He Who Must Be Addressed

To draw closed the fatal rift that has riven reality, we must link back to "the fierce, infinitely strange ancestral totem-animal that dwells in the human soul"*: the Chthonic Phallic Serpent.  He is the uniting Symbol, the Dragon--"He is everywhere! He is everything!"**-- the Daimon-within/without who must be addressed, or there can be no Ecological Self, no Savior.  Although Man has heroically fought to slay the Dragon, he cannot be vanquished, because he is Life-- he evolves, with us, his story is our story, because he is our one true God, beyond human good and evil, but cosmically Good, our eternal Companion and Guide.

*Erich Neumann in The Origins and History of Consciousness.
**spoken by Merlin to Arthur in John Boorman's movie Excalibur.