![]() ![]() Its black and white halves may perhaps represent a Gnostic duality of existence, analogous to the Taoist yin and yang symbol. The famous ouroboros drawing from the early alchemical text, The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra ( Κλεοπάτρας χρυσοποιία), probably originally dating to the third century Alexandria but first known in a tenth-century copy, encloses the words hen to pan ( ἓν τὸ πᾶν), "the all is one". 400 AD) describes the ouroboros as a twelve-part dragon surrounding the world with its tail in its mouth. ![]() In Gnosticism, a serpent biting its tail symbolized eternity and the soul of the world. Early alchemical ouroboros illustration with the words ἓν τὸ πᾶν ("The All is One") from the work of Cleopatra the Alchemist in MS Marciana gr. ![]()
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