The Caduceus [Esoteric Sturdays]
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- A brief analysis of the esoteric symbol of the Caduceus.
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The pinecone shape at the top of the staff is the pineal gland , the staff is sushumna and the snakes are ida and pingala. It's a reference to rising kundalini up the central nervous system to ajna (the third eye chakra) governed by the pineal gland, bringing about higher connection with consciousness. It's all over the world in ancient religions and mystery school leftover esoteric knowledge. Ida and pingala were always refered to as the coiled serpent that lays at the base of the spine in muladhara (the base chakra)
Have you felt the snake rise yet?
@@carlmorrison9789 Late reply, but I personally have during a psilocybin mushroom trip. It started with this nightmarish fear that gradually turned into amazing euphoria and was going back and forth between the two extremes for about 10 minutes until I felt the energy shoot up from the base of my spine into my brain. It felt like a very strong orgasm and my mind felt very clear afterwards. I didn't know what happened to me until several months later I found information on Kundalini and it explained my experience, but I didn't intentionally seek it out, it just happened without any effort.
This is just your own modern beliefs. Back then they couldn't have possibly known how the body works, only observed anecdotal feelings. Science knows about chakras now.
It's way more likely that the caduceus is directly symbolic to snakes and sceptors, not some function of the human body.
as a tantric expert who can feel nadis i can confirm this.. if you are an energy healer who can feel these energies you dont need "scientific proof" healed many people that way
@TaxEvasi0n how couldn't they know how the body works
« You can take that story literally if you find it helpful. » You’re a gem of a human.
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I agree, great topic 😇 Wings and serpents - wise as serpents, gentle as doves. Note that the cadeucean serpents are looking at each other, observer and observed. The wings also represent polarity, there’s quite a lot in it especially as it relates to the Kabbalistic tree of life.
Kundalini, was my first thought.
The Caduceus of Hermes is on the Two of Cups in tarot. This is an awesome teaching. Thanks!
Moonlarkmystic what do the two cups mean?
Could it be that the use of a transactional symbol rather than a healing symbol resulted in U.S. Healthcare system being one of the greatest examples of capatalist toxicity? In the U.S. there are laws against price gouging during disasters, (ex. hurricanes, floods, covid, etc.) but no such protection for everyday personal medical disasters. In your greatest time of need, it's ok to charge $15 for an asprin and $8 for a bandaid. It is said that "the world is not governed by rules nor laws, but signs and symbols.
Jacobspaid I wonder about this. It seems a little on the nose yet it’s so apt
Where is that quote from btw?
Done very well, a balance between 2 points with using higher reasoning to get us there.
Snakes (at least a lot of them) tend to curl around each other during mating, so I was thinking about creation and creation of life. Embryology and Obstetrics are also important in medicine.
I read somewhere a long time ago that the rod represented the spine and the serpent was kundalini energy moving up it. At the points where it crossed the staff were the chakras.
Yes, depending on the tradition you're coming from, of course, but yes, very much so, with the pineal gland at the top.
this is the truth
Bingo
It amuses me that Christians equate the serpent with evil. In Proverbs it says, "Be as wise as a serpent and as patient as a dove." The serpent has always been a symbol of wisdom and I like snakes.
"some Christians" or even "many Christians"... even "most Christians" at a push 😉
@@FoolishFishBooks You're lucky you live in England. In the States we have a "Rattlesnake Roundup" where hundreds of snakes are cruelly killed every year by yahoos.
@@Master_Blackthorne 😣 Ah, man... What a mess 🤦🏻♂️ How barbaric. I didn't know about that. Thank goodness it's "some Americans", and not "Americans"! Best wishes of solace to you, @Master Blackthorn!
Though it's an Owl,or 🦉 is a symbol of knowledge.
You say that, yet this symbol is used by some of the most evil people the world has seen. It’s even used on the baphomet. Also even if the serpent is wise, doesn’t mean it’s good. It was the serpent that influenced Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit. I believe this could be a metaphor, and it’s like saying the serpent symbolism opens up an inviting gateway to knowledge and wisdom, but it could be coming from a dark and evil source. The devil is deceptive, just like the serpent in the garden. Be careful
Good call out about the serpent representing wisdom. Even Zeus used to be represented as a serpent until a point in time things changed. He became the slayer of serpents.
The point you made Denis about YinYang, DNA and information opened a door for me.
Leibniz invented binary mathematics after reading the Yi Jing, written by the legendary Fu Xi. Leibniz’s article was even titled “Explanation of the binary arithmetic, which uses only the characters 1 and 0, with some remarks on its usefulness, and on the light it throws on the ancient Chinese figures of Fu Xi”
As we know, binary is the language of computers, in fact, that’s what I’m actually writing here.
But I had never connected it with DNA till this video and you’re spot on.
well said. After looking up "caduceus meaning" I knew almost immedately that I chose the right video. Great stuff. Liked and subbed! Have a good day
Glad it was helpful! Thank you for the sub! 😄🙏
I’m getting this tattooed on my arm. Thank you.
thank you for your excellent presentation, this has to be my favourite symbol I have carved it many times, in it I see the 7 hermetic principles or laws of the universe.
my sincere thanks for your time and illumination on this subject.
you can view it in terms of 4 parts.
Snake 1: Represents your logical mind
Snake 2: Represents your emotional aspect
Rod: both the snakes make up your identity which rises from a single point, the single cell that you started life as an embryo. As the snakes rise, your identity is made up in the world. Your ego rises, your place in the world is made known
Lastly the fourth aspect: Is the material which makes these three parts, CONSCIOUSNESS. As these snakes meet at 6 chakra points, the 7th being above your head.
Every aspect made up of these 4 parts.
True it is a representation of Kundalini, but it's also understanding of what it means, like blood flow being established, rather than just words from a book.
neil5507 where you learn this?
I love your speech in all your videos, very clear and I find it very relaxing. Has anyone else ever mentioned this.
That's very kind of you to say :) I'm so glad you're enjoying the style :D
love your style. i feel like we're hanging out in your office together. great job!
I love your book reviews and am a fan of your page. Keep it up
Thank you, Stanley!, much appreciated :D
Sat Nam, wonderful video. I would like to hear your perspective on the Thyrsus of Dionysus as well😁🧿🐉
Just a little addition to the twin serpents, in yoga and hindu thought, these serpents represent the energy of two forces runing through our nervous system. Labelled as Ida and Pingala, these are the feminine and masculine forces respectively, roughly equated in our sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous systems.
Ophiucus is the serpent bearer. The constellation is also associated as a person holding a spear. Basically Moses comes from a star myth associated with Ophiucus, he is even holding the Ten Commandments in the form of the adjacent constellation of libra
I believe the caduceus represents the spinal column, with the snakes standing for Ida and Pingala (i.e. the Ying and Yang in us).
If you ever have the opportunity to visit Alan Moore in Northampton you will see he has a caduceus carved on his front door.
There is a line of thought that tracks Mercury back as Hermes and Thoth back to Ningishzida, son of Enki who at one time was the cup-bearer to An himself, and who was actually present and instrumental in the final DNA operations with Enki and Ninma that produced Adamu and Tiamat that could reproduce as human beings.
Enki was the original serpent and officially the Lord of the earth. Ningishzida his son, was said to be as full of knowledge of DNA as his father but was wiser and less tribal, and unparalleled as a healer when he chose to be. It is not surprising he would carry the double helix of the twin serpents, I think.
The wings of course were an indicator of any of the Gods at that time, for they were the ones able to fly.
The biochemist who was working on discovering the shape of DNA couldn't work out how it was fitted together, until he took psychedelics (entered a higher state of consciousness) and had a eureka moment when he realised that the DNA molecule was shaped as a double helix.
Taking a symbolic story literally helps you understand it more thoroughly imo🙂
Another question you answered for me is what was the weapon/tool of Hermes/Mercury, which I was about to look up. Beautiful statue BTW.
Gods of Wisdom are a special subject for me. The Tibetan name I received when I took the Bodhisattva Vow is in part Jamyang, which is short for Jampalyang, Manjushri in Sanskrit, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom. He holds a flaming sword and a book on a lotus. The sword represents wisdom because words cut the world in two (the thing and not the thing) to make it understandable. Yin yang, binary, north south, east west, polarity, vibration. But this is odd from a Western background where swords are usually martial (thought not in magick I since found out). The Archangel Michael also wields a sword and Michael is the name my parents gave me at birth. From what I can tell, Michael is very much thought of as a martial figure, but I’m sure many miss this message in his iconography.
Amazing, though probably not coincidental, that Hermes/Mercury’s weapon/tool also has duality woven into it.
As Hermes/Mercury is the equivalent of Thoth, I wonder if there is an equivalent weapon/tool there?
Meanwhile, I will continue to be a fool persisting in his foolishness.
Great video, another thing that could have been mentioned is in Indian esotericism we have the 2 intertwining snakes Ida and Pingala that form the chakras etc.
*Caduceus* can be found in old Persian magi religions , like Mithraic and so on.
thank you for that
I think about the snakes as the eggs and the rod as the sperm which enters the egg(s) and the wings and helmet as symbols of protection (masculine energy) and knowledge (Feminine energy). It represents the Complete elements of life.
The Caduceus, being the symbol of Mercury's staff, is also the symbol of the hindu nakshatra of Ashlesha, in Jyotish Astrology, as it's ruled by both Moon and Mercury.
Actually if you look at Egyptian and Babylonian and sumerian symbols, it is the Winged Sun with 2 serpents, a symbol of power. The added rod is an old phallic symbol according to Jordan Maxwell. It could be viewed as “Male Power ruling”
I see the two serpents as organized information, the effective concert or cooperation of any two allows them to rise constructively, the essence of system, like the two spheres of the brain working together. The wings represent transience, to be everywhere or anywhere at the speed of thought. The air being the realm of the winged animals who can freely move between the worlds of heaven and earth, and air being the medium through which thought is transmitted, the tele-realm.
You've missed Ningishzida which is the main thing... plus Ida Sushumna and Pingala which is an important Upanishads reference
Aren't the wings supposed to represent pnuma ( wind/spirit/ the devine ) ?
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big fan too !!
So glad you're enjoying the content!
Greetings! The left one is actually the correct rod of asclipios as the legend has it he saw two snakes fighting and spiked his rod in between them to stop them. The snakes then started ascending the rod giving us this final image!
The serpent represented knowledge of ENki father God of Science and Medicine, Progenitor of the Brotherhood of the Snake
Thanks...thats possible...
The snakes could be Ida and PIngala going around Shushumna
Oh! THis sounds interesting. I'd love to hear more if you have a moment :)
With the wings representing the inner perception of the Ajna/Third Eye
Whether the symbolism is taken through Hindu, Greek, Egyptian or Mesoamerican filters it appears that it ultimately is a remnant of the pre-deluge fourth root race cultures.
something like this: www.centruldesanatategabriela.ro/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/5ae529db3b5d490a5aea35ed5fe53b9d.jpg
@@FoolishFishBooks If you mean the Sanatana System (Hinduism) then Tibi posted a useful jpeg if you mean root races then you can find that info in Rudolf Steiner and Theosophy. In India the legend of the first man (Manu) is said to bought this info from Atlantis. He is also said to have come via Ireland (and the British Isles) before settling in India. There are many interesting connections between the ancient Celtic and Vedic cultures.
I recently heard a talk by a Rabbi on the Moses and pharoh snake episode that Moses staff turning into a snake and then returning to a staff was a symbol of the tree of life and the evil intent. Just thought i would mention it.
I thought it was Aaron who’s staff became a winged serpent.
When harvard university bowed and congratulated me for being one of the few men on the face of the earth that the caduses enterd my body and illuminated my soul it is is real as you and me
Do snakes represent wisdom or knowledge? Are they the same thing?
Snakes represent knowledge, actually data - Logos.
But by extension, they represent the wisdom that accompanies the acquisition of truthful, divine knowledge - Gnosis.
"In the beginning was the Word (Logos), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
I might do a couple of videos on gnosticism a little further down the line.
Knowledge is knowing tomatoes are a fruit. Wisdom is not putting them in a fruit salad.
Also the intertwined snakes ida and pingala and the helmet I think shushumna and our named after the three sacred rivers of India correct me If I'm wrong
You mentioned seeing it as a symbol for balance which makes sense since Mercury is ruled by Libra. 😍
But Mercury rules Gemini and Virgo not Libra so no?
In my opinion, the caduceus is simply the kundalini, no more, no less. Ida and Pingala.
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Aesop, Archimedes, Aristotle, Democritus, Diogenes, Euclid, Heraclitus, Hippocrates, Homer, Plato, Pythagoras, Socrates, Zeno. Democritus was discussing Atoms and Electrons before the Bible, who taught him? Zeno spoke of time and space and quantum physics 2000 years ago. You can find him quoted in quantum physics books today. The first book of Socrates was called Metaphysics. Pythagoras who was the father of mathematics said he had lived before and been given the power to remember his past lives. Who were these people? Where did their knowledge of the atom, electrons, anatomy, science, the cosmos come from? They gave us the names in our medical books, the names of planets, they taught us philosophy and provided the very foundation for civilized life. Right in the middle of a world that basically knew nothing. Also, everything modern science knows about chakras and Kundalini energy is documented in the Bible(which is a spiritual book, not religious). Organised relgions have concealed the true meaning of sacred texts and instead exploited them for systems of control and power.
I love your channel, i really do. When i see the snakes i think " wise as serpants"
It's an interesting saying, come to think of it... it's not "sly" or "cunning", it's "wise" as serpents.
Thanks for this explanation! And that’s a beautiful Bible with pictures of Gustav Dore!! What’s the publishers name of this Bible?
I need to know what book that is I was just thinking "did moses have a snake staff or soemthing in the bible , maybe fish said something" and here I click and see hermes think oh neat etc find it ""coincidental"" that you just hapened to have such the thing!
😄 It's the KJV Bible with illustrations by Gustave Doré. It's the Barnes and Noble leatherbound edition which I reviewed a couple of years ago 😉👍
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no mention of the Sumerian, where this originates from? hmm dig deeper
this is kundalini energy symbols...in human body... its origin from Hindu...
Post Exodus from Egypt, there's a story of Moses making a statue of a snake on a pole, and whenever an Israelite is bitten by a real snake 🐍, s/he looks at the statue and is made instantly immune to the poison ☠.
If I remember correctly, in the Christian New Testament, Paul the Apostle (and also a Jewish lawyer) references this incident and says it was a foreshadowing of Jesus.
This is why many Christians believe that when Wisdom is personified in the Hebrew Scriptures, it is a pre-incarnated Jesus. By extension, "satan" the "serpent" who tempts Eve in the garden is presumed to have been put there as a wise teacher to humans, who abuses his position when he realizes that humans are going to eventually be made equal or superior to his own "species."
The Hebrew word for serpent is almost identical to the word for "shining one," so if you take the story as historically and spiritually real, it possibly started as a story of a being of light who taught and betrayed early humans, and as it was passed down, the being was compared to a snake with its reflective scales, and then it became a story about a snake over time as the word for "shining one" had turned into a synonym for snakes.
If you replace the word "probably" with "possibly", then I'm with you all the way :D
I also like the possibility that it is a was of saying that with great power comes great responsibility. You get divine knowledge, you can forget about blissful ignorance.
The Gnostic version of the story has Sophia as the snake implanting the divine nature (Kristos - divine data) within the empty shell of mankind in order to allow us to escape bondage to Yaldabaoth the demiurge.
Either way, it's all very interesting.
@@FoolishFishBooks fair enough, correction made to previous post.
I'm not nearly as familiar with the various gnostic texts as I am the mainline cannons. Do you have a preferred compilation or summary text you cam recomemd?
@@JasonJrake Yes! The Nag Hammadi Library. I think it's probably time for me to start driving into Gnosticism in my videos. Next Saturday... Maybe. Let me think about it 😉
I was thinking about this exact thing when I watched the video
I’ll just leave this here from John chapter 3:
“14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”
Thanks for the videos!