GEN455 Sexuality represents a stance of pro-creation and of re-creation that aligns the individual with the rest of humanity as well as with the divine image implanted within each human person.  Already in Scripture, sexual experience is described as “knowing.” Sexual experience, coupled with love, desire, and will, can penetrate not only the mystery of sexuality, but the mysteries of knowledge of the world, of the divine, and of the self.  Sexual experience can be a vehicle to self-knowledge, to self-transformation, and to the creation of life as a work of art.  In the act of love, a new union is created.  The two individuals who forge this union can each become irrevocably transformed thereby. Each may be re-created through the procreative act.  Through sexual and erotic union, one may become God’s partner in the work of creation.  HTBAJ 154