“The water of the flood when standing in the allegory for the symbolic “sea”, Tamti, typifies the turbulent chaos, or matter, called “the great dragon”. According to the Gnostic and Rosicrucian madaeival doctrine, the creation of woman was not originally intended. She is the offspring of man’s own impure fancy, and, as the Hermetist say, “an obtrusion”. Created by an unclean thought, she sprang into existence at the evil “seventh hour”, when the “supernatural” real worlds had passed away and the “natural” or delusive worlds began evolving along the “descending Microcosmos”, or the arc of the great cycle, in plainer phraseology.
First “Virgo”, the Celestial Virgin of the Zodiac, she became “Virgo-Scorpio”. But in evolving his second companion, man had unwittingly endowed her with his own share of Spirituality; and the new being whom his “imagination” had called into life became his “Saviour” from the snares of Eve-Lilith, the first Eve, who had a greater share of matter in her composition than the primitive “spiritual” man. Thus woman stands in the cosmogony in relation to “matter”, or the great deep, as the “Virgin of the Sea”, who crushes the “Dragon” under her foot.
The “Flood” is also very often shown, in symbolical phraseology, as the “great Dragon”. For one acquainted with these tenets it becomes more than suggestive to learn that with the Catholics the Virgin Mary is not only the accepted patroness of Christian sailors, but also the “Virgin of the Sea”. So was Dido the patroness of the Phoenician mariners; and together with Venus and other lunar goddesses the moon having such a strong influence over the tides – was the “Virgin of the Sea”. Mar, the sea, is the root of the name Mary. The blue color, which was with the ancients symbolical of the “Great Deep” or the material world, hence – of evil, is made sacred to our “Blessed Lady”. It is the color of “Notre Dame de Paris.” On account of its relation to the symbolical serpent, this color is held in the deepest aversion by the ex-Nazarenes, disciples of John the Baptist, now the Mendaeans of Basra.
Among the beautiful plates of Maurice, there is one representing Christna crushing the head of the Serpent. A three-peaked mitre is on his had (typifying the trinity), and the body and tail of the conquered serpent encircles the figure of the Hindu god. This plate shows whence proceeded the inspiration for the “make up” of a later story extracted from an alleged prophecy. “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
The Egyptian Orante is also shown with his arms extended as on a crucifix and treading upon the “Serpent”; and Horus (the Logos) is represented piercing the head of the dragon, Typhon or Aphophis. All this gives us a clew to the biblical allegory of Cain and Abel. Cain was held as the ancestor of the Hivites, the Serpents, and the twins of Adam are an evident copy from the fable of Osiris and Typhon. Apart from the external form of the allegory, however, it embodied the philosophical conception of the eternal struggle of good and evil.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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