The dragon is in origin a composite of the non-human Other in Nature, particularly of those creatures and elements that create fright and awe. Dragons are slain by human heroes to alleviate the fear of Nature, to create confidence in the face of the sheer vast inhuman might of Nature. But in our time, when this dragon-slaying is destroying the Earth, the dragon serves to revive awe and respect for non-human Nature, that of it in ourselves as well as in this world. The dragon is our most potent mythic bridge back to Sacred Nature, which we have lost and which now seems a refuge of sanity and survival from the monstrous false-nature of our civilization, which is more infinitely frightful and destructive than what the dragon has represented. The dragon now becomes our hope for salvation in the face of heroic humanist triumphalism.
Such weird times we live in, when what was stark evil becomes blessed and goodly, and what was blessed and goodly becomes stark evil. In these mad times, which are relentlessly presented as sane by the forces of good order, for the person who clearly apprehends the hopeless madness, everything is reversed, inverted, turned inside-out. The Dragon becomes the hero.
The Soul is in Nature for you to innerly see. But in our time humankind know not the Soul, but for the few. Seek the Dragon, friend-- "He is everywhere, He is everything"(natural, that is).
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