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saint therese of the roses
Vaunt Courier (VC): herald’s staff - the staff carried by Hermes, or Mercury, as herald or messenger of the gods. This magical winged serpent-wand is held by Hermes or Mercury represents power,
the axis mundi, the Millde Pillar in the Qabalistic Tree of Life. It
is the royal
wand, Jacob’s Ladder
between heaven and earth, up and down which
messenger gods and angels arise and descend. The wings symbolize the transcendence of lower by higher. Coiling round about and up the wand itself
the two serpents, eternally opposed, are complementary and finally united in
their dualism: night and day, good and
evil, male and female. The balance of
opposing forces throughout the universe. Also the movement in the dance of life, separating and
joining.
The Caducaeus
is two intertwined serpents on a pole and an attribute of various gods and
goddesses in the Ancient Near East, especially Hermes. The main feature of the phenomenal world is duality - light and dark, male and female, intertwined (represented by two serpents). At head and tail they are united, at the beginning and the end they are one, but in between they are taken apart and
put together, differentiated and reunited.
They are the serpents of Force and Form, formed by the loops in their
bodies. The figure ‘8’ is related,
symbolizing the joining of the two worlds of mind and matter (a simpler version of one aspect of the
caducaeus, while the symbol of infinity is also an abstraction of the double
serpent symbolism, just as the zero is symbolically related to the
Ouroboros (the circular serpent with his tail in his mouth). The Hierophant in the Tarot bears a staff indicating spiritual authority. These short-tipped, wand-like lightning conductors transmit power from one plane to another. A white wand was carried by Roman heralds when they sought peace.
Aaron: Biblical patriarch and elder brother of Moses, first high priest of the Israelites. In his attempts to lead his
people out of
Aesculapius:
god of medicine and healing. The
serpent entwined around a staff became his attribute in