Category: Tree, Serpent, and Crocodile Worship

"To this Seven-vowelled god the candidate for initiation is sent by Christos, in the Pistis Sophia, a work earlier than St. John's Revelation, and evidently of the same school.   "The (Serpent of the) Seven Thunders uttered these seven vowels", but "seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not", says [...]

"The legends of every nation and tribe, whether civilized or savage, point to the once universal belief in the great wisdom and cunning of the Serpents.   They are "charmers".   They hypnotize the bird with their eye, and man himself, very often, does not feel above their fascinating influence; therefore the symbol is the [...]

"They are all seven-headed, the dragons and serpents of antiquity - "one head for each race, and every head with seven hairs on it", as the allegory has it.   Aye, from Ananta, the Serpent of Eternity which carries Vishnu through the Manvantara, from the original Sesha, whose seven heads become "one thousand heads" in [...]

"In days of old - of the divine Dynasties on Earth - the now dreaded reptile was regarded as the first beam of light that radiated from the abyss of divine Mystery.   Various were the forms which it was made to assume, and numerous the natural symbols adapted to it, as it crossed aeons [...]

"As a symbol, the Serpent had as many aspects and occult meanings as the Tree itself; the "Tree of Life", with which it was emblematically and almost indissolubly connected.   In the beginning of their joint existence as a glyph of Immortal Being, the Tree and Serpent were divine imagery, truly.   The Tree was [...]

"The Ophites (a Gnostic Fraternity in Egypt) asserted that there were several kinds of genii, from god to man; that the relative superiority of these was ruled by the degree of light that was accorded to each;   and they maintained that the serpent had to be constantly called upon and to be thanked for [...]