Nachash

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring [1] and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” Genesis 3:15

Genesis clearly indicates that both the woman and the Nachash have a seedline, and that there will be hostility between them. The offspring of the woman produced, in the end, Jesus Christ, and quite obviously had in mind a literal “seed.” However, we do not seem to have much information about what would also be the physical line or seed of the Nachash. Why? Who are the physical descendants of the Serpent, and where are they now?

“Two beings [Adam and Nachash] had intercourse with Eve, and she conceived from both and bore two children. Each followed one of the male parents, and their spirits parted, one to this side and one to the other, and similarly their characters. On the side of Cain are all the haunts of the evil species; from the side of Abel comes a more merciful class, yet not wholly beneficial — good wine mixed with bad.”(Zohar 136)

“Nachash injected his impure semen into Eve and she absorbed it; therefore, when Adam had intercourse with her she bore two sons — one from the impure side [Nachash] and one from the side of Adam; and Abel [the second] bore a resemblance to the higher form, and Cain [the first] to the lower.” (Zohar 154a)

Nachash

N achash (Hebrew, NChSh, “serpent”) signifies the serpent of the Tree of Knowledge, the chief villain in Genesis of the Bible, has a particular role in Kabbalistic symbolism. In Kabbalisticgematria the numeric value of Nachash is 358, equaled to MShICh, Meshiach or Messiah. Whether this equation was used in Gnosticism is not known, but the Gnostic held the serpent in the garden of Eden to be a Redeemer for he gave knowledge to Eve.And, in Kabbalistic symbolism there exists a contrast between Nachash, the serpent who tempted Eve, and Nehushtan, the brazen serpent who Moses raises on a pole in the desert, also seen as the serpent of the Tree of Life. Eliphas Levi with other magical theorists have also identified Nachash as the dangerous and deceptive lower astral plane while Nehushtan with the redemptive upper astral. A.G.H.

Source:Greer, John Michael. The New Encyclopedia of the Occult. St. Paul, MN, Llewellyn Worldwide. p. 319