THE SPIRIT LETTERS

MESSAGE 34 - BOOK 5:  SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

THE ROLE OF HORMONES IN HOMOSEXUALITY

 Homosexuality is an anomaly in mankind’s incarnations in flesh in the earth dimension; an abnormality in the development of human beings that has its source in man’s extremely complex developmental processes. Hormones stand out as a principal agent causing homosexual problems.

 A hormone is defined as a chemical substance produced in an endocrine gland that is transported in the blood stream to a certain tissue on which it exerts one or more specific effects; according to scientific findings,  a human being’s sexual organs — especially in the female — are controlled and coordinated by subtle hormonal signaling, although both male and female hormones in the gonads [male and female reproductive glands] play key roles in each individual human being’ development from infancy into a mature adult individual.

 The hormones of the testes control the development of the secondary sexual characteristics of the male, whereas the hormones secreted in the ovaries are produced primarily in the ovarian follicles. They are called estrogens and are produced in the granulosa cells. They include estradiol, which is the most important, and estrogens, which is related chemically to estradiol; and is similar in action, but much less potent.

 This overly brief description is intended only to convey the idea that the above-described hormones exert a powerful influence upon both male and female human beings as they develop and grow into manhood and womanhood. Concededly, the development of a human being from the time of its conception and birth is a much more complex process than we usually are inclined to consciously consider in the normal course of our  lives. For example we rarely give thought to the fact that FSH, a follicle-stimulating  hormone, is employed in the ripening of the follicles in the female ovary; or that LH is the luteinizing hormone that influences secreting cells of the ovaries and testes, to maintain their normal activity; or that the lactogenic hormone maintains secretion of corpus luteus to initiate the lactation processes when they are due to commence. These matters are quite beyond the ordinary considerations of mankind: yet they provide us with the clear understanding that such processes as these are crucially important to the development of mankind, and that there can be many dysfunctional occurrences as these complex naturally-timed, finely-tuned functions are naturally caused to take place. There are far too many to be detailed in this brief article, but it is not necessary to consider all of them here for our purposes. What needs to be considered is that during the many intricately-timed complex developments from the time of the conception and birth of a human child until it matures into an mature adult there are numerous opportunities for the chance intervention into that precious process for anomalous and sometimes dysfunctional changes to take place. Among those changes is the inculcation into a human being of what may be considered an abnormal dysfunction: homosexuality. 

Homosexuals generally feel that their desire for individuals of the opposite sex is a natural feeling: and actually for them it really is! The following newspaper article presents an instance in which a clearly-defined female has been — through no fault of her own — been endowed with male characteristics, including a male type of physical body that enables here to excel at a sport in which those of masculine capabilities ordinarily prevail over female competitors: 

SPRINTER’S CASE IS SPELLED OUT

 South Africa’s Caster Semenya caused a big stir at the recent world track and field championships in Berlin. She won the 800 by more than 2 seconds and it wasn’t long before calls went out, not just for drug testing, but for gender testing as well. Reports are now circulating the Semenya is indeed a woman, but she may have up to three times the normal amount of {male}testosterone for a woman.”

 There is of course no insinuation here that Semenya is homosexual, but the fact that her system is permeated with the male hormone testosterone to the extent that she was able to “win the 800″ against other female competitors leads to the high degree of probability that she was the natural recipient of male hormones during her development into maturity, which was apparently not caused by anything she did to herself.  If such unintentional biological changes such as these are considered in the broad sense, then it is more than probable that one cause of homosexuality is the aberrational effect of “misfired” hormones. That being the case, society will do well to understand that condition as being a natural development in mankind. It does not mean that the condition should be considered normal in homo sapiens, or to be exalted or boasted, but it should perhaps be accepted as a flaw in genetic development , blameless to the individual who bears it without having knowingly or intentionally having induced it into him/her self.  Thus considered in the case of hormone inconsistencies, homosexuality is not a condition to be overcome to the extent an individual affected by it is able to do so.

 This conclusion is reached because homosexual relationships are unable to produce children in the natural way human beings reproduce, which fact leads to the conclusion that homosexuality is not an intended result of normal human sexuality.