What does the serpent, in its positive and transcendental aspect means?

Answers from the books of Samael Aun Weor

 

Jesus the GREAT KABIR would have never advised his disciples to be as wise as the Serpent if it had been a symbol of the Devil. Neither had the Ophites, the Egyptian Gnostic sages of the FRATERNITY OF THE SERPENT, revered a living snake in their rituals as a symbol of wisdom — Divine Sophia.

Samael Aun Weor. The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac