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he cosmic fa
ther of th
ose born in t
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ic converge. The serpent figure in th
e heavens, found also in the
constellation of the Gre
at Serpent, is used as a mat
hematical outlin
e; the points of luminosity
are linked together
by way of an earthly i
mage, in order to render com
prehensible an infin
ity we cannot comprehend
at all without some such
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outline of orientation.
So Asclepius is at once a mathematical
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etish bear
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er. The evolution of cul
ture toward the age of rea
son is marked in
the same measur
e as the tangible, coarse t
exture of l
ife, fading
into mathematical abstraction
. About tw
enty years ago in the nort
h of Germany, on the Elbe, I
found a strange ex
ample of the ele
mentary indestructabil
ity of the me
mory of the serpent cul
t, despite all efforts o
f religious enli
ghtenment; an exa
mple that shows t
he path on which th
e pagan serpent w
anders, li
nking us to the pa
st. On an excursion to the Vierlande [near Hamburg], in a Pro
testant chur
ch in Liidingwort
h, I discovere
d, adorning the so -called rood screen,
Bible illustrations that clearly origi
nated in an Italian illus
trated Bible and that had found their way here
through the hands of a strol
ling painter. And here
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I suddenl
y spotted
Laocoon wi
th his two sons in th
e terrible gras
p of the serpent. How
did he come
to be in t
his church? But this Lao
coon found
his s
alva
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tion
. How?
Looming
in front of
him was the st
a
ff of
Asclepius and on it
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nt, correspond
ing to wha
t we read
