Philosophical Library/Open Road

Serpent (or Snake) If all symbols are really functions and signs of things imbued with energy, then the serpent or snake is, by analogy, symbolic of energy itself—of force pure and simple; hence its ambivalence and multivalencies.

Easter Sunday to place herbs and simples in a wooden vessel together with the dried carcase of a snake, which every person present must have touched with his, or her, fingers.

The herbs were then burned.

To prevent a child having the whooping-cough, hang an adder stone round its neck.

remote parts of the Highlands.

Serpents’ Eggs and Snake Eggs

of thought?
My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents, and I lay them both at His feet.

A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice, the quicker the progress

Mankind is at the crossroads. It has to make its choice between the law of the jungle and the law of humanity.

order to understand the particular significance of the zaddik, as distinct for instance from that of the Russian staretz as he has been presented with the transforming fidelity of a great poet, by Dostoevski, it is necessary to remember the fundamental difference between the historical conceptions of Judaism and Christianity