Here is an ancient pagan symbol that had measure of truth.
The Oroboros is an ancient symbol of creation from the Egyptians. It is human reason attempting to make sense of life and time and It's origin.
The serpent swallowing it's tail( Oroboros) is a creation symbol defining life and time as cyclic. The head swallows it's tail. The end of an age is swallowed by the beginning.
It is the beginning and end of all creation.
See the measure of truth there? Moses points it to it's true object Jesus Christ. The true beginning and end.
The Egyptians conceived time as cyclic because they observed life as cyclic.
Moses anthropomorphized the Egyptian creation symbol by making the tail that gets swallowed into a foot that will crush the head instead.
The enmity God introduced divides the Oroboros in two. The woman's seed and Satan's. With God comes judgement. God divides the day from night.
The enmity down the generations of course is the head striking the heel. That is, the evil children accusing the good.
With the religious symbols he learned in Egypt Moses exposes the Egyptians religion as wrong.
History isn't cyclic because time is cyclic. Genesis reveals that history is cyclic because of sin.
The serpent trapped human life in a never ending loop of repeating history. The Oroboros was a symbol that defined that condition as natural. Genesis exposed it's evil. The Egyptians back then would understand the symbols Moses used.
Moses reveals that a saviour will come and free man by crushing the head of the serpent putting an end to sin which is the true cause of cyclic human life.
You might not be a Mason, but your views on symbology are basic Masonic doctrines. I've never stepped into one of their temples, but since I was commissioned by tbe Lord to make war on His enemies, I downloaded a number of books from their libraries and read a few of them. One was specifically about the symbols of Free Masonry and how they perceived scripture and other traditional writings, considering the symbols more significant than the plain meaning of texts. Another was more about their history and origins in guild masonry, their own resurrection legend dating to the construction of Solomon's temple, and their criteria for membership, even a dispute over Christian membership, because those who receive His Spirit can not accept the higher level occultic teachings.
They introduced a test, I think that it's at the third level because I've never met a faithful Christian that even acknowledged more than three levels in Free Masonry, though the Scottish Rite clearly has 33.
That test included being asked to spit on a cross, the teaching being that the cross itself was irrelevant, just a symbol, but the resurrection was the significant event to Masonry. This test dates back to before the acknowledged beginning of the society. It was among the accusations leveled against the Knights Templer in the 14th century when they were condemned by the Roman Pope, gathered and executed, hung or burnt at the stake.
The faithful in Christ would never spit on the symbol of His sacrifice, the propitiation for sin paid in His blood, but those unfaithful and willing to accept symbolism over content could advance up the stairs to their ultimate expression of godhood, themselves. Aleister Crowley is a perfect example of a 33rd degree Mason. Without discussing his debauchery, he created his own "religious system" with a one sentence law: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole law."
Free Masons have been primary movers in most of the cults in the world, and have maneuvered into governments, established religions, businesses and every aspect of life.
The British army carried portable Masonic temples with their colonial armies everywhere they set their flag. The order of the dragon was the order of their kings. George Washington was sworn in as president of the United States by the head of the New York City Masonic lodge, in front of the trinity church in lower Manhattan, his hand on their Masonic Bible. The twin towers were an architectural tribute to the twin pillars of Masonry. They corrupt everything that they touch.
You may be a faithful believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, but somehow you've received Masonic teaching. Even Charles Spurgeon, one of the most respected theologians in reformed Christianity was influenced by them. He published monthly under the "sword and trowel ". The sword is a biblical symbol, but the trowel is straight out of guild masonry and an evidence of Masonic influence. Their primary corruption of Christianity was through their works based righteousness, but their view of elevating symbolism over content has lead to a plethora of cults and cultic notions in the church. It's no coincidence that they are historically tied to Roman guild symbolism and have common origins.
While I appreciate the symbolism of scripture, it's meaningless if it doesn't point to God in the person of His Son, and secondary to the meaning and purpose of scripture, the Revelation of God in the person of Jesus Christ.
Carl Jung believed in archetypal symbolism in relationship to the human psyche, but a closer examination of his life reveals his Masonic connection. The same is at least suggested by monuments related to the founders of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the church of latter day Saints.
They corrupt everything that they touch.
Symbols stir imagination and our imagination is only evil from our youth.