"The Dragon" is an allegorical image of all varieties and totality of evil in all its cruel, destructive actions, manifested in a variety of violent political ideas, theories, false religious dogmas, doctrines, beliefs and morals of sinfully living nations.

"The Dragon" is also an image of the opposition of man's carnal nature to the Laws of his spiritual formation, the Commandments of God, which comes from the historical depths of his creaturely being.  

"The Dragon" is an image of the various political, religious, and economic systems of the sinful world, its sinister, pernicious ideologies and their spokesmen, leaders.