HaShem; The Divine Androgyne

Deity is the Universe, and the Universe is Deity. They are one and all, and all the same and cannot be separated from one another on any kind of coherent or meaningful level- just as Deity itself cannot truly ever be defined or understood by Humanity on any coherent or meaningful level. And if Deity and the Universe are one and the same, then It is greater than, and yet is creation simultaneously. Logically following from that, Deity is therefore all-encompassing, and immanent in all things, by its very nature as the Universe.

They are God as one- symbolized by The Divine Hermaphrodite (sometimes the Divine Androgyne) who are themself, at the same time, all and nothing; the perfect exemplification of complete unity; the universe in totality, made whole; the Ouroboros consuming itself in the endless Universal Cycle.

As Humans, however, we are not ourselves whole. And as naturally fragmented and imperfect creatures made only in the briefest image of the Divine, we therefore cannot properly conceptualize, understand, or easily commune with the whole in its totality. And so the whole must be consubstantially divided before us and made terrestrial.

The first logical division is into the fundamental binary polarity of the Human-understood concepts of ‘Male’ and ‘Female’. The mask of this split, tri-Divine representation itself presents as a central face (Deity) looking forward, and one face looking to each side (polarity); whenever one of the polar faces moves into transcendence or immanence, the other face fades away.

⇸ Left is God as Mother: Chava, the Great Queen- Creatrix and Initiatrix- carrying the Solar Disk.
Feminine ⇝ Cultivative

⇸ Right is God as Father: Adam, the Unknown King- Source and Resource- carrying the Lunar Disc.
Masculine ⇝ Creative

*Creative is different than Provisionary; Cultivative is different than Nurturing; these are not one and the same.

But these divisions are merely two halves of the whole, connected by their polarity- and by their source; without one, neither could exist at all, and neither could the spectrum between them which comprises the truest whole of the Universe. Likewise, despite these polaric divisions, Deity itself ultimately remains beyond the concepts of sex and gender. It contains both as the immanent creative force, but is itself agender, androgynous, and hermaphroditic at once; the non-manifested being whose polarities are still integrated within its primordial unity.

Through knowledge and acknowledgement of both : Unity ⇜⇝ Sustainability

The Hermetic Androgyne- King and Queen at the same time- stands upon the Dragon of nature, between the tree of the sun and the tree of the moon. Carried in its right hand a snake, coiled, and in its left hand a cup with three snakes. Its male half is dressed in red, its female half in white.

'Manuscript of Michael Cochem', circa 1530; Vadian Library, St. Gallen

The term ‘Androgyne’ itself is derived from a combination of the Greek ‘Andros’, meaning ‘a man’, and ‘Gyne’, meaning ‘a woman’. In alchemy it represents the symbol of the non-manifested being whose polarities are still integrated within its unity- and, in another aspect, a being who has fully realized and reintegrated its polarities within the primordial unity.

With one red wing, another white, and garments black, the androgyne contains the three phases of the work in one. In its right hand it holds a circle containing a mirror reflecting nature. In its left hand it holds an egg known as the Philosophical Egg because it contains all four elements at once.

'Trismosin', Solomon, Reference #38799i; Welcome Library Collection