Angels are androgynous creatures: symbolism of the primitive androgyne
The idea of the original androgyne, the perfect being who possesses the twofold nature of the masculine and feminine, can be found in one form or another in most of the great religious and philosophical traditions. Even the Book of Genesis carries a trace of this idea, since certain cabbalists have interpreted the episode in which God created Eve from one of Adam’s ribs as a reference to the separation of the sexes.
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