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The Brazen Serpent: Chaos and Order

M. R. Osborne

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The theme of the book is an exploration of the myth of the Brazen Serpent as a cipher for the "Divine Code" concealed within everything about us. The book explores its theme through the paths of numerology, geometry, and allegory, among others. Using the image of the Brazen Serpent which Moses created and placed among the Hebrews wandering in the desert to protect them from the attacks of the serpents, the author considers the symbol of the serpent in its widest sense, not only from the notion of the Brazen Serpent as a symbol for Christ but also from the point of the view of the Kabbalah, tracing the use of this potent symbol into more recent esoteric Orders.

The book comes with extensive tables including a selected bibliography; an index of biblical texts quoted; index of persons, places, and subjects.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Rose Circle Publications
  • Publish Date: Apr 4th, 2022
  • Pages: 218
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.69in - 1.24lb
  • EAN: 9798892983150
  • Categories: MysticismBiblical Studies - Exegesis & HermeneuticsBiblical Biography - Old Testament

About the Author

Lees, Alistair: - M.R. Osborne is the author of ten published works. He studied Theology at the University of Birmingham and is an Attorney at Law, specialising in private equity. He is a member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) and has published academic papers on legal and esoteric subjects. His focus is on Rosicrucianism, early masonic organisation and occult symbolism. In 2017 he won the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia Order of the Companion of Christian Rosenkreutz prize for a series of papers on the 'Lessons of Lyons'. He is also a contributor to the society's digital magazine, 'Flores et Taciturnas'. The author first encountered Martinism and Rosicrucianism on a personal journey of Christian spirituality, discovering in them a fascinating philosophy of early science almost wholly unknown to mainstream thinking.