"two principles balance one another, active and passive, masculine and feminine,
which constitute the essence of creative power in the eternal cycle of birth and death.
represented in ancient alchemy by the symbol of the uroboros, the dragon that bites its own tail.
Self-devouring is the same as self-destruction,
but the union of the dragon’s tail and mouth was also thought of as self-fertilization.
Hence the texts say: “The dragon slays itself, weds itself, impregnates itself.”
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"In the floods of life, in the storm of work,
In ebb and flow,
In warp and weft,
Cradle and grave,
An eternal sea,
A changing patchwork,
A glowing life,
At the whirring loom of Time
I weave The living clothes of the Deity.”
