December 31th, The Seventh Holy Night - The Intention to Reproduce

What is the final intention in knowing - responsible and creative knowing?
It is the intention to reproduce. This is not about replicating yourself.   This is the intention to create and to originate the new and the unknown.

In a physical sense, the intention to reproduce manifests in new human beings.  We do not duplicate ourselves but we are the living physical creative source that conceives a new individual, a new member of humanity.

To do this we must meet another human being and get to “know” them in a very intimate  and vulnerable way.  Sex! our fabulous reproductive drive.  But then there are these great mysteries of conception, gestation and birth.

I am staying with my daughter and son-in-law for Christmas.  My daughter is expecting her first child in late February.  I will be at the birth.  I know a lot about all stages of reproduction and yet all I feel looking at my daughter is the mystery.

I also remember the awe I felt as a little girl watching our cat give birth to kittens.  Amazing.

Human beings and animals reproduce.

But we human beings have the inner intention to reproduce:

to imagine the not-yet thought thought or perceived perception,
to intuit the not-yet willed deed,
to be inspired to feel the not-yet-felt feeling.

This is the gift from the gods that lets us become like them - creators. We give birth to new forms, new activities, new wisdom.  We make new love and establish new freedom.

We do this for ourselves, for others and for the future.

Only the indwelling Selfhood, the kernel of the divine, bears the inner intention to reproduce. This Spirit makes love to our soul to fertilize us with a new being and nurtures us and this newness throughout the gestation and holds us while we give birth.  The inner intention to reproduce, to give birth to the new, is clearly and sweetly the greatest of our inner mysteries.

Tonight, on the seventh Holy Night, let yourself be enfolded in this mysterious intention to reproduce.  Let the spiritual world make love to you and with you. 
Be blessedly empty and open. Be womb-like. Concieve tenderly and powerfully.