dragon

• symbolic representation of Lucifer and rebels

53:1.6The dragon even­tu­ally be­came the sym­bolic rep­re­sen­ta­tion of all these evil per­son­ages. Upon the tri­umph of Mi­chael, “Ga­briel came down from Sal­ving­ton and bound the dragon (all the rebel lead­ers) for an age.” Of the Je­ru­sem se­raphic rebels it is writ­ten: “And the an­gels who kept not their first es­tate but left their own habi­ta­tion, he has re­served in sure chains of dark­ness to the judg­ment of the great day.”

• symbolic representation of Lucifer and rebels

53:5.6“There was war in heaven; Mi­chael’s com­man­der and his an­gels fought against the dragon (Lu­cifer, Sa­tan, and the apos­tate princes); and the dragon and his re­bel­lious an­gels fought but pre­vailed not.” This “war in heaven” was not a phys­i­cal bat­tle as such a con­flict might be con­ceived on Uran­tia. In the early days of the strug­gle Lu­cifer held forth con­tin­u­ously in the plan­e­tary am­phithe­ater. Ga­briel con­ducted an un­ceas­ing ex­po­sure of the rebel soph­ist­ries from his head­quar­ters taken up near at hand. The var­i­ous per­son­al­i­ties pres­ent on the sphere who were in doubt as to their at­ti­tude would jour­ney back and forth be­tween these dis­cus­sions un­til they ar­rived at a fi­nal de­ci­sion.

• in Apostle John’s vision

53:7.7Of the plan­e­tary an­gelic helpers, those as­signed to the Ma­te­rial Sons, about one third were de­ceived, and al­most ten per cent of the tran­si­tion min­is­ters were en­snared. In sym­bol John saw this when he wrote of the great red dragon, say­ing: “And his tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven and cast them down in dark­ness.”

• Chinese worship of d. was survival of snake cult

85:3.3The He­brews wor­shiped ser­pents down to the days of King Hezekiah, and the Hin­dus still main­tain friendly re­la­tions with their house snakes. The Chi­nese wor­ship of the dragon is a sur­vival of the snake cults. The wis­dom of the ser­pent was a sym­bol of Greek med­i­cine and is still em­ployed as an em­blem by mod­ern physi­cians. The art of snake charm­ing has been handed down from the days of the fe­male shamans of the snake love cult, who, as the re­sult of daily snake bites, be­came im­mune, in fact, be­came gen­uine venom ad­dicts and could not get along with­out this poi­son.