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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

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