In High Ancient Days, in the time before the Moon, before there was life on Earth, the seven Tears of the Dragon fell upon the barren planet. Immortal life sprang from the tears, but it could not sustain itself and fell into the duality of the two trees, into the cycle of births and deaths. Life and human nature, joy and sorrow, light and dark, Spirit and soul, intellect and emotion, the one became many and in each pair of Forces, each seeks the other's transformation. The dark power, the love of earthly pleasures or sensory stimulation, as well as the light power, the intellectual and logical order of the consensus world, have to be overcome if we are to regain our original spiritual state (union of our individualized consciousness with universal consciousness). Both powers have to be overcome in apotheosis if one is to be 'saved.' The Dragon of light is represented by man as an eagle, while the Dragon of darkness is represented as a serpent. The transcendence of BOTH the light and the dark to enter into a higher state of being is still a taboo idea, only followed by those who seek to become Dragons themselves.