On the Nobility and Excellence of the Female Sex

...the rest; it is not my plan to prove more at present. I will, however, add this much further by way of an addition: that there is in women, according to the traditions of philosophers and physicians proven by experience, a divine gift to be admired by all, by which they themselves, through their own innate gifts, can heal themselves of every kind of disease, without any external or imported assistance. But what surpasses all wonders, the most wonderful thing of all is this: that a woman alone, without a man, was able to produce human nature, a power which is by no means given to a man. Indeed, this is an admitted fact among the Turks or Muslims, among whom many are believed to have been conceived without male seed; these they call nefesogli original: "nefesogli." From the Turkish nefes oğlu, meaning "son of breath" or "son of the spirit," referring to individuals supposedly born of the spirit rather than physical union. in their own language. It is also told of islands where women conceive by the blowing of the wind, although we do not concede that this is true. For only the Virgin Mary—only she, I say—conceived Christ without a man and gave birth to a son from her own substance and natural fecundity. For the most blessed Virgin Mary is the true and natural mother of Christ, and Christ himself is the true and natural son of the Virgin Mary. I say "natural" because he is a man, and again "natural son of the Virgin" insofar as the Virgin herself was not subject to corrupted nature Agrippa refers to the doctrine that Mary was free from Original Sin, allowing her biological functions to operate in a "perfect" or uncorrupted state.. Therefore, she did not even give birth in pain, nor was she under the power of a man; so great was her fecundity from a prevenient blessing that she did not require a man's labor for conception. Among brute animals, it is well known that some females are fertile without the male; for instance, Origen Agrippa likely conflates Origen’s Against Celsus with Augustine’s Against Faustus the Manichaean. Both authors used examples of "virgin birth" in nature to defend the possibility of the Virgin Birth of Christ., writing against Faustus, reports that it has been handed down in history that female vultures are thus fertile; moreover, antiquity discovered that certain mares conceive by the blowing of the West Wind The Zephyrus; this was a common belief in ancient natural history, cited by authors like Virgil and Pliny the Elder., about which these things are sung:

Origen, in the first book against Faustus.