The Serpent's skin

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The Serpent's skin

The serpent's shed skin has been since ancient times, and in various cultures, a symbol of rebirth, immortality, renewal, transformation, and transmutation.

It has also been used, by its own mysticism, in ritualistic, magic, and necromancy practices.

A hidden or « underground tradition » refers that in the history of Eden, the first clothing that Adam and Eve wore after being cast out of paradise, it was precisely made from the shed skin of that ancient serpent that had offered them the forbidden fruit.

Using this skin as an outfit, Adam had the appearance of a reptilian man, as well as the aroma of the primordial serpent, its brilliance, and abilities.

This snake is said to have previously wandered all regions of Eden, absorbing all kinds of aromas on its skin, while impregnating its ophidic essence there. Which in Gnostic terms means that the serpent apprehended or encompassed within itself the entire complex archetypal plot in its potential state (in Eden) , at the same time that « planted » or deposited in these « fields » the luciferin seed, which would later allow finding the lost key to transcend all this archetypal unfolding.

Furthermore, this new clothing gave Adam and Eve an invulnerable condition, against which no one could threaten them.

Adam bequeathed his ophidic attire to his son Cain, who protected by the serpentine cloak, no one ever dared to avenge the death of his brother Abel.

Lilith was fascinated when she met Cain, due to her serpentine appearance, and the aromas emanating from him.

From Cain the serpent robe passed to Lamec, father of Tubalcain, and thus eventually came to King Nimrod, who had the tower of Babel built.

It is also notorious that the term Babel can derive or link with Ob-el, or the serpent God.

The tower of Babel, like the Babylonian Ziggurats, was built following a spiral pattern, and Gnostic traditions refer to the fact that there were priestesses, who carrying serpentine braces and anklets, they channeled the flow of the telluric currents, to establish the exact point of construction of the tower.

Returning to the initial theme of the serpent fur robe, we can appreciate that all the characters are controversial, or that they were in some instance in the opposite direction to the directives of the biblical demiurge, they carried the ophidic cloak.

From Adam and his initial rebellion, then Cain, Lamec, and Tubalcain, and King Nimrod, who sought « to take heaven by storm » by building the tower of Babel.

This marks precisely the contrast between the left-hand path and the right-hand path.

While biblical prophets, Church saints, etc., seek to obtain a « luminous body » or « body of glory and the « garment of justice », etc, the adept of the left path seeks to cover himself, from dark practices, with the attire of the serpent, in order to access not Eden, but its reverse and dark side, and thus claim « I am a snake ».