When reading Sketch of a Personalistic Universe, and specially about The Sexual Sense in the Human Energy and, of course, these beautiful letters between Teilhard and Lucile Swan, we really understand his writings about the love between a man and a woman, as Teilhard was fully aware of the power of "the feminine", the force of attraction towards union, not only among human beings but for the whole universe. In fact Lucile wrote:
"...He was amused to say he had produce another 'egg'. And he always said it was my work too. This, of course, made me very proud and happy...He had no need to insist on 'me' or 'mine'. It was the idea that was important." Being another 'egg' a new assay, and even his most famous work as well.
It seems their relationship was so of a higher order as to generate another kind of children, not physical ones, one of them being, The Phenomenon of Man, his most influential work. I just wonder if they used a combined technique of sex and nonsex liaison in this case, without having "real sex", as...For Lucile, physical consummation was fundamental to the love between a man and a woman...Teilhard's consistent and continual response was a rejection of this point of view...I once asked Lucile if indeed there ever had been a physical consummation. She replied, "Never."
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