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Welcome to the Realm of the Shining Ones! From Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells The history and etiquette of Vampirism in the Home Counties~ A collection of essays on the Derkesthai Culture with accompanying extracts from the Dragon Court archives by Nicholas de Vere Sovereign Grand Master - The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court Edited and Illustrated by - H.E. Michael Hunter B.A. - Archaeological and Anthropological Consultant - Baron Richard Dufton B.A. - Dedication This work is dedicated to the memory of an Elven Princess of the House of Llewelyn who opened her heart in love, threw the doors of Elphame wide and gave birth to the Sovereign Dragon Nation once more; and to the Grail Maidens and Dragon Princesses who are the sole and rightful custodians of Eternity’ Extracts from this collection first appeared in Mr. Laurence Gardner's book 'Genesis of the Grail Kings' with the kind permission of HI&RH Prince Nicholas de Vere, who also formerly permitted further extensive essay and research material, and archival extracts from the Dragon Collection to form the bulk of Mr. Gardner's September 1999 'Nexus Lectures' and his next book 'Ring Lords of the Dragon' which, although due to be published by Element Books in September 2000, has now apparently either been abandoned or renamed’ From Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells Frontispiece "The Beast, the Dragon, the terrible monster, is the disguise of the beloved; the horror to be overcome itself is, or contains, the Reward’ Beauty and the Beast must be conjoined’ The old tag that a serpent becomes not a Dragon save by devouring another serpent, has an Alchemical sense: These are the two Dragons, male and female: they destroy one another, or one destroys the other and a new and mightier one is born, a fiery wonder: A Phoenix (traditionally depicted as having red and gold plumage*), a leaping glory, a STAR of dream ascending to the throne of the world. This was the Transmutation, the Great Work of the hidden glory of perfection". Arthur Machen, Fr.GD. (Frater of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn) The mating of Ravens is the rhythmic inhalation and exhalation of the breath of Ravens, one by the other. And in this way are the children of Ravens fashioned. (The Raven is the Phoenix of the Elven Kings)’ Traditional country folklore (England) * (The red and gold field, symbolizing the plumage of the Phoenix - superimposed by the white Star - are the Arms of the Vere, supported by two Dragons they historically become one of the Seals of the House. Red and gold are also the colors of other descendants of the Merovingian dynasty, including the Planagenets, the Mandevilles, the Spencers and the Royal House of Scotland). Return This book is a conversational and informal, organic, evolving work which will grow as the Dragon Court archives are converted into electronic data. Further chapters will include The Origin of the Dragon Lords of the Rings and a comprehensive discourse on the ancient methods used in The Rite of the Vampire, accompanied by a detailed endocrinological schematic. The author would like to acknowledge, thank and/or credit the following people for supportive and corroborative source material and for their encouragement throughout the years. These will be added to as time marches on. Anyone who feels that they have been forgotten should contact the site administrator and the oversight will be rectified if your work has been consulted. • Carol Thomas • Elizabeth Ward • Ian Inskipp • Jiddu Krishnamurti • Richard Dufton • Michael Hunter • Chris Hall • Kenneth Grant • Ward Rutherford • David Wood • Yatri • Pennethorne Hughes • H.T.F. Rhodes • Yuri Stoyanov • David Barker • George Reilly-Scott • Peter Anderson • Sabine Baring-Gould • Ulick Beck • Ean Begg • Margaret Murray • Richard Gregory • Drs. Walter Pierpaoli & William Regelson • Miranda Green • Vivian Green • David Day • Prof. Ray McNally • Austin Osman Spare • George Woodcock • Verily Anderson • James Anderson • Prof. Morton Smith • J. H. Brennan • Israel Regardie • Francis King • Colin Wilson • MacGregor Mathers, • Jack Parso • John Matthews • Jehovah (author of the bestselling novel The Holy Bible) • and a bunch of Irish and Welsh Monks for variously fiddling with the Annals of Irish History and for committing to parchment the Mabinogion and the Liebher Gabhala. In all other respects the bulk of this work was anticipatory and derived from the application of the Derkesthai phenomenon. It would be pretty pointless writing about it if it hadn't and the reader would just be confronted with yet another rehash of the same old material that has been doing the rounds for years. Grateful thanks are also extended to my mother, about whom my father says "that she is the only woman I have ever known to have suffered from post-natal depression for more than thirty years". A New Age Critique The etymology of the word 'dragon' comes to us via the Latin but is derived ultimately, it is thought, from the Greek, though the origin of the word and its definition is probably much older. The word in Greek is drakon (drakon); as in edrakon (edrakon), an aorist of derkesthai (derkesthai), which means 'to see clearly'. A dragon was one who saw clearly, and clarity of vision engendered and was always classically associated with wisdom, which itself produced power. Today we say that knowledge is power, so nothing has changed in that respect, except that it is actually wisdom - the ability to predict or intuit and synthesize knowledge - a prerequisite of druidic or fairy neuro-physiology, that actually affords the greatest power of all. In a progression of logic that naturally suggests itself, we are therefore entering in upon the linguistic territory of the seer, the witch and the magus, with whom the foregoing qualities have always been closely identified, a state of affairs with which etymologists concur. From there, in the Gaelic realms, we encounter the 'Merlins', a name which, like 'Dragon', literally means 'seer', and who furthermore, were of a class of druid priests or 'philosophus' or 'magi', as they were also known in classical times. Anciently the foregoing regional epithets were all attributed to one royal, priestly tribe originally known in Indo-European as the Arya: The 'race of the wise ones', a caste who were described in Latin as the 'nobilis', a name which originated from the Greek root gno (gno) meaning 'to know'. Similarly the word king is derived from the related Gothic word kuningzam, meaning both "knowing one" and "scion of the noble, (meaning wise), race". In addition we have the associated word siddhis, meaning 'the powers' and from this word or vice versa, was derived the tribal name 'the Scythians' the 'Arya-Sidhe' or 'Sidheans'. The 'siddhis' were a range of psychic or paranormal phenomena which manifested themselves as the attributes of those Tantric priests in Eurasia who had attained 'samadhi' or 'enlightenment'. These people, coterminously the Aryans or Scythians, who are thought to have developed Tantra in Sumeria, were known as the legendary Tuadha d'Anu (tribe of Anu and by a traditional, widely known derivation - "people of the stars") or daouine sidhe (meaning people of the powers) in the Gaelic countries. They were the 'wise ones', the elves or fairies; and from this we can conclude that by correct definition, a Dragon was originally, (by blood descent from the race of the wise), an overlord, an archdruid or bruidhina, magus and a seer, an elven goddess- queen or god-king. Such are not to be confused with the warrior kings or tinker dynasties installed by the Roman Church over the last 1500 years, nor with any modern royal family. The druidhe were kings above kings. The dragon or fairy gene was very rare and true archdruidic, royal dragon families were rarer still. Persecutions excepted, if this were not the case anyway, then perhaps many fairy stories of the popular genre which originated from outside the dragon culture would never have taken hold, because the reality would have been constantly staring people in the face. Traditionally and consistently, the symbol of both wisdom (Sophia) and healing was the serpent or, as it was also known, the dragon. In keeping with this the kings and queens of pre-catholic history were noted for their healing capabilities and as such, in Judaic mythology, were called, perhaps after the archangel Raphael, the Repha'im or Rapha'Elohim; the healing gods of the Anunnaki. Raphael was the Prince who appeared to Adam in Eden according to Milton. No mention of this is made in Genesis and one suspects that of the two entities that did appear to Adam, Enlil and Enki, or if you like: God and the Catholic Satan. Raphael - the Angel of the Rising Sun - must have been Enki who gave Kingship to man in the form of the Elven Overlords and after whom, by various related epithets; including 'The Repha'im', the Elven Kings are known. Authorities believe that these people were identical to both the Nephilim and the Anakim of Idumea and Canaan. In early heraldry, derived from ancient sources, the dragon was depicted as a serpent with the wings of a swan. This image was also given the wings of a bat. The dragon nevertheless was humanoid and so the symbolism in the dragon glyph ought rather be interpreted to substantiate the etymology of the word itself. The serpent stands for the wisdom and healing powers of the sacred king or queen whose regalia often consisted of serpent-like scale armour and whose consciousness soars above that of humanity as if carried on wings, which were symbolized by shamanic swan's feather cloaks. The nocturnal habits of the dragon people, typically those of the Cimmerian Scythians, were noted by their contemporaries and the swan's wings of the dragon glyph attributed to them were either interchangeable with, or substituted by, those of the bat to signify this.