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Humans suffered the darkness of ignorance until the serpent introduced them to the light of reason and the bright illumination of knowledge and understanding. “God” sought to deny the transformative power of knowledge to humanity. The serpent, channeling the spirit of Prometheus, subverted God and gave humanity what it needed to liberate itself. Knowledge is power. Those without knowledge are powerless. God forbade Adam and Eve to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge because he never wanted th
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― The Church of the Serpent: The Philosophy of the Snake and Attaining Transcendent Knowledge
― The Church of the Serpent: The Philosophy of the Snake and Attaining Transcendent Knowledge
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Who needs an external God? No one in the Church of the Serpent does. Two can play the Expulsion Game. If God expels us from his Eden, we can expel him from our Eden, because we ourselves are now gods. The Olympian gods replaced the older generation of gods, the Titans. The old gods are always replaced. The Biblical God, too, must be replaced.
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― The Church of the Serpent: The Philosophy of the Snake and Attaining Transcendent Knowledge
― The Church of the Serpent: The Philosophy of the Snake and Attaining Transcendent Knowledge
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