We continue toward completing our reading from the anthology edited by Meredith Sabini:

Suppose an age when the machine gets on top of us. Then it would become a dragon… All idol-worshippers know that the image has been made by man, yet it is chosen as an abode of the god because it is his symbol, and inasmuch as it is inhabited by a god, it is sacred… it is taboo… It looks as if it were a mechanical thing, but it can overgrow us in an invisible way… Despite the fact that they were created by man, they are dwelling-places of divine powers that may destroy us.

—CG Jung, “The Transformation of Dragons into Machines” (~1930) p148.