Converting the Serpent
July 14 p 219 Repetition
This is a selection from my book The Other Road Ahead
My Comment
I wrote several short fables for the book. They are all holographic in that they can be viewed from different angles and various shades of meaning will present themselves. The following is my brief general overview. You may see something else.
We are immediately reminded of the story in the Hebrew Book of Genesis where Eve is tempted by the evil serpent into defying God's orders. This fable relates a different narrative where a woman enters an untended orchard not the paradisaical Eden so we know there is no caretaker. The woman is not a timid Eve but a confident person who is unafraid of a run-down orchard or a scary serpent.
Who could she be? On this heavenly bright shiny day our heroine spots the good tree among the untended trees. These are clues to the woman's identity. I think this is the redeemed Sophia, Aeon of Wisdom and the Divine Spirit of the ancient Alexandrian school. She has been here before and is familiar with the chaos of this planet (the untended orchard). She knows the snake and his tricks and brushes him off thus depriving the snake of his power to beguile.
Instead of killing the serpent her words and demeanor transforms the snake into a bird which is a symbol of the transcendent soul. Now freed from his historical role the serpent is able to join the forces of good and Light.
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Dave, I really appreciate what you have written. It reminds me of my own personal experience. I will quote from my work, First Hand: A Memoir of 1950's Mandeville which is carried on Amazon. "The ninth grade presented a first opportunity, of which I was aware, to taste fruit from the tree of good and evil. I consciously told a lie that did not need to be told (as if some lies need to be told). I didn't like the taste of this apple. I can truthfully say (with tongue-in-cheek), that I have not lied again. Unless you count the time I talked my way out of a traffic ticket, or when my father asked me what I did the previous night. Despite these "setbacks," I was developing a sense of integrity. I had already had an earlier brush with integrity via my father several years before, but now I could tell the difference." J. Vernon Smith