of pagan serpent imag

EMRTCery to express symbolically the quintessence of suffering and redemption. We might say that where helpless human suffering searches for redemption, the serpent as an image and explanation of causal

ity cannot

• be far
• away. The
• serpent deserves its
• own chapter in the philo
• sophy of "as if." How doe

s humanity

• free itself from th
• is enforced bonding
• with a poisonous rep