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Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter XL (17.)
The Eater of the Ass is a Serpent, but who is the Ass?
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (99)
We know, that the Devil slipt into the Serpent, and spoke out of the Serpent; for God did not mean [by it] that the Treader upon the Serpent should...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (43)
Among other symbols of Typhon was the hippopotamus, sacred to the god Mars because Mars was enthroned in the sign of Scorpio, the house of Typhon....
Bundahishn
Chapter XIX (1)
Regarding the three-legged a ass they say, that it stands amid the wide-formed ocean, and its feet are three, eyes six, mouths nine, ears two, and...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXV (4)
Of the four lists were fashioned the two arms, The thighs and legs, the belly and the chest Members became that never yet were seen. Every original...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (45)
The serpent is true to the principle of wisdom, for it tempts man to the knowledge of himself. Therefore the knowledge of self resulted from man's...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (56)
Both Mithras, the Persian Redeemer, and Serapis, the Egyptian God of the Earth, are symbolized by serpents coiled about their bodies. This remarkable...
Pyramid Texts
Mostly Serpent Charms, Utterances 226-243 (226)
225 To say: One serpent is encircled by another serpent, 225 when a toothless (?) calf born on pasture-land is encircled. 225 Earth, devour that...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XVII (1)
"Behold the monster with the pointed tail, Who cleaves the hills, and breaketh walls and weapons, Behold him who infecteth all the world." Thus unto...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Qabbalistic Keys to the Creation of Man (48)
ANSWER: "Behold, O Adam, the nature of thy Adversary!" The serpent disappears in a blinding sunburst of radiance and in its place stands an angel resplendent...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Qabbalistic Keys to the Creation of Man (46)
"I," the serpent answers, "am Satan who was stoned; I am the Adversary--the Lord who is against you, the one who pleads for your destruction before...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Atlantis and the Gods of Antiquity (31)
Another Mystery ritual among the Babylonians and Assyrians was that of Merodach and the Dragon. Merodach, the creator of the inferior universe, slays...
Pyramid Texts
Conjurations And Charms, Utterances 375-400 (393)
Turn thyself . around thy turning, great bull. 669 ----- his (?) --- the Great escaped from him whom he had charmed. 689 S-t-serpent, protect thyself ...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXIV (2)
The white ass-goat, which holds its head down, is the chief of goats, the first of those species created.
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (16)
In 1609 Henry Khunrath's Amphitheatrum Sapientiæ Æternæ was published. Eliphas Levi declared that within its pages are concealed all the great...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (46)
The accepted theory that the serpent is evil cannot be substantiated. It has long been viewed as the emblem of immortality. It is the symbol of...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (98)
Moses writes here as if the Serpent had beguiled Eve, because God cursed it, [and said;] That it should eat Earth, and creep upon its Belly; but...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
Fishes, Insects, Animals, Reptiles and Birds (54)
The Egyptian sphinx, the Greek centaur, and the Assyrian man-bull have much in common. All are composite creatures combining human and animal...
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Sun, A Universal Deity (47)
The Egyptian Demon, Typhon, was symbolized as part crocodile and part: hog because these animals are gross and earthy in both appearance and...
Pyramid Texts
Charms, Utterances 275-299 (284)
425 To say: He (serpent) whom Atum has bitten has filled the mouth of N., 425 while he wound himself up (lit. wound a winding). 425 The centipede was...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XXV (3)
As I was holding raised on them my brows, Behold! a serpent with six feet darts forth In front of one, and fastens wholly on him. With middle feet it...
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