defining the role of the Church as that of keeping Christ alive in the minds of each new generation and relating his word to the problems of their time.

"Be ye as wise as Serpents." This doesn’t make much sense until we discover that the serpent was the prime symbol of the Stellar Cult, the "wise-ones" of old. And, what's more, the Egyptian hieroglyphic for "woman" was a serpent. This is one of the reasons why the serpent was considered negative by later Christians.