The Wealth mosaic is in the form of a green and black leaf, and with snake-like patterns and eyes. It combines the three symbols of divinity: the green leaf as life, symbolising God; the serpent as love and Truth, symbolising Spirit and the devil; and the color black as Matter, symbolising the creation and manifestation of God.

The leaf and the color green embody the most potent and creative force in the universe: the power to inseminate and incubate life, inducing growth, lending vitality and bearing fruits of abundance. The serpent, in both green and black, is the symbol of renewal and regeneration for its ability to shed skin, as well as its poison being used for both killing and healing. It represents the most destructive force in the universe: the power to enforce the shedding of harmful beliefs and attitudes. It heals by eradicating the poison within via injecting its own poison. This force, like the devil and the serpent itself, is sadly mistaken for evil, when in fact it is the force of elimination of evil, akin to the body’s leukocytes. Its purpose of protecting life made the serpent a ubiquitous symbol of healing, yet its life-saving medicine remains gravely unappreciated as it is always accompanied by pain and suffering.

The energy of the serpent is known within individuals as consciousness and across humanity as karma. The gradual rising (consciousness) and purification (karma) of this energy occurs via the Soul’s growth in wisdom as result of experiencing its own evil. Humanity’s sacred myths have given many names to this force: The Holy Spirit, Shiva, Kali, the divine feminine, the great mother, Sophia, Ishtar, Shekinah, Isis, Ayahuasca etc. When the Soul is whole, i.e. poison-free, the serpent is green and this energy the fountain of life, inspiration, creativity, genius and desire, and the channel of greatest fulfillment. Yet as long as the Soul is infested with evil the serpent remains black, its sole purpose the Soul’s healing.

Now to matter, which is everything visible to the eye: human and animal bodies, nature and stuff. While human is life in potential, when the Soul is infested with evil it ceases to carry life and carries death instead. In such times the Soul’s value to Spirit is no different than lifeless matter, i.e. stuff like furniture that cannot carry life even if it wanted to. Unless the Soul connects to potential, its status of lifeless matter will arouse feelings of being intrinsically valueless, or rather, carrying only the value ascribed to it by others’ perception of its usefulness. This perceived dependence on others’ valuation of its worthiness is the Soul’s greatest weakness, however, as it makes it hold other’s perception in great esteem, even pray to it in the place of Spirit, rather than seek ways to connect to life.

It is in such times of confused reverence that the black serpent’s antidote is needed most, in the form of the forceful elimination of life expression for the sake of healing. Perceived by the weak Soul as tough luck or betrayal, such experiences are in fact the serpent’s Truth about those areas of its existence where the Soul is killing life to feed itself. Such Soul will not refrain from hurting others to soothe its pain and fulfill its needs, representing thus the very evil that the serpent seeks to eradicate.

When filled with evil, matter is Spirit’s greatest lack, a source of deprivation and suffering, of waste and trash, of wounding, rape, abuse and killing. Yet when whole and filled with Spirit rather than evil, it is Spirit’s greatest wealth: its source of vibrant life, highest expression of beauty and power, manifestation of abundance, and experience of passion and pleasure.