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Here the allusions, both to the serpent enemies of the soul 
and the possibility of the body of one man being interpene- 
Fig. 116. The serpent germinating. A pictorial representation of a phrase used 
' in the Magical Papyri. (See Birch, “ Sur un Papyrus Magique,” Revue 
Archeologique.) 
trated by the soul of another, and that an evil one, — the 
doctrine of the Pistis Sophia of the Gnostics, are theologically 
exceedingly valuable. 
Fig. 117. The four-headed urseus. Another of the ideographic snakes drawn in the 
Magical Papyri. 
Fig 118. Bronze coin of the Emperor Hadrian, struck at Alexandria, showing the 
two opposing serpents of good and evil. (Sharpe.) 
Fig. 119. A similar coin. The deity Jupiter Serapis, as the serpent of evil, carrying 
a basket upon his head. (Sharpe.) 
