Division of the Sexes

After the division 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 man (Hebrew: אִישׁ isch "man, husband") or woman (Hebrew: אִשָּׁה ischah "woman, wife"; pl. נָשִׁים naschim). Man became a single-sex being.

Only the two lowest members of the human being, the etheric body and the physical body, are affected by the separation of the sexes, but they each embody 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 also frequently broken. However, a maximum of seven earth lives with the same gender follow each other.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Aus der Akasha-Chronik, GA 11 (1904 - 1908), Kapitel Die Trennung in Geschlechter English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Tempellegende und die Goldene Legende , GA 93 (1991), ISBN 3-7274-0930-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde, GA 107 (1988), Zehnter Vortrag, Berlin, 8. Dezember 1908 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Das Ereignis der Christus-Erscheinung in der ätherischen Welt, GA 118 (1984), ISBN 3-7274-1180-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Geistige Zusammenhänge in der Gestaltung des menschlichen Organismus, GA 218 (1992), ISBN 3-7274-2180-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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