25°
Knight of the Brazen Serpent

    We tackle here the concept of the pure, celestial, eternal soul of man.  It is a belief of great antiquity that the soul existed before union with our bodies; else, argued most philosophers, how could the soul exist after the body if it did not exist before and independent of the body.  Such was the teaching in the Mysteries.  The serpent was regarded with reverence in olden days as the author of the fate of souls.