The Dragon is not Mere Spectacle
- GODSAVEME
- May 15
- 4 min read
Editorial Avenue no. 32: 15th May 2026
What is the purpose of intelligence?
In most of human history, intelligence has been associated with the unfolding of an immense power that then becomes self-referential. Intelligence is first enhanced locally within the family systems we are born in for the improvement of one’s socioeconomic conditions. Gradually, this same intelligence may be used for the purpose of furthering ideas that benefit communities or even entire nations. Intelligence, from this perspective, serves the purpose of maximising wealth, be it physical and financial or even cognitive and symbolic. At the end of the day, this experiencing of intelligence within human societies – which we will call a form of observational intelligence rooted in malleable perception – serves the ultimate purpose of fulfilling the essence of biological living. And as is the necessity for all that relates to biological living, intelligence serves the purpose of ensuring adequate nourishment to human life. But perceiving intelligence exclusively from this layer is what may lead to existential flatness. This is because this form of intelligence remains enclosed in the principles of acquisition (to own is what becomes part of one’s identity), exaltation (one’s identity is emmeshed in the symbols of prestige) and ultimately self-preservation (the end goal is invulnerability for a closed circle of one’s family and community). This is representative of forms of highly developed forms of consciousness that have fused with what can be controlled within the immediate environment. This has naturally pushed humans away from being the generational custodians of wealth that was accumulated from ancient but equally evolved forms of intelligence, long lost systems of hierarchies and traditions that have shaped past civilisations. For to be a custodian requires an innate sense of protecting, preserving and upholding the integrity and legitimacy of that which we do not personally own. Human intelligence has however evolved into an opposing structure. We are now more organised around the preservation of self-supremacy.
The fantasy of the human encounter with the dragon exemplifies this because we never ask one crucial question. What if, in reality, the dragon was not an object for us to consume? Dragons in narrative myths evoke awe, fear and reverence. The human being is overwhelmed by its intensity but then chooses to metabolise this intensity into conquest, spectacle or utility. This serves to fulfill the human hero’s need for achieving a necessary destiny and though it may be a necessity for survival, it does not help one probe further about the distortions of Truth. At human level, reality is still centres around us and our experiences. At the divine level though, intelligence would ask: what higher forms of truth have been eliminated to allow this current distortion to manifest in front of me? So whilst human intelligence perceives power as what is visible within the here and now, divine intelligence would attempt to interpret power from the lens of a hierarchy. In other words, what is this creature’s ontological role, position and order within the Highest Good that all beings are subject to. The divine does not ask these questions out of a sense of ownership but out of a necessity of calibration to the Highest Truth.
This matters not because truth is about respecting accuracy but because the moment one aligns with truth, two faculties come up as a dyad: intelligence and morality. Now by morality, we do not mean virtue. Morality may be better interpreted as fidelity. In fidelity, the brain is able to receive an external signal and it will hold it in, despite how uncomfortable that positioning may be, until that signal has metabolised enough within consciousness for it to lose all forms of distortion and defences leaving only the truth behind. The mind may then make a choice. It will act in accordance to what it has now assimilated without harming another mind in the process. The truth therefore is not about speaking the truth at all times. It is rather an acceptance of what stands to be real and allowing this reality to bring in correction. This can include being corrected through consequences, setting up of boundaries or even accepting that one’s own interpretations may have been manipulated through illusion. However, existence is not moralising by its very nature. The moral field becomes unavoidable because living beings exist in relation to each other and each decision that is taken necessarily generates consequence and thereby responsibility. The existential flatness theorem of living is a form of illusion as it mistakes the finitude of life for a life devoid of consequence. Even pleasure has moral depth attached to it as pleasure is subject to the same laws of truth. Whilst biological living requires us to consume and nourish ourselves until the day we die, the simple act of existing alters the fields of other living beings. We all have a role to play in the stewardship of a shared field of existing. And that is why the dragon is not a mere spectacle for human imagination. It is an ordered form of participation in the Highest Good.
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Endnote:
Our monthly editorials are pure channellings received from Heaven. The administrative team responsible for their transmission has the duty to publish each editorial on the 15th of every month. This date is symbolic, as it coincides with the official founding date of the web platform of the accredited Centre known as “God's Save Me,” on September 15, 2023. More than a simple editorial, “The Editorial Avenue” is a sacred pathway opened to humanity so that it may reconnect with the Light, for God cares for everyone.
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