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The poisoned cup is an emblem of the Catholic saint John the Evangelist. The symbols stems from the popular miracle story whereby at HJohn's blessing, the poison in a cup of wine intended for his consumption is transformed into a serpent.
Interestingly, the image of a serpent rising from a cup is described in a vision of Isis in the Golden Ass of Apuleius:
"In her left hand was a golden cup, from the top of whose slender handle rose an asp, towering with head erect and its throat distended on both sides. "
The Poisoned Cup
John transforms the poison
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- Sophia
Sophia, in Gnostic belief, was the wife of Christ, the soul of the world, and the Wisdom of God. - Gnostic
scriptures, Texts
The Gnostics were early Pagans and Christians with a very unique theology. Gnostic texts were found to be so threatening that many were destroyed or hidden, only to be rediscovered two thousand years later. Gnostic scriptures and source materials including the a gospel attributed to Mary Magdalen, and Gnostic exegesis of Canonical texts.
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