Precepts of Alchemy 01 The Serpents of Eden

Learn how the Bible and the Zohar (the spirit of the Bible) hide the knowledge of Kundalini and initiation, in the Hebrew letters and symbolic stories.

Scripture References:

"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as Jonah יונה [a dove]. For as Jonah [יונה a dove] was three days and three nights in the [final Nun] big fish's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of [ה Hei] the earth." - Matthew 10: 16; 12: 40

"A great fish [letter Nun Final] coming from the left swims through all these waterways to poison and corrupt them. Its scales are as steel. From its mouth comes forth a lurid flame and its tongue is like a sharp sword. Its object is to force its way into the sanctuary of the great ocean to pollute and defile it and thus extinguish light, and causing the waters to become frozen, and the great circulatory water system may cease to operate.

"The occult meaning of this mystery is expressed in the words of scripture, 'Now the serpent was wiser than any beast of the field which יהוה אלהים had made,' (Genesis 3: 1). This Ida serpent wished to accomplish his aim by first corrupting the brooklets below [in Yesod] and making them impure and bitter, so that flowing back to the great ocean their fountain head, it might become polluted. This is why he first seduced Adam and brought death into the world and entered into the heart of Adam from the left side.

"There is, however, another serpent that comes from the right. These two serpents [Pingala and Ida] are they that are closely attached to [Sushumna] Adam during his lifetime, as scripture saith, 'of all the beasts of the field that יהוה אלהים had made,' these two are the most cunning, crafty and subtle in tempting and destroying Adam. Woe unto him [the Initiate] who allows himself to be led on and seduced by the serpent, for death irretrievable is his doom, physically, morally and spiritually, both to himself and to those associated with him, as in the case of Adam who wished to know and become expert in nature's secrets and occult science. In revealing them and exciting within him a fictitious joy and happiness, the serpent acquired that influence and control over Adam that contributed to and brought his ruin and downfall and thus caused him to suffer, as also his successors. From the day that Israel came to the foot [Yesod] of Mount Sinai, the impurity and corruption wrought by the serpent has not disappeared from the world [Malkuth]. - Zohar

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