Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

James 1:8 says: “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” The July 1998 issue of The Scottish Rite Journal states that the eagle was also a symbol of regeneration and rebirth. Another Masonic and occultic symbol of regeneration is the serpent. A Dictionary of Symbols explains more about the snake: “Snakes are guardians of the springs of life and of immortality, and also of those superior riches of the spirit that are symbolized by hidden treasure.... “...the serpent is the life-force which determines birth and rebirth and hence it is connected with the Wheel of Life....

“The snake was an important symbol for the Gnostics....Hippolytus...asserted that the snake was said to live in all objects and in all beings. This brings us to the Yoga concept of the Kundalini or the snake as an image of inner strength. Kundalini is represented symbolically as a snake coiled up upon itself in the form of a ring (kundala), in that subtle part of the organism corresponding to the lower extremity of the spinal column; this, at any rate, is the case with the ordinary man. But, as a result of exercises directed towards his spiritualization— Hatha Yoga, for instance—the snake uncoils and stretches up through wheels