The book explores the myth of the Biblical Nehushtan, a serpent cipher for the "Divine Code" concealed within nature. 

The author's research takes the reader on a fascinating journey of discovery. He provocatively explains the serpent myth as an allegory for God's concealment within the very fabric of time and space. He approaches 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 spiritual and self-initiatory. 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 book's sheer scope, 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 believes the evidence for God in modern science, from man's DNA to Teilhard's notion of the “noosphere”.

This book is unique and full of illustrations, with much use of Albrecht Dürer's remarkable etchings.