The Mystery Of “Semen Bread”
In a review of a new book about St. Augustine, Garry Wills writes: ‘The story begins when Augustine, as a Manichee, may have heard…an anti-Manichaean slander that the cult’s Elect, at their secret meals, had sex on top of flour spread on the floor. Their joint juices were spilled on the flour, and the male like some unknown Onan spilled his seed upon the ground, making the flour a carrier of the particles of light from the Elect, as the members of the Manichee sect were called. Bread was then made of the flour for the Elect to consume.” I’ve scoured the bread aisles of Whole Foods, and I can find nothing like this.
