Our nature of old was not the same as it is now. It was _androgynous_; the form and name partaking of, and being common to both the male and female.... Their bodies ... were round, and the manner of their running circular.(311) They were terrible in force and strength and had prodigious ambition. Hence Zeus divided each of them into two, making them weaker; Apollo, under his direction, closed up the skin. Meshia and Meshiane were but a single individual with the old Persians. They also taught that man was the product of the Tree of Life, growing in androgynous pairs, till they were separated at a subsequent modification of the human form. In the Book of the Generations (_Toleduth_) of Adam, the verse: God created (_bara_, brought forth) man in his image, in the image of God created he him, male and female created he them, —if read Esoterically will yield the true sense, viz.: The Elohim [Gods] brought forth from themselves [by modification] man in their image ... created they _him_ [collective Humanity, or Adam], male and female created _he_ [collective Deity] them.(312) This will show the Esoteric point. The _Sexless_ Race was their first production, a modification _of_ and _from_ themselves, the pure Spiritual Existences; and this was Adam _solus_. Thence came the _Second_ Race: Adam‐Eve, or Jod‐Heva, inactive Androgynes; and finally the _Third_, or the “_Separating_ Hermaphrodite,” Cain and Abel, who produce the Fourth, Seth‐Enos, etc. It is this Third, the last semi‐spiritual Race, which was also the last vehicle of the divine and innate Wisdom, ingenerate in the Enochs, the Seers of that Mankind. The _Fourth_, which had tasted of the fruit of the Tree of Good and Evil—Wisdom already united to earthy, and therefore _impure_, intelligence(313)—had consequently to acquire that Wisdom by initiation and great struggle. And the union of Wisdom and Intelligence, the former _ruling_ the latter, is called in the Hermetic books “the God possessing the double fecundity of the two sexes.” Mystically Jesus was held to be man‐woman. So also in the Orphic Hymns, sung during the Mysteries, we find: “Zeus is a male, Zeus is an immortal maid.” The Egyptian Ammon was the Goddess Neïth, in his other half. Jupiter has female breasts, Venus is bearded in some of her statues, and Ilâ, the Goddess, is also Su‐dyumna, the God, as Vaivasvata’s progeny. Says Professor Wilder: