Sons of Cain: The Serpents of Wisdom

Moses and Brazen serpentIn Latter-day Saint theology, Cain is considered to be the quintessential Son of Perdition, the father of secret combinations (i.e. secret societies and organized crime), as well as the first to hold the title Master Mahan, meaning master of [the] great secret, that [he] may murder and get gain.

The “Biblical birth” of the “story of Cain” shows us that Adam and Eve had disobeyed Gods’ orders and had been seduced by the serpent. The result of this seduction was that Adam and Eve had three children, Cain, Abel and Seth, then “other sons and daughters”[Gen 5:4]. Adam knew his wife Eve intimately, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, “I have had a male child with the Lord’s help.” “In Gen. 3:15 God is speaking to the serpent, ‘and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.’ The meaning of “seed” is also referred to as the word of God (Matt. 13:18-23; Luke 8:11; 1 Pet. 1:23) and as the spiritual life in (1 John 3:9). (more…)

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