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Androgyny and Equality in the Theosophico-Theurgical Kabbalah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Moshe Idel
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Abstract

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Androgyny has more than one meaning. It may refer to the anatomical coexistence of two sorts of sex organs in the same body; or else to the allegory of a form of spiritual perfection. In other cases, it is related to the explicit coexistence of male and female qualities in the same entity. From a study of the various expressions used in the Hebrew of the Bible to evoke the dual nature of the first human, an attempt is made here to show how this theme has been treated in certain theosophico-theurgical schools of Kabbalah, and more particularly with regard to the question of equality between men and women in Jewish tradition.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , November 2005 , pp. 27 - 38
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2005

References

This study is part of a book in preparation, dealing with the status of the Feminine in Kabbalistic literature.