Stated simply: Eve as the serpent goddess gifts sexual knowledge and bestows kingship. It is she who initiates Adam ainto these mysteries. In this way, the origin myth of witchcraft begins: in the swelling poison from that rapid slap of a bite, the fire that courses in the sap of the holy tree, the spinal marrow writhing up from sacrum to skull; it is the aphrodisiac love gift bestowed by the evening star; it is sex, and self-knowledge.
Peter Grey, Lucifer: Princeps (via astranemus)





