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Until the middle of the [[Lemurian period]], reproduction was asexual through a kind of self-fertilisation. In the image of [[Isis]] being fertilised by the sunbeam of [[Osiris]], the [[Egyptian mysteries]] pointed to this asexual reproductive power of the moon.
Until the middle of the [[Lemurian period]], reproduction was asexual through a kind of self-fertilisation. In the image of [[Isis]] being fertilised by the sunbeam of [[Osiris]], the [[Egyptian mysteries]] pointed to this asexual reproductive power of the moon.


The four [[sphinx animals]] correspond to the four [[group soul]]s of Lemurian and Atlantean man. The lion race had a male etheric body which had sufficient power to fertilise the physical body itself without external stimulation. It was a direct fertilisation from the spiritual, without the assistance of another being. The Taurus race, on the other hand, had a female etheric body and gradually lost the ability to reproduce on its own, but was gradually able to fertilise the Leo people. After the absorption of the I, the female sex developed from the lion race and the male sex from the bull race {{GZ|107|74ff}}.
The four [[sphinx animals]] correspond to the four [[group soul]]s of Lemurian and Atlantean man. The lion race had a male etheric body which had sufficient power to fertilise the physical body itself without external stimulation. It was a direct fertilisation from the spiritual, without the assistance of another being. The Taurus race, on the other hand, had a female etheric body and gradually lost the ability to reproduce on its own, but was gradually able to fertilise the Leo people. After the absorption of the I, the female sex developed from the lion race and the male sex from the bull race {{GZ||107|74ff}}.


The soul is male and female at the same time. As long as the bodies were still soft and malleable, they could completely follow the impulses of the soul. As the hardening of the body progressed, this was no longer possible to the full extent. This led to the separation of the sexes, with the male body being shaped more by the impulses of the [[will]] and the female body more by the faculty of [[imagination]].  
The soul is male and female at the same time. As long as the bodies were still soft and malleable, they could completely follow the impulses of the soul. As the hardening of the body progressed, this was no longer possible to the full extent. This led to the separation of the sexes, with the male body being shaped more by the impulses of the [[will]] and the female body more by the faculty of [[imagination]].  

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Adam Kadmon, the cosmic primordial man, is sometimes depicted in androgynous form with both male and female sexual characteristics

After the separation of the sexes, the originally androgynous or hermaphroditic, bisexual, male-female (Hebrew: זָכָ֥ר וּנְקֵבָ֖ה zâkâr û -neqevâh) human being could only develop in a one-sided form as a male (Hebrew: אִישׁ isch "man, husband") or female (Hebrew: אִשָּׁה ischah "woman, wife"; pl. נָשִׁים "naschim"); man became a single-sex being.

Only the two lowest members of man, the etheric body and the physical body, are affected by the separation of the sexes, but each embodies opposite sexes. If the physical body is male, the etheric body is female and vice versa. In the course of the repeated earth lives of the human being, the sex usually changes with each incarnation, although this rule is often broken. However, a maximum of seven earth lives with the same gender follow each other.

Biological background

Whereas in asexual reproduction the offspring is genetically largely identical and thus a kind of biological immortality is ensured, in sexual reproduction the interaction of two partners of the same species but of different gender types, through the associated exchange of genomes, leads to a rapidly progressing differentiation, through which the individual being with its unique genetic particularity is, however, also necessarily subject to biological death. Through the necessity of mate choice, among other things, the development of the senses was decisively promoted and an abundance of completely new behavioural patterns and a stronger social bond could emerge.

Group Souls - Lion Men and Bull Men

Until the middle of the Lemurian period, reproduction was asexual through a kind of self-fertilisation. In the image of Isis being fertilised by the sunbeam of Osiris, the Egyptian mysteries pointed to this asexual reproductive power of the moon.

The four sphinx animals correspond to the four group souls of Lemurian and Atlantean man. The lion race had a male etheric body which had sufficient power to fertilise the physical body itself without external stimulation. It was a direct fertilisation from the spiritual, without the assistance of another being. The Taurus race, on the other hand, had a female etheric body and gradually lost the ability to reproduce on its own, but was gradually able to fertilise the Leo people. After the absorption of the I, the female sex developed from the lion race and the male sex from the bull race (Lit.:GA 107, p. 74ff).

The soul is male and female at the same time. As long as the bodies were still soft and malleable, they could completely follow the impulses of the soul. As the hardening of the body progressed, this was no longer possible to the full extent. This led to the separation of the sexes, with the male body being shaped more by the impulses of the will and the female body more by the faculty of imagination.

„The times to which we are now looking back lie somewhat before the middle of the epoch which has been called the Lemurian in the preceding sections. The human body then still consisted of soft, malleable materials. The other formations of the earth were also still soft and plastic. In contrast to its later solidification, the earth was still in a swelling, more fluid state. As the human soul then embodied itself in matter, it was able to adapt itself to this matter to a much greater degree than later. For the soul's assumption of a male or female body is due to the fact that the development of the outer earthly nature imposes one or the other upon it. As long as the substances were not yet solidified, the soul could force these substances under its own laws. It made the body into an imprint of its own being. But when the substance had become dense, the soul had to submit to the laws which were imposed on this substance by the outer earthly nature. As long as the soul could still rule over the material, it shaped its body neither male nor female, but gave it characteristics that were both at the same time. For the soul is male and female at the same time. It carries these two natures within itself. Its male element is related to what is called will, its female to what is called imagination. - The outer formation of the earth has led to the body taking on a one-sided formation. The male body has taken on a form which is determined by the element of will, the female body, on the other hand, bears more the imprint of the imagination. Thus it comes about that the two-sexed, male-female soul dwells in a single-sexed, male or female body. In the course of its development the body had taken on a form determined by the outer earthly forces, so that it was no longer possible for the soul to pour all its inner strength into this body. It had to keep some of its strength within itself and could only allow a part of it to flow into the body.

If we follow the Akasha Chronicle, we see the following. In an ancient time human forms appear before us, soft, pictorial, quite different from the later ones. They still carry the male and female nature equally within them. In the course of time the substances become denser; the human body appears in two forms, one of which becomes similar to the later male, the other to the later female formation. When this difference had not yet appeared, each man could give birth to another. Fertilisation was not an external process, but something that took place inside the human body itself. When the body became male or female, it lost this possibility of self-fertilisation. It had to co-operate with another body in order to bring forth a new human being.“ (Lit.:GA 11, p. 74ff)

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
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Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.
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