Love sets the world on fire through the intimacy of sex and the compassion of justice. Only in recent times are we rediscovering that sexuality is the creative core of spirituality and theology. . . . In prepatriarchal times, especially in the culture of the great Ice Age, 40,000-10,000 B.C.E., sexual union was frequently used as a symbolic expression of the divine-human relationship. Hinduism retains many features of this ancient wholism, where the beauty and sacredness of the body *(human and earthly) are concomitant with the elegance and ecstasy of the divine energy. In the passion of human loving, the passionate God manifests the divine eros — in stark contrast to the detached God of later theistic religion.
— Diarmuid O'Murchu, Quantum Theology