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The Myth of the Androgyne mentioned in Plato’s “Symposium” has remained a turning point in the research of the relationship between the creative divinity and the primordial man. Erotic love is the consequence of the androgyne’s separation into man and woman by the almighty deity, the force of sexual attraction thus finding its metaphysical explanation. However, the passionate desire of human nature to reunite does not refer only to carnal love mediated by Eros, but also to the theocentric rediscovery through Agape, so that the issue of the original state of man maintained a certain ambiguity in ancient traditions through mystical eroticism and the sacred or magical use of the sexual impulse.
Authentic Judeo-Christian scriptures and apocryphal ones led to theological and theosophical interpretations marked by the same paradigm of the primordial dichotomy. As a confirmation of divine perfection, the androgyny of the Creator cannot be maintained in his creation, and therefore man is separated from woman. Binary actions of the divinity are concretized throughout Genesis as dualistic phenomenon, denoting the syncretic spirit of Hellenism in which these sources emerged.
