Secrets of the Bible
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The Snake - Symbol of Evil
Let see further, and why the evil spirit "appeared" as a reptile.
As it is known, the snake and many other animals as well, even fish and
trees had been deified. The reason of this deification originated from the far
back primitive tribes, since they thought that the spirits of the dead used to
enter into some animals, while, as usual, predators devour some people. So they
thought that some dead tribal leaders (gods), who had been eaten by the
predators, lived in the form of those animals. So the animals became totem and
totems were also symbols of the tribes, since they thought the dead tribal
leaders used to "live" in the animals, and continually used to care and
protect the tribe. (I
would rather say, the totems constituted the first "flags"),
For
the far back time, the paganism was a natural condition because of the
circumstantial ignorance, and therefore by worshiping false gods in condition of
ignorance didn’t introduce serious sin. In posterior times things mixed up too
much, when many more animals became totems. It was not only this problem, while
festivals related with those false gods being followed every kind of orgies,
connecting with a lot of sexual distortions, endless drunkenness, human
sacrifices, and a lot of crimes that were going further and further, driving
people into total corruption. These orgies used to work as magnets, and so, it
was very difficult to cut them away from the paganism. The same thing was
happening also with the Israelites, although they had the Law, and been threaten
by the Prophets.
So the snake was for some tribes a totem, personification of the god,
tribal leader; it seems it was a totem of some hostile tribe, and rather this
was one of the reasons to be considered as evil and hostile. Well, the snake is
also by its nature hostile, as it often bites in unsuspected time, and kills its
victim. In other cases it was considered as prudent, for the reason that often
it prefers to go away. But in the case of the story of Eve, the snake appeared
as evil god, and it is indeed a very clear image of totem. The evil god
"was" the snake; the evil god "was living" in the snake. This
god was certainly an old tribal leader, who was a hostile one. Then, after the
"disobedient", the good gods cursed the snake, and from that time it moves
with its belly. I should notice here that by these words that Moses used,
probably passes the message of some kind of limited evolution for the species.
Rather the message is; the snake, which is also the symbol of the other animals
of the field, was not moving before with its belly.
So
the bad snake was used from the holy inspired Prophet to be symbol of the devil.
By knowing better our beloved and absolute just Creator, and also by observing
the created in the nature, and by interpreting the book of Revelation, we
comprehend, that the whole creation doesn’t represent the Creator. The
materialist creation, at least of the earth, will be destroyed. There are the
interpositions of the darkness that exist in the nature, and everywhere in the
whole creation. There are the instincts of aggressiveness, of rapacity, and
general the wilderness, and of course these things are not God’s signs, for
the reason that never come from God. Whatever is bad in the creation, even the
diseases come from the nature and the interpositions of the great reptile.
That is why the Spirit says the snake (as a symbol also of the bad
conditions in the nature) is the most cursed animal between the animals of the
field. So the curse of the Creator, meaning the dislike of the Creator is even
against the nature, in which the animals live, for the reason that there exists
rapacious instincts that did not come from God, and are against God. By reading
the verses 29 and 30 of the first chapter:
Then
God said, behold I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the
surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall
be food for you. And to every animal of the earth and every bird of the sky and
every thing that moves on the earth, which has life, I have given every green
plant for food.
By
these words of the holy ispired Prophet we comprehend the Spirit of the Lord
saying; God’s intention was to be harmony in the nature, to be vegetable
sources of food for all the creatures, without pain and suffering, without
aggressiveness and rapacity. Similar message comes out also from the verse 25,
chapter 2. Adam and Eve were naked, and were not ashamed. And that means--beside
the other messages that we will see them in the continuation—without the
existence of the devil, human would be good, free and happy. And that is what
the Spirit of the Good Father says. Lord’s intention was for the human to live
free and guileless, not to have any knowledge of evil, meaning not to have
in his soul the elements of the devil. This is the knowledge of evil for the
human. But God’s intention was for the human to be born guileless and
free, to be as long he lives innocent and kind, and pass in the
Kingdom
of
God
without any problem.
So the totem snake prevailed as the symbol of the devil, but could have
been the hyena or some other predator, as it was rather with other tribes. But
Moses used the tradition with the snake, because the nature of snake matches
exactly with the devil. It matches as if it was his well-sewed costume. The
snake has nice colours, it can’t walk standing in the light, or at the
darkness, and when it bites spills venom. So the devil also, "with his nice
colours", attracts to the various "nice" passions. He doesn’t walk
evidently, he doesn’t show his sinister face, he is dragging himself slyly in
the human’s lights, (we see for example that the atheism, and so the
darkness, mostly exists in the circle of materialist intelligence), and also
creeping himself in the human darkness that exist everywhere around. He is
creeping slyly into our thoughts, and when he bites, spills his venom into our
soul. His intention is to kill the soul, meaning to take it away from God, so he
may get that soul for himself. That is why it is written in the book of
Revelation, he accuses the people, meaning he claims them and insists that they
are belonging to him. He says they are belonging to him, for the reason that
they obey to him, while acting according his spirit.
But the Son of God, the Light that was born against the darkness, came on
earth to smash his head. And by the words, "will smash his head", means to
smash his kingdom, to smash his power over the human. The Lord came to beat his
evil nature, and He did it. The devil as he is always trapped from his own
nature to do the evil, he couldn’t avoid the ruling of his nature, for the
reason that his nature is the evil, so he couldn’t avoid his condemnation, and
crucified the Son of God. He had already crucified the Light by his existence
and his interpositions, and so his nature enforced him to crucify even literally
the Light, when the Light came as Human in the earth. While the Lord came to the
devil’s kingdom by the human flesh, the devil tried with the same methods to
make Him submit first as Adam, (as Human) into the temptations, and in the power
of the flesh. But of course he was not successful. Then he put his servants, and
those servants whipped Him, spit on Him, make fun of Him, they crucified the
Lord, and spilled on Him all the venom of the reptile. But, have you devil, have
you the right to cause sufferings, and crucify the only Sinless Adam? As Human,
He didn’t pick up any of yours that exist in the creation. And why the Sinless
Adam, He, who is the Son of the Almighty God, He who ordered the storm and the
sea, why did He accept sufferings, tortures, and a horrible Crucifixion from the
servants of the devil, who also were His creatures? I will tell you why.
The devil accuses the people saying they choose to do the wicked, and
while choose the evil, they choose the devil, and therefore are belonging to
him. The evil does not come of course from God, it is abomination for God, so
the Lord set the Law, which also means His Will, against the evil nature of the
devil, and whoever breaks the Law should be punished. The devil also demands the
punishment, while it is like a payment to a debt on his behalf, and his unjust
nature demands opportunist justly punishment. So the Sinless Adam who
loved so much the human lifted on His shoulders this punishment in order to pay
human’s debt. The devil may accuse the people, saying, these people
did something wrong, and therefore are belonging to him, but these people can
now say, forgive us Lord, the snake was the one that deceived us. And God rather
say; these people are not belonging to you, because for whatever wrong they did,
My Sinless Son paid for. You crucified Him, and you had no right, He never
submitted to you, and never picked up from those things that are belonging to
you. So the scale of justice turns towards to the faithful, who believe the Son
of God, and the Son of God, who is also the Son of Adam (Son of Man), became the
Wood of Life for Adam.
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