Theos-Talk Archives (December 1995 Message tl00127)

Eldon
I totally agree with what you wrote here and don't suppose it is unusual to
think this way. It is just a shame to perpetuate an old concept by using a
certain pronoun. Language is powerful. That was my main point.
Ann<e>

>Alan:
>
>> [writing to Ann]:
>
>>Of course God does not and cannot have a sexual identity yet
>>the language which supposes this persists and those like
>>myself who protest are either ignored or insulted though not
>>insulted on theos-l.
>
>According to our theosophical textbooks the separation into
>sexes happened in an earlier race and will one day in the
>distant future end. It is a temporary experience. We as
>human Monads are not male or female but simply human.
>
>The being whose existence brings about our world a being which
>might be called "God" is sexless. Sexual differences are like
>other patterns of personality; they are psycho-physical. They
>are among those specific attributes taken on in a particular
>lifetime.
>
>We will never directly know the "God" whose life energies create
>our world. That being bears a relationship to us akin to the
>relationship that we bear to our lifeatoms or Skandhas. What
>we relate to and know are gods and goddesses. These are the
>Dhyani-Chohans the highest beings in our system. They establish
>the laws of nature and spiritual superstructure of the world.
>
>While male and female are polarizations of our physical body
>and temporary constructs masculine and feminine are universal
>qualities that things can take on. We can have a male or
>female deity. They are male or female not because of physical
>form but because of representing a masculine or feminine quality.
>Shiva for instance would be male and Shakti female.
>
>What we will find in the future I think is that as physical
>gender differences disappear that anyone can live out an
>individually-appropriate mix of masculine and feminine qualities
>without regard to the size of their nose the color of their
>eyes nor their reproductive plumbing.
>
>-- Eldon
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