It’s About Making Babies!

Almost everyone agrees, the instant of the starting of the changes that will result in a baby developing to be born and to grow — it is magic.  Science and medicine can describe in great depth the conditions that enable that ’spark’ to combine the ova and sperm, and they can describe the process of that transition.  Perhaps a few believe they understand the energy structures, the chemical reactions, and the bodily processes that create the setting and proceed from fertile to pregnancy.

And yet.  We know from observation that painting the bedroom blue or pink will have a minor influence in the number of male and female babies conceived.  If we watch closely, we might trace the hormonal changes that suppress fertility in the lactating mother, and maybe trace down all the factors that influence that fertility.

When we set out to practice magick, we study what is known, we plan our rite or experiment, gather materials, and prepare ourselves to reduce unwanted influences, and increase desired energies.  This might be ‘take a shower, light a candle, cuddle, excite and recover’.  Better preparation might take the form of tantric yoga of exercises, meditations, and preparation over a period of days to months or years for a single encounter.  Or we might want a particular encounter (honeymoon) to seal a binding (marriage), which would be stronger if one partner or both were virgin.  We might want to limit ourselves to the same partner for life, an exclusive arrangement to limit influences from others that might distract, dismay, or destroy our relationship and our magical bond.

When we focus, prepare, cleanse our spirits, commit to our partners and to making a home and babies, our encounter has to be simpler, more joyful, and contribute to both happier babies and to better communities.  Let ‘your light’ shine, indeed.

And, yes, I do think impromptu encounters without even the basic planning and desire for a baby, are doomed.  They may ’scratch an itch’, but healing will be found elsewhere.  ‘Casual Sex?!’ wasn’t that funny a movie, and I find related behavior wasteful if not destructive.

Instead of ‘making love’, think ‘let’s make a baby!’  How can you afford the time, energy, and potential for great magic wasted with someone you don’t want to make a baby with?

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I got an email today, purporting to explain why a Muslim could never be a ‘good American’.  Apparently their faith forbids them from following or meeting infidels (non believers), and also prevents them from living under our Constitution, laws, and government.  According to this email.  It is a chain mail, so apparently some others have seen this stuff, too.

Many of these arguments — submitting to religious authority over secular authority, belief that religious concerns outweigh laws — place Catholics outside the bounds of being a ‘good American’. I recall the consternation about allowing a Catholic to be President of the US (Kennedy). The bible teaches that a man should not beat his wife with a stick larger than his thumb, nor longer than his forearm (this is a favorite in Ireland, according to the John Wayne movie ‘The Silent Man’, and several other references I have come across). The average age of marriage in the colonies before the US was formed was 13 years. Only in the last 50 or 60 years have businesses overcome religious obstacles to buying, selling, and manufacturing on Sunday (or the Sabbath).

Only if a Muslim adheres to the use of violence to overthrow the government do they irrevocably violate the constitution. The four wives is a issue for the courts — if they were married before entering the US, are the marriages all legal? Would states amend their laws and regulations to permit a 2nd or more marriage? That would be up to the state. And various state laws would apply to the age of the bride.

This message didn’t address the often violent reaction Muslims have to ’sin’ — fornication, drugs, alcohol — which in some Muslim countries are considered capital (death penalty) crimes. In some ways the Muslims almost remind me of our own Ku Klux Klan — which was organized to combat ‘papists’ (Roman Catholics) in the US.

I understand the prophet Mohammed was Judeo-Christian, about 400 A.D. That the God of Abraham and of David is the same as Allah. Where Christians call the Old and New Testament the Word Of God, and Jews call the New Testament ‘religious fiction, a favored entertainment of the Jewish people’ (according to a bus tour guide in Jerusalem), the Muslims started out from the Bible. Apparently, though, the Muslims believe that only they have the corrected version (Qaran). Like the Book of Morman, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, that details for Mormons the visit of Jesus to the Americas after his Ascension, but other Christians consider a hoax.

I was in the Navy when they started enlisting women (1970’s). I heard many complaints at the time, some sounded a lot like this list. And I found that admitting women caused a lot of re-thinking on safety, efficiency, and approaches to problems and to daily routine. And I believe the Navy grew stronger as it adjusted to the new members.

I would hate to think that the Muslims learned about bombings for faith reasons from watching us, but our zealots bombed abortion clinics and churches long before 9/11 and even before the fall of the Shah of Iran in the early 1970’s. Whether abortion clinic bombers are ‘good Americans’ should be obvious — violence and death violate the law, but some congregations and individuals have argued for the practice, and for lenience with the bombers.

Whether the cute saying is ‘Show me!’ or ‘The proof is in the pudding’, I am not prepared to blindly label all Muslims as ‘violent extremists, mortal enemies of all that is American’.  Why would they want to become American, if they felt that America is the Great Satan?  Muslims have lived in the US for many year.  I prefer to ‘live and let live’ until there is a problem.  I don’t want what all that hatred would do to me.

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