Tok. Magick tale

EPILOGUE

EPILOGUE.

And to the sun is subject the troop of dragons, or rather, troops: for there are of them many and various troops, placed under the command of the planets, an equal number of dragons being assigned to each planet. Thus arranged in separate army corps, the dragons serve under the different planets. They are both good and evil in their natures, that is, in their operation; for the being of a dragon consists in its operation. These dragons are given dominion over all things on earth. They are also the authors of the disturbances that occur on earth, and operate manifold troubles both for cities and nations collectively and for individual men. For they mould our souls in another form, and capture them for themselves, being seated in our nerves, marrow, veins and arteries, penetrating even into our innermost organs. For at the moment when each of us is born and made alive, the dragons who at that instant are occupied as ministers of birth, take charge of us, that is, the dragons who are subject to one of the planets. For the planets replace one another from one moment to the next; they do not continue to operate without change, but succeed one another in rotation. These dragons thus work their way through the body, and enter the two irrational parts of the soul (namely, the part that feels desire and the part that feels repugnance), and each dragon perverts the soul in a different way, according to its special mode of action. But the rational part of the soul remains free from the dominion of the dragons and fit to receive the Bond into itself. If then the rational part of a man's soul is illumined by a ray of light from the Bond, for that man the operation of the dragons is reduced to nothing; for no dragon has power against a single ray of the light of the Bond. But such men are few indeed; and all others are driven, soul and body, by the dragons, setting their hearts and affections upon the operation of the dragons. Such is that love which is without reason, the love that goes astray and leads men astray. The dragons thus rule our earthly life, using our bodies as their instrument; and this rule Zor calls "destiny".

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