The Serpent is the Angel of Death because it is the "evil inclination", so it says in the Zohar. Just today I was thinking about how far back the Qliphotic Tree was discovered. I guess I should have started from the beginning to understand some writings from the Zohar instead of diving head-first into the Tree of Knowledge. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in what attracts my mind. What I was able to find was an interesting website that had written text of the Zohar. I was searching for authentic writings of the Zohar but also found arguments about who wrote volumes of the book itself.
I won't get into it right now. Let's focus on the Tree of Knowledge and understand it has several perspectives. As rabbis have written a somewhat different variation compared to modern occultists, of course, some interesting areas are agreed such as Lilith with a couple of differences.
Many of her siblings and children are given the name "Liliti", but in the Zohar, she is referred to as Adams's first wife and it was written she was taken from the rib, that was not taken from Adam, but since she turned out to be of husks, she was viewed as evil and she was banished. This is very different from modern writers indicating how she fled because she was expected to take a sexual position Lilith disagreed with. My point to this and many other arguments I'm going to speak on is the different variables of how stories of the "tree of death" and its intricate details of creation have been shaped in different directions that have left me so confused. I just feel that too many variations have been convoluted with too many thoughts and opinions instead of seeking the truth of creation and finding a common ground. Let me begin here with the Serpent as all of you know the story of Adam and Eve (the whitewashed version).
What if I told you in the Zohar the Angel Sam (maybe meaning Samael) descended from heaven and rode that serpent which all people saw and fled? Sam and the Serpent engaged in a conversation with a woman and caused death upon the world. Other views are here please read. Angel of Death, frankly I have no idea if Adam and Eve ever existed, so many occultist who have studied Hekate says they never did.
Speaking of which let's change gears. In the Zohar, it states that the Creator created the world since the world was created by the Nukva, which is seen as a woman. Now who is the Creator, Hekate? Again, this leads us to believe the Divine Spirit, but maybe it's Samael the first Archon, or maybe it's Satan or Lucifer (first father of man) says Mark Smith. From the beginning Adam and Eve were tricked and the Nukva and Za are seen as man and woman creating creation, not the universe.
This is all very interesting this article goes on to say how Adam could have fixed everything if his transgressions didn't get the best of him. According to Lurianic teachings the "soul of the first man" (makes me ponder if Adam was reincarnated). Adam was composed of all various worlds of divine reality and was intended to extricate and reintegrate the divine sparks that remained within the "qelipot". When Adam was created the cosmic process of tikkun had virtually been completed. The "qelipot" and lowest worlds would have lost all their power and sunk, but they never did because of Adam and his sin. The cosmos would have achieved their original state of divine light, it was the sin of Adam that caused the sparks of all human souls, not Eve, his second wife. The church has been blaming women all this time, to demean us, when it is man who fucked up with sin!
Many of these stories have been deliberately convoluted to control the masses and confuse public opinion. Frankly, the truth is never nice, it's always ugly and that is the problem with most people seeing the truth for what it is. Yet modern occultists have also stretched the truth about the "tree of death" into a darker state than it may be in reality. Not to say the dark tree isn't filled with hatred and vile shit, because if it is, again it's because of a man who is filled with vile shit.
It's a man that keeps the shells active and alive and we as a collective human race will burn in fire for it all. As for occultists of the 'Left Hand Path," it is the intention to deepen the fall. I need to seek the truth if I can find enough evidence to form my thoughts of what the truth might be, ripping away from all the weeds I will form my own personal Gnosis to seek transformation before I die.