Editing Franz Xaver von Baader (section)

==Regarding the sexes==
One of Baader's central ideas is his concept of [[androgyny]]:
{{blockquote|The Androgyne is the harmonious fusion of the sexes, resulting in a certain [[asexuality]], a synthesis which creates an entirely new being, and which does not merely juxtapose the two sexes 'in an enflamed opposition' as the [[hermaphrodite]] does. }}
Following the literal wording of the first of [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]]'s [[Creation of Man|two accounts of the creation of man]], Baader says that Man was originally an androgynous being. Neither man nor woman is the "image and likeness of God" but only the androgyne. Both sexes are equally fallen from the original divinity of the androgyne. Androgynism is man's likeness to God, his supernatural upsurge. Hence it follows that sexes must cease and vanish. From these positions Baader interpreted the sacrament of marriage as a symbolic restitution of angelic bisexuality: 
{{blockquote|The secret and the sacrament of true love in the indissoluble bond of the two lovers, consists in each helping the other, each in himself, towards the restoration of the androgyne, the pure and whole humanity. }}
Ultimately Christ's sacrifice will make possible a restoration of the primal androgyny. Baader believed that primordial androgyny would return as the world neared its end.{{sfn|Dynes|1990|p=57}}