The Animal Spirit of the Dragon

The crowned alchemical Dragon as ouroboros,

churning and sublimating the life-force,

from horns into Crown transmogrified.

The Animal Spirit of the Dragon

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The Animal Spirit in the mind

is the libido or life-force divine;

striving blind to reach the Sun,

flowering forth from horns to Crown.

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It's not my ego who enters Heaven,

he's just a fabrication of mental reason;

but God's Creature inside each of us

churns the Star of the Ouroboros.

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This Pearl or Dragon-Sun ashine,

gestates inside baptismal fire;

who can bear this immolation,

sublimate sublime into Solarization?

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Only the Id can dance in flames,

born of the Orphic Egg ablaze;

the Salamander-Spirit is not consumed,

but my ego is blackened and subsumed.

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Thus the need to tame the Beast

who guards life's beauty on her quest;

Queen of immanence births the Soul,

a kiss transforms, green into Gold!

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God-zilla of creation and destruction,

cosmic Snake of regeneration,

survives the vicissitudes of hisstory,

resurfaces again in modern mythology.

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Dragon, Spirit-Animal par excellence,

fire-forges the true Pearl iridescent;

from unconscious waters the Sun does rise,

the plumed Serpent into Heaven's sky.

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