Serpents, Snakes and Dueling Dragons

The caduceus represents the power of spirit intellect (the staff) to control the dualistic imbalance of primal nature: body (red serpent) and unconscious mind (white serpent).

The Arthurian symbology of two dragons forever engaged in battle with one another came to overtly represent the struggle between the Germanic and Keltic peoples. But its origin hints at a more profound allegory in play. Devoid of spiritual intellect, the red dragon (uncontrolled inner nature) is forever locked in a bitter struggle with the white dragon (unenlightened spirit) with regards to the lower and higher options afforded through mortal existence experienced and interacted upon by an untrained mind. Man is half deity and half beast, and these polar opposites must be balanced through higher intellect in order to attain spiritual unity. Man cannot live on bread (nature) alone.

The Bible says that if one were hot or cold, God would accept them, but if they are lukewarm, he shall spit them out (refuse them for not being ready). "Hot or cold" meaning spiritual and natural, and lukewarm meaning untrained or unrefined, in refence to being too lazy or unwilling to choose a path. This is obviously in reference to the two baptisms and reincarnation, no different than sticking a loaf of bread back into an oven if it is not fully done. The bread is accepted when it is warm, but it must first be fully baked - tempered by fire (Fire  Baptism).  

Bread is the natural counterpart to wine, which represents spirit. In fact, even today alcohol is referred to as spirits. The act of cooking dough into bread is very similar to fermenting grapes into wine. Thus bread represents the serpent body, whereas wine represents the serpent spirit.

The terms dual and duel in essence carry one and the same core meaning. Without intellectual refinement, these cannot be brought to balance and harmony.

Gnothe Seautom

The Iron Rod and the Morning Star

The caduceus therefore represents victory over the human condition. The staff represents core body and mind enlightened, whereas the serpents represent the left and right extremeties of the body. Through divine intellect, the body is brought under control. The act of shaking hands with the right hand: the use of the left hand being called "sinister": the ageless thought of the left side being representative of the feminine (nature) and the right side as masculine (spirit) all are eons old behaviorisms derived from the concept of balancing the natural body through the enlightened mind.

Davinci's Natural Man

Saint George slew a dragon.

Adam and Eve were tempted by a snake hanging around the tree of knowledge.

Aaron's rod turned into a serpent for Moses.

Banging the head and biting the heel.

666 - note that the danger was announced to both of earth and of sea, but not of air or of fire. Why announce this to those of sea - fish cannot read nor understand. Perhaps this was the same sea that Noah and Moses sailed upon.

Medusa's hair (girl gone wild)- grapes gone wild

The concept of going into a cave (the core of human nature) to slay a dragon.

Inanna had a malevolent serpent in her Halupa tree (tree of life). The sky is the tree of life.

Odipus the serpent bearer

Sumerian and Native American Sky serpents

Nomo Amphibious 

According to Merovingian tradition, Solomon's mom was impregnated by a mysterous sea creature - the sea being synonymous with the celestial Nile (the Milky Way). 

The name Merovingian means Beloved of the Vine.

Nature mandates that one be born first of flesh (manna) and second of spirit (wine), to balance each other out in manifest creation. The trick being to make one from two (E pluribus, unum), into both king of nature and of spirit.

Slaughtering of the first borns by Herod / Herut. Herod "beheading" John the Baptist for demanding that he repent.

Vines and Serpents - 
Leviathon

Adam and Eve and the apple of the serpent (fruit of the vine)

Aaron's rod was a grape vine brought back to life, meaning the serpent from the rod was in reference to the fruit of the vine.

Sokar standing victoriously upon the backs of serpents within a cave.
Serpents can represent grape vines - wine... spirits.

Grapes  are dualistic: they can quench the thirst - or they can intoxicate you, much like unbalanced nature and/or spirit. Grapes come in red, white and blue, and collectively, purple.

Holy water into wine

I will give to you the morning star and the iron rod to rule over both the spiritual and the natural realm.

Woe to you, o earth and sea, Why the sea? Why not air? Was it made up of fire and air?
for the devil sends the beast with wrath, The beast was sent by the devil
for he knows his time is short. The Devil sent the beast because he is short on time?
Let him who hath understanding 
reckon the number of the beast, 
for it is a human number. As opposed to some other form of number?
Its number is 666.

Dragon = comet
Dragons are slain by the Sun or saintly men assimilated as such
Dragons hide in caves – the abyss (Virgo?)
Caves such as the axis mundi / primordial mount / cave of salvation.
Seker standing on serpents within the primordial mount
Ophichicus handling serpents
Caduceus

Snake/dragon goes into a cave – procreates the son of god
A snake enters Virgo (the abyss).
Is the virgin a whore?
Virgo precedes Libra (Justice).
Virgo begets the judge – Anubis?
Anubis was a baptizer
Serpents / dragons represent the semen of god? – creating the fallen son
How would the ancients have known that semen resemble serpents / comets?
Merovingian tradition – twice impregnated – second impregnation was by a “mysterious sea creature” while mother (Virgo) was bathing in the (celestial) river.
Medusa’s hair was made up of serpents: comets ravaging Virgo or Venus? Or was Medusa, in fact, a deification of Venus as a comet?
Venus “hangs a tail”
The vine: refreshing or poisonous
Aaron’s staff / rod: a grape vine staff, turns into a serpent when its fury is unleashed
Iron rod = Aaron’s rod?
Morning star… the comet Venus?

Strange fire near the ark