al interaction to a sp

iritualized taking
of dis tance. The poisonous reptile symbolizes t
he inner and outer

demoniac forces that humanity must overcome. This evening I was able to show you all too cursorily an actual survival of the magical serpent cult, as an example of that primordial condition of which the refinement, transcendence, and replacement are the work of modern culture. The conqueror of the serpent cult and of the fear of lightning

, the

• inheritor of the
• indigenous pe
• oples and of the gold seeker who o
• usted them, is captured in a photograp
• h I took on a street in San Francisco.
• He is Uncle Sam in a stovepipe
• hat, strolling in his pride p
• ast a neoclassica
• l rotunda. Abo

ve his top

• hat runs an electric wire. In this copper
• serpent of Edison's, he has wrested lightning fro
• m nature (Figure

31). The American

• of today is n
• o longer
• afraid of the rattlesn

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