The Serpentine Binary of pre-Columbian Mexico certainly moves us to reflection.
The two fiery serpents or xiuhcoatls, which beautifully surround the Sun in the Aztec calendar, encircled the Templo Mayor of the Great Tenochtitlan as well, and made up the famous coatepantli or “serpents wall.”
The Aztec serpent constantly appears in unusual circumstances that totally deform its organic aspect. The tail, depicted by a second head in strange poses, leads — by simple logical deduction — to the Serpentine Binary.
The double head, which clearly suggests the shape of a serpent in a circle — as in the Gnostic representation in which it devours its own tail — appears in the sacred walls of Quetzalcoatl’s temple (Xochicalco ruins).
These Serpentine Binaries either exotically dancing perfectly coiled in the mystical shape of the holy eight, or carefully linked to form a circle in the Mayan style, indicate to us something mysterious, extraordinary, magical….
Let us emphasize in this treatise the double esoteric character of the Serpent.
We must make a distinction between the tempting serpent of Eden and the Serpent of bronze that healed the Israelites in the desert, between the horrifying Python that crawled in the mud of the earth and was wounded in anger by Apollo’s darts, and the other one that ascended up Aeschalapius’ staff (the god of medicine).
When the Igneous Serpent of our magical powers ascends along the spinal column of our physical organism, it is our Divine Mother Kundalini.
When the Igneous Serpent rushes downwards from the coccygeal bone to the atomic infernos of man, it is the abominable kundabuffer organ.
The venerable Master G. makes the grave mistake of assigning the hypnotic, horrible powers of the descending serpent (the abominable kundabuffer organ) to the rising serpent (Kundalini).
Kundalini is a two-term word: Kunda reminds us of the abominable kundabuffer organ, lini is an Atlantean term which means end.
In transcendental grammar, Kundalini must be translated as: “end of the abominable kundabuffer organ.”
The Kundalini’s victorious ascent along the spinal column provides the end of the abominable kundabuffer organ.
Undoubtedly, Maurice Nicoll and Ouspensky, the great initiate, accepted this error from Master G. The cited Master considered that the sacred prana was his cosmic mother.
If Master G. had studied the Serpentine Binary in the sacred walls of the Mexican, Toltec and Mayan temples, he would have never fallen in this confusion.
Hindu yoga makes meticulous analysis of this annular Serpentine fire (Kundalini) which develops, ascending in the ascetic’s body. Very little is said, nevertheless, about the descending serpent or demonic tail, whose electrical force maintains in a continuous hypnotic trance all of suffering humanity.
If these poor intellectual mammals who populate earth could realise clearly and totally the lamentable state in which they find themselves, they would desperately seek a way out….
As soon as the poor intellectual animal awakens even if it is only for a short moment — and opens his eyes to the crude reality of life, immediately the hypnotic power of the terrible serpent of the abyss charges back with increasing force. Then the unfortunate victim falls asleep again, and dreams that he is awakening or on the eve of awakening.
Only sincere Gnostics who fully understand the difficulty of awakening consciousness know that this is possible only by means of conscious works and voluntary sufferings.
The terrible infernal viper knows the whole modus operandi of mechanical imagination. We would never reject objective and conscious imagination, which is diaphanous and translucent.
The abysmal snake through mechanical imagination which is its acting agent — works in accordance with Nature’s interests and maintains us submerged in a state of deep, hypnotic trance.
By means of the mechanisms of fantasy, we always justify our worst infamies, we elude responsibilities, we look for escapes, we indulge ourselves, we consider ourselves to be the best and we believe ourselves to be just and perfect.
This leads us to think that there are forces for which it is useful and advantageous to maintain the rational mammal in a state of hypnotic sleep in order to hinder him from seeing the truth and understanding his position in life.
The majority of us ostensibly find such excuses, and it is because of this, under the stubborn and subtle activity of justifying the self with the complicity of mechanical imagination, that, in reality, we would never suspect the innermost existence of these very natural psychological errors.
For instance, we are ignorant of the fact that we might be cruel to our wife, children or relatives.
Even worse, we allow the situation to continue especially because we like it and it is so easy, and if we are accused of cruelty, we will probably smile and think that our justice, our mercy and infinite love are not understood….
We are imprisoned in the horrible coils of the great serpent, but we believe ourselves to be free….
Millenary legend says that when Krishna — the great avatar of the Hindustan — was fifteen years old, he went to seek the patriarch Nanda and asked him: “Where is my mother?” (the ascending serpent Kundalini).
“My son, do not ask me,” responded the patriarch. “Your mother has gone back to the country where she came from and I do not know when she will come back.”
Krishna was deeply saddened. He left his companions and wandered a few weeks in Mount Meru.
There, he found an elderly man, standing under a giant cedar tree. They stared at each other for a long time.
“Who are you looking for?” the anchorite asked. “My mother. Where will I find her?”
“Beside he who never changes.” (The Father who is in secret) “But, how do I find him?”
“Seek, never tire of seeking (Within yourself). “Kill the bull (the animal ego) and crush the serpent” (of the abyss).
Then Krishna noticed that the majestic shape of the old man became translucent, then transparent, until he disappeared amidst the tree branches and became just a shining vibration.
When Krishna left Mount Meru, he appeared radiant and transfigured. A magical energy sprang from his being.
“We will battle bulls and serpents (of the abyss). We will defend the good and submit the evil ones,” he said to his companions.
With bow and arrow, Krishna and his brothers, the sons of shepherds, overcame all the ferocious beasts of the jungle.
Krishna killed and daunted lions, fought evil kings, and freed oppressed tribes. Sadness, nevertheless, reigned deep in his heart.
His soul had only one profound, mysterious longing: to find his Divine Mother Kundalini, and find again the sublime elder (his master). Despite the elder’s promise, and the many fights and victories, he could not obtain what he longed for.
One day, he heard about Kalayoni, the king of the serpents, the black magician, the keeper of Kali’ s temple (Coatlicue, Proserpine, Hekate), the frightful goddess of desire and death. He challenged the most feared of her serpents, that eternal serpent (the abominable kundabuffer organ) that had already devoured many hundreds of courageous warriors. Its drivel corroded bones and its stare invoked fright in all hearts.
Krishna — at Kalayoni’s magical conjuration — saw a long and reptile come out, from within the temple of Kali, the great criminal (the queen of infernos and the dead).
The serpent slowly straightened out its voluminous body, made its horrible red mane bristle, and its staring eyes glowed frightfully on its monstrous head of brilliant scales.
“Either you adore her or you will perish,” said the magician.
The serpent died at Krishna’s hands, the holy hero who did not know fear….
When Krishna heroically killed the great serpent, the Keeper of Kali’ s temple, the horrible goddess of desire and death prayed and made ablutions and prayers for a month on the Ganges shore, after having purified in the sunlight and in the contemplating and divine thought of Mahadeva.
The terrifying infernal viper would never accept the Sahaja Maithuna or scientific chastity because this is against Nature’s purposes.
The frightful serpent Python will swallow those who are not devoured by the Divine Serpent Kundalini.
The warrior that kills the infernal snake will enter the palace of the kings. He will be anointed as a king and priest of Nature, in accordance with the order of Melchisedec.
It is never, however, an easy task to rebel against the heredity atoms and the lust that we inherited from our ancestors, and against the frightful infernal viper that brought our grandparents to the world, and will bring our children and our children’s children.
What we carry in our flesh, our blood and bones is clearly evident. To rebel against that, is frightful.
The doctrine of Buddhist annihilation is fundamental. We need to die from moment to moment. Only death brings forth what is new….
Samael Aun Weor
