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10 February 2005
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What does “Androgynous” Have to do with Tahirih and the Christ Spirit?
By now many of you may have seen the recent ad for buying the book “Tahirih Thealogy: Female Christ Spirit of the Age” in the March edition of New Dawn Magazine, p.77, however, I would like to bring your attention to a letter to the editor written by Michael S. on page 12. Michael writes:
For over 30 years, we have had a complete translation of the ancient Gnostic scriptures in The Nag Hammadi Library published by Haper and Row.
The Coptic Gnostic text The Pistis Sophia, dating from 150-300 CE, states that Jesus had three scribes: Matthew, Thomas, and Phillip.
Until the 1945 discovery in a cave near the village of Nag Hammadi, in southern Egypt, we had only a fragment of the Gospel of Thomas and no Gospel of Phillip at all, but that has all changed…
The word “Androgynous” appears many times throughout these texts, but few or none know what is the significance of Androgyny in the teachings of Jesus. Similarly, Jesus draws several times on the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, stating that the “two must be rejoined as one.”
I mention all this in the hopes that New Dawn will devote some space in the future to exploring the significance and real meaning of Androgyny in Gnosticism. This is a revolutionary and long suppressed teaching of Jesus the Christ….But one known to the greatest Gnostic saints and teachers.
Interestingly, this topic of 'androgyny' is addressed in my book “Tahirih TheAlogy: Female Christ Sprit of the Age”.
It is timely to examine why the word ‘androgyny’ is mentioned so many times in the Gospels which have only recently come to light and to reconsider why the Christ Spirit needed a second coming.
First of all let us consider, according to the Seer Rudolph Steiner, that the first Beings on earth were made in the image of God/ess – which was androgynous, asexual, and self propagating in a fashion much like cloning. In the passage of time they became hermaphroditic. Then finally in the time of the Fall the male fertilizing aspect separated out of the Female Form and the two sexes of male and female existed. This was the time referred to in the Bible where Adam and Eve were put out of the Garden.
In the Eternal Plan for humanity it is necessary for humanity to reconnect with Spirit and become whole again – and then there will be Heaven on Earth as foretold.
It has been predicted that there are to be seven Cycles for humanity on earth to achieve this. We are about to enter the Sixth Cycle of Balance. In order to be balanced the male and female aspects of a person need to be operational to mirror forth the image of God/ess as it was in the beginning.
When Christ first appeared over two thousand years ago one of his missions was to start preparing people for the transition into the Sixth Cycle, and thus there was discussion of ‘androgyny’ as was in the beginning and will be again. This androgyny is one of Spirit and Mind in every individual where the male and female principles operate asexually in a balanced fashion. When Christ returned in 1844 it was in the physical bodies of two Manifestations (The Bab and Tahirih as a Singularity of the Primal Point [first intelligence]).
This second coming was a demonstration of each Manifestation being whole within itself and yet part of the One Christ Spirit.
Whether or not this developing androgyny occurs on a physical level has yet to be discovered and will be clearer in time. What we do know is that there is great sexual confusion at this juncture where people feel they are trapped in the wrong body and are having operations to reverse the situation as well as cross dressing. We also know that there is a significant percentage of people being born who are not male or female, but have a variation of gender identifiers. I have heard there are at least six variations. All these changes in humanity points to a changing back to the original prototype, which was the Divine Being.
If we understand humanity’s beginning, it’s present condition, and the final goal it helps to put into perspective the discussion of ‘androgyny’ in Gospels.
Starr*Saffa
1 March 2005
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