This is a portion of an ongoing series which seeks to chronicle the occult, magickal and mystical alchemy roots of the transgender and postgender movements from secret societies and mystery religion sources. I have chronicled these in the Postgender Androgyny, Hermaphroditism & Beyond section.
The tradition that mankind was anciently hermaphrodite is world-old…
—Magus Incognito, The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians (1918 AD).
That man was primarily androgynous is quite universally conceded and it is a reasonable presumption that he will ultimately regain this bisexual state.
—Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928 AD)
It is evident that the conception of a double sex, or of a sex combining the characters of male and female, haunted the minds of early peoples.
—Edward Carpenter, Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk (1914 AD)
…the mythology of the Ancients…recognizes…the nature of Male and Female…in mystic union…constitute the Great Hermaphrodite Deity…the Pantheons of the ancient nations…acknowledged the same deities.
—Isaac P. Cory, Ancient Fragments (1923 AD)
In almost every primitive mythology we find, not only a Great Father and Mother, the representatives of the reciprocal principles, and a Great Hermaphrodite Unity from whom the first proceed and in whom they are both combined.
—the anonymously authored Ophiolatreia (1889 AD)
Seeing the generative process in the union of the sex organs, primitive man came to conceive of it as essentially hermaphroditic in nature.
—B.Z. Goldberg, The Sacred Fire (1930 AD)
Amaury de Chartres…held…that at the end of the world—both sexes should be re-united in the same person.
—Hargrave Jennings, The Rosicrucians – Their Rites and Mysteries (1870 AD)
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