. These works enlighten us about love between the realms of spirit and matter. Ida shows that sex with spirit beings has been going on since the beginning of time in every belief system, in every culture More importantly, these writings help us to define the meaning and purpose of love in our relationships with each other in our daily lives