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.
W. Scott-Elliot wrote the following in, The Lost Lemuria (1904 AD) section “Processes of Reproduction”:
Sexual or amphigonic propagation (Amphigonia) is the usual method of propagation among all higher animals and plants. It is evident that it has only developed at a very late period of the earth’s history, from non-sexual propagation, and apparently in the first instance from the method of propagation by germ-cells…..[ellipses in original] In all the chief forms of non-sexual propagation mentioned above—in fission, in the formation of buds, germ-buds, and germ-cells—the separated cell or group of cells was able by itself to develop into a new individual, but in the case of sexual propagation, the cell must first be fructified by another generative substance.
The fructifying sperm must first mix with the germ-cell (the egg) before the latter can develop into a new individual. These two generative substances, the sperm and the egg, are either produced by one and the same individual hermaphrodite (Hermaphroditismus) or by two different individuals (sexual-separation).
Like so many others, such as I noted in Postgenderism H. P. Blavatsky and Darwinian evolution, W. Scott-Elliot, publishing the above statement in 1904 AD, borrowed from the science (actually, from the worldview philosophy of Darwinian evolution) towards mystical ends. Yet, just as classical Darwinism was replaced with neo-Darwinism and have a plethora of theories jousting for position as the dominant secular worldview philosophy disguised as science; such mystical concepts to have come and gone. For example, the entire concept of Lemuria, which today is viewed along with Atlantis as an ancient wonder world, was literally invented as a gendankenexperiment as Ernst Haekel invented it as a mean whereby to explain how lemurs were found in Africa, India, Madagascar and the Malayan Peninsula.
Indeed, it is to Haeckel to whom W. Scott-Elliot turns quoting his The History of Creation (1876 AD, 2nd ed., Vol. I., pp. 193-8):
The simpler and more ancient form of sexual propagation is through double-sexed individuals. It occurs in the great majority of plants, but only in a minority of animals, for example, in the garden snails, leeches, earth-worms, and many other worms. Every single individual among hermaphrodites produces within itself materials of both sexes—eggs and sperm.
In most of the higher plants every blossom contains both the male organ (stamens and anther) and the female organ (style and germ). Every garden snail produces in one part of its sexual gland eggs, and in another part sperm. Many hermaphrodites can fructify themselves; in others, however, reciprocal fructification of both hermaphrodites is necessary for causing the development of the eggs. This latter case is evidently a transition to sexual separation.
Sexual separation, which characterises the more complicated of the two kinds of sexual reproduction, has evidently been developed from the condition of hermaphroditism at a late period of the organic history of the world. It is at present the universal method of propagation of the higher animals……[ellipses in original]The so-called virginal reproduction (Parthenogenesis) offers an interesting form of transition from sexual reproduction to the non-sexual formation of germ-cells which most resembles it….[ellipses in original]
In this case germ-cells which otherwise appear and are formed exactly like egg-cells, become capable of developing themselves into new individuals without requiring the fructifying seed. The most remarkable and the most instructive of the different parthenogenetic phenomena are furnished by those cases in which the same germ-cells, according as they are fructified or not, produce different kinds of individuals.
Among our common honey bees, a male individual (a drone) arises out of the eggs of the queen, if the egg has not been fructified; a female (a queen, or working bee) if the egg has been fructified. It is evident from this, that in reality there exists no wide chasm between sexual and non-sexual reproduction, but that both modes of reproduction are directly connected.
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