Unraveling the Many Secrets of the Rod of Caduceus: The Cup of Hermes and the Kundalini

So I guess the burning question is … is there actually something to this? Can one really charge up their chi and become their “true self”?

Well, most world religions acknowledge there is at least something to this phenomenon. There’s an agreement chastity does help keep one more attuned to the divine. Priests, for example, give a vow of celibacy. Football players are not allowed to bring girlfriends into camp during spring training. Olympic competitors are encouraged to remain celibate leading up to their events. Muhammad Ali famously refused to have sex six weeks before any of his fights. Did he know something we don’t?

We now know the Rod of Caduceus unapologetically represents Hermes. As Apollo’s half-brother, he is the central figure in HERMEtic Qabalah. (Actually, Hermes Trismegistus, but more on that later.)

Hermes is not a kind god, and no one is sure what his origins are; only that he was worshiped well before written history. Hermes was known as a troublemaker, as the “Prince of Thieves”, as an “undertaker”, and his petty meddling directly caused the Trojan War.

Thousands of years before he was depicted as a wise, bearded man, or a man with winged sandals or a winged petasos hat, he was represented as the intertwining snake god of Mesopotamia, which is why he is represented by the caduceus still to this day. He is an emissary, a herald, a shaman, and a god of divination, sacrifice, and magick. In a close relationship with Ishtar (bringing us back to Columbia), Hermes serves as a messenger between humans and the divine. He also shepherds souls into the afterlife.

In Rome, Hermes was known as Mercury. In Egypt, he was known as Thoth, or Anubis. His father was Zeus, and one of his sons was Aphrodite, who was the “epitome of beauty”, but had both male and female parts. Hermes then had a child with his own son, birthing Hermaphroditus, hence the term “hermaphrodite”. Hermes and Aphrodite ARE Mercury and Venus. Have you connected the dots?

This quote from my Statue of Liberty post should jog your memory:

“…King Nebuchadnezzar II was destroyed by the “Shekinah”, a female inversion of God. (You’ll soon see androgyny will be a common theme here.) It is believed the convergence of light between the planets Mercury and Venus symbolizes a “time of greatness”, and is often depicted as a distant sunrise on the horizon. This convergence of light also happens to be called shekinah…”

Over and over again in these stories, male and female come together as one. Yin and Yang. The male and female snakes of the caduceus representing Hermes. The Statue of Liberty, who is both male and female. The light of Mercury and Venus, forming Hermaphroditus. The “female energy” that allegedly lives within everyone.

That female energy is called the kundalini, which is itself a coiled serpent, and it sleeps in your abdominal area. As it climbs the path of the twin snakes, rising up your spinal column, it removes the seals that block divine convergeance.

As you probably figured by now, the kundalini is sexual energy. That’s what is meant by “life energy”. That’s what “sex magic” is. In order to raise one’s kundalini, one must find a balance between male and female. Sun and moon. Ida and pingala. Jachin and Boaz. It is believed you can’t let your sexual energy build past the rakini chakra without first conquering your fears, and you must stop yourself from spilling your seed (hence “orgonne”). They say that, with practice, one can separate the orgasm from ejaculation, and that is how one goes about “raising” their kundalini, or elevating the spirit.

This is why the lingham is so sacred to India, and why the mortar and pestle is such an important symbol to alchemists. It is why for every dome in classic architecture, there is a parallel phallic structure.

Storing prana efficiently is the true historic purpose of circumcision, and why old paintings and sculptures mainly show emperors, kings, high priests, and monks receiving the procedure. This resistance to spilling seed is also the ultimate goal of tantric sex: Couples stay in embrace for hours, letting their magnetic energies exchange while orgasming … without ejaculation.

This is how one transforms the “animalistic” sexual energy into “a more useful energy”. Getting off is considered a “short-circuit”, a complete waste of the energy that one could have otherwise harnessed. Resisting this short circuit about ten times in a row allegedly allows one to communicate directly with the divine. If a Tibetan monk were to spill their seed, they wouldn’t be allowed to set foot in the temple for ten days.

That is what is meant by not spilling the cup of Hermes. And there are writers who swear by it. However, I’m not condoning its use. I believe going too far with these concepts could cause damage to your soul.