Roots of the First
Earth-Seeded Member of The Brotherhood of the Lights
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| Aesclepius was, as I said earlier, a Greek deity whose attributes were nearly identical to those of Ancient Egyptian god of medicine I-Em-Hetep (whose name translated means "He Who Cometh In Peace"). Now, in Egyptology, there are Gods (with a capital "G") and gods (with a small letter "g"), and I-Em-Hetep was a little bit of both, being both a contrived deity (man-made-god later) and a legitimate one, being the third member of the great triad of gods in Memphis, Egypt in or about 2900 B.C. where he probably lived as Imhotep, a mortal man at a later date (27th Century B.C.). He was in actual fact attached to the priesthood of RA, the Sun God, becoming the chief minister of the second king of the Egyptian Third Dynasty, Djoser (also spelled "Zoser"), for whom he bent his considerable skills as the innovative Master Architect who set the first profound standard of excellence in step pyramid building. | He designed and built King Zoser's burial complex at Saqqara, Egypt between 2778-2723 B.C. The Zoser Complex stands today as a world monument to innovative architecture. Thus Imhotep's legend began to loom large locally. Imhotep the man received notoriety for his literary abilities which has earned him recognition in modern times as "the first man of science in recorded history." As tales and evidence of Imhotep's accomplishments in Egypt spread to Greece, his legend began to loom so large there that he was brought to the City of Memphis, and adopted in the name of love as a son of Apollo, Greek God of the Sun. The Greeks erected a temple named "To Asklepjion" (Imhotep's Greek god name) in his honor some 2500 years after his death. |
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Serpent Power
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| Today Aesclepius is universally acknowledged as the tutelary patron of physicians, being referred to throughout the world in alchemical, metaphysical, and mundane medical texts and treatises as the man who knew how to revive the dying and recently dead using the blood or venom of a snake. As primitive medicine-men are associated with snake spirits, so Aesclepius is always mentioned in connection with the Cabir Telesphoros, his private daemon who is said to have dictated or inspired his medical prescriptions, and the "Serpent of Epidaurus," his personal/professional emblem, and this symbolic connection between physicians, divine inspiration, and snakes continues to survive the test of time to this day, finding itself consistently in each successive age as a universal symbol of knowledge applied with wisdom in the practice of medicine. | The serpent-staff has a long history of being connected with religious and occult miracles, making perhaps its most notable early appearance during Ancient Egyptian times in the rivalry between the biblical Staff of Aaron the Hebrew and the Uraeus Staff of the Priest of the Egyptian Pharaoh. Later, this same serpent-staff concept was adopted by the American Medical Association in its development of the symbol "Caduceus," which looks something like a winged flagpole about which a pair of serpents is entwined. A closer inspection of the constellation of Ophiuchus vis a vis the Belt of the Zodiac also poses an interesting new age oracle -- is Ophiuchus holding a snake torn in two pieces or is he bearing in his careful grasp a two-headed King snake, each head adorned with a crown? It all depends on how you connect the dots. | |
Appeal to
Wisdom
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| Throughout the legends of Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt, and particularly throughout the wondrous humanitarian career exploits of Aesclepius, God of Medicine, and Imhotep, moral-made-god, the common thread of essential primary teachings begins and ends with the Serpent of Wisdom and the Tree of Life, also sometimes called The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The price we pay for making a mistake in our powers of judgment here is life eternal and expulsion from The Primeval Garden. It's still here and so are we. From what we're told are "pre-historic times," the Elixir of Life, Soma, Amrita, The Deathless Drink, was said to reside in the blood of a monster with dragonish and | snakelike features, and the ancient practitioners of occult medicine, who were anything but unsuccessful with it, have left behind many manuscripts and documented success stories which may be hard to believe, but that's because most of it is sabotaged. Similarly, the alchemical mysteries of Life and Death from an astrological point of view are said to reside on the Zodiac in the constellation of Scorpio the Scorpion, who at some point in each of our lives is supposed to take the symbolic form of a lofty Eagle. Well, EAGLE HAS LANDED, and I don't mean on the moon; the metaphysical Eagle has landed right where he was supposed to -- in the middle of the sign of Scorpio! I'm ready to greet the newcomer. Are you? | |
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