And it applies to Hinduism. I haven't studied other religeons, so can't comment on those.Here is a significant thing. In early Christian writings the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost, amongst primitive Christians was always feminine, never masculine as it became afterwards.
That is my belief exactly. Divinity while in a material body. What else could it be?and in the holiness of achievement gives birth to the Bodhisattva, the Christ-child, and from then on the man is infilled with the holiness of the spirit pouring through him from the source divine.
Islam:
http://www.answering-islam.org/Gilchrist/Vol2/5a.htmlGod interrupting the course of nature, and overriding the very laws of procreation which He had Himself established, in order that Christ might thus have a virgin birth..