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Dragon succession were all venerated as lilies, having such names as Lili, Luluwa, Lilith, Lilutu and Lillette. answer is to be found in the Bible itself. Dragon succession were all venerated as lilies, having such names At that stage in the family's history, the vengeful Jehovah as Lili, Luluwa, Lilith, Lilutu and Lillette. apparently warned Noah and his sons against the ingestion of blood—an edict which became expressly important to the later n pictorial representation, the Messianic Dragon bore little Jewish way of life. It has long been a customary Jewish practice [res to the winged, fire-breathing beast of later Western to hang meat for blood-letting before cooking and consumption. mythology. It was, in essence, a large-jawed serpent with four But, in contrast, the Christian faith is especially concerned with legs, very much like a crocodile or a monitor. This was the sacred the figurative ingestion of blood. In the Christian tradition it is Messeh whose name was 'Draco'. Draco was a divine emblem of customary to take the Communion sacrament (the Mass) wherein _ the Egyptian Pharaohs, a symbol of the Egyptian Therapeutate, of wine is drunk from the sacred chalice, symbolically representing the Essenes at Qumran, and was the Bistea Neptunis (the sea ser- the blood of Jesus, the lifeblood of the Messianic Vine. pent) of the descendant Merovingian Fisher-Kings in Europe. Could it be, perhaps, that the modern Christian custom is an In the old Hebrew Bibles, all references to serpents are made by unwitting throw-back to some distant pre-Noah ritual which use of the word nahash (from the stem NHS#H); but this usage Jehovah opposed? If so, then since it is known that the chalice is does not relate to serpents in the way that we would know them— a wholly female symbol which has been emblematic of the womb that is, as venomous snakes. It relates to serpents in their tradi- from the earliest times, might this even have been an extract of tional capacity as bringers of wisdom and enlightenment, for the menstrual blood? The answer to these questions is 'Yes'. That word nahash actually means 'to decipher' or 'to find out’. was precisely the custom, but it was not so unsavoury as it might Serpents, in one form or another, were always associated with seem. Indeed, few of us think to enquire about the ultimate wisdom and healing, and the Trees of Life and Knowledge are sources of many of today's ingested medicines and bodily supple- customarily identified with serpents. Indeed, the insignia of many ments, and those in the know would often be reluctant to tell us. of today's medical associations is precisely this image of a serpent The Premarin hormone, for example, comes from the urine of coiled around the Plant of Birth (Tree of Life)—a depiction pregnant mares, while certain growth hormones and insulin are shown in the clay reliefs of ancient Sumer to be Enki's persona manufactured from E. coli, a faecal bacterium. emblem. The blood extract in question was, Interestingly, though, another com- in the first instance, not human but 4 TAT mon emblem for medical relief organ- from the sacred Anunnaki lunar In strict terms the original Star isations depicts two coiled serpents, essence—that of Enki's sister Nin- Fire was the lunar essence of the spiralling around the winge: khursag, the designated Lady of Life. Goddess but even in an everyday caduceus of Hermes the magician. In 3 Hy F It was defined as the most potent of . these instances the true symbolism o: all life-forces and was venerated as mundane environment, the Star Fire ritual is conveyed, an being 'Star Fire’. It was from the . this symbol can be traced back to the i menstruum contains the most Y womb of Nin-khursag that the kingly very origins of the alchemical mys- line was born, and it was with her valuable endocrinal secretions, tery schools and gnostic institutions. blood, the divine Star Fire, that the . . The records explain that the central Dragon succession was supplemen- saat Ald of ee pineal staff and entwined serpents represent tally fed. an Ituitar' ands. the spinal cord and the sensory ner- In ancient Egypt, Nin-khursag was p y g vous system. The two uppermost called 'Isis', and by either name she wings signify the brain's lateral ven- was the ultimate Mother of the Messianic line, for hers was the tricular structures. Between these wings, above the spinal col- matriarchal gene which constituted the 'Beginning', the 'Gene- umn, is shown the small central node of the pineal gland. Isis’, or, as the Greeks identified it, the Genesis. The combination of the central pineal and its lateral wings has It is worth reminding ourselves, then, that the biblical edict to long been referred to as the ‘Swan’, and in Grail lore (as in some abstain from blood came not from Enki the Wise but from Enlil- yogic circles) the Swan is emblematic of the fully enlightened Jehovah—the God of Wrath who had instigated the Flood, had being. This is the ultimate realm of consciousness achieved by wrought havoc in Ur and Babylon, and had endeavoured to the mediaeval Knights of the Swan, as epitomised by such chival- deceive Adam by saying that he would die if he ate from the Tree _ric figures as Perceval and Lohengrin. of Knowledge. This was not a god who liked people, and the Most of you are probably quite familiar with the functions of Sumerian records are very clear in this regard. Hence, if he for- the pineal and other glands of the endocrinal system. But for bade the taking of blood, this was not likely to have been an edict —_ those who are perhaps not, the pineal is a very small gland, for the benefit of Noah and his descendants—it was most proba- shaped like a pine cone and about the size of a grain of corn. It is bly to their detriment. centrally situated within the brain, although outside the ventricles In strict terms the original Star Fire was the lunar essence of the and not forming a part of the brain-matter as such. Goddess, but, even in an everyday mundane environment, men- The pineal gland was thought by the 17th-century French opti- struum contains the most valuable endocrinal secretions, especial- cal scientist René Descartes to be the seat of the soul—the point at ly those of the pineal and pituitary glands. The brain's pineal which the mind and body are conjoined. The ancient Greeks con- gland in particular was directly associated with the Tree of Life, sidered it likewise, and in the 4th century BC Herophilus for this tiny gland was said to secrete the very essence of active described the pineal as an organ which regulated the flow of longevity, called soma, or, as the Greeks called it, ambrosia. thought. This gland has long intrigued anatomists because, while In mystic circles, the menstrual ‘flow-er' (‘she who flows') has the rest of the brain is ‘double’, the pineal has no counterpart. long been the designated ‘flower’ and is represented as a lily or a In the days of ancient Sumer, the priests of Anu (the father of lotus. Indeed, the definition 'flow-er' is the very root of our mod- Enlil and Enki) perfected and elaborated a ramifying medical sci- ern word ‘flower’. In ancient Sumer, the key females of the ence of living substances, with menstrual Star Fire being an valuable endocrinal secretions, especially those of the pineal and pituitary glands. NEXUS - 39 In strict terms the original Star menstruum contains the most OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1998