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ISHVARA: Out Of INDIA
From the ancient mysticaltraditions of the Land Of Countless
Gods, India, comes the teaching
that the Universal Spirit (Brahman,
the Creator first manifested as a
Unified Being composed of all of
the traits of BO!" "U#$%
S&'&S Usually depicted as
Female and Blac) on the left side
of the *ody and #ale and +hite onthe right side, this First Being is
named IS"$-$ and it is .he. or
.she. or .+e. +hom "indus consider
to have said /Let us ma)e man)indin our o+n Image/
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$ccording to "induism, as any
person .returns to God. throughspiritual self0development, the very
L$S! thing they e1perience as .self
identity. is IS"$-$2 for +e
retrace the 3ourney of Life from
+here +e $re to +here +e Began,and +e *egan as Ishvara
!hus, anyone +ho has unified *oth
of the Se1es into their daily selfidentity is either Ishvara Creating
Itself O- Ishvara .-eturning "ome.
to Brahman 4hile most +estern
societies fro+n upon the$ndrogynous or Gender0Unified
individual (a common attitude even
in the gay community and
consider them someho+ .distorted.
or /un0natural/ for not *eing either
a #acho #an or a proper Bar*y
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5oll Clone, India recogni6es the
Ishvaran $ndrogyne as !"&C-&$!O-, BO5I&5 $s +e
progress through the many cultures
of the +orld, you +ill see this
theme repeated many times, and +e
hope you +ill learn from it thatGender0Unified Self Identity is not
only 5II%& *ut capa*le of
original Creations on a scale
unattaina*le *y either Gender&1treme
%aturally, "induism recogni6es
that Ishvara +ent on to .split in t+o. *y creating the Gender &1tremes in
the form of a #ale /Father God/
and a female /#other Goddess/
+ho did the actual Birthing of the
Universe !hus, Ishvara and the
$ndrogynous individual are sho+n
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as SU77O-!I%G or giving po+er
to *oth of the Gender &1tremesfor Ishvara is capa*le of loving
them BO!" 8uite e8ually (for +ho
does %O! love themself9:
HELLAS:
Coming-Out In
GREECE!he +estern version of this Gender0
Unified First Being is recorded in
the +ritings of the most famousGree) 7hilosopher, 7lato 7lato
+rote that the first human *eings
had four arms and four legs, and
+ere composed of a male and afemale half united into a single
Self !hese *eings had to .roll.
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rather than +al), due to their
anatomy, and this made themun+ieldy !herefore they +ere
divided *y the gods into #ale and
Female halves as +e find them
today2 *ut the memory of our once0
united 4holeness stays +ith usal+ays, and +e feel the pull of this
memory every time +e are dra+n
to another person se1ually
4hile this story is considered
purely a 7ara*le of 7lato.s o+n
invention (for it has no mythic
roots in the Olympic legends of the"ellenes, it does demonstrate that
the Ishvara or unified gender of our
original nature +as clearly )no+n
to the classical Gree)s
"omose1uality especially *et+een
men is of course traditionally
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associated *y +estern cultures as
/Gree) Love/ 4hile the ancient"ellenes certainly did have a strong
and deeply respected Family
!radition (every successful Gree)
man +as .socially &'7&C!&5. to
*reed, and preserve the *loodlinethat *rought him to prominence it
is also undenia*le that "ellenic
Culture rested firmly on a
"omose1ual foundation &verycity0state in Greece had it.s o+n
preferred .version. (later &uropeans
+ould say /7&-0version:/, of Gay
Love though they all recogni6edthat genuine Social Order and
creative genius re8uires
(especially #&% to love one
another early in life, to prevent the
development of .estrangements.
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such as ego0competition, mistrust,
violence and +arfare
In the city0state of $thens, the gay
pattern of se1uality involved inter0
generational .sponsoring. or
#entoring2 a mature or +ell0esta*lished man +ould ta)e the
sons of his neigh*ors and friends
/under his +ing/ to teach them not
only a*out the *irds and the *ees, *ut also a*out living as a free man
outside the family unit Se1
*et+een these #entors and their
Charges +as e1pected to *e largely.touching2. massage, +restling,
*athing together and laying na)ed
together +hile en;oying each
other.s *odies until they each
e;aculated $nal se1 +as
considered .socially incorrect. in
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$thens2 mutual mastur*ation +as
the $thenian 4ay
%ot so, in Sparta: Sparta +as a
strongly military city0state2 every
citi6en +as e1pected to participate
in the defense of the realm Boys+ere actually raised in military
*arrac)s, acting as orderlies,
house)eepers, +aiters $%5 se1ual
companions of adult officers andsoldiers +ho guarded the Spartan
society $nal as +ell as oral se1
+as common, though pro*a*ly
most often *y mutual consent It isan interesting tid*it of military
history (red0facedly admitted to *y
even the stodgiest homopho*ic
military historians that the Spartan
$rmy +as universally considered
the *est and most courageous in the
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entire "ellenic +orld 7lato,
+riting in his famous /-epu*lic,/used the Spartan $rmy as the
model for his Ideal Society in
+hich gay se1uality +ould *e the
/glue/ the holds0together the
military of his Utopia In hisopinion, the LO& *et+een the
men0at0arms of Sparta gave them
e1tra reason to protect and defend
their o+n troops (for +ho +ould %O! fight for the life of one.s
Lovers9:
Les*ians had their Isle of Les*os+here the poetess Sappho and her
follo+ers created a miniature
version of "ellenic culture *ased
entirely on se1 *et+een +omen
Bise1uals can li)e+ise point to the
god $pollo, +hose many loves of
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*oth young men and young +omen
earned him a permanent place asthe se1iest .s+inger. on #ount
Olympus2 and heterose1uals can of
course al+ays find ample proofs
that Greece +as $LSO open to
their o+n .perversions. $ll in all,"ellenic Civili6ation remains the
most important monument in our
past history to the importance and
value of LO& in all it.s forms, andS&' as a natural *ut sacred +ay of
S"O4I%G Love to others
AMUN: Cumingfrom EGYPT
7redating *oth Indian and Gree)society (and all other advanced
societies of anti8uity e1cept that of
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China *y many centuries, &G
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$men, $mon and $mmon +ho
+as the First Being in the &gyptianCreation !ale $mun +as depicted
as a +ell0*uilt human macho0male
+earing a cro+n depicting the head
of a male GO$!2 $mun.s other
sym*ol +as a -am or male goat,sym*olic of se1ual drive For those
+ho did not gro+0up around a
*arnyard, the male goat is famous
the +orld over for his insatia*ledesire and a*ility to have se12 as
often as possi*le, +ith every*ody
he can !"$! +as the .Original
God. *eloved throughout &gyptianhistory as the greatest God of the
7haraohs
$ccording to the &gyptians, $mun
e1isted alone *efore the creation of
the universe "e created the
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universe S&'U$LL
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hard0on +ith one hand, in the act of
Original irtue (
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Goddess Ge* and %ut !he 7haraoh
himself as the only person in&gypt allo+ed to perform the -ites
of $mun in the !emple +as
considered permanently the
em*odiment of $mun, the First
Creator
$ll of this +as unuttera*ly .filthy.
to the not entirely spotless minds of
the &uropean e1plorers +ho firstrediscovered the -ites of $mun
7riceless +or)s of art +ere
deli*erately destroyed, defaced and
covered0over to prevent you fromlearning +hat you ;ust learned
!"$! is ho+ distorted +estern
.civili6ation. had *ecome *y the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
!oday +e are slo+ly getting our
%ature *ac) from the prudes and
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censors of the past *ut it is a lot of
+or) to erase the ;udgements andreligious *igotries even from one.s
o+n mind
Fortunately, the gay community of
today C$% loo) *ac) to the OldestGod of the oldest civili6ation of the
+estern +orld, and say /$#&%:,/
and really mean it 5ivinity, *y the
+ay, in &gyptian +as pronounced/%eteru=/ the very Gods of ancient
&gypt +ere called %atures and the
eldest of them all +as $men or
$mun, +hose name means/"I55&% 4I!"I% &$C"/
Certainly I have found him "idden
4ithin: Can you not find him there
too9:
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BERDACHE:
Homo!"u#$it% In
N#ti&! AMERICA
"aving finally succeeded in driving
the remaining Gree)0inspired Gays
of their o+n continent into +ell0
loc)ed closets, &uropean society
discovered the %e+ 4orld and promptly had to deal +ith it all
over again2 for (+ith a fe+
e1ceptions among tri*es +hich
+ere truly homopho*ic %ative$merica had a very active Gay
Society from time immemorial
Usually found +ithin +hat has
*een named .the Berdachetradition,. this uni8uely %ative
$merican homose1uality +as
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ine1trica*ly inter+oven +ith
%ative $merican S7I-I!U$LI!
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!he connection *et+een Gay
Identity and Spiritual 7o+er +as aso*vious to %ative $mericans as the
connection *et+een +omen and
coo)ing +as to the &uropean
settlers2 the t+o +ent hand in hand
!o *e Gay #&$%! that one +as.outside the +orld2. homose1uals
+ere considered Spirit0gifted,
automatically /"omose1ual/
O%L< meant the individual +ho preferred the .female role.
(especially anal se1 for $%<
.straight. man could freely have se1
+ith a "omose1ual +ithout havinghis manhood 8uestioned (in fact,
having a Gay .+ife. or lover +as
considered a very high honor +hich
raised one.s status +ithin the !ri*e
$s for the Berdache himself, the
Gay #ystic in most !ri*es +as
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e1pected to +ear .the dress. ;ust as
they +ere once e1pected to +ear.the ro*e. in old &uropean societies
to denote e1actly the same status=
"e>She the Ishvara
!his !hird Gender or Both0Se1es0In0One +as understood as *eing
innately more Intuitive, %urturing,
4ise and S)illed all +ords of vast
importance to %ative societies Gaychildren +ere considered so great
an asset to a family that many
!ri*es had a tradition of trying to
.teach. Gay Spirit to their young *oys in the hope that they +ould
.*ecome. Berdache $ll of the
professions +hich +e no+ call
"ealthcare, Counseling, &ducation
and the #inistry +ere $LL
Berdache specialties, as +ere the
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$rts, #usic, 5ance and a*ove all
else, the entire spectrum of#ystical or 7sychic Sciences
+hich +ere considered the almost
e1clusive domain of the "e>She
Li)e #ystics of all other continentsand ages, the %ative $merican Gay
+as a -o*e0clad figure of e1treme
veneration and honor, +ithout
+hose services the society itselfcould not have functioned
smoothly 4hile the Gay #ale +as
also the invaria*le *utt of countless
giggled innuendos +henever he+as seen in the company of a ne+
.hus*and,. they +ere the giggles not
of derision *ut of playful *anter2
and the uni8ue status of the
Berdache +as valued so highly that
any man luc)y enough to +in the
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se1ual favors of the tri*al Ishvara
)ne+ they had finally made it *ig0time2 /+hat a #$% he must *e,/
all of the people +ould *e saying as
he passed, and he )ne+ that /4hy,
he even pleases the "e>She, and
you ?%O4 ho+ choosey "& is:/
-ecent discoveries in the Incan
region of South $merica have
uncovered the remains of a vastla*yrinth0ma6e of ruined !emples
filled +ith art+or), pottery and
sculptured images +hich prove that
this Berdache Spirituality e1tendedthe +hole length and *readth of the
$mericas &arly men of the $ndes
could travel to the #ystical City
and +al) through the ma6e of
hall+ays to choose +hich of the
many Berdache #edicine #en they
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+anted to relate +ith as *oth Seer,
"ealer, Counselor and se1ual Lover all in one
Less is currently )no+n of the
Les*ian traditions +ithin %ative
$merican cultures largely due tothe continued strength and secrecy
of the 4omen.s Societies (female
/clans/ devoted specifically to
+omen.s issues and activitiesCertainly +omen +ere free to
pursue any traditionally male
pursuit they chose including the
4arrior 7ath Since +omen +eretraditionally vie+ed as intuitive,
nurturing and .+ise,. they +ere
often associated +ith spirituality in
the popular mind, and many
+omen served as #edicine
4or)ers, "ealers and Shamans
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"opefully, future disclosures +ill
fill0in the details currently missinga*out the role of homose1uality in
%ative 4omen.s Societies
IN SUMMARY'''
4e have a long +ay to go, still 4e
have only *egun to scratch thesurface of Gay Spirituality in the
true history of our +orld But even
this small sample should prove to
you that your se1ual identity isF$- from .*ase. or .animalistic. no
matter +hat the hateful or fearful
have yelled at you Li)e the
%avaho Indians of $ri6ona around+hom this +riter +as *orn and
raised (+hose Supreme God is a
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po+erful #an dressed as a
Berdache, all +e today have to dois #&&! !"& S7I-I! any+here,
and +e +ill find our o+n reflection
in the mirror of Ishvara
THE MYSTICAL
STRUCTURE O(SE)UAL
IDENTITY
%o+ that +e have e1plored the
roots of Gay Spirit, let us e1amine
+hat is currently )no+n a*out the
actual structure of the Self (or 7syche !he follo+ing diagram
and e1planatory notes are ta)en
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from the mystical traditions of
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L!ft. Rig*t #n/ C!nt!r
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$s you can see from the diagram
a*ove, the "e*raic #ysticalScience called ?a*allah (also
spelled Ca*ala and @a*allah
recogni6es !"-&& 7$!"S of self0
development identified as /the
!hree 7illars/ of !he !ree Of Life!he L&F! 7ILL$- is depicted as
Blac) (or /mysterious/ and
identified +ith /$ima/ the Great
#other, and represents F$L&7S
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!raditional ?a*allist +riters have
compared these three +ith (Left07illar the "&-#&!IC 7$!" of
#ental0Intellectual Study2 (-ight
7illar the O-7"IC 7$!" of
Spiritual>&motional Idealism and
discipline2 and (Center 7illar the#
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Individuali6ation. *y +hich every
Self *egins their 3ourney *ymeeting their SHADO0 or Self0
Fear and Self05enial 7hase
(something familiar to most Gays
and Les*ians:2 and then
progressing into the ANIMA-ANIMUS or Opposite0Se1 7hase,
during +hich one &I!"&- a*sor*s
the traits of the opposite se1 into
one.s o+n personality O- .divorces.oneself from that personally and
.transfers it. onto Lovers of the
opposite se1
In 3ungian theory, it is O%L< those
+ho are a*le to I%!&G-$!& the
opposite0se1 psychology into their
o+n self0identity, +ho can then
proceed into the higher (Self and
God0Self phases of self0
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development2 all the rest of the
.gender0polari6ed. populace are left *ehind to marry, divorce and
remarry their o+n potential
indefinitely until they finally learn
that +hat they are loo)ing for is
essentially 4I!"I%!"S&L&S
In the same +ay, ?a*allah
descri*es the Central 7illar as theonly one of the !hree 7aths that
leads directly to the !O7 of !he
!ree Of Life2 *oth the Female and
the #ale 7sychology patterns musteventually #&&! and BL&%5
(producing a #ystical rather than a
#ale or Female identity *efore
one can reach the 7innacle of self0
attainment
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Both of these traditions (one
ancient and #ystical, the othermodern and .scientific. agree that
the Gay and Les*ian individual has
attained S&LF0U%I!< on a level
that the gender0polari6ed cannot
even imagine and that it is thisUnity *et+een the se1es 4I!"I%
O%&S&LF that gives us access to
the higher creativity, spirituality
and psychic s)ills called .divinity.and .cosmic
consciousness. ISHVARA #$on!
1onn!1t t*! S!$f 2it* t*!
Cr!#tor in every traditionthroughout our planet.s many
cultures and ages of history