The Purified Blood Principle

The fire colored dragon represents the astral being of the human being. The christian asotericism which inspired this poem and which spread within europe saw that which humanity had received from the hot zone from the south from the south comes that part of the humanBeing which is more directed toward lower sensuality. It is not a mere symbol but a very real sign in the dragon is expressed what must first be overcome in the passions in these forces of astral fire that are part of the physical human being in this dragon. That which has thus been preserved in the higher kind of animal nature was represented in the bear and the eye which has developed beyond the dragon nature was represented by the human hand