What is Uraeus?

Egyptian serpent symbol, a hieroglyphic sign for “Goddess,” suggesting that in pre-dynastic times it was thought all serpents were female and divine. The serpent mother was one of Egypt’s oldest divinities, and her uraeus-snake idol signified healing. Moses copied this egyptian magic with his “brazen serpent” (Numbers 21:9). Egyptian rulers wore the uraeus-snake in the form of a rearing cobra on the forehead, representing the “third eye” of mystical insight. Despite patriarchal opposition to the symbol of the she-serpent Uraeus, among later Gnostic Christians her name became one of the “secret names of God.”
Quoted from page 1028 of the book The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G. Walker

“… pre-dynastic times it was thought all serpents were female and divine.” This statement reminds me:

The Hindu Puranas or legends remember the Kumaras as renunciate Avatars or Saviors, who as four eternally young , twin brothers served as the first teachers of the “Siddha Marg,” the “Path of the Perfected Ones,” which culminates in the union of the polarity and spiritual immortality. Their name, Kumara, reflects both their path to union as well as their inherent androgenous nature.
Quoted from the page 13 of book The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom by Mark Amaru Pinkham

The word, androgenous means “relating to or exhibiting both female and male sex organs but with a predominantly female appearance.”

According to Pinkham, Kumaras were androgenous. If you are androgenous, you have both male and female sex organs and your appearance more like a female. At the other hand Walker points out that “all serpents were female.” Interesting isn’t it?

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Uraeus in Occultism

Theosophical Glossary

^[…] Occultism explains that the uraeus is the symbol of initiation and also of hidden wisdom, as the serpent always is. The Gods were all patrons of the hierophants and their instructors.
Quoted from page 355 of the book Theosophical Glossary by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Uraeus in Ancient Scriptures - Who is Jehovah?

Lost Light: An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures

^[…] Moses stands for man, and Jehovah ordered Moses to build a tabernacle in which he (Jehovah) should be raised up. It may fall with surprise and incredulity upon most readers to be told that the Jehovah character of the creation legend is by no means the Supreme Lord, but merely one of the seven Elohim, or builders of the physical universe. He is one of the seven Uraeus “deities”; another one of the seven bears the name of Oreus, which is a form of Uraeus. So man is to raise up the natural order to the spiritual, and he is to do it in the “tabernacle” which he is engaged in building. This is that body of spiritual radiance which every man is steadily formulating out of the fiery essence of the very matter of his body, as lower fires are transmuted to higher. This transformation is made by man here on the cross of material life. The seven Uraeus deities, of whom Jehovah was one, were the powers that lay embosomed in matter, the forces that built the physical universe, all below the level of mind.

They were the Apap or Hydra monster swimming in the water of the lower Nun; and man had to transmute them into solar fire. Uraeus, the name, evidently derives from Ur, the original creative fire, and aei, meaning in Greek “ever, always.” They were the “eternal fires” that forged the various creations. They create life below the level of mind, but must be lifted up to be changed into spiritual intelligences. They begin around the feet of the gods and goddesses, and end on their foreheads. In man physiologically they are brought up from the base of the spine and crown the human development by opening up the latent faculties of divine intelligence locked up in the pineal gland and pituitary body in the head. A line from the Ritual dispels all doubt as to their higher or lower rating and nature. It reads: “The seven Uraeus divinities are my body.” They are fiery formative energies of matter, not of mind. They are the energy in the atom, seven blind forces, which, however, draw the chariot of creation and must therefore be directed by intelligence.
Quoted from page 443 of the book Lost Light: An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures by Alvin Boyd Kuhn

Human Body, A Vehicle for the Real Masters

Kuhn’s explanations are reminded me somehow Richard Dawkin’s book, the Selfish Gene… Possibly the Serpents are all in us, in our cells, I mean, the serpents could be the DNA structures. Dawkins writes this way in his book:

The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition–with a new Introduction by the Author

^[…] A survial machine is a vehicle containing not just one gene but many thousands. ^[…] The combination of genes that is any one individual may be short-lived, but the genes themeselves are potentially very long-lived. Their paths constantly cross and recross down generations. One gene may be regarded as a unit that survives through a large number of successive individual bodies. _[…]
Quoted from pages 24-25 of the book The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins