AE 714b - "the dragon"

AE 714b [4]
In general, it (the dragon) signifies those who are more or less natural, and yet are in a knowledge of spiritual things from the Word. But in particular, it signifies those who have confirmed themselves, by doctrine and life, in a faith separated from charity. These constitute the head of the dragon. But those who from self-intelligence hatch out for themselves dogmas from the Word constitute its body; while those who study the Word without doctrine constitute its external parts. All these also falsify and adulterate the Word, since they are in the love of self, and thence in the pride of self-intelligence, from which they become merely natural, yea, even sensual, and the sensual man is unable to see the genuine truths of the Word...

[5]
For the Word itself is spiritual, because it is in itself Divine, and is therefore in heaven. But since the mere knowledge of spiritual things from the Word does not make man spiritual, but a life according to those that that are in the Word; therefore all those who are in knowledge from the Word and are not in a life according to that knowledge are natural and even sensual.