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It also represents Hadit, of which one can here only quote thiese
words: “I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling
there is joy. If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop
down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth,
and I and the earth are one.”
The serpent is also the Kundalini serpent, the Magical force itself;
the manifesting side of the Godhead of the Magician, whose unmanifested
side is peace and silence, of which there is no symbol.
In the Hindu system the Great Work is represented by saying that
this serpents, which is normally coiled at the base of the spine, rises
with her hood over the head of the Yogi, there to unite with the Lord
of all.
The serpent is also he who poisons. It is that force which destroys
the manifested Universe. This is also the emerald snake which encircles
the Universe. This matter must be studied in Liber LXV, where this
is discussed incomporably. In the hood of this serpent are the six
jewels, three on each side, Ruby, Emerald, and Sapphire, the three
holy elements made perfect, on both sides in equilibrium.