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<font size="4">The World Serpent</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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universe is often conceived as a serpent coiling round and eating itself, the
head turning about and swallowing the tail. The image is that of a sphere or
globe enclosing the whole existence and that of something without end or
beginning, infinite. It also gives the idea of a perpetual lengthening out,
that is, constant creation, but at the same time of a turn back: the unrolling
of the universe is not in a straight line, but .circular.</p>

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universe is however a complex entity. It is not made (<span class=GramE>)f</span>
only one plane, but consists of many planes superimposed upon each other. Thus
at the bottom as the basis is the physical – matter – and at the top as the
acme is the most subtle, the Spiritual: in between there; are gradations whose
number varies according to the mode of the outlook.</p>

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to the image of the serpent, one can say that its head represents the spirit,
the supreme consciousness, and the tail the other end, matter or supreme
unconsciousness. The image, furthermore, gives a graphic picture of the great
truth that the extremes <span class=GramE>meet,</span> the head bends round and
catches the tail. Psychologically this means that if one rises higher and
higher in consciousness, starting from the body consciousness, traversing Life
and Mind and Overmind and reaches the very source, the head and front of 
consciousness, then, curious to say, one finds oneself all on a sudden landed in 
the heart of matter. In the occult language this is expressed by saying that the 
consciousness that shines on the highest peak, is imbedded also here below in 
the cavern of dead matter. If one rises sufficiently high, rung by rung, to the 
extreme end of the ladder, one comes round exactly at the point from where one 
started without having to pass through all the rungs. Con<span class=SpellE><span
class=GramE>versely</span> </span></p>

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<span class=SpellE>too if one probes sufficiently deep into the
farthest corner of matter, the last limit of inconscience, one comes out into
the blaze of the same infinity that covers above and below and around.</span></p>

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can recall here the curious conclusion reached by some modern scientists in
regard to the spherical character of the universe that the universe being an
endless bounded plane it is quite likely that a particular star you see in
front of you may not at all be situated direct against you, but that it might be
sending out rays that have come round the whole sphere and taken you, as it
were, from behind!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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