@Sophiologist_ 1/ The wedding bed. I always recall, some 30 years ago, finding the first lines of Daniel Matt's opening to his 'Essential Kabbalah', powerfully, strangely quizzical. Why, I thought, Abulafia's and his emphasis of this essential sense of the meaning and mystery of fertilization?
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Photograph of book page: THE PURPOSE THE PURPOSE OF the marriage of a woman and a man is union. The purpose of union is fertilization. The purpose of fertilization is giving birth. The purpose of birth is learning. The purpose of learning is to grasp the divine. The purpose of apprehending the divine is to maintain the endurance of the one who apprehends with the joy of apprehension.
Thread. The wedding kiss. TCM practitioners note the Conception Vessel meridian rises from perineum, up the front of the body, to the lower lip; where the Governing Vessel rises up the back of the body, over the head to the upper lip. Our lips are where heaven and earth meet. 1/
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