The Brazen Serpent: Chaos and Order
This is a far-reaching exploration of the myth of the Nehushtan, the bronze serpent Moses created to protect the Israelites from lethal snakes. The book encompasses a wide-ranging examination of the Egyptian roots of Judaism, numerology synchronicity, and sacred geometry.
Foreword by Alistair Lees, author of The English Illuminati and Librarian General of the S.R.I.A.
"This book has the power to change the reader's view of life and its events, following the guidance of a spiritual path. The assured writing style and your effective language make this work a potentially strong contender within its genre."
Paul Taylor, Austin Macauley
The Brazen Serpent: Chaos and Order
The book explores the myth of the Biblical “Nehushtan” as a serpent cipher for the "Divine Code" concealed within nature.
The author's research takes the reader on a fascinating journey of discovery, in which he provocatively explains the serpent myth as an allegory for God's concealment within the very fabric of time and space. He approaces this question from several angles, including exegesis, numerology, alchemy and the Kabbalah. The journey takes you along many paths.
The start of this journey is a spiritual and self-initiatory one. The Foreword is by Alastair McGawn Lees, Librarian General of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia. The introduction sets the symbolic scene in the wilderness where Moses is taught by God how to prevent the serpents from tormenting and killing the faithless and faltering Israelites. Osborne explains the importance of the Tau cross, and the symbolism of the fiery seraphim, which takes us back to man's banishment from a paradise guarded by a cherubim with a flaming sword.
To give you an idea of the sheer scope of the book, it manages to encompass the roots of serpent mysticism in Egypt, the Marquis de Sade, numerology, the 23 enigma, synchronity and geometry, the dollar sign and Israel. The author touches upon Martinism, and the Golden Dawn, and considers the symbolism of the serpent in the occult doctrine of Geburah and the treading down of the seven-headed serpent on the vault floor. Finally, Osborne considers the evidence for God in modern science, from man's DNA to Teilhard's notion of the “noosphere”.
This book is unique, and is full of illustrations, with much use made of Albrecht Dürer's remarkable woodcuts.
PURCHASE BOOK
"A Must-Read for any Interested in the Esoteric and Mysticism!"
"A dazzling and highly original unveiling of a divine code, hidden in the Biblical story of the Brazen Serpent (well "hidden" in plenty of myth, symbols, and teachings but this story is the way in) pointing to the truth of God and humans. Comprehensive and exhaustive but highly readable and under 200 pages I truly believe this book will be go down as a new esoteric classic."
Jonathan C. Stewart, Gnostic Wisdom Network 5 STAR AMAZON REVIEW
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