The Church vs. the Serpent: Christianity’s War on Kundalini
Ancient Fire
"The serpent shows the way to hidden things and expresses the introverting libido, which leads man to go beyond the point of safety, and beyond the limits of consciousness."
— Carl Jung
There is an ancient fire buried in the human body—a living current that winds upward like a serpent from the base of the spine. It does not ask for belief. It does not wait for ritual. It rises through presence, pain, and the remembering of who you were before the world taught you to forget. This is not metaphor. It is what Eastern traditions call Kundalini, what the Druids guarded in their bloodlines, and what the early Church sought to annihilate. Because when the serpent rises, a human being becomes sovereign. And sovereignty has always been the enemy of empire.
Before the Fall, the Serpent Was Sacred
Before the Church carved its doctrines into stone, the serpent was sacred. It symbolized rebirth, healing, and illumination. In India, it was Shakti—the coiled force of feminine consciousness. In Egypt, it crowned the brows of pharaohs as the Uraeus, a sign of awakened vision. Among the Druids, the dragon-serpent was not just a symbol but a living current, guarded through ritual, bloodline, and land-based initiations. The ancients didn’t worship the serpent. They lived in relationship with it. They understood that this energy did not belong to priests or kings. It belonged to the body. To the land. To every human being willing to walk the path of inner fire.
Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
— Jesus
Inversion as Strategy
The Church knew it could not survive if this current remained accessible. It needed a myth that replaced inner knowing with obedience. So it rewrote the serpent as Satan. It turned wisdom into sin, woman into transgressor, knowledge into rebellion. From this inversion, the doctrine of original sin was born. And with it came the machinery of guilt, hierarchy, and psychological control. The goal was not salvation. The goal was submission.
To destroy Kundalini, the Church had to suppress everything that resembled it. The body became shameful. The womb became unclean. Ecstasy was recoded as possession. Inner awakening was branded heresy. The feminine was fractured into virgin or whore, and the inner child—the spontaneous, imaginative, emotionally alive part of the human soul—was bound in silence. What once rose freely through the spine now lay dormant, buried beneath centuries of fear, shame, and doctrine.
Kundalini, (the magical power of the human organism) is awakened only by will, and blood is the vehicle of the spirit. The pineal gland is the channel of direct spiritual energy and can be motivated by constant self inquiry. This is not an obvious mental process, but a truly thought-free consciousness - a formless plane of pure being.
— Laurence Gardner, Genesis of the Grail Kings
The Bloodline of Sovereignty
The war extended beyond theology. As Nicholas de Vere exposes in The Dragon Legacy, the Church didn’t just suppress a symbol—it hunted a lineage. The serpent was not only energetic but genetic. The Grail lineages—descendants of sacred priest-kings and matriarchal queens—carried knowledge of how to awaken the inner current and rule by right of illumination. These lineages preserved the serpent mysteries of sovereignty: the union of feminine and masculine, earth and star, body and spirit. Jesus, if he existed, may have been born into one of them. Not a lamb to be slaughtered, but a solar serpent initiate. A wisdom-bearer. A fire-blooded rebel who taught that the kingdom of heaven was within, not behind temple walls or under priestly control.
But that version of Jesus had to be erased. The Church could not afford a savior who liberated rather than subdued. So they built a new one. A sacrificial man-god who died for your sins, who asked for your obedience, who demanded your guilt. A prototype for empire—docile, tragic, and Roman-approved. They took the teachings of liberation and turned them into a theology of surveillance. They traded initiation for indoctrination. Gnosis for dogma. The serpent for the cross.
Any spirit, including the archangels, conjured by the Witch or magician (the distinction, like that between pagan and Christian, is fallacious), as in ceremonial magic, was actually the ancestor (antecessor) of the Witch herself (or himself). It was a denizen of the ancient Dragon itself—but carried in the Witch's blood which, the purer it was through unbroken descent from the Dragons, the stronger would be the return of the ancestors within.
— Nicholas de Vere. The Dragon Legacy
Kundalini Was the Threat
Kundalini remains the missing key. Not just in spiritual systems, but in the psychological liberation of the human being. It is the current that awakens when trauma is met with presence instead of repression. It moves through the spine not with fanfare but with trembling. It unearths what has been buried. It breaks illusions. It burns shame. And it restores what the Church feared most: personal authority. When the serpent rises, you don’t need a priest to tell you what is sacred. You feel it in your own body. In your bones. In your breath. In the silence after you’ve faced what you were never allowed to feel.
This is why the Church went to war against it. Not because it was evil. But because it was uncontrollable. Because it gave power back to the people. Because it couldn’t be taxed, silenced, or crucified.
The Return of the Flame
But it is rising again. Not through religion, but through remembrance. In the nervous system. In the healing of wounds once locked away. In the return of the inner child, the goddess, and the unclaimed voice. In the refusal to bow before gods built by empire.
Kundalini was never the enemy. It was the treasure buried beneath the ashes of doctrine. And now, as the old structures decay, the serpent begins to stir once more.
—Zzenn
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Very interesting! 🤔