Androgyny and AnthroSophic insights
From: holderlin66
Date: Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:06 pm
Subject: Androgyny and AnthroSophic insights
Androgynous/androgyny
Peter Jones
"The Gender Recognition
Bill plodding its way through the House of Commons does not deal
with hermaphrodites. Bad mistake.
Hermaphroditus was the son
of Hermes and Aphrodite. Ovid tells how the nymph Salmacis fell
madly in love with him when she saw him strip and dive into a
pool. She did the same, wound herself round him and, as he struggled
to free himself, prayed that the gods would ensure that they
were never parted. Her prayer was granted, and their two bodies
were fused into one, so that they seemed `both male and female,
and neither, at the same time'.
In his Natural History, the
elder Pliny (ad 23–79) acknowledges the existence of hermaphrodites
(people `with both sexes combined'), records at least one notable
sculpture, and adds that, whereas they were once looked on as
terrifying portents (and drowned at sea), they were now treated
rather as pets or entertainments (the Romans derived considerable
pleasure from laughing at prodigies of nature). The Greeks, on
the other hand, turned Hermaphroditus into a deity, and a late
4th century bc mould for a terracotta figurine of the god, found
in Athens, suggests he was a popular figure. One can see why
bisexual ancient Greek males might have been interested in them
- they offered the best of both worlds, after all. Plato, however,
tells us that to call a man a `hermaphrodite' was something of
an insult. Hardly surprising.
While ancient doctors were
fascinated by the idea of a person whose sexuality was ambiguous,
Roman lawyers with their passion for exceptions found their legal
status a problem. The reason was that males and females had different
legal capacities, e.g. only the male could legitimise an heir
or witness the opening of a will. So what was the law to make
of someone who seemed to be both? Lawyers solved the problem
by declaring that there were only two sexes, male and female,
not three, and the hermaphrodite must therefore be made to fall
into one or other of these categories. That category decided,
everything else would follow naturally. The main means of deciding
the category was the `predominance' of the male organs or `the
appearance of the genital organs in an aroused state'.
So while society acknowledged
hermaphrodites as dual-sex beings, the law insisted on an either/or
distinction. Will it today, if Hermaphrodite Power demands its
rights? "
http://www.biresource.org/pamphlets/glossary.html
Bradford comments;
The meaningful mystery of wearing the form
of a Male or Female physical body, entails that a polarity, in
the Etheric form, reveals that a male physical form has a female
type etheric body. The female physical form has a male etheric
body impression.
This interior modification is noted in each
individual condition in a different measure of balance and distortion.
Key word here, DISTORTION. Perception and learning to understand
the Etheric forces is being able to unriddle how Female physical
forms, have an overbalance of a male etheric forces that densify
and make once assumed male realites and cultural roles, bend
to fit the new content of the strength of the etheric body in
the individual.
Males, who carry a male physical body, find
themselves also breaking the former model by having accumulated
strong female etheric and astral distortions. Now the distortion
factor is something that should interest us in regards to the
residue of how I AM's have manifested in previous lives. How
the strong culture models of male and female are breaking down
to reveal specific strengths that spread into the physical from
the etheric.
I AM's all of us, have been dysfuntional emotional
females, (not Maria Corelli) imprisoned in limp and frail feeling
lives. Some so crippled and distorted that when a male incarnation
arises, the inner content of the emotinal maturity, reveals stunted
emotional male soul. Likewise Aggressive and forceful men, rape,
pillage and plunder, who laughed at all of the above, bring nothing
very illuminating into their emotional and inner content as females.
Culture is made up of 98% of these stunted, and distorted cocktails
of what appears before us as Females and Males.
It was mentioned, and certainly lost to nearly
everyone but Mike, that Michael Jackson tangled unconsciously
with a future Soul condition that has revealed a mighty example
of distortion. Unconsious approach to what is happening in the
Astral and Ego migrations in the night, or at least whenever
we sleep, brings a distortion and an imbalance that is now changing
Race form forces in the physical through the powerful unconscious
forces that the etheric body collects. This is highly significant
and I hope, with this group at least, somebody else can draw
the roadmap that leads directly to the mystery of THE ANGELS
WORK IN THE ASTRAL BODY OF MAN. I hate to imagine that less than
1% of the Michael School can even think.
Humanity has moved to a new State and even
the disaster of Germany and the split and fall back into racial,
etheric and physical clinging to already depleted forces of gene,
and designer humans and silly poltically correct goofy thoughts
of DW, are revealing profound changes that are coming to humanity
because we choose unconscious participation with the ever present
conditions of the Spiritual World. We see these changes arising.
Less than 1/4 of 1% of humanity can even give a clear outline
of what some of this means. Some of us fear what is happening,
and indeed it is happening starting with the I AM balances in
the Etheric body dominating over what Race, or SEX had formerly
implanted in humanity. These are Michael School issues. The plate
of Michael School issues are so enormous that bird pecks like
P.S. only serve to wake up the half asleep participants. 'look
there is a sparrow at the feeder honey'.
Jung takes the deeper etheric mirroring of
the physical form that Spiritual Science has so correctly brought
as Anima and Animus tendencies. But Spiritual Science can go
much further in tracing the distortions to an entire educational
awareness that remains in a Darwinian denial and lacking enough
intelligent discussion of exactly what is approaching humanity.
No this is not merely Gays and Straights..but stop numbing our
brains when it comes to Cognition and what Steiner dropped in
our laps.
It is of the utmost importance to have our
cognition, I AM cognition, tuned to how humanity clings, fights
and squirms itself back into the old forms, for fear of the approach
new ideas that the Cognitive capacity in the German culture was
targeted to reveal. Germany was targeted to reveal an enormous
fountain, spewing, spraying out from the I AM, all that would
bring brotherhood, balance and conscious understanding Folk,
Race, Nation, and the mysteries of Etheric, Astral and I AM in
history.
Why did Steiner so oppose Woodrow Wilson's
stale ideas, because of the resulting pull back into failed forms
of understanding. The Elephant in the dining room that noone
is talking about is that Steiner could see this coming. P.S.
could not see his toes if he was walking bear foot. Cognition
is numbed, deadened and using the icy faculty of Intellectual
Ahriman as his toy. A foolish game with a deadly toy.
Steiner might say it was his "Jesus to
Christ" lectures, which totally astonished me and evoked
such aggressive attacks against him, but I also felt that the
political climate that Wilson presented was partially the motive
of Steiner's heroic attempt to shed wisdom over the whole spread
of missions of the various Archangelic communities in the realm
of humanity. I am correct, but only because many of us, like
Frank and Tarjei and so many others have done their homework
and Peter, well, that is just immature, scholarly pity in shoes.
So with the failure of the 20th century and
our entrance into the 21st century, the U.N. still remains unable
to understand itself and indeed the Folk Souls lectures, (mine
is marked, dog eared and riddled with notes) is another incredible
example of the gift that Steiner gave. And most of us know exactly
what Steiner was getting at. A nightmare was coming and Wilson
was gonna help it kill the heroic impulse that could have arisen
from the Germanic capacity. Oh we are right folks. I am so tired
of dead history pawned off as intelligent university opinion.
We, in the total spread of Spiritual Science,
are those who bear a faculty of cognition, growing, still immature,
that is greater in scope and depth than almost anything served
up at universities. This is a very hairy problem. Cognition and
growth to see the scope of the unity and massive structure of
Steiner's contributions, and TESTING their accuracy brings us
to such an Imagination of Michael that was painted by Cohen in
his "Joan of Arc". We can see how the warmth of Cohen
acts as Michael and lifts her to the wedding dress of the AnthroSophic
soul garment, (supposedly the purified astral or White Wedding
garments).
But further, as I have mentioned, thanks to
Paulina, Memory, going in reverse back to Abraham and Adam is
now coping with Dejavu and the future unfolding of the I AM.
Dejavu is a future faculty that is not just some new age diddle.
The I AM, as its many incarnations reveal, a new form of Group
Soul that reflects the I AM as it incarnated and learned lessons
which now either enter as distortion and seep into the etheric
body as instincts, (Angels Work in the Astral Body) or become
conscious cognition.
Every detail of our lives can be illuminated
all the way down to the roots of every aspect of culture, with
the cognition forces supplied out of the new AnthroSophic soul
condition. Having no experience or understanding of Spiritual
Science, even in the cultural world, and placing this very same
Spiritual Science under Cult Imprisonment is nothing humanity
or we can afford.
A great deal has been raised now, regarding
Root Races, Atlantis and Lemuria..and yet, to take a current
snapshot, I thought Tarjei, when he indicated the problems that
arose in cognition amongst the various cultural streams is highly
potent. Each one is really a distortion. So now look ye to it.
What is the nature of this distortion? And what is the Angels
Work in the Astral body and how is this manifesting itself? Tarjei has a clear
line of thinking here.
"It's totally ridiculous
and ignorant to make Hitler and the Holocaust into an ethical-ideological
football.. What has to be understood in this context is that
Adolf Hitler developed a very special reading technique when
he was in prison - a method of study which in his case proved
remarkably effective. He ensured his readers in "Mein Kampf"
that it was his habit to resort to books if he wanted to solve
a problem. He insisted that his method of reading, better than
any other, consisted of "remembering the essential and forgetting
the unessential completely". In practice, this meant defining
what is essential, which in the case of Adolf Hitler did not
entail logical analysis, but an intuitive and emotional process
of comprehension, which he skillfully united with whatever appealed
to his own prejudices.
From Schopenhauer he took
fatalism and the idea of the will, but he forgot the Buddhism
and the pessimism. From Nietzsche he took the concept of evolution,
the will to power, and the Übermensch, but he forgot that
this Übermensch should not conquer his fellow man, but himself.
He took from Wagner the racism, heroism, and paganism, but he
forgot the Arianized Christianity. Further, he took from Helena
Blavatsky (the pioneer of spiritual evolution) and other occultists
what he wanted and conveniently forgot everything that did not
harmonize with his own world view."
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