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The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom

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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.

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".

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!

I found this book to contain some very interesting spiritual concepts which I can learn from. Apart from that, I found that, although a great deal of information is contained with the book, it is not well written. The concepts contained within it are not well presented and can lead to confusion if one does not have a background knowledge in this area. There is also too much emphasis and time wasted on writing about the history of serpent people throughout time.

This is an interesting book on our serpent culture history that is often diminished or outright ignored. The text is large and there are a few open spaces in the book that appears to have been formatted to fit a smallish amount of information in to a lot of pages. There is only a small amount of information from the author about how to do anything with serpent energies and nearly 100% of that information has to do with Kundalini Yoga or something that will affect the Kundalini energy.

If you are just getting started in learning about our serpent heritage and you have an interest in yoga, then dive in. Otherwise, I am not sure you will find anything worthwhile.

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.

I thought the book was very interesting, I know Mark Pinkham and can attest to the fact that he is an honorable man.He is also a representative for the Sinclare Knights Templar in Sedona ,AZ.The book explains how we have been guided over the ages to eventually become part of the Galactic community.

This book seems to be a little too left field for me. I found myself shaking my head at the use of obscure and abstract concepts combined with words that might not exist in most dictionaries.

I was not impressed at all with this title.

I originally purchased the book for reference, not intending to read it from cover to cover. However, once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down! For me, it's putting pieces of the 'family history' puzzle together, in a way that finally makes sense.

He is obssesed with material being female and denies that as a human male his body is the male material princile, like wise the woman's flesh is the material of the female spirt or concious principle.
This ego or ignorance causes him to deny the scripture he is refurncing. His wishful thinking get in the way. The text refrences the ancient serpent Goddess, the serpent represents the mind. This contradicts with his wish to deny the female mind and spirt and his own material nature. His ego, wishful thinking and denial are evident of a narcistic ignorant fool, the opposite of an enlightened person. Don't fret, indian and Middle Eastern Texts is full of sderpent metaphors both of a male from and female. Another conradiction is in the refrence of the Goat Baphomet as dragon. hmm, here in lies the only texual contradiction.

In practice he list the accounts of woman's experence, a dream in (female spirt- conciousness) Elizebeth Haich. Look up this person and get her account for accuracy. Still, she reportable had visions of " a goat monster", and a dream in which peeople grasped at eachother, when partaking in the ritual. Dr. Bruton, a second case of someone engaging in riitual in Egypt. " i am free', Burtons account. these to accounts are as detailed in the book as I have described here.

The author drops denial and refrences a person's soul as his or her. Quickly picks it up when dicussing Goddess, rite, denial that female spirit is whole in itself. He lists Athena and Dionysus. Dionysus as a mythological replacement of osiris and Zan. Rites are simple getting high in the woods. Sadly for the author, Dionysus, high reprent the lustful material male principle, uposed to Zeus a sky god. The Author refrences Christ as the chosen one to free the world from the vilianous deity of this world , acording to the Gnostic tradition. He the male serpent sent by the Female spirit.

Like the romans who saught to and did enslave women, alienating and nuteralizing them, he asumes falsely one must be androgynous or male like to be significant.
failure to recognize female as the thesis and significator. It was the romans way of showing that she got out of place , and only males were alowed to be "out and about' Bias again causing him to reject the very text stating that these mythologies recognized a female spirit. He rewrites it through his comentary as he wishes it would be. No other detail, than what I wrote is given to an mytho or deity, male or female, in a metaphoric guise of snake, bull or goat. and their rites.
Congradulations, by reading this review, you read the book.