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serpents by saying that this was the name given to the tribe of Levi, to all the Levites, in short, and that Moses was the
chief of the Sodales.*** It is to the mysteries that the original meaning of the "Dragon-Slayers" has to be traced, and the
question is fully treated of hereafter.
Meanwhile it follows that, if Moses was the chief of the Mysteries, he was the Hierophant thereof, and further, if, at the
same time, we find the prophets thundering against the "abominations" of the people of Israel, that there were two
schools. "Fiery serpents" was, then, simply the epithet given to the Levites of the priestly caste, after they had departed
from the good law, the traditional teachings of Moses: and to all those who followed Black Magic. Isaiah, when referring to
the "rebellious children" who will have to carry their riches into the land whence come "the viper and fiery flying serpent"
(xxx. 6), or Chaldea and Egypt, whose Initiates had already greatly degenerated in his day (700 B.C.), meant the
sorcerers of those lands.**** But these must be carefully distinguished from the "Fiery Dragons of Wisdom" and the "Sons
of the Fire Mist."
In the "Great Book of the Mysteries" we are told that: "Seven Lords created Seven men; three Lords (Dhyan Chohans or
Pitris) were holy and good, four less heavenly and full of passion. . . . The chhayas (phantoms) of the Fathers were as
they."
This accounts for the differences in human nature, which is divided into seven gradations of good and evil. There were
seven tabernacles ready to be inhabited by Monads under seven different Karmic conditions. The Commentaries explain
on this basis the easy spread of evil, as soon as the human Forms had become real men. Some ancient
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* "Genesis," ch. xlix.
** Dunlap, in his introduction to "Sod, the Mysteries of Adonis," explains the word "Sod" as arcanum, religious mystery, on
the authority of Schindler's "Penteglott." "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him," says Psalm xxv., 14. This is a
mistranslation of the Christians, for it ought to read "Sod Ihoh (the mysteries of Ihoh) are for those who fear him" (Dunlap,
"Mysteries of Adonis," xi). "Al (El) is terrible in the great Sod of the Kadeshim (the priests, the holy, the Initiated), Psalm
lxxxix, 7" (ibid.). The Kadeshim were very far from holy. (Vide Part II., "The Holy of Holies.")
*** "The members of the priest-Colleges were called Sodales," says Freund's "Latin Lexicon" (iv. 448). "Sodalities were
constituted in the Idaean Mysteries of the MIGHTY MOTHER," writes Cicero in de Senectute. ("Mysteries of Adonis.")
**** The priests of Baal who jumped over the fires. But this was a Hebrew term and a local one. "Saraph" -- "fiery or
flaming venom."
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[[Vol. 2, Page]] 213 THE SEVENTH SON OF THE SEVENTH SON.
philosophers ignored the seven in their genetical accounts and gave only four. Thus the Mexican local Genesis has "four
good men" described as the four real ancestors of the human race, "who were neither begotten by the gods nor born of
woman"; but whose creation was a wonder wrought by the creative Powers, and who were made only after "three
attempts at manufacturing men had failed." The Egyptians had in their theology only "four sons of God," whereas in
Pymander seven are given -- thus avoiding any mention of the evil nature of man; though when Seth from a god sank into
Set-Typhon, he began to be called "the seventh son." Whence probably arose the belief that "the seventh son of the
seventh son" is always a natural-born magician, though, at first, only a sorcerer was meant. APAP, the serpent
symbolizing evil, is slain by Aker, Set's serpent;* therefore Set-Typhon could not be that evil. In the "Book of the Dead" it
is commanded (v. 13) that chapter clxiii. should be read "in the presence of a serpent on two legs," which means a high
Initiate, a Hierophant, for the discus and ram's horns** that adorn his "serpent's" head in the hieroglyphics of the title of
the said chapter denote this. Over the "serpent" are represented the two mystic eyes of Ammon,*** the hidden "mystery
god." This passage corroborates our assertion, and shows what the word "serpent" meant in antiquity.
But as to the Nagals and Nargals, whence came the similarity of names between the Indian Nagas and the American
Nagals?
"The Nargal was the Chaldean and Assyrian chief of the Magi (Rab-Mag), and the Nagal was the chief sorcerer of the
Mexican Indians. Both derive their names from Nergal-Serezer, the Assyrian god, and the Hindu Nagas. Both have the
same faculties and the power to have an attendant daemon, with whom they identify themselves completely. The
Chaldean and Assyrian Nargal kept his daemon, in the shape of some animal considered sacred, inside the temple; the
Indian Nagal keeps his wherever he can -- in the neighbouring lake, or wood, or in the house in the shape of some
household animal."****
Such similarity cannot be attributed to coincidence. A new world is discovered, and we find that, for our forefathers of the
Fourth Race,
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* "Book of the Dead" xxxix.
** The same ram's horns are found on the heads of Moses which were on some old medals seen by the writer in
Palestine, one of which is in her possession. The horns, made to form part of the shining aureole on the statue of Moses
in Rome (Michael Angelo), are vertical instead of being bent down to the ears, but the emblem is the same; hence the
Brazen Serpent.
*** But see Harris's "Magic Papyrus" No. v.; and the ram-headed Ammon manufacturing men on a potter's wheel.
**** Brasseur de Bourbourg: "Mexique," pp. 135 and 574.