Spiritual beings have always interacted in a sexual way with human beings. There is mention of this type of relationship in the first book of the Bible, in a verse deliberately obscured and ignored by theologians, concerning union between the sons of God and the daughters of men (Genesis 6:4) that is, between angels and mortal women.
The Greek gods were renowned for their lust and love for humans. Indeed, every culture around the world has its legends of loving relationships between spirits and mortals.
For many centuries it has been the practice of the mainstream religions to either deny that such unions take place, or to condemn them as invariably evil. The possibility that a higher spiritual being might enter into a consensual, continuing sexual relationship with a mortal is not recognized. Spirits that desire human beings are characterized by the churches as demonic, and their sexual attentions are almost always presented as a kind of abuse.
This antagonism did not always exist. In pagan times, love between the gods and mortals was thought to produce as offspring the heroes of legend, the men and women of great beauty and strength who accomplished superhuman tasks. The love of a god or goddess was viewed as a blessing. Men and women of wisdom, the wizards and enchantresses such as Merlin and Medea, were often fabled to be the offspring of unions between higher spirits and humans, or the descendants of such offspring.
For many centuries it has been the practice of the mainstream religions to either deny that such unions take place, or to condemn them as invariably evil. The possibility that a higher spiritual being might enter into a consensual, continuing sexual relationship with a mortal is not recognized. Spirits that desire human beings are characterized by the churches as demonic, and their sexual attentions are almost always presented as a kind of abuse.
This antagonism did not always exist. In pagan times, love between the gods and mortals was thought to produce as offspring the heroes of legend, the men and women of great beauty and strength who accomplished superhuman tasks. The love of a god or goddess was viewed as a blessing. Men and women of wisdom, the wizards and enchantresses such as Merlin and Medea, were often fabled to be the offspring of unions between higher spirits and humans, or the descendants of such offspring.
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