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If star draw waves of love: About Friedrich Hebbel's "The Sacred"

When God in the biblical creation story, the woman from the nature Adam out creates, from the rib, and offer everything from the heart, he is committed to physical love, he would that recognize men and women , a word that is in the Bible for the physical union. And there is hardly a more beautiful love song as the Song the Bible in the middle of the Old Testament, the love between Shulamith and Solomon sings, his words leave no doubt: it is a pleasurable physical love, which both inspired in their vocals .. change
Even Friedrich Hebbel, in his life it has not been easy crashed, but the early death of his father, the family deep in poverty and he was sitting still, although he found a patron, often with empty stomachs in the lectures, refers to such a love. When he comes to Vienna zweiunddreißgjährig, torn and destitute as a tramp, he finds love and peace in the marriage to actress Christine Engh castle. The struggles and humiliations of his life are reflected in his work, although always low;
in the following poem, however, a sonnet, he sings in a uniquely beautiful way the sanctity of love:

THE SACRED
When two together to sink still,
stirred up not by a vile fire
No, chaste in love, which reflects the innocence,
And shamefully, trembling, while they drank himself;


must then both worlds are interwoven,
Then the depth of nature is unlocked,
And from the creation Born in I unsealed,
jump a wave, to draw the stars.


What unformed in the spirit of the man
felt And in the breast of the woman hardly
dawned As the beautiful, that must mix;


but God does, is just unfolding, adding
The clear images of his latest hours
, the discarnate and fresh.



There's no hint of the sex addicts of our day, from business-excited and exhilarated sexualization, as we find in most media.
guide star contrary, that wave, which blazes through the union of two people from the middle point of being as a tracer that love their way through the cosmos.
When we read Hebbel lines, we feel the holiness of sexuality, physical love that is deeply sensual and pleasurable, Hebbel brings in the image of the mutual self-impregnation to express the self-Interlacing of masculine and feminine.
takes in each act, if it happens in love, the union of heaven and earth, of Uranus and Gaia, of yin and yang.
This actually happens in each act of love, if it takes place in love.
Then, only happens also something that crowns the love of God is added, his gift.
these photographs may have souls, it also may be images that enrich the cosmos, the dwelling place of human beings.
How far is the concept of love, as we find it today from it.
vile fire Hebbel calls him, and he knows that fire does not warm, it flare energy from useless.
But there is this other, his vision.
And all those who are deeply insecure like the Song of Solomon and in this poem to find confirmation: There is nothing more sacred than the physical and spiritual union of man and woman , yes: It is THE Helig.


May the above-mentioned wave their way through the middle and take the Vatican.
And through our heart!