Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00255)

Here is a quote from

MAN: Fragments of a Forgotten History
by: "Two Chelas" in the Theosophical Society 
[Mohini Chatterji & Laura C.Holloway]
http://www.theosophical.ca/ManFragments.htm


CHAPTER V

EVOLUTION OF SEX

Without going very far back in the cycle of evolution, it may be stated that there was an epoch when human beings were bisexual. The memory of this state is preserved in many religion myths. We shall only refer to the accountof Ardhanarisvara, the bisexual Lord among the Brahmans. By the Western people this knowledge is to be found in the Jewish Scriptures, if they will only have the eyes to see. "Male and female created he them and blessed them, and called their name Adam" (Gen. V. 2)

Until towards the latter part of the second race, the only discernible germs of sex were confined to the mental plane. A tendency in individuals towards the general and the abstract developed the man, and a tendency towards the particular and the concrete led to the evolution of the woman. If we eliminate the minor difference between the sexes, this is observed to be the basic distinction; in fact the minor differences are produced by the pressure of the mental attributes already mentioned seeking expression on the physical plane. As a rule, the man has more capacity for abstract, and the woman for concrete thought. It is a safe guide in predicting the next followingincarnation of a human being to bear this fact in mind. No amount of cultivation of abstract thought will, however, enable one, unless an adept, to transcend the average of the race. On reaching the limit of male attributes female incarnation will become a necessity. A man to be perfected requires to develop in himself all the peculiar excellences of the woman, in addition to his own; and similarly, a woman, those of the man.