Dragon

The dragon (Latin: draco, Greek: δράκων drákon "dragon"), usually depicted as a lizard-like creature with flying skins or also as a serpentine lindworm (Old High German: lint "snake", is usually an imagination of those human forces that are under the influence of the Luciferic or Ahrimanic adversary powers. In this sense, one can speak of a Luciferic dragon - usually referred to as the serpent - and an Ahrimanic dragon. Because of the primordial nature inherent in the Luciferic forces, these forces are also interpreted positively, namely in Eastern cultures ("lucky dragon"). However, they are no longer compatible with the alert self-awareness that man should develop today. An essential task of our time is rather to deal above all with the ahrimanic forces and to use them in a positive sense, just as culture was once founded and fertilised by the luciferic forces.

Literature

• Klaus Herrmann (editor), Sefer Jezira - Buch der Schöpfung., Verlag der Weltreligionen, Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 2008, ISBN 978-3-458-70007-4
• Rudolf Steiner: Grundelemente der Esoterik, GA 93a (1987)
• Rudolf Steiner: Aus der Bilderschrift der Apokalypse des Johannes, GA 104a (1991), ISBN 3-7274-1045-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Ägyptische Mythen und Mysterien, GA 106 (1992) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Der Jahreskreislauf als Atmungsvorgang der Erde und die vier großen Festeszeiten, GA 223 (1990), ISBN 3-7274-2231-9 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden, Band II: 1910 – 1912, GA 266/2 (1996), ISBN 3-7274-2662-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Erziehung und Unterricht aus Menschenerkenntnis, GA 302a (1993), ISBN 3-7274-3025-7 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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