Abnormal persons are themselves of the same opinion and regard themselves as divine.

As Horneffer points out, they often really possess special aptitude.[52] Karsch in his _Gleichgeschlechtliche Leben der Naturvoelker_ (1911) has brought out the high religious as well as social significance of castes of cross-dressed and often homosexual persons among primitive peoples.

At the same time Edward Carpenter in his remarkable book, _Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk_ (1914), has shown with much insight how it comes about that there is an organic connection between the homosexual temperament and unusual psychic or divinatory powers.

Homosexual men were non-warlike and homosexual women non-domestic, so that their energies sought different outlets from those of ordinary men and women; they became the initiators of new activities.

Thus it is that from among them would in some degree issue not only inventors and craftsmen and teachers, but sorcerers and diviners, medicine-men and wizards, prophets and priests.
Such persons would be especially impelled to thought, because they would realize that they were different from other people; treated with reverence by some and with contempt by others, they would be compelled to face the problems of their own nature and, indirectly, the problems of the world generally.