« Serpent » : différence entre les versions

serpent, a great truth was uttered, and war was then again declared

between White and Black Magic, for one Manvantara.

In one sense, all creeping things are included in the one word,

serpent." From an esoteric aspect, the Serpent symbolizes the highest point

of the development of a human being. From the exoteric aspect it

symbolizes the lowest point in the same development.

Here, as in all other divisions of the Cosmos, appears the action of the

two poles of manifestation. The farther man advances, the greater will

over it, the fascination, the temptation of the lower self continually

increases and the battle grows stronger.

When "the heel of the woman shall crush the serpent's head", i. e.,

when the negative aspect of the eternally feminine, the Soul, shall come

must disappear, because when such an event occurs the end of a

Manvantara will have come, and Soul and Mind become one.

The creeping of a worm or snake over human flesh does not occasion

any particular fear in the human mind ; as said before, it is a far different

obnoxious thing, the brain commands the muscles of hand and arm to

remove the interloper, and is obeyed.

There is an occasional "exception to prove the rule" in the cases of

men and women who seem abnormally fond of snakes. These persons