When the Machine Becomes Myth
The Beast is egoic will institutionalized: domination, compulsion, worship of power, dehumanization, and identity conferred by the system. Individually it is animalized will severed from Spirit; collectively it is political, economic, technological, cultural, or spiritual power becoming autonomous from Love. Book X analyzes the Machine whose means escape human ends. Book XII gives its archetypal image: the Beast. This is more enduring than identifying one politician or device.