The Embrace of Peace
Australian healer Walter Last shares his thoughts on the forgotten doctrine at the heart of Christianity in an article entitled, "A Saint and His Virgin."
The Gnostic Gospels as well as other writings point to a central role of sacred sexuality in early Christianity. No details of these practices seem to have survived, as the Church later tried to erase all records. In the following I will show that, according to my understanding, these sacred sexual practices are central to the teachings of Jesus about the "Kingdom of Heaven", and that they are still relevant in our time.
...I believe the early Christians with their holy agape relationships had something that we have lost and deep within us long for ever since: The Embrace of Peace.
This is how I imagine the saint and his virgin exchanged their sexual energies: they were lying together naked in a frontal embrace, legs intertwined, but without much movement, perhaps with some occasional touches of endearment, and they were just melting into each other's feelings of love and deep peace. There was no striving for anything, nothing to achieve or to perform, just being and feeling.
I regard this embrace of peace as one of our best tools for healing. It counters the greatest scourge of our time: stress. Presently we are stressed at all levels of our existence, from pollution in our air, food and water, ... expectations to perform at school, workplace and marriage, suppressed and misdirected sexual energies, and many other emotional shocks and disappointments. ...
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