BLESSING OR CURSE?

Serpent Blessing

The serpent’s role in the narrative of Adam and Eve reveals a deeper allegory about the nature of doubt and the internal origins of confusion.

Deceptive & Wise Tactics of The Serpent:

By asking implied questions rather than making direct statements, the serpent masterfully diverts Adam and Eve’s attention away from unity and truth.

Remember: The serpent can’t place anything within a human, rather, he reveals what already is within our heart.

THE INVOCATION

This isn’t just about deception; it is about invoking a subtle second-guessing of our own experience. It exposed the vulnerability that lay dormant within the mind.

CONFUSION IS NOT FROM ABOVE

Confusion does not formulate from external stimuli, it develops when internal conflict causes confusion – there forms a dissonance between the reality and our passion, a division of faith and belief.

OUR DUALITY REVEALED

This division reflects the struggle in every human soul, where the Spirit of discernment competes with the spirit of chaos.

IS THE SERPENT GUILTY IN THIS STORY? NO!!!

The serpent reveals what already exists within, like an echo reverberating what is left of the soul beyond the shadows.

The serpent holds a mirror to the mind’s divided psyche.

THE SERPENT IS OUR HELPER

Rather than scapegoating the serpent, we should maybe acknowledge that confusion begins and ends with us.

THE SERPENT GIVES US THE AVENUE FOR ALIGNMENT

Within every mind lies the potential for both Disorder and Order.

Discernment, the antidote to confusion, requires some critical things:

intentional self-reflection

critical thinking

seeking divine guidance

Selected Scriptures

clarity over chaos

Genesis 3:1 highlights the serpent’s cunning manipulation through a question that plants doubt: “Did God actually say…?”

1 Corinthians 14:33 reminds us, “For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.”

James 1:5 offers the path forward: “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously.”

The serpent doesn’t symbolize a mere deceiver; he embodies the already existing forces of doubt and deception.

The serpent provokes us to question and reevaluated our own beliefs.

The choice Adam and Eve faced was simply a reflection of their internal struggle between trust and temptation, truth and uncertainty.

The Serpent shows us just how divided our psyche is.

In the realm of Duality this is inevitable.

So in my own revelation I’ve come to know the Serpent not as adversary but as a teacher that reveals my folly to me.

Will Confusion Persist?

Confusion will persist but can diminish to the extent that we are honest with ourselves at every level.

It will continue to grow until we develop the ability to recognize its source.

We know that we are thinking by faith when we trust our inner intuition without seeking external validation.

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Masonic authors and Freemasons,   Albert G. MacKey and Harry LeRoy Haywood describe the serpents relationship to Masonry in the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry 1909 –

In Freemasonry, the Templar and in the Philosophic Degrees — such as the Knight of the Brazen Serpent, where the serpent is combined with the cross — it is evidently a symbol of Christ ; and thus the symbolism of these Degrees is closely connected with that of the Rose Croix.

33rd Degree Freemason and Master Rosicrucian, Manly P. Hall says this about the symbol of the serpent in his book, Initiates of the Flame;

Many ages have elapsed since the Egyptian Priest King passed through the pillars of Thebes. Ages before the sinking of Atlantis, thousands of years before the Christian Era, Egypt was a land of great truths. The hand of the Great White Brotherhood was held out to the Empire of the Nile, and the ancient pyramid passages resounded with the chants of the Initiates. It was then that the Pharaoh, now called half-human, half-divine, reigned in ancient Egypt. Pharaoh is the Egyptian word for king. Many of the later Pharaohs were degenerate and of little account. It is only the early Pharaohs we now list among the Priest Kings.

Try to picture for a moment the great Hall of Luxor —its inscriptive columns holding up domes of solid granite, each column carved with the histories of the gods. There at the upper end of the chamber sat the Pharaoh of the Nile in his robes of state; around him his counsellors, chief among them the priest of the temple. An imposing spectacle it was: the gigantic frame of the later Atlantean, robed in gold and priceless jewels; on his head the crown of the North and South, the double empire of the ancient; on his forehead the coiled serpent of the Initiate, the serpent which was raised in the wilderness that all who looked upon it might live; that sleeping serpent power in man, which coiled head downward around the tree of life, drove him from the garden of the Lord, but which raised upon the Cross, became the symbol of the Christ.

The Pharaoh was an Initiate of Scorpio, and the serpent is the transmuted Scorpio energy, which working upward in the regenerated individual is called the Kundalini. This serpent was the sign of Initiation. It meant that within him the serpent had been raised, for the true Pharaoh was a priest of God, as well as a master of men. There he sat upon the cube altar throne, indicating his mastery over the four elements of his physical body-a judge of the living and of the dead, who in spite of all his power and glory, having about him the grandeur of the world’s greatest empire, still bowed in humble supplication to the will of the gods. In his hands he carries the triple sceptre of the Nile, the Shepherd’s Crook, the Anubis-headed Staff and the Flail or Whip.