When we see artistic expressions of the Archangel Michael, we are reminded in so many ways that here be dragons. There are other images of Michael, but let us not forget that a dragon outside the frame of reference is acting true to its nature when the watchful eye is turned away…  An allegiance with the world mission of Michael implies an acceptance of the company of dragons.
 
These dragons can be tamed. Dragons are not to be eradicated like a plague of smallpox. They are immortal so any attempt to kill a dragon is much like cutting down creeping buttercup without removing the roots. Those roots are also creeping into our hearts. To tame dragons we must emancipate our hearts from the roots of dragon life. And the way to tame dragons is to love them with determination.
 
A dragon may flame with emotional ardour. Let us contain and tame such ardour within ourselves so that we act in moderate coolness rather than catch fire with forest-and-world-destroying emotion.
 
One way to love a dragon is to practice a basic exercise from How to Know Higher Worlds. It is an exercise that is never finished. 
 
Provide for yourself moments of inner tranquillity, and in these moments learn to distinguish between the essential and the non-essential. (HtKHW: Chapter 1) I see this at an intimate part of the inner work named as spirit-mindfulness in the Foundation Stone Meditation in the second verse addressing human feeling.
 
Every dragon has an essential purpose that can teach us freedom. When we raise this purpose to awareness we become able to emancipate our motivation through choices made in freedom, thereby also freeing the dragon from its non-essential nature.
 
Destructiveness has its place in the temporal world order so that redundant clutter can make way for creativity. Redundancy reveals the presence of the non-essential.  For example, all passing flames of emotions become redundant whether or not they also harbour potential for the good. Fiery motivation needs to be tended with loving care so that the good in it does not pass away.
 
As we emancipate ourselves from dragons, we emancipate the world from the non-essential in ourselves. Is not the quest for individual freedom also the task of emancipating the world from the non-essential? We do not wish to hinder the world, we want the world to evolve to the fulfilment of its highest potential. The good in us contributes to the good in the world. All that hinders the world in us is therefore non-essential. What is left is a seed of active evolution in our hearts. In the Rosicrucian mantram: we die into Christ. 
 
Autumn teaches us that the temporal non-essential can be transformed into the Bread of future Life. What is essential in the dragon needs to find its incarnation in the course of evolution through a disciplined human hand. The non-essential can only transform when it is not cooped up in unfree human deeds. 
 
Yes, these are high and mighty ideals. It is my conviction that without such ideals the Philosophy of Freeing Spiritual Activity loses its ultimate purpose. Part of its purpose is to free the world from my hindrances. As such this journal may be encumbered with my personal weaknesses, but I hope you will read within it an account of the good intentions of anthroposophy that this website wishes to represent.
 
The Rosicrucian mantram can be rendered as:
We arise from Divinity.
We die into Christ.
We are reborn in the Holy Spirit.