Daily Meditation: Tuesday, March 12, 2002

Doctors and pharmacists have adopted the Caduceus as the …

03/12/2002

Doctors and pharmacists have adopted the Caduceus as the symbol of their profession. Why? Because in its true esoteric dimension, the Caduceus is a complete representation of a human being. The wand represents the spinal column and the two serpents intertwined represent the two currents that descend from the brain's left and right hemisphere. In fact these are not two serpents curled around the magic wand, but one single one that polarizes. The wand always represents the masculine principle and the serpent or the spiral, the feminine principle, which curls around the masculine principle so as to excite the powers within him. The wand is an expression of the mental plane, whereas the serpent, polarized into positive and negative, is an expression of the astral plane, through which flow two currents: one ascending and one descending. The Caduceus therefore symbolizes both the masculine principle (the wand) and the feminine principle (the serpent polarized into positive and negative, because the feminine principle is always expressed with the number 2). The Caduceus represents a human being with all the faculties he or she must develop in order to manifest divine power.