Trail of the Serpent (1936) (Paperback)

A further installment into the author's own experiences and investigations into various individual secret societies, their affiliations, their occult practices, their pseudo-religious and political activities. Going back to Patriarchal times, he attempts to trace, step by step, the worship of the ancient serpent, the Creative Principle, the God of all initiates, from the early cabiri, through paganism to the pseudo-Christianity of the Gnostics and Cabalists, these latter largely emanating under the influence of the Hellenised Jews of Alexandria.