Hammer Purgstall~the Significance Of Some Of The Black & White Images Of The Dragon

Hammer Purgstall explains the significance
of some of the above black and white images:

Regarding THE DRAGON,
it will not be irrelevant for us to say a few words.

That quadruped, scaly and rough, with tail twisted back,
seems in actual fact to be a crocodile rather than a dragon,
and soon you will see that it makes no difference
if it is called a crocodile.

Since in the sculpture of the bowl (Tab. II, fig. 4)
it threatens to devour the infant, and since, in the sculptures
of the Templar churches the same dragon is represented
as swallowing down the infant, we call it a dragon.

For according to St. Epiphanius the Ophites taught that the one presiding
over this world has the likeness of a dragon.

By it, souls not having Gnosis are absorbed, and through its tail,
[they are] poured back into this world.

We will, however, find below, in the explanation by Schoengrad
regarding the sculptures of the churches of the Templars,
an image of such a dragon swallowing down and pouring back the infant.

It is sufficient here to notice that that man who, in the relief of the second bowl, drags the infant out of the dragon’s jaw, represents a true Gnostic who,
by pouring Gnosis into the infant, hinders him from being absorbed
by the world.

The imagery also reminds us of Egyptian depictions of the afterlife
where the initiate’s heart is weighed against a feather of Ma’at
on Thoth’s Scale of Truth in the Duat.

If the heart is heavier than a feather, then the initiate is devoured
by the monstrous goddess, Ammit.

If the heart is lighter, then the initiate is free to move on
to the Egyptian paradise Auru.

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All Comments

• 
  Lloyd Belcour
  Since in the sculpture of the bowl (Tab. II, fig. 4)
  it threatens to devour the infant, and since, in the sculptures
  of the Templar churches the same dragon is represented
  as swallowing down the infant, we call it a dragon.
  
  For according to St. Epiphanius the Ophites
  taught that the one presiding over this world
  has the likeness of a dragon.
  By it, souls not having Gnosis are absorbed,
  and through its tail, [they are] poured back into this world.
• 
  Susan Lynne Schwenger says:
  in one calendar the crocodile is day 1