The Caduceus of Hermes

[deviadah]

I think this symbol can't be ignored any longer as it is a core element of alchemy. But I will post more on this at a later date.

For now enjoy the following images:


To see a larger version of this image click HERE

[deviadah]

The Greek Hermes, the ancient Egyptian god Thoth, the Phoenician Taaut and the Roman god Mercury are all the same entity each one having a magic staff wrapped by two serpents. Greek mythology tells us of the origin of this staff, best known as the Caduceus, with the tale of how Tiresias found two snakes copulating. He separated them by sticking his staff between them and was immediately turned into a woman for seven years until he was able to repeat his action and changed back.

The ancient mythology of the Chinese viewed the world as surrounded by two entwined serpents that symbolized the power and wisdom of the creator. The Taoists of China used the image of two serpentine forms entwined, one white the other black, to represent two forces which they called yin and yang.

The Caduceus of Hermes is often confused with The Staff of Asclepius, but really this confusing is more to do with corporate logos and pharmacies than within the occult. I personally try no to be so narrow-minded.

Below is an interesting image that shows both staffs. We see Hermes and a merchant next to a disapproving Asclepius and the naked goddesses Meditrine, Hygeia and Panacea. Perhaps an image that describes the chasm between that of science and esoteric gnosis?


Engraved from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome Galerie Mythologique, Recueil de Monuments by Aubin Louis Millin, Paris 1811.

Of course there is a very interesting correspondence with the double-helix (DNA), Jacob's Ladder, Kundalini and Ningishzidda that deserves further discussion!

For me The Caduceus of Hermes is the alchemical process in one single image, just as The Emerald Tablet is the very same in one single text!

[LadyHydralisk]

In my experiences with this symbol, I once had my legs turn into snakes and start having sex with each other....

lying naked in my backyard....in a thunderstorm,....

also, I found myself stuck on the pole itself in my fallopian tubes turning into serpents.....

alchemy is hot....

I think it's safe to say this symbol sums up the nature of one of the underlying core principles of the earth itself, or perhaps this entire galaxy and beyond.

I'm curious about the one image with the snakes filling a vase with venom or spittle...interesting.

[MythMath]

Here's my city's seal:



It happens to grace each of our trashcans...

The streets just hum on garbage day...

[LadyHydralisk]

lol

MythMath you're so weird.

[deviadah]

I'm curious about the one image with the snakes filling a vase with venom or spittle...interesting.

Which one do you mean? The tarot card picture?

MythMath that logo is funny!

[LadyHydralisk]

No....far right, second one from the bottom, filling the alembic...

[deviadah]

If it is this one you mean I can't give you an answer since the website I got it from tells nothing of what it represents, but I welcome your interpretation!

[LadyHydralisk]

Well, ok, I'll try...

The serpents represent the two great principles, Absolute and Sakti, manifesting from earth (in the form of male and female practitioners)

The orange flaming ball at the bottom represents the whole solar system and the little black dot is earth.

The three triangles - abrahadabra again....

Their tails (forming a crescent shape -allah's symbol) are...uhh...on fire...which is heating up the alembic and they are dripping venom and saliva into it...they appear to be in the act of raising the water levels....we see that the changes inside the vial are express externally but still contained within the forms of their bodies....

The three crowns on top represent the alignment of the highest tiers of the tree of life, binah, chokmah, kether.

In the alembic is being created a new paradigm...

Edit:

Also noticed today the seal of Oxford has three crowns, the words mean "God Enlighten Me":

[deviadah]

The Swedish National Hockey Team is even called Three Crowns!





Perhaps the lower circle can hold the seven lower chakras you spoke of?

The black dot, is without a doubt the Cubic Stone (Philospoher's Stone)!

The fire that surrounds this lower sphere seems to me to be the dormant Serpent Fire!

Perhaps these seven lower chakras are keeping the Serpent Fire dormant?

We are keeping ourselves so busy with fear, lust, anger, jealousy, mental confusion, selfishness, absence of conscience and malice that we forget the essence of ourselves. And even if we are aware of, for instance, love we never truly feel it like a constant buzz in our veins. I think this is what Spiritual Calcination is all about. Shed our false physical selves to reveal the hidden true essence, and the power of the sleeping Serpent!

And the Alembic-body will begin to fill up again...

[MythMath]

In the year 926 A.D., there was held a General Assembly
of Masons at York, England, called by King Athelstan's son Prince Edwin,
wherein the great traditions of symbolic and operative masonry
were constituted, revived, or organized, and a new code
of laws for the governing of the Craft instituted.

[LadyHydralisk]

Well for instance, my understanding of the patala chakra (lowest underworld/murder/outside the universe/Lord Ananta's realm) is that it controls murder because he is the lord of this entire universe and is completely justified in killing whomever he pleases...

My chain is centered in the ankles where the chakra of no guilt/no regrets for any kind of sin is held. I am told this is so that I don't worry about causing mayhem...

OTherwise...jealousy belongs to him...greed belongs to him....murder belongs to him...lust belongs to him...my chakras are properly activated because they have right-thinking involved in regards to karmic consequence...the seven lower chakras have proper application, but it requires complete sacrifice of self. The realization you have absolutely no control over anything that happens in this realm except in a slave mind capacity towards the consciousness of all...with one subtle motion of Ananta's scales, entire continents on earth tremble...imagine the slightest pinpoint of thought occuring in the black ocean below all the worlds and it's effect when finally manifesting on earth..what that would do to a human.

it's slavery

it's effortless effort

and for the tantric adept it's action without lust for fruitive results.

I have this constant burning love feeling for Ningishzidda but also a number of other things....which gets centered in the bridge between heaven and earth...the hara...alembic...w/e



(if this post doesn't make sense to you you should say so...I can explain it in more basic lingo)

[deviadah]

(if this post doesn't make sense to you you should say so...I can explain it in more basic lingo)

Well, I think I got what you mean but I would love to see you explain it in basic lingo...



Also it might aid others too afraid to ask you!

Some might feel you look a bit scary (with that avatar)!

Anyway your words are food for thought, no question about that...

[LadyHydralisk]

Really, that leopard always struck me as a bit dumb looking...like a lolz cat...ok I will change it


Each chakra has siddhis "Powers" associated with it...and deities/symbols.

The lowest chakras from the base of perineum on down to the soles of the feet are not activated in normal practice. It is because they have negative (bad) attributes)

However as one might imagine they are necessary and also good if we choose to activate them in a proper manner, but these teachings are forbidden to be taught.

Obviously the one assocated with the patala chakra means that you can kill whomever you please, whenever, or something like that. It is for this reason we have secret teachings in Buddhism and so on. One still accrues karma for misuse, but it may be that the person will perform many bad deeds if they are not ready for this level of development, and so they will cause an imbalance. Which is entirely possible. Just look at the state of the world.

I'm no expert on chakras though...just a theorist ENTP type...

[mescalinfusion]

Coral Castle Code Broken
by Jon De'Pew
http://www.world-mysteries.com/coralcastle.htm

Scroll down to his article. I think you'll see he's talking about the twin serpents.

[MythMath]

Actually, DePew seems to be championing a more ternary* basis for creation: (+ 0 -)...

The connections between Science and Religions
of all cultures are made with this discovery.

There are only three things the whole universe
needs to have for all of it's majesty.

North-pole magnets & South-pole magnets and they are orbiting
Neutral particles of matter: North-pole / 0 / South-pole.

It is the substance of creation and of life itself.

It is alive and It never dies.

* Tai Hsuan Ching in Motion: click to see groovy animated gif

[LadyHydralisk]

Yeah, well, everything is fractal, bottom to the top...this ties into the unified field theory...the whole universe as a big rotating machine...

I like to think of it as a streaming jelly donut in HDTV...

[MythMath]

My logo for EYESYS games
(on the back of the elemental tarot):


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The caduceus, taken as more literal representation,
becomes its own illustration or map. For this interpretation, one only
has to read the elements of the caduceus as corresponding to elements
of the human body. For example: the two serpents represent the pineal
gland and the pituitary gland (which both look snakelike when uncoiled);
the staff represents the spinal column; the knob represents the medulla
or the cranial orb; and the wings represents the two hemispheres of the
brain (the wrinkled cross-section of the brain has the shape and texture
of stylized wings); the number of intersections of the snakes corresponds
to the endocrine glands or the chakras.

What does this correspondence mean? My own
tendency is to read the symbols as a suggestion that all humans have the
potential for healing, wisdom, and transcendence incorporated in their
own being. The caduceus may have been an instructive device whose rules
of usage have been transformed into religious ritual over the ages.

Another approach -- one that can yield alarming
results -- is to apply a materialistic reading more rigorously. From that
perspective, it is clear that the caduceus might initially have referred
to an actual tool used to induce healing and transformation. Over the
years, a small number of scholars have taken the caduceus as a diagram
for a functional tool. During my research, I ran across one of the most
recent functional interpretations by a scientist named Joshua Gulick,
who actually constructed a caduceus. He says, "It is not just a symbol.
It is an archaic blueprint for an infinitely resonant device to create
and project fourth dimensional waves…. Those of you who have studied occult
science likely know that serpents often represented electricity, while
birds represented magnetism. The serpents in the caduceus symbol represent
electrified wires with current flowing towards the heads.

"With these 4th dimensional waves, it might
be possible to affect 3 dimensional space.… It might also be extremely
easy to affect the human or animal mind at a distance. Research has already
shown that fairly strong magnetic pulses can cause firing of neurons in
the brain. With one of these staves pointed at one's head, the firings
of one's neurons might be controlled fairly precisely by varying the frequency
passing through the staff. One could be entranced with theta frequencies,
stimulated with alpha frequencies or higher, or actually put to sleep
using frequencies around 4-6 Hertz. The staff of Hermes is cited in mythology
as having a anesthetic effect…. This device is also has the potential
to be immensely useful for healing. Preliminary evidence has shown that
when hit at proper resonant frequencies, parasites, bacteria, and viruses
may be selectively destroyed.…"

Gulick's assertions may sound rather fantastic,
but he has actually conducted tests of his machine which explain much
of the caduceus symbology in a rather unexpected way. He says, "I was
hitting my staff (which had a compressed caduceus winding) with pure sine
modulated DC current…. During my experimentation, my mother called in
from the other room (she didn't know what I was doing) and asked me if
I was 'playing sounds on my computer.' I told her no and asked her what
she meant. She told me that she was 'hearing tones in her head.' It would
seem fairly possible that what she heard might had been caused by my experimentation….
I am in the process of constructing a staff using conductive ribbons rather
than wire. This modification will allow much greater efficiency and signal
stability."

From a purely materialistic angle, Gulick's
caduceus could explain the link between Hermes' staff and his other trademark,
the lyre. It also explains why, prior to the current caduceus, Hermes
staff was a staff entwined with colored ribbons.

Despite what some theorists say, symbolism
is not arbitrary. I would go as far as to say that it is never arbitrary
when it is a human act because what we consciously believe to be arbitrary
connections are almost always unconsciously meaningful. The caduceus,
like most symbols from antiquity, has accumulated a spectrum of often
conflicting meanings over the ages, becoming, in the process, a frustrating
summarizing symbol. But those meanings, as you have seen, are accessible
through a variety of approaches.

So the caduceus could be the blueprint for
a machine used for mind control and healing, a diagram of how the human
body is its own vehicle for transcendence, or merely an accidental symbol
for the medical profession. Take your pick, but apply your caduceus wisely;
remember that the most important rule for the physician is, "First, do
no harm."

from:"Caduceus"

[MythMath]

Physicians, Heal Thyselves:




Polarity Principles

[deviadah]

This images from the site you supplied is great in its child-like simplicity:





Also stumbled upon this images while looking for something else:

[deviadah]

Discovered a Caduceus on a building I walk past almost every day. I'll try and get some pics of it tomorrow and post it here. It is no surprise that the building itself is a School of Economics... Hermes is often connected with trade.

[deviadah]

Discovered a Caduceus on a building I walk past almost every day. I'll try and get some pics of it tomorrow and post it here.

[deviadah]

Here's a statue of Hermes (as a young man) that I took earlier today in a museum in Copenhagen, Denmark!

[EtuMalku]

The Caduceus is none other than our DNA

[deviadah]

The Caduceus is none other than our DNA

Well duh!

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