The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom

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Summary: You dont get it
Review: Ask your Shepherd, self-righteous Book ref, how do you know?
You just dont get it, thats all. Anyone who has had direct experiences and connections will not doubt it

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Summary: Return of the Serpents of Wisdom
Review: Great book...dove tails with metaphysical information from other books I've read on this subject. Detailed and in good order, this book pares down to detail the information offered in The Pleiadian Agenda, A New Cosmology for the Age of Light by Barbara Hand Clow. Gives good information on "how to become"...Other good books: When God Was A Woman, by Merlin Stone, and the Inner Temple of Witchcraft by Christopher Penczak (which offers much more than your traditional "Witchcraft" information!)...All books clarify the cosmic picture and our own place in it.

Rating:
Summary: Return of the Serpents of Wisdom
Review: Great book...dove tails with metaphysical information from other books I've read on this subject. Detailed and in good order, this book pares down to detail the information offered in The Pleiadian Agenda, A New Cosmology for the Age of Light by Barbara Hand Clow. Gives good information on "how to become"...Other good books: When God Was A Woman, by Merlin Stone, and the Inner Temple of Witchcraft by Christopher Penczak (which offers much more than your traditional "Witchcraft" information!)...All books clarify the cosmic picture and our own place in it.

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Summary: thick with information
Review: I came across this book by accident, and picked it up because of the wonderful Alex Grey artwork on the cover. I am SOOO glad I found it. This book is a wonderful tool for students of ancient hermetic/esoteric wisdom, and is a valuable tool for people interested in Atlantis, or Lemuria, as well as those interested in the symbolism of the serpent from ancient times. Intuitively this book struck so many chords with me that I had to read it little by little each night to process the information. Fortunately, the writing is structured in such a way that it is easy to stop at any time & pick it back up later. I highly recommend it in your study of Esoteric philosphy.

In addition to this book (mostly for the serpent symbolism) I recommend Jeremy Narby's "The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge".

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Summary: I found this to be the best book yet written on the subject!
Review: I was in total amazement when I found this book! I had spent a lifetime searching for the information in this book. It never came all in one package for me. It took me 30 years to live and track down what I was finding the author has collected and so easily offered in this remarkable book. In short, this book is nothing less then a clear and consice exposition of who the goodly extra-terrestrials are who seeded this planet, and how they have fit into the legends and myths of human socitietes throughout the ages. When the seeker finds that all the Masters of all the Traditions have roots within the ET Serpent Star Seed, they will then discover the true nature of reality and of the Masters of Wisdom, as well as the Goddesses and Gods. Learning this squarely places the readers identity into certain terms. I consider this the book of the year, if not the decade!

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Summary: A Beautiful Alex Gray Cover...
Review: There are probably some really weird "true" things in here. This book is what happens when your brain chemistry is pure LSD and you don't have a very rational approach or strong grip on "average reality" to begin with. It was a fun book however...and I'm sure the author is a blast to hang out with.

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Summary: VERY misleading title
Review: There are probably some really weird "true" things in here. This book is what happens when your brain chemistry is pure LSD and you don't have a very rational approach or strong grip on "average reality" to begin with. It was a fun book however...and I'm sure the author is a blast to hang out with.

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Summary: VERY misleading title
Review: This book is a historical and cultural survey of serpents, dragons, and some other really strange things. The premise of the book was supposed to be (from what I understood) the Return of the Serpents of Wisdom (a group of enlightened beings possibility of extraterrestrial origin). That's not what this book is about.

The author says he was initiated into an order of serpent wisdom from Mesoamerica by Anton Ponce De Leon Paiva (see The Wisdom of the Ancient One: An Inca Initiation). So you would think this book is information about the *Return* of those people to the earth either literally or figuratively.

Instead this book talks about all manner of cultural appearances of snakes, serpents, and dragons regardless of the degree of their association to the serpent masters. There are even some very dark figures in this book such as the magical dragon baphomet whom monotheistic readers would object to as a blatant depiction of satan (who is not usually considered an enlightened being).

Although the book shows very serious research it looses much credibility by including things like a copy of the supposed image of Sananda (Jesus) taken in Mexico by an archeologist in 1961 (which in this reviewers opinion is clearly a painting). It causes this book to associate to the same level of authenticity as the Cottingly fairy hoax of the 1920s.

So while the breadth of this book as a historical survey of all things serpenty is admirable, it's ability to stay within the context of a group of enlightened masters has failed. The associations the author attempts to make with any appearance of a snake, serpent, or dragon to some universal brotherhood of enlightened masters ranges from possible to tenuous to fictional.

If you want up to date information on the serpent masters there are much better works out there. Amoung them is Return of the Children of Light: Incan and Mayan Prophecies for a New World by Judith Bluestone Polich. This book is a better blend of myth, history, current scientific research, and future esoteric possibilities. Books by the mentor of this author (Anton Ponce De Leon Paiva) may also do a better job.

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Summary: Goes off the deep-end.
Review: This book is pretty one dimensional: it claims that basically all religion, all society, most royalty, and a lot more, all are related to extraterrestrial "serpents of wisdom" who have come to earth throughout history, and, you may have guessed it by the title, are coming back.

As a serious Bible student, I personally don't doubt there is some truth to this (See Genesis 6 and the book of Enoch), but this book goes too far. Some of the claims in this book I feel went way over the deep deep-end, examples: literal part-man, part-serpent creatures actually ruled over people in the past, Jesus Christ was an "incarnation of the serpent" ie another serpent of wisdom, as was Buddha, Muhammad, and the other great religous leaders. Oh, did I mention, the universe was created by the primal serpent, who controls, destroys, and brings to pass the "cycles of the serpent." Could we be more
one-densional?