Kabbalah zu Zechariah 13:2

The phrase "between you and the woman" refers to "the woman who fears Hashem" (Mishlei 31:30), (i.e. Malchut). The words "and between your seed" refer to the rest of the heathen nations; "and her seed", namely Yisrael. "He shall bruise your head" is a reference to the Holy One, blessed be He, who will remove the serpent from the world, as it is written, "He will destroy death forever" (Isaiah 25:8) and "also I will cause...the unclean spirit to pass out of the land" (Zecharyah 13:2).

Come and behold, The days of man were created and sustained by the supernal grades. Once they do not exist by these grades, as it is written, "The days of our years are seventy" (Tehilim 90:10), there is no other grade by which to be maintained. For this reason, "their pride is but trouble and wretchedness (Zecharyah 13:2.), and then it is as if they never existed.

He asks, Why is it called sorcery if someone uses the chirping of birds (to tell the future)? It is because the unholy spirit abides in that bird, which is drawn from this side . That unholy spirit foretells events. Every defiled spirit, is attached to and comes to the world from the serpent and no one in this world is safe from it, because it is everywhere, until the time when the Holy One, blessed be He, will remove it from the world, as it is written, "He will destroy death for ever" (Isaiah 25:8) and "I will also cause...the unclean spirit to pass out of the land" (Zecharyah 13:2).