Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00739)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Etzion Becker <etvionbb@n...> 
wrote:
> The sex of the body is no more but a reflection of the solidified
> impressions that a person have been accumulating and store in the
> subconscious realm a life span. Usually a male person in one life 
span,
> takes the form of a female in the next life span. Sometimes, a 
person takes
> feminine forms throughout a longer duration of incarnations, let 
say, six in
> a row. Then he takes a male form, hence the Law of duality comples 
the drop
> soul - atma, to undergo all dual experiences while in Illusion. So, 
such a
> person in a male form will feel as a female. So he might act as 
what being
> called *homosexual*. And vise versa if a person took a long series 
of male
> form. All this has nothing to do with spirituality, since the 
person must
> take spiritual responsibility no matter what, and the limitations 
of shapes
> and forms don't matter. They can form only challenges. I reallized, 
quite
> clearly, that Madame Blavatsky accepted spiritual responsibility, 
and tried
> to do her best, inspite of her many limitations. Her bodily sex had 
nothing
> to do with this. Best wishes, Etzion
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bhakti.eohn@v...>
> To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 10:10 PM
> Subject: Theos-World Re: Alleged certificate re hermaphroditism TYPO
> CORRECTED AND CLARIFICATION
> 
> 
> > TYPO CORRECTED AT >> <<
> >
> > Now it is clear from photos of HPB that she did not experiance the
> > kind of phyical masculinization that I did. Late virilizing forms 
of
> > either XX or XY intersex are extremely rare. In these conditions, 
the
> > child and adolesent may appear as a normal female. After a rather
> > extreme >>(and possibly very late...in their 20s) 'puberty'<<, in
> > which a
> > phallus grows and secondary male sex characteristics develope, the
> > person can no longer hide their transformation...or 'sex reversal'
> > without great difficulty. This is obviously NOT what happened to
> > HPB, but being feminine in her youth does not mean anything, as 
the
> > late virilizing forms of intersex HOWEVER MILD OR EXTREME, do not
> > NECESSARILY effect the person's pre- 'puberty' (pre-masculinizing)
> > femininity.
> >
> > GENDER IDENTITY IS DIFFERENT FROM THE ROLES THAT PEOPLE LEARN TO 
PLAY
> > FOR FAMILY AND SOCIAL APPROVAL. Even as a small child, I always 
knew
> > I was a boy, and had started secretly calling myself David by the 
age
> > of 9. At the age of 11 I introduced myself to my closest friend as
> > David. At that time (and for years to come) I still showed no
> > obvious external signs of being intersexed, that my family or 
others
> > could detect. Still I was extremely neurologically fetally
> > androgenized, even to the extent of 'knowing' I was 'really a 
boy'.
> > So it is entirely possible that HPB had some late-virilizing form 
of
> > intersex and a persistent sense of a masculine self, but 
developed a
> > feminine familial and public persona for survival reasons.
> >
> > --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Bhakti Ananda Goswami
> > <bhakti.eohn@v...>" <bhakti.eohn@v...> wrote:
> > > Dear Paul,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >