A provisory guarantee is rather like blackmail.

Government... unions... industry... we have had enough. We - no, YOU - are sleepwalking the rest of us towards a less busy, less relevant industry with a smaller workforce, fewer passengers, fading importance, declining investment, poorly-paid jobs, and a truly shambolic reputation.

In their doubledealing way, even from a friend and ally, they would want more sugar for fewer goods.

The drama of the storehouse on earth has its counterpart in Heaven, and if we accept the insights of both Jacobsen and von Dechend, we can see that the myth is bodying forth a principle which will later be expressed in the Hermetic axiom, As above, so below. In fact, it is precisely this relationship between above and below that the myth explores.