. Kabbalah, the harmony of opposites : a treatise elucidating Bible allegories and the significance of numbers . pure serpent. It is one of the adorn-ments of the heavenly throne. This expressive andenlightening declaration seems adequate to explainwhy the serpent is so generally feared and detestedand is at the same time a badge of the disciples of^sculapius and regarded as a symbol of healingforce and regenerative energy. The serpents in thesand, according to Exodus, severely injured theChildren of Israel while journeying through theWilderness to Canaan, but the antidote to their af-fliction
. Kabbalah, the harmony of opposites : a treatise elucidating Bible allegories and the significance of numbers . pure serpent. It is one of the adorn-ments of the heavenly throne. This expressive andenlightening declaration seems adequate to explainwhy the serpent is so generally feared and detestedand is at the same time a badge of the disciples of^sculapius and regarded as a symbol of healingforce and regenerative energy. The serpents in thesand, according to Exodus, severely injured theChildren of Israel while journeying through theWilderness to Canaan, but the antidote to their af-fliction was supplied by Moses pointing them to anuplifted image of the cause of their affliction. The in Israel 125 serpent essentially is the carnal or sense nature inus all, which must be upraised and transmuted; ittherefore becomes our initiatory discipline to elevateeach his own serpentine attributes, and by so doingaccomplish Magnum Opus, the mighty work of al-chemical transmutation, not in an external sense ofconverting metals into gold, but in the esoteric senseof gaining perfect victory over all CHAPTER IX. BIBLICAL TRADITIONS KABBALISTICALLYCONSIDERED. To the average reader of the Bible to-day—andthat marvelous collection of ancient literature is cer-tainly undergoing careful reconsideration—there areonly 2 possible views of such stories as that of theDeluge and many other startling narratives, viz,,that they must either be rejected as mere legends ofan unscientific age or else be regarded from thestandpoint of esoteric canons of elucidation. TheFall of Man we have already incidentally considered,and we think sufficiently to suggest a meeting placebetween the 2 seemingly opposed doctrines of theFall and the Rise of humanity, concepts which at firstseem inevitably irreconcilable. From the Kabbalis-tic, as from the Rosicrucian and other kindred pointsof view, the apparent discrepancy melts into har-mony as though we were gazing upon 2 sides of asingle shield, ea
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