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Cesarean Strength This was given to me prior to the birth of my son, born by “special opening” on 2/17/06.
From Conception, Birth and Early Childhood, Norbert Glas …
The head, in its beautiful form, … usually becomes modified because of its heaviness and size, and thenarrowness of the birth passage in the mother. Its sides are pressed together in places – more in a“difficult,” less in a “normal” birth. The real moment of coming into the world is that moment in whichthe child’s body – and especially its head – is pushed through the maternal pelvis. One speaks of thenecessity of the head being modelled before it can leave the mother’s body, and we find an especiallybeautiful shape of head if these forces of pressure do not have to come into play. This condition is mostperfectly realized only in those special cases where the child is born by Caesarian section – that isthrough an operation that avoids the natural process of birth. In such people, something can bepreserved of a truly heavenly strength – perhaps more than in those who have had to take the usual wayinto the world, though I have not enough biographies to prove this assumption. In the old sagas, andthrough the poets, something has survived that points to the fact that in olden times extraordinary deedswere expected of a person who had been “cut out” of his mother’s body. Shakespeare, who had somuch human wisdom, undoubtedly thought that it is a quite special destiny to be born by a“Caesarian.” He would not otherwise have made this motive of such decisive importance in one of hisgreatest tragedies. Macbeth, who has all the dark forces on his side, still feels himself strong enoughtowards the end of his struggle because it was prophesied to him:
“Be bloody, bold and resolute; and laugh to scornThe power of man, for none of woman bornShall harm Macbeth.”
So he continues to fight furiously until he is confronted by a man who shows in his purity of charactereven more strength than himself. This man becomes the opponent of the powers of Hell. When, beforethe duel, Macduff faces his enemy, Macbeth boasts:“Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests.I bear a charmed life, which must not yieldTo one of woman born.”
To this Macduff’s answer is:“Despair thy charm;And let the angel whom thou still hast serv’dTell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s wombUntimely ripp’d.”
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