THE MIRACLE OF ENGENDERING
The human reproductive impulse, event, activity, engenders human beings. Steeped in mystery, symbology, rut ritual, law, religion, social mores, human sexual activity is rooted in those hormonal pleasures that drive bodily breathing, eating, sleeping, excreting, etc.,required for sustenance, maintenance, life.
"Be fruitful and multiply," the iconic scripture provides in Genesis 1: 28, as our Biblical injunction, would hardly seem necessary, given our biology. In like manner "to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose" of Eccl. 1-8 with its "time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing," certainly seem to contemplate human sexual behavior ritual.
Reinforcing this human view of the mystery of engendering, is its majestic ubiquity, prolixity of sexually, asexually engendering in and among every plant, all living non-human animals, birds, fish, insects, microbes, now living, now extinct , known and unknown; each one, having in season as defined by its nature, reproduced, in its turn, as it was reproduced in turn, or not reproducing--for whatever reason--, in consonance with the impulse of its own majestic engendering miracle.
Monday, August 27, 2018
THE MIRACLE OF ENGENDERING
THE MIRACLE OF ENGENDERING
The human reproductive impulse, event, activity, engenders human beings. Steeped in mystery, symbology, rut ritual, law, religion, social mores, human sexual activity is rooted in those hormonal pleasures that drive bodily breathing, eating, sleeping, excreting, etc.,required for sustenance, maintenance, life.
"Be fruitful and multiply," the iconic scripture provides in Genesis 1: 28, as our Biblical injunction, would hardly seem necessary, given our biology. In like manner "to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose" of Eccl. 1-8 with its "time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing," certainly seem to contemplate human sexual behavior ritual.
Reinforcing this human view of the mystery of engendering, is its majestic ubiquity, prolixity of sexually, asexually engendering in and among every plant, all living non-human animals, birds, fish, insects, microbes, now living, now extinct , known and unknown; each one, having in season as defined by its nature, reproduced, in its turn, as it was reproduced in turn, or not reproducing--for whatever reason--, in consonance with the impulse of its own majestic engendering miracle.