{The Serpent[continued]}[14th March 1988]

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The significant exception to this* unifying concept – although still syncretistic – is the attitude of religions to the Serpent, which I suspect polarises them accurately, and may be defined (as I understand it) as follows:

FOR	AGAINST
Hinduism	Christianity**
Tao-ism etc.	Judaism
Buddhism?	Islam(ic Sufi-ism)
	(The Biblical Religions)

***

.1730

While the Serpent to an extent represents the horseshoe of the Circle excluding Crisis – [sic] its centrepoint is, I guess, A~, and in this sense the identification of the Serpent with the Devil and the Anti-christ is probably correct. It also helps towards a solution to the problem of where the major religions are represented on the Circle diagram, which might be something like this:

[Text of ms. diagram of which an extract is shown above:]

	C~
	BIBLICAL RELIGIONS
G~	☼	M~
	HINDUISM
	A~

*[See last previous entry.]

**BUT: 'Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.' Matthew X.16 (AV[/KJB]) <880808>

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