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Draconian Consciousness
Draconian
Consciousness
by Michael Kelly
A Publication of the Order of Apep
A Handbook of Divine Madness
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Cover Art copyright Steve Armstrong 2012
Other titles by Michael Kelly in the Order of Apep's Draconian Magic

series:
Apophis
gishjlmur: The Book of Dragon Runes
Dragonscales
Table of Contents
Draconian Consciousness................................................3
INTRODUCTION............................................................9
The Path of the Draconian Adept.........................10
The Order of Apep................................................11
What Do I Need to Do First?................................14
So What Comes Next?.........................................16
THE EYE IN THE VOID..............................................19
Arise, Adept..........................................................21
The Nature of Leviathan.......................................25
Flesh of My Flesh, Bone of My Bone, Blood of My
Blood....................................................................28
The Serpent as Redeemer.....................................29
Looking Outside the World..................................31
Cultivating the Vision of Set................................34
Invoking the Ancient Dragon...............................40
The Ritual of Opening the Eye.............................44
The Helm of Awe.................................................48
Identification With the Holy Beasts.....................50
Drawing Down the Void.......................................54
The Void and Sorcery...........................................56
The Z2 Rituals and the Void.................................58
Ror Piadph............................................................76
The Whisperings of the Void................................77
THE BEAST AND THE HARLOT...............................79
The Black Magus..................................................80
The Demon Lover.................................................81
Shaping the Perfect Flesh.....................................84
The Pentagram of Desire......................................86
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Invoking the Beloved............................................88

The Daughter of Babalon......................................91
Lust, Rage and Obsession.....................................95
Lycanthropy..........................................................99
Charisma and Command....................................101
Bringing Passion into Your World.....................104
Invoking the Striding God..................................107
The Army of Darkness........................................114
Unleash the Hounds of Hell................................120
Choosing Your Battles........................................130
Enemies and Allies.............................................132
Passion and Immortality.....................................133
The Litany of Immortality..................................137
Mastering the Minefield.....................................139
GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS.............................141
The White Magus...............................................142
Set as the Transgressor of Boundaries................145
Liber OZ.............................................................146
A New World Order...........................................148
The Void as a Window Upon the Cosmos.........149
Remote Viewing.................................................151
Dimensions in Time...........................................153
The Space-Time Labyrinth.................................155
Temporal Maps...................................................157
Practical Time Travel.........................................159
Finding Vortices in the World............................162
Riding the Dragon Energy..................................164
The Memory of Trees.........................................166
Stepping Outside................................................168
Choosing Your Angles of Incidence...................169
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The World of Is, As Opposed to the World of

Should-Be...........................................................170
Bringing the Gods Down to Earth......................171
Prophecy.............................................................175
The Breaking of the Boundaries of Belief..........177
Zain The Word of Silence...............................178
THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES..........................183
The Red Magus...................................................184
Turning Oneself Inside Out................................185
Ror Piadph To Swallow the Sun.....................187
The Material World as the Manifestation of
Consciousness.....................................................190
Being as a Function of Doing.............................191
The Throne in the Void......................................193
The Secret of Remanifestation...........................195
The Armchair Ipsissimus....................................196
INTRODUCTION
raconian Consciousness is a book that aims to

achieve exactly what it says on the cover: to awaken
the Serpent power and consciousness within. That is
an evocative enough description in itself, but we will be
examining what this means in detail and practice as the pages
continue to turn.
I have described this text as a Book of Divine
Madness, and I mean this quite literally. Anyone who puts
the principles and practices contained in this book into action
in their lives will to one extent or another be considered
mad by the greater part of humanity. Once the immensity of
the Void has been glimpsed, burning the eyes and scarring the
soul, it can never be forgotten. Your thought processes will
never be able to return to the state of placid acceptance that
they once enjoyed. You will no longer be 'normal'. You will
no longer care about the same things or share the same goals
that the majority of people do. A creative madness will have
taken you, and it will not be shaken off. Your priorities, goals
and values will not be shared by the people around you. So
be warned about this before you begin.
The Path of the Draconian Adept

Draconian Consciousness is a book whose practical Work is
intended for those who can honestly describe themselves as
Adepts. You won't find any of the essential preliminary
training in this volume. That doesn't mean to say that a
novice will gain nothing from reading it; it just means that
you will need to learn the ropes before these exercises will
bear any fruit for you.
So who is the book meant for? Ideally, you will have
received training in a recognised and authentic school of
magic, and will have reached a degree therein which your
peers have judged to be skilled and properly balanced. Most
Initiatory schools will give you a good grounding in the
magical arts. I received my own training in the Temple of
Set, as is well known, and I remain a Master in the Rune-Gild.
Both of these schools will serve you well. There are others
too, of course. I have heard good reports of Dragon Rouge,
and the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros. The
Ordo Templi Orientis is worthwhile. The late, great Kenneth
Grant's Typhonian teachings are well suited to this
curriculum. Obviously, groups which lean towards the LeftHand Path will most benefit you, but to be honest, the actual
methodologies of magical practice are much the same across
the board in these early training stages, and even the Lightfocused Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, who would
throw up their hands in horror at much of the Draconian
ideology, will nonetheless admirably teach you all of the
essential skills that you need.
The big advantage of having received your training in
a magical school is that you do not have to rely upon your
own assessment of your abilities, which can be affected badly
in either direction by low self esteem on the one hand, or self-
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aggrandisement on the other. Sometimes the opportunity to

be shown by a skilled colleague exactly how to intone words
of power, or how to astrally project, is worth its weight in
gold and can save you months of floundering and trial and
error.
It also allows you to enjoy the benefits of proper
feedback from others on the Path. They can gently nudge you
onto the right track when you're stuck in a cul de sac, or can
offer some amazing flash of inspiration when you're
describing your latest project to them, giving your Work an
enormous boost.
But not all of us have the luxury of such a supportive
group, of course, and some have important personal reasons
for working alone. And it is a fact that even those who are
active in groups will do most of their important Work alone.
A school will help you to develop your skills and smooth the
path of practice, but the real Initiatory crises always take you
when you're on your own, pursuing your own projects and
researches. So if you have never belonged to a group, be
doubly proud of what you have managed to achieve on your
own. This book will still carry you forward if you have put
the Work in to elevate yourself to a position of Adepthood
that is, a position where you are one who is skilled in the
Black Arts.
We will examine further exactly what initiatory state
you need to be in to commence the Work of Draconian
Consciousness shortly. But first, I want to discuss the Order
of Apep and what it has to offer.
The Order of Apep

The sharp-eyed will have noticed that this book claims to be 'a
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publication of the Order of Apep', as do the previous volumes

in the series. The Order of Apep is a Circle of Draconian
Initiates who have grown up around these teachings and who
promote the Draconian Current through publications,
occasional meetings and forums. The Order is not a fully
structured Initiatory School, but all of its core members the
Draconian Circle belong to one or other of such schools,
generally in a senior position.
Therefore, the Order does not possess any 'secret'
teachings, reserved for members only. All of its teachings are
published and freely available to those who purchase the
books, or engage in the forums, or watch the instructional
videos on Youtube. Order participants do have the benefit of
seeing the teachings take shape as they are discussed and
experimented with, of course, before they are ready for
publication.
All readers of this book are invited to interact with the
Order of Apep to as great or as little a degree as they wish in
order to supplement the material herein. The Order has a
Yahoo group dedicated to Draconian lore and discussion,
where a large collection of articles and essays is stored, most
of which have since been polished and published. The forum
is open for all debate and advice concerning the Initiatory
curriculum.
The Order also has a presence on Facebook, which is
used mostly for news and for the sharing of instructional
videos and occasional articles or excerpts from forthcoming
books. This Facebook page can be accessed at:
www.facebook.com/TheApophisClub
The instructional videos on Youtube can also be
viewed directly on there, of course, on Manxbull's channel.
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The primary resources provided by the Order so far

are the series of Draconian texts, of which Draconian
Consciousness is the most recent. The others may be of great
value to you too, and are as follows:
Apophis This is the foundational text of the Order's
curriculum of Draconian Magic. It offers an Initiatory path
structured around the powers of the seven heads of the
primordial Serpent. Draconian Consciousness is a direct
sequel to Apophis, focusing upon the most dangerous and
advanced upper reaches of the curriculum.
gishjlmur: The Book of Dragon Runes This book takes
the curriculum and applies it to the runic lore of Northern
magic and mysticism. The myth of Sigurd and the Dragon
Fafnir is held forth as an initiatory role model, and the roles
of the other two great Dragons of the North Jormungandr
and Nidhogg are also revealed. This book is a complete
training in the use of runes. It is probably the best book for a
beginner, since its system is complete and whole in itself, and
makes plain much that would otherwise be difficult, since it is
self-contained. As a true son of Odin, this is the Draconian
title which is closest to my own heart, and I think it shows.
Dragonscales This book is a supplemental collection of
essays and articles, all gathered under the Draconian Head to
which they are most pertinent. They expand greatly upon the
themes of both Apophis and gishjlmur, going into much
greater detail and offering much sensible, practical advice and
food for thought.
So I encourage the reader of this new volume in particular,
which has far greater scope for error, to avail yourself of the
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assistance the Order makes available. The books are the only
things with a price tag attached. The Order forums, videos
and Facebook page are all freely available to all.
Perhaps at some stage, the Order will transform into a
true Initiatory School, with grades and degrees and formally
appointed members and representatives. But that will depend
upon what people want, and who is available to organise it
all. In the meantime, make use of what is freely offered and
let us help you along your Path.
What Do I Need to Do First?

Now is a good time to assess where exactly you should be
before you begin actually Working with the material in this
book (putting it into actual practice, I mean; you can read
through it any time). I will address this in terms of the
Apophis Seven Heads curriculum, but will also give enough
information to gauge the relative curriculum with respect to
other systems.
To put it very briefly and basically, the Seven Heads
of the Draconian curriculum can be summarised as follows:
1. The Scorpion Mastery of the body and the physical
world
2. The Thunderbolt Mastery of the mind and emotions
3. The Jackal Mastery of clairvoyance and psychic
phenomena
4. The Serpent The Opening of the Eye of the Serpent
in the Void: accessing transhuman consciousness
5. The Raging Lion Mastery of Desire as the crucible
in which the world is reshaped
6. The Rebellious Giant Mastery over the limits of
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Time and Space, the transgression of boundaries

7. Typhon Godlike consciousness, 'Divine Madness',
outgrowing the Universe
The Work of Draconian Consciousness begins with the
Fourth Head, where the Head of the Serpent raises itself up
and Opens its Eye in the Void, totally transforming the nature
of the Initiate's consciousness for ever. We will not be
covering the essential preparatory Work of the first three
Heads in this current book at all, so you will need to have
addressed it beforehand. In mastering the Work of these
lower Heads, you will be expected to have attained the
following:
You will need to have an understanding of the
magical power inherent in your own physical form, and the
importance of the physical world and your place in it. You
will understand how to channel magical energy by the
adoption of body postures and motion, and the use of
breathing techniques. You will be as fit as your personal
circumstances allow (the disabled are not excluded from the
Work, no matter what some idiots may say!) and will have
carried out a series of gruelling tests to familiarise yourself
with your own physical limits.
You will need to be master of your own mind, having
gained control over your thought processes. You will have
learned to monitor your thoughts, stopping the internal
dialogue when necessary. You will have gained great powers
of concentration and will have trained your memory to levels
far exceeding those of most modern people. You will have
gained similar control over your emotions and will be able to
switch emotional responses off as desired, and also to
generate a given emotion on cue.
You will have practised and developed your latent
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skills in clairvoyance and other psychic phenomena. You will

have gained control over your dreams and will be familiar
with the practise of 'astral travel' or Otherworld journeying.
Your intuitions will be utterly reliable. You will be able to
read others like a book and clearly perceive the patterns
developing and taking shape in the world around you.
Needless to say, whilst acquiring all of these skills,
you will also have been practising your skills as a sorcerer
and will be able to reliably cast effective spells to cause
change to occur in the world around you.
All of these steps are encompassed to at least some
degree in all occult systems. You should be at this stage if
you have Worked through the Golden Dawn system as far as
Adeptus Minor, or if you have spent some time in the Adept
degree of the Temple of Set, or if you have Worked through
the Rune-Gild's Nine Doors of Midgard curriculum. Or, of
course, if you have done the Work of the first three Heads in
either Apophis or gishjlmur.
So What Comes Next?

If you have accomplished the necessary Work leading to this
level, Draconian Consciousness will show you where to go
next. If you have not, that's okay too; it will give you a
glimpse of your future if you have those two essential
qualities which Israel Regardie offered as the defining traits
of a successful magician: Persistence and Determination.
I think one thing which will surprise a lot of people
about this book is how very practical it is. There is very little
here which is purely theroretical; all of the exercises provide
means by which the energies discussed may be drawn down
and made manifest in the everyday world. There is a very
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important reason for this, something which distinguishes

Draconian cosmology from that of almost every other
tradition, and which will become majestically, experientially
self-evident when you put the Work of the Seventh Head into
practice.
The main difference from what has gone before will
be that 'Divine Madness' which I have spoken of already. The
Work of the first three Heads is very tightly focused upon
bringing all of the Initiate's obsessions and imbalances under
control, of purging them from his system and attaining
equilibrium. This all goes out the window with the Fifth
Head, when the deliberate cultivation and invocation of
powerful obsessions will take the Initiate into ever more hair
raising and dangerous territories. I'm walking this deliciously
tipsy journey myself and this book will assist you as much as
possible. Needless to say, if you choose to gaze upon the
Chaos that lies through the window of the Fourth Head, and
play with madness, I wish you well, but it's all wholly at your
own risk.
Have fun...
Michael Kelly, Anti-Magus VSummer Solstice 2012
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THE EYE IN THE VOID
n this chapter, we are going to turn our attention upon the

Fourth Head of the Ancient Dragon: that of the Serpent.
The Work of this Head is related in Apophis, where there
is quite a detailed description of what it entails. But we need
to look at it again now from a fresh perspective. The Head of
the Serpent is the centremost stage of the Draconian Initiatory
process; it is the axle upon which the wheel of transformation
turns. It is this Head which reveals experientially to the
Initiate just exactly what the Order Seal of the Eye in the nine
angles symbolises (pictured below).
In the chapter in Apophis which deals with the Fourth

Head, we are building towards it from the ground up, and this
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Head is what the Initiate is aspiring toward. The book goes

on to describe and speculate upon the Heads beyond the
Serpent, but this Head and its Work are the cornerstone of
Apophis: Initiation into this particular experience, the
Opening of the Eye in the Void, is the critical point of the
curriculum, the point at which an Initiate can truly be said to
have passed beyond the realms of merely mortal
consciousness and existence. It is the Draconian equivalent
of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian
Angel in Crowley's Astrum Argenteum. It is the equivalent of
the grade of Adeptus Minor in the Hermetic Order of the
Golden Dawn, when the Initiate is resurrected into the life of
the Gods, learning the Rosicrucian Mysteries. It is the
Priesthood of the Temple of Set, when the Adept becomes a
mouthpiece for the Divine, something more than human.
But the Fourth Head is more than this. It is not
simply an attainment; the journey does not end here. It is
only half way. The Eye of Leviathan is not only the Vision
that leads the Initiate of the earlier Heads on; it is also the
window upon the Void, which shows the Initiate of the later
Heads where he must tread next. It is perhaps the most
crucial of all Draconian Initiations, but it is not a resting spot,
it is a telescope upon the future.
This chapter will complement the one in Apophis, but
will show the practical applications of the Mysteries of the
Fourth Head, and the way forward from here. It will be
pointing in the opposite direction to the earlier chapter. It
certainly does not invalidate or replace the chapter in
Apophis. It is instead an advanced application of the same for
those who have a strong yearning to raise all of the Heads of
the Dragon into awakened consciousness.
The Eye Opening in the Void is the first real
apprehension of the Divine, the touching of the finite with the
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Infinite; the temporal with the Eternal; the manifest with the
Void. This is the Vision from which all religions are
spawned, which just goes to show how badly the process can
be misinterpreted. Most religions, however, venture no
further than this: they behold their burning bush and receive
their commandments upon the mountain, then go scrambling
back down to shout about it and murder anyone who refuses
to listen.
The Initiate, on the other hand, realises that this is but
a humbling first step and that there is a whole Universe of
Becoming yet ahead of him.
Arise, Adept
There is an enormous qualitative difference between the
Initiation of the Fourth Head and the three which preceded it.
The first three Heads all revolve around work, work, work;
practice, practice, practice. You simply cannot have any
degree of success with these parts of the curriculum unless
you put in the daily work and endure the grind until your
whole body-mind complex has been thoroughly trained and
developed.
People assume that magic offers an easy way to do
things. Sure, spells and enchantments can open doors that
would otherwise remain closed; your sorcery will turn your
life around; you will see and comprehend things that most
people could scarce imagine. But by all the Gods, if you want
to do these things you will have to put the work in first! It
could almost be said that the usefulness of magic in changing
life's circumstances and getting what you want is not so much
something to be coveted as it is a consolation prize for having
had to work so damn hard to acquire the ability.
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An Adept is one who has put in that hard Work and

has fully acquired the skills and magical powers that he
requires. With reference to the Order of Apep's curriculum,
an Adept is one who has mastered the first three Heads.
This means that you will have understood the
connection between your innermost thoughts and ideas, your
physical body and the world around you. This is the first and
most difficult for many spiritually minded people to learn:
your body is an expression of your spirit, and the Cosmos in
which you find yourself is the arena in which your spirit
reaches out to manifest itself. The body is one of the most
important magical tools in your possession. As your
Initiation progresses and you come to Understand the
continuum of Reality and the unfolding of the Void, you will
realise that just as Einstein declared that everything is energy,
so the Magus declares that everything is spirit: there is no
difference between matter and spirit.
So the Adept will have mastered the Mysteries of the
body: posture and motion, waking and sleeping, the effects of
food and drink, his physical limits and abilities, the
manipulation of the world around to create magical tools,
bringing ideas into tangible manifestation. He will have
discovered the Mysteries of sex and trained his physical
senses to perceive that which is Real, overcoming his early
conditioning and overriding his sensual filters.
He will also have trained his mind to focus itself and
to work in the way he wishes. He will have reined in his
wandering thoughts and learned how to truly concentrate,
fixing his attention upon a particular thing and following it
through without distraction. He will have learned how to
make his mind a blank slate, with the internal dialogue
temporarily silenced. He will have learned how to use his
mind to charge sigils and mantras. He will then have
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extended this control to his emotions, stilling them and

arousing them at Will. He will have learned his own
emotional triggers and how to switch them off. He will have
trained his memory to recall images and words instantly. He
will also have learned many of the skills of mentalists and
hypnotists, gaining control of his own mind and others'.
Having won control of his mind and body, his
emotions and instincts, he will be in a position to build strong
bridges between the conscious and subconscious parts of his
mind, gaining access to insights and psychic abilities he never
believed himself capable of. He will begin to experience
clairvoyant and telepathic phenomena. He will train himself
to recall his dreams and to experience lucid dreams. He will
have learned the skills of astral projection and will have made
an exploration of the key realms in his own inner Magical
Universe.
All of these things are described and detailed in the
curriculum of the first Three Heads in the book Apophis and
its runic equivalent in gishjlmur. They are abilities and
skills which truly define the one who has mastered them as an
Adept, someone far beyond the scope of most human insight
and ability. But when the Fourth Head that of the Serpent
arises the whole game plan changes and nothing will ever
be the same again.
But let's just pause there for a moment...
Nothing Will Ever Be The Same Again.
Do not be too hasty to read these, or any other words,
and pass them by. There is a secret Formula hidden in the
above innocuous sentence which those who discover the Keys
of the book will realise.
The three previous Heads have all depended upon the
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Initiate following a fairly rigorous training regimen in order to

develop the necessary skills.
Discipline, practice and
constant repetition are the hallmarks of this Work, and no one
is going to get anywhere unless they put the requisite amount
of Work in. All progress up to this point has been reliant
upon the dedication and application of the Initiate alone.
Now, for better or worse, this is no longer the case.
One might wonder if the game plan is to change so
radically, why bother with all that hard work beforehand?
Wouldn't it be possible to just jump in at the Fourth Head?
If I was going to be the kind of dogmatic fellow who
insists that only my way is right, I would put my foot down
now and insist that such a thing is impossible. That would be
a lie, however, and the quality of Initiates that I hope will be
most likely to be attracted to this volume are not people to
appreciate lies. The fact is that if a state of conscious is
possible, then some people are going to be able to access it by
either natural facility or accident, without the prescribed
training beforehand.
However, I will assert that the purpose of the training
regimen of the first Three Heads is specifically to prepare the
mind and the whole being of the Initiate for the shocks that
are to follow. One who has gained this level of Self-Mastery
is going to be in a far better position to cope with sudden
changes in world view or expansions of consciousness. More
to the point, such Adepts will know what to do with the new
consciousness they attain. They will also be aware thanks
to the wisdom gained in their prior training that an equal
amount of transformation and yet more paradigm shifts still
lie ahead. The Head of the Serpent may be the one which
illuminates the entire Work, yet the Work extends out from it
in all possible directions; it doesn't stop here.
The problem with people who gain access to the
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Fourth Head consciousness without proper prior training is

that they simply don't know how to process what has
happened to them. They tend to either go mad or else go
rushing off to found religions (which may, one might argue,
amount to the same thing). And since they lack the proper
training and discipline to analyse what has happened to them,
the religions they found tend to be skewed and unbalanced.
So having established the necessity of Adepthood
prior to commencing the Work of this current book, and
having defined the disciplines which such Adepthood
encompasses, let's move on to examine the Work of the
Fourth Head itself.
The Nature of Leviathan

The Fourth Head is that of the Serpent. It is the focal Head of
the Ancient Dragon, the one around which the whole Work
revolves. It's worthwhile taking a little time to redefine this
Serpent afresh before we proceed to invoke the arising of its
Head.
In the very earliest of human mythologies, that of
Sumeria, the Dragon Mother was named Tiamat and She
ruled over the primal Chaos before the Universe was shaped.
She was there before time and space existed, She abides
outside of the Cosmos as we know it. When the usurping
younger Gods arose, Tiamat spawned Demons to fight them
in a great cosmic war, since She was angered by Their noise
and disruption. The God Marduk who shares many of the
aspects of the Egyptian Set slew Tiamat and formed the
worlds and humanity from Her flesh, bone and blood. So
according to this myth, we are formed from the very Being of
the Dragon, given Self-awareness by the God of
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consciousness. It must not be assumed, however, that Tiamat

was truly slain, for the myth makes clear that She abides
Outside, thus She is in a timeless state and cannot be slain as
we understand it.
The Sumerian myths offer a magnificent account of
the three great Draconian Deities: Marduk as the God of
consciousness; Inanna as the Scarlet Woman; Tiamat as the
Ancient Dragon. The truly Initiate will discern the Secret
links between these three and revere Them all. In this
respect, I am not going to enter into the debate concerning the
'authenticity' or otherwise of the Simon Necronomicon. I am
simply going to state that it is a splendid Draconian grimoire
and will serve the Initiates who wish to use it to add flavour
to their Workings well.
In ancient Egypt, the great Serpent is Apep, the
roarer, who arises every morning before the bark of Re and
attempts to swallow the Sun. He is driven back by Set, the
only one among the Gods who can withstand His mesmerising
gaze. Here again we have a representation of consciousness
shaping and steering the course of Chaos.
The three Dragons of Northern myth are referenced in
detail in gishjlmur. These are Fafnir, whose myth in the
Saga of the Volsungs evidences how the Awakened Hero
overthrows the Dragon and takes its powers and
consciousness into himself; as a consequence, Sigurd is then
able to pass through the flames and awaken the Valkyrie, thus
touching the Divine. The second Dragon, the Midgard
Serpent, encircles and defines the bounds of the world, until It
and Thor slay each other at Ragnarok, when the worlds are
unmade and reshaped. Finally, Nidhogg is the Dark Dragon
who gnaws at the roots of the World Tree and eats the dead.
This Serpent takes wing at Ragnarok and transforms into a
bright Dragon.
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The system of Angelic Magic devised by Dr John Dee

and Edward Kelly is full of Draconian imagery. I hope to one
day add a volume to this series of books rendering the
curriculum into Enochian (so-called) form, since Dee's Work
has long been a passion of mine. Here we have many of the
Draconian archetypes in evidence: Vovina, the Stooping
Dragon, is evoked often in the Calls; Babalon, the Scarlet
Woman, finds full expression here, as does Her Daughter
Madimi, who is a most favoured Initiatrix; the God of
Consciousness features as Choronzon.
The Serpent also figures largely in Judeo-Christian
myth, of course, and is adopted in all manner of fascinating
and devious ways by various heretical Gnostic groups who
accreted around that tradition.
More recently, Leviathan, the primal Dragon, was
adopted as the Name which surrounded the Baphomet Seal of
the Church of Satan. Dr Michael Aquino included the
'Statement of Leviathan' in his Diabolicon, an inspired text
which was the result of a series of Black Magical Workings.
This strange and evocative text establishes much of the
contemporary Gnosis of Leviathan and defines the Serpent as
the principle of continuity and ageless existence, which
again places the Dragon outside of conventional definitions of
time and space.
The Temple of Set had its Order of Leviathan,
established by Ipsissimus James Lewis, and of which I was
once Grand Master. The Order of Leviathan in its turn was
the seed of the current Order of Apep. I owe the Order and its
founder a debt of great fondness.
Now let's consider what some of these things mean,
and how the mythology of the Dragon impacts upon the
experience and consciousness of the Fourth Head.
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Flesh of My Flesh, Bone of My Bone, Blood of My

Blood
One of the things that becomes apparent when scrutinising the
majority of these legends is the role of the Serpent in the
creation of the Cosmos and indeed of the human race. This is
most explicit in the Sumerian myth cycle, where the body of
Tiamat is the substance from which the heavens and the earth
are shaped. Humanity is born from the spilled drops of the
Dragon's blood. Thus we are quite literally the inheritors of
the Draconian bloodline, related by blood to the Dragon who
embodied the primeval Chaos. The practice of magic allows
us to access that Chaos afresh and reshape Reality as
inheritors of Tiamat's power and wisdom.
The Eden myth shows us a Serpent who raises up the
imbecilic prototypes of humanity, Adam and Eve, by
persuading them to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, so
that they may become as Gods, knowing good and evil.
Mankind owes his consciousness to the Devil, therefore, in
the Judeo-Christian myth.
The Northern myth of Sigurd and Fafnir is explained
at great length in gishjlmur, where it is used as the model
for Initiation. But in brief, Sigurd slays the Dragon, but in so
doing he acquires its powers and insights the Helm of Awe.
This union of human and Draconian consciousness or the
conscious and subconscious minds then allows Sigurd to
penetrate the ring of fire that shields the sleeping Brynhild
and awaken the Valkyrie from the slumber that Odin has
placed Her in. So the human mind reaches to the Divine only
when it is reconciled with the Draconian Essence.
Apep and Leviathan are slightly different, as is the
Northern Nidhogg, for They seem to hint of the destruction of
the Cosmos rather than its beginning. We will return to
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discuss this Mystery shortly. But They too are said to predate
the manifest Cosmos. Before time and space began, They
were.
The important thing to remember about all of these
Dragons is that although the Cosmos may be spawned from
Them in one way or the other, They Themselves are not
bound by it; They still exist Outside, coiling in the Void
which is Not, unlimited, chaotic and timeless. And that, my
friends, is our heritage and our true home as Draconian
Initiates.
The Serpent as Redeemer

In spite of the best efforts of all the world's dogmatic religions
to portray the Serpent as the bad guy, as the one who drags
humanity down into the mire, even their own traditions have
always continually given rise to heresies which proclaim the
Serpent as the true friend of humanity, as the Redeemer.
In Qabalism, for instance, the words for 'Messiah' and
'Serpent' have identical number values in gematria. Also the
journey back up the Tree of Life from the manifest world of
Malkuth is characterised by the Serpent of Wisdom, who coils
back and forth as It ascends the various paths and branches of
the Tree.
In the early days of Christianity, before Constantine
stomped his Imperial foot down, numerous Gnostic cults
sprang up, several of which took the Serpent as their totem,
claiming that It had been misrepresented.
Apep had no cult in Egypt, but seems to have been
consistently seen as a Terror in the Darkness, something
which makes Him particularly endearing. But with the
passage of time, Set became increasingly associated with
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Apep, often being interpreted as a Serpent or Dragon Himself,

and Set most definitely had a cult. By the time of the GraecoEgyptian magical papyri, the two are almost wholly integrated
into the form of the monster Typhon (who confusingly then
often became figured as a female and termed the mother of
Set).
All of these heresies in orthodox religious circles are
no doubt amusing and interesting, but the fact is that before
we can be redeemed, we need to ask a couple of questions.
The first is, are we actually in need of redemption? The
second is, if so, what kind of redemption do we need?
The whole notion that we are a fallen race who need
Divine assistance to restore us to some state of 'grace' is
actually a wholly wrong viewpoint, and quite an abhorrent
one to my mind. This supposition necessarily presupposes
the existence of some judgemental, perfectionist god, and I
have to tell you that there ain't no such thing. Mankind has
not fallen from grace. Quite the opposite, in fact: we have
dragged ourselves out of the slime to stand erect and proud,
ever striving to be the best we can be. Sure, there are
throwbacks and aberrations and mistakes get made, but this is
all part of the learning process, for there is no divine plan.
There never was an Eden to which we can return; nor
should we wish to if there ever had been. Our future and our
victory lies in accepting the mythic Serpent's promise and
taking up the gift of Self-awareness, consciousness and the
'knowledge of good and evil', that we may Become as Gods.
So no, we do not need redemption.
This is not to say that we cannot seek assistance to
better ourselves, for during the long process of human
evolution, we have lost some of the skills we once had and it
would be helpful if these could be restored to us. I am
speaking particularly of the human tendency to divorce the
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different parts of our psyche from each other. The single

most fundamental thing the human species needs to do in
order to achieve its full potential is to unite the conscious and
subconscious parts of the mind, building the bridges between
the two. But this is not 'redemption', it is in fact the opposite,
it is evolution, a reaching forward instead of being hauled
back to a pre-existing state. If this sounds familiar, it is
because it is the Work of the first three Heads, which has
brought us to the current point.
So if we do not need a Redeemer, there is still that
Draconian Essence within us, within our very DNA, that can
come to our assistance and help us to raise ourselves up.
This is not a redemption, however, there is no penalty for not
being a Draconian Initiate. It is simply the birthright of those
of us who desire to actualise their personal Essence and
power to the utmost. Magic is not easy. In order to reach this
current stage, it is first necessary to endure the hard training
we have already spoken of. Magic will always be the power
and the tool of the few, not of the many. No matter how far
our species may advance, there will always just be the few
who are pushing the boundaries fiercely forward.
And it is here, as the Fourth Head arises, that the
Serpent fulfils its Promise. For those of us who accomplish
this Work, we shall indeed Become as Gods.
Looking Outside the World

It is now time to discuss in detail what the Work of this
Fourth Head entails. We will then move on to practical
magical methods to invoke and sustain this State of Being,
and will then look at its implications for the rest of your
magical techniques and practices, for the experience of the
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Eye Opening in the Void inevitably turns many notions upon

their heads and makes a new perspective and approach
necessary.
The Work of the Fourth Head is actually expressed
fully in the Order Seal, depicting the Eye of the Dragon
within three interlocked triangles, bounded by a circle. This
is shown below:
This Seal and its various permutations is discussed at

very great length in Apophis, so I am not going to repeat it all
again here. Very briefly, the Eye represents the perspective
of the Serpent in the Void; the outer ring represents the
manifest Universe, which the Eye does not touch; the angles
passing between them represent the angles of time and space
whereby the Eye manifests its Will within the Cosmos
without Itself being bound within it.
But to put it in a nutshell, the Initiate who approaches
this Head, having accomplished the Work of the first three, is
currently rooted in that outer ring, knowing himself to be a
creature of the Universe that exists.
In order to arouse and raise up the Head of the
Serpent, the Initiate must have built the necessary bridges
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between the conscious and subconscious and be prepared to

use that unified consciousness to reach back, along the angles
of manifestation, and find the roots of his very Essence in the
Unmanifest. In other words, referring to the mythic models
we have just discussed, the manifest Initiate seeks to
commune with the Dragon who still abides on the Outside, in
the Void which is unbounded by time and space.
As will be expected, this realisation of unbound
existence the cataclysmic psychic experience referred to as
the Opening of the Eye in the Void is sufficient to shatter
most people's worldview and turn the Initiate's perspective
upon its head.
So that is the task which lies before the Initiate now:
to Open the Eye in the Void and access a mode of
consciousness and a perspective which lies outside of the
Cosmos as we know it: an unbound, timeless State of Being.
Sound like a tall order? Well, it would be if you were
unprepared. How is the ordinary intellect supposed to even
begin to grasp such a state of being, let alone actually
experience it and actualise it? It isn't going to be able to, it's
as simple as that. But the mind which has learned to bridge
the conscious-subconscious divide, and has gained the powers
of intuition and imagination which this self-integration
releases, is well equipped to envision the Void, because such
a mind is focused upon consciousness itself rather than the
rules which make the manifestation of consciousness possible
rules which do not actually have any relevance in any case
once we remove the strictures of the Cosmic Order and enter
a realm beyond it.
The Initiate would be well advised to pause reading
now and spend a few earnest sessions of meditation
considering this and brooding upon it, preparing the mind for
tracing its own roots back into the Void, where the ageless
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Dragon awaits. Centre yourself, knowing yourself to be

manifest within that ring that bounds and defines the Cosmic
Order. Then reach back, back along the lines and angles that
brought you into manifestation, until of a sudden, your Eye
Opens in the timeless Void and you expand rapidly far, far
beyond the limits of mere Creation.
Such meditations may leave you breathless and
excited as the implications begin to seize you and the first
stirrings of this new consciousness begin to awaken, the lids
of the Eye fluttering in their sleep. You will then be ready to
approach the Void directly and invoke the Eye to full
wakefulness.
Cultivating the Vision of Set

I want to take you back to the myth of Set, standing in the
bark of Re, facing down Apep each morning as the Serpent
arises and attempts to swallow the Sun. Set is the God of
consciousness and the only one who has sufficient strength of
Self-awareness to defy the mesmerising power of the
Serpent's gaze.
This is an important skill to gain. No matter how
earnest an Initiate you may be, there is a terror of the Abyss
within us all. Our minds are programmed from birth to
perceive limits and boundaries. The first things we become
familiar with are rooms and houses and towns, places which
are defined as having borders and walls and boundaries; they
are this place and not that place. The human mind is not
predisposed to gaze upon the Void, a place which is not a
place in a time that is not a time, with no walls, no up, no
down, no beginning, no end, just pure perhapsness.
As one who is an Adept, you are better prepared than
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most, but you still should marshal all of your resources and
invoke the God of consciousness mightily so that you can
hold yourself together when the trauma of the initial Vision
comes. It is not for nothing that magicians such as Crowley
caution Initiates about the Ordeal of crossing the Abyss. One
of the differences with Draconian philosophy is that we don't
seek to 'cross' the Abyss. The idea that there is some perfect
Divinity 'across' the Void is a throwback to Judeo-Christian
ideas. The Void itself contains all that is needed to spawn a
Universe: everything and its opposite and its alternates and
its impossibles are all present here together, awaiting
extrusion if touched by the right magical current. So we seek
to enter the Void itself and recover the primordial, Draconian
consciousness that abides there, timeless and unlimited. It is
not a matter of crossing the Abyss and then looking back to
the opposite shore; it is a case of entering the Abyss and then
looking out from its immensity into what now appears to be
an absurdly limited and confining Cosmos.
In order to gaze into the Eye of the Dragon without
recoiling in horror and madness, however, we need to fortify
the consciousness we have worked so hard to establish. One
way of doing this is to invoke Set or Odin, or another
archetype of consciousness often as you prepare to awaken
the Serpent's Head. A sample invocation follows, which can
be used as is, or which may help you to devise your own. It is
structured in four essential phases: firstly, Set is invoked;
secondly, the Initiate confirms his own consciousness and
aligns it with that of the God; thirdly, the Void and the Eye
are approached; fourthly, the Eye is gazed into and the
Initiate's sense of Self is affirmed, preparatory to the Work of
Opening the Eye in the Void which is to follow. This
Working, repeated as often as you feel necessary, will help to
prepare your mind for the Work of this Head.
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Following this Setian invocation will be an Odinic

one, utilising stadhagaldr, suitable for those who have
approached this Work through the curriculum as presented in
gishjlmur.
Setian Invocation Preparatory to Opening the Eye in the Void
I
I invoke Set the Mighty, the Lord of Darkness,
the Principle of Isolate Intelligence,
Who is enthroned in the Northern Heavens,
beyond the constellation of the Thigh.
You tore Yourself from your mother's womb,
You rampage as the storm in the desert,
knowing no boundaries, transgressing all frontiers,
God of foreigners and the Unknown future.
II
I have made my Will as Your own,
strengthened and tempered by the Black Flame,
accepting my Self as my own true Sovereign,
choosing consciousness over conformity.
Not for me the comforting numbness
of creeds that prompt the mind to slumber.
I am of Set, prepared for battle,
Struggle and Beauty upon my banner.
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III
I stand with Set in the bark of Re,
proud at the prow, spear in hand,
my Will focused and diamond hard,
casting down all that would stand against me.
We pass on through the halls of Night,
the yawning Void before us looms,
Apep coils before the Sun,
jaws agape, eyes beguiling.
IV
I will not falter when the Serpent's gaze
meets my own eyes and holds them fast.
My Will stands firm, my mind is not bound,
I break through the mesmeric spell.
I shall not fall when the walls tremble
and Reality extinguishes as the threshold is crossed.
I shall stand erect within the Void
and my Eye shall be Opened to the Outside.
This invocation should be made with all possible fervour as
many times as the Initiate deems it necessary and perhaps a
few more for luck! - before proceeding to the next stage.
Draconian rune magicians may prefer to use the
following Working instead to prepare themselves for the
Ordeal. Although it will achieve the same goal, it is quite
different in tone and approach. This Working utilises
stadhagaldr the system of rune yoga posture and is thus
only suitable for those who have put in some serious Work
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and have fully enlivened the rune streams within their

consciousness.
The full range of rune postures is shown and
explained in gishjlmur and I am not going to repeat them
here. I will simply show the ones which are actually directly
used in the Working.
Runic Invocation Preparatory to Opening the Eye in the Void
Isa In the time before time, icy streams flowed from
Niflheim, entering the great Void, Ginnungagap...
Fehu Into that Unmanifest field of all-potential, also

drifted sparks of fire from Muspellsheim...
Gebo The two forces of Fire and Ice met and mingled in
the Void, and the Universe exploded into being.
Hagalaz It is my Will to trace these forces back to their
beginnings, to hold all in balance and gaze upon
the face of the Void!
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Elhaz I raise up my consciousness, calling upon the

Valkyries of Odin to lift me up, loosening the
shackles of mundane being that I may pass beyond
the bounds of the World-Tree itself!
Eihwaz I see Yggdrasil in its entirety, from Odin's high
seat upon Hlidhskjalf to the pits below Hel's
domain where Nidhogg drinks the blood of the
dead. He knows the way Outside. Yes, the way is
known to the Dragon Dark, the Serpent Bright
who will take wing after Ragnarok.
Ansuz I call upon Odin, the High One, the All-Father
who with the Great Gods gave shape to the
fledgling world. I turn to face away from the
World-Tree, towards the Void in which it hangs.
Odin knows the Runes of this, the Mysteries are
His to command. Be with me, Bolverk, be my
inspiration and show to me Ginnungagap!
Ingwaz Here at the edge of the Void, I plant a seed of my
own consciousness, that it may grow and develop,
making easy my passage into the Void when I am
ready. I prepare this gateway for myself.
Othila I return now within the borders of the worlds, which
are bound by the Midgard Serpent. I resume my
appointed place until it is time to gaze into the Void.
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The foregoing are two very different invocations and the

Initiate will choose to emulate the one which best suits his
own particular approach, but they both address the same
issues and lead us to the same place: they Understand that the
awakened consciousness may trace its own origins back and
look into the Void without fear or hesitation, and they lead us
to the edge of that Void so we can prepare ourselves for the
coming initiatory transformations.
The purpose of these invocations or any substitutes
you may compose for yourself is to invoke and fully
actualise the sense of integrated, actualised Selfhood which
you have brought into being through the process of your
Initiation to date, for it is only this intensity of consciousness
which may successfully Open the Eye in the Void.
Invoking the Ancient Dragon

Having invoked the God of Consciousness and prepared our
own Selves for immersion in the Void without fear of
dissolution or psychosis, the next step is to invoke the Dragon
whose Eye we will Open there. This will provide the other
pole of the Initiation and prepare us completely for the
Ordeal.
Once again, I am going to supply two examples of the
type of invocation you may wish to use (though a personally
scripted one may be preferable). The first draws upon several
of the Dragon myths we discussed earlier, whilst the other is
purely runic, intended for those Initiates who are focusing
upon the gishjlmur curriculum.
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Invocation of the Ancient Dragon

I
Leviathan, the Crooked Serpent,
before the worlds were, You were.
When all else was Not, You were.
Abiding in the places Outside,
where time is Not and space is unbound,
where that which is, was and will be
is mixed together with that which is only imagined,
that which will never be, that which might be.
Where there is Nought else, You are, were and have ever
been.
II
Here I stand, Initiate of the Dragon Mysteries
and I am as You are, Void dweller.
The blood of the Dragon pulses through my veins;
my bones and flesh are of Your substance.
The vital spark of Dragon fire burns within my heart and
mind.
Manifest within this world,
there is still that in me which is Outside,
which bears the heritage of my Draconian grandparent.
I am spawn of the Stooping Dragon.
III
I gather myself to my Self,
my mind inflamed with Dragon fire,
uplifted on beating, leathern wings,
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I ride upon the Dragon's breath.

Out of space and sideways through time I ride,
all possibilities tumbling chaotically
as I hover upon the edge of the Void,
great wings outspread, tail thrashing,
as I ponder the ultimate Darkness.
IV
I gaze upon the face of the Abyss
for long, timeless moments,
yet no time has passed, and no face is there.
Not-this and Not-that: All is Not.
Here lies Tiamat, coiled in Eternity.
Yet it is Not even Eternity,
for one moment is the same moment
as the last moment, which was Not.
Her Seven Heads stir in the Deep which is Not a Deep,
Serpent eyes opening wide to stare
deep, deep within my soul,
seeing Herself reflected there.
And I see my own eye,
reflected in Hers,
Open in the Void.
Soon that Eye shall Open
and when it does I shall realise
that it has always been Open,
for there is Nought else.
The wording and imagery of this invocation is very carefully
chosen and if recited in a proper altered state of
consciousness, it should catapult you to the brink of the Void.
Do not enter at this time, complete this preparatory step a few
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times first to accustom yourself to the idea.

The following runic invocation may be used either
instead of or as well as that given above, and is designed for
those people who wish to focus upon the Northern Mysteries,
as presented in gishjlmur.
Runic Invocation of the Dragon
Isa I know the reading of runes: how to carve; how to
colour; how to sing; how to enliven. The mighty
runes speak to me. Now I go forth to seek Runa
Herself, the ultimate Mystery.
Ehwaz I ride upon Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged steed,
traversing the Nine Worlds rapidly, until I reach a
Nowhere where no horse may carry me further.
Fehu I have grown great in power, and strong is my Will.
The Dragon Fafnir has uncoiled within me, head
uplifting, breathing forth venom. I am whole and
unified, the Helm of Awe burns bright upon my
brow. I have earned the right to break through the barriers
that would confine others, for my thinking is unfettered.
Jera Jormungandr, the Midgard Serpent, now encircles
me. I have reached the outer bounds of Reality.
Now the Dragon within beholds the Dragon without,
and each knows the other. The loops of the Serpent
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will not constrain or confine me; I may overstep the bounds

of the Cosmos.
Nauthiz I know Not where I am, for I am Nowhere. Yet All
surrounds me in unshaped Mystery. The tension
generates friction within me; a fire begins to
kindle and the Flame is Black. Nidhogg stirs
within the depths, takes to wing and rises in spirals. The
Dragon Dark Becomes the Serpent Bright.
Isa For now, I must withdraw, yet I shall remember the
journey and the destination and return here soon at
the peak of my power. All three Dragons are strong
and awakened, and I must heed Their call, for I am as
They there, Dragonkin.
The Ritual of Opening the Eye

When you have repeated the foregoing invocations often
enough to truly awaken both your own Will and sense of Selfawareness, and also the Draconian Essence bubbling up from
beneath the subconscious boundary, you should reach a stage
when you are acutely aware of both poles within your own
being, striving to unite one with the other. When both the
Setian and Apepian poles of consciousness are fully aroused
in this manner, you will know that you are ready to Open the
Eye in the Void.
This is done by holding a vigil. Choose a night (the
dark of the Moon would be symbolically good if such things
inspire you, but is not essential if not) when you will not be
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disturbed by anyone.
Wear no magical insignia or
paraphernalia except those sworn by Oath, or one of the
Order's silver pendants or pins depicting the Order Seal if you
are fortunate enough to possess one. (Note: apologies, but
these are sold out before anyone asks, and are unlikely to be
made available again. You could, of course, commission your
own.) Wear no specifically ritualistic robe or other garb. If
you are working indoors and the temperature permits, you
might wish to strip naked. If outdoors or if the night is cold,
wear plain, dark clothing. The idea is to strip away
everything except your pure Essence.
A depiction of the Order Seal, preferably drawn by
your own hand in silver ink upon a black background, should
be visible throughout.
Prepare and open the ritual in your preferred manner.

Recite, with deep feeling, first the invocation of the
the Setian / Odinic consciousness, then the invocation of the
Ancient Dragon.
Become very aware of the two poles arising and
strengthening within you. Meditate strongly upon both as you
stand upon the brink of the Void.
Meditate for as long as it takes, until the poles of Self
and the Dragon come crashing together, fusing with each
other and annihilating the sense of difference. This will be an
unmistakable experience, an ecstatic, climactic rush that will
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have you trembling and shaking as it hits you.

Your perception will shift. You will now retain
consciousness of your own individual Self, but will also see
through the Eye of the timeless Serpent, who is coiled within
the Void. You will experience feelings of both immensity
and concentration; perhaps alternating, or perhaps both at the
same time. You will be conscious of nothing else. Indeed
you will be conscious of Nothing (in a very positive, active
sense).
It may take you mere seconds to attain this
experience, if you have prepared yourself through truly
passionate invoking in the time leading up to it, or it may take
you hours, sitting in a long vigil. But if you have done the
Work up to this point, attain it you will.
The experience will be similar to an orgasm, an
orgasm which shakes you to your very core on a spiritual
level. This is only natural, for in all truth, this experience is
identical to an orgasm, but resounding on a much deeper
level. Instead of the ecstatic union of male and female
through physical stimulation, it is the ecstatic union of
conscious and subconscious through magical stimulation.
Like an orgasm, it may only last a few scant seconds when
you experience it for the first time, although the actual nature
of the phenomenon will seem and indeed is timeless.
This union of the inner and outer mind is the full
awakening of the Dragon, and the Opening of Its Eye in the
Void. As you consider your experience, you will come to
realise that not only was it blissful and gave you a sense of
wholeness, of completion; it also gave you a completely new
perspective. Our next task is to make both of these states
repeatable and accessible at Will. To this end, you will want
to repeat this ritual daily for several days (after the initial
success, subsequent experiences will be quicker and easier, as
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you will know what to expect).

The Opening of the Eye in the Void is not merely a
neat meditational experience; it is a life-changing event. I
have to introduce a warning at this stage and tell you that if
you have come far enough to attempt this, you had better
make damn sure that you are willing to be changed by it,
because once the Eye has been Opened, you will never be
able to view the world in the same way again.
There are two distinct ways in which you will have
changed as a consequence of the Opening of the Eye. The
first of these is that your conscious and subconscious minds
will have been fused together, allowing more or less free
traffic. This is the culmination of all the long, hard Work you
have put in throughout the first three Heads.
In practice, this means that you will experience a far
higher proportion of intuitive insights, and your 'gut feelings'
will invariably be proved to be correct. This will have an
impact upon the way in which you move through the world,
because your whole mind will be brought to bear upon any
situation in which you find yourself. You will tend to change
a situation simply by your presence, without needing to do or
say anything. From the point of view of an outside observer,
your reserves of 'luck' will have dramatically increased, you
will be a fountain of good advice and wisdom, and you will
have acquired an uncanny knack of being in the right place at
the right time. This state of consciousness will be vital in the
Work of the Heads still to come.
Not only has your own consciousness and your use
of it changed, however, so has your view of the world
around you. You have now Opened your Eye on the Outside.
You now know that this Cosmos, with its physical laws and
its cause and effect, is but a transient shell of Reality, a game
projected onto the screen of manifestation from out of the
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Void, played according to ever-changing rules. The seeming

solidity of this world is an illusion. The passage of time is an
illusion. Everything is an illusion. Only Nothing is Real.
You now have experience of a state of consciousness which
abides outside of the enclosure of time and space as we know
it: a timeless, dimensionless Abyss, which yawns forever and
whenever in all directions. Because it is everywhere and
everywhen, it is Nowhere and Nowhen.
From this perspective, the Initiate will become aware
of all possibilities: past, present and future. The entire span
of time and space, not only as it is, but also in every
transformation it could possibly undergo, every pattern it
could possibly unfold, is immanent here. As his facility with
the Open Eye continues to develop in the Work of the later
Heads, the Initiate will become increasingly able to trace
these angles of manifestation, learning the secrets of time
travel, remote viewing, and being present in more than one
place at the same time. But for now, the most obvious and
readily usable gift of this new perspective will be the way in
which it enhances his magical practice.
These new
approaches to sorcery will be explored in this present chapter.
The Helm of Awe

By Opening the Eye in the Void, the Initiate has succeeded in
unifying his purely human element with the root of the
Draconian Essence inside him, that Serpentine heritage which
lies at the very base of all life and substance, spun from the
Void.
In Northern lore, this is represented by Sigurd slaying
Fafnir and taking on the Dragon's powers. The foremost
symbol of this Initiation is the gishjlmur, the Helm of
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Awe, a rayed bind-rune which sees the energy of the runes

(the Mysteries, magical power) radiating outwards from the
Initiate's third eye position. This power of radiating magical
power from between the eyes is a manifestation of the
mesmerising, hypnotic power of the Wyrm's stare, which
paralyses its prey.
This mesmeric power is shared in mythology by both

Fafnir and Apep. Within the Temple of Set, as people have
Worked with (and in many cases against) Apepian energies,
the hypnotic power of Apep has been recognised as the source
of all the illusion in the world which distracts the mind and
holds it captive and enslaved, unable to see what is Real.
There are two distinct approaches to this mesmeric
power. There is the orthodox Setian approach, which sees
Apep as an enemy, seeking to banish illusion so that only a
clear Vision of the Real remains. Then there is the Draconian
approach, which adores the power of the Serpent Apep and
wishes to wield this power for ourselves, reshaping the image
of Reality to suit our own Desire. The Draconian view holds
with the attitude of Eastern mystics, that all of the manifest
universe is an illusion. But we break ranks with them by
insisting that this illusion is a damn fine thing and we want to
wield it ourselves! Ultimately, I believe the difference
between the orthodox Setian and the Draconian perspectives
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is mostly semantic, but it is certainly an important aesthetic

choice to make as regards the Work to be undertaken at this
level.
This is the first of the new magical techniques to be
taken away from the experience of Opening the Eye in the
Void: the Order Seal, which illustrates the phenomenon, is
itself a kind of Helm of Awe: the Eye at the centre from
which the Seal radiates is in the third eye position; the angles
of the three triangles represent the currents of your Will
(runes), the possibilities you are projecting out of the Void;
the surrounding circle is the world upon which these Willed
changes are projected, bringing the Unmanifest potential into
actual manifestation.
So the Draconian Initiate may gather up all energies
within as he sits in his state of Void consciousness, focusing
and concentrating them. Then allow them to ascend from
beneath, up through the spine, projecting outwards through
the third eye, where the Order Seal is strongly visualised.
The rays of Will are directed out into the world, where the
power of Apep to reshape Reality brings them into being.
This step should be incorporated into all magical
Workings done by Initiates who have attained this level.
Identification With the Holy Beasts

The
unification
of
your
psyche,
fusing
the
conscious/subconscious together and donning the Helm of
Awe, will give you considerable insight into your own soul
and will further illuminate the Work you have already done.
As you look back now upon your physical
manifestation and the characteristics of your basic
temperament and instinctual nature, you will begin to feel an
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affinity with one or more animal types, who are symbolic of

your manifestation in the world.
Several magical / mystical traditions have a notion of
sacred animals, of course. We need only look at the majority
of the Egyptian pantheon, the shapeshifting high-jinks of the
European Gods, and the totem animals of many shamanic
traditions. There is also the case of the witch with her
familiar, usually an animal such as a cat, a toad, or a ferret.
The animals you have an affinity with in magical
terms should not be interpreted as simply being all those
creatures you 'like'; they must be symbols of real power that
speak powerfully to your psyche. You may have encountered
them in dreams; someone else may have perceived them for
you; they may be expressive of your own physical appearance
or mentality. But at this stage in your Initiation, you would
be well served by Familiar Spirits, and you should seek them
out.
The number of holy beasts attached to you may vary.
Some decree there should be just one; others say two; others
four. I say, as many as necessary, no more and no less. If
they reveal themselves to you, accept them.
I personally have three animal Familiars. One is the
bull, which was given to me and is also expressive of my
physical nature. The second is the crow, Gifted me by Badb.
The third is secret, a thing of terror, that is rarely unleashed,
that first came to me in my childhood dreams.
You might be wondering why I am introducing these
'holy beasts' now, what relevance they have, and why you
should bother with them at all?
By Opening the Eye in the Void, you have taken the
decisive act of unifying your conscious and instinctual /
bestial natures into a Whole that is so much greater than the
sum of its parts. In order to make the most of this union, it is
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necessary to bring the instinctual faculties into your conscious

awareness, and projecting them as Familiar Spirits is a very
good way of accomplishing this. The subconscious, beastself responds best to images rather than verbalisation, and if
you provide your subconscious with a selection of carefully
chosen projected astral forms to inhabit and interact with your
conscious mind through, it will prove very efficacious.
This is why it is so important that the animal
Familiars chosen should resonate strongly with your
innermost self. Taking my own as a guideline, one is
representative of my physical type (the bull), the importance
of which is usually undervalued by occultists, but which is
made explicit in Anton LaVey's The Satanic Witch. The crow
is representative of my spiritual allegiance and general
character. The third beast is the entire Dark side of my mind
channelled into one feral shape. Between them, they express
my Essence and can be sent forth to effectively Work my Will
while my conscious self attends to other things. Since they
are manifestations of my own instincts, they are also fully
aware of what it is that I need done, and are cunning and
adaptable in carrying out their tasks.
Here follows an invocation to summon forth your
own Familiar Spirits. After the invocation has been carried
out, you will need to be aware of the promptings of your
subconscious, as it is from here that the beasts will arise:
your subconscious will wish to choose its own vehicles. Be
aware that they may not be what you would have chosen
consciously. Once you encounter the beasts, you will want to
collect totems or statues or other representations of their
forms and use these in fetishistic Work, feeding them energy
and befriending them so that they will work better for you.
You should care for them and attend to them as you would
your own self, for that is in effect exactly what you are doing.
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Despite this, never make the mistake of believing that they are
at your beck and call. They have minds of their own, which
are drawn from the very deepest strata of your own root mind.
They will do what is Necessary. They are to be befriended,
not commanded.
Invocation of the Holy Beasts
Open the Working in your preferred way.

Open the Eye in the Void
Whilst in the altered state of consciousness as the Eye
is Open, say: I reach down into the depths of the
Abyss, where dwells the slumbering mind of the
Dragon. I stir the great Leviathan to wakefulness, to
come forth into manifestation, wearing the forms of
the Beasts who speak with the Voice of both the
Dragon and my own Self. Holy Beasts, Familiar
Spirits, I summon you and I call you into Being. Take
on shape and substance and attend unto me, for we
are the same, the spawn of the Ancient Dragon,
sprung from the Serpent's Blood.
Cast your mind into the Dark places of the Void,
probing about until you begin to sense presences
stirring in response, eyes regarding you from out of
the depths, circling at the very edges of perception,
snuffling cautiously, weighing you up.
There will come a moment when your mind flashes
with illumination and you will know that contact has
been made on a deep level.
Return to ordinary consciousness and close the
Working in your usual manner.
Now wait for the Familiars to manifest and reveal
themselves to you. You will need to be alert and keep
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your eyes and wits open, for they are unlikely to come
through any avenue that you consciously expect and
there is a danger of missing them if you keep looking
in the wrong places, blinded by your own conscious
certainties. If you fail to recognise them, they will
retreat back to the Darkness, putting you back a step,
and they may be less eager to respond a second time
after being slighted the first. Just remain open and
awake, without preconceived ideas, and all will be
well.
Drawing Down the Void

The Familiar Spirits are capable of resolving quite a number
of worldly issues on their own, watching your back and
sorting out troublesome situations. But you are also going to
want to keep your hand in with the arts of proper, traditional
sorcery (and if you don't, you have seriously misunderstood
the Apophis curriculum).
In order to do this, it is necessary to learn how to
draw the raw potential of the Void through into the material
world, where it can be shaped. The first prerequisite for
doing this is to accustom yourself to the experience of
Opening the Eye. I recommend a rigorous one month period
of daily practice of the Void meditation. You will need to
become very sensitive to the ways in which the currents of
Unmanifest possibilities wash through your consciousness,
learning the subtle ways in which you can steer and direct
them into Becoming.
This done, you should begin to open your physical
eyes whilst still in the state of Void consciousness, the Eye
still open. Look around you and try to discern the whole
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matrix of possibilities and potentials as they unfold in the

world around you. Consider all the myriad different things
that could happen, and the way in which the patterns of other
possible events will shift and change depending upon whether
the ones you are directly observing happen or do not happen.
See if you can mentally shift the currents and make things
happen either one way or the other.
Once you have had some practice with this, try some
of the occult exercises you have used previously, but stream
the Draconian consciousness as you do so. If you have
practised stadhagaldr with the rune postures previously, try
them again now, but feeling the raw potential of the Dragonmind flowing through you as you do so. What difference
does this make? If you have come through the practice of
Golden Dawn / Crowley traditions, what difference does the
Draconian consciousness flow make to such staples as the
Ritual of the Pentagram? Use whatever methods you are
already familiar with to practice streaming the Draconian
consciousness through your magic.
You may wish to select a focus for the Eye in the
Void to manifest through in your rituals. This could be
something as simple as a drawing of the Order Seal
(preferably in silver ink or paint on a black background), or
something Wyrd and wonderful which you have found and
which is suitable to the purpose. I use an egg of obsidian
which I obtained at a significant time from significant people
many years ago. The only 'rule' is that it should be something
which is aesthetically appropriate.
Finally, spend a few practice sessions in which you
open a ritual Working, Open the Eye in the Void, and then
by an act of Will draw it down into your Working space and
anchor it in your focus object, through which the Draconian
consciousness may be present and aware in your Working,
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channelling raw Void energies through into manifestation as

they are invoked and needed.
The Void and Sorcery

Now it's time to start applying all of this Work in the material
world. Spiritual illumination is a tremendous and wonderful
thing, but it is when this illumination causes observable
changes to occur in your everyday life that its true efficacy is
revealed. Any spiritual event that leaves you unchanged and
your life on the exact same course as previously is a fraud and
a delusion.
To begin with, I am going to illustrate a perfectly
simple piece of spellcraft performed on the most basic of
levels, designed to get a job. We'll then look at some
examples adapted from that fascinating Golden Dawn
document labelled 'Z2', which gave breakdowns utilising their
own 'Neophyte Formula' adapted for a wide variety of magical
effects. We'll pinch their good idea in our turn and apply the
Void Formula to the Z2 ritual exercises.
So here follows a simple and straightforward little
spell to assist if you are seeking new employment:
Spell For Job-Seeking
Prepare your C.V. ready for sending to prospective

employers.
Open the Rite in your accustomed manner.
Invoke the Draconian Gods (Set / Babalon / Apep or
Odin / Freyja / Fafnir).
Open the Eye in the Void.
'Anchor' the Void energies in your focus device, so
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that a window upon the Abyss is opened in your ritual

space, through which you can draw and shape Void
potential.
Sprinkle your C.V. lightly with water, then either
cense it or pass it swiftly through a candle flame.
Imagine the sparks and the water droplets forming an
aura around the C.V., ready to bear a charge.
Say, Sparks of fire from Muspellsheim met streams
of ice from Niflheim in the midst of the Void
Ginnungagap. From their energetic mingling, whole
worlds Came Into Being!
Raise the C.V. before your focus object and Will the
Void energies to pour into the aura of fire and water,
swirling around it, taking on a powerful magical
charge as the raw potential of the Void is shaped by
your Word and your Will.
Chant Work is worthy, a job to be done, great the
reward for the diligent one.
When the chant reaches a crescendo and your Will
reaches its maximum pitch, cease chanting and lay
your hands over the C.V. after sprinkling again with
water and censing or passing through the flame again.
Say, I seal the mighty talisman with fire and water,
an aura of power bound to it, that it may win for me a
job worthy of my talents.
Cover the C.V. with a cloth or place it in an envelope.
Close the link to the Void energies by either
performing a sign to close the gate, or covering over
the focus object.
Close the ritual.
So It Is Done!
The charged C.V. can either be sent out directly, or if you are
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applying for several jobs at once, this master copy can be kept
as a talisman and used to charge other copies by pressing it
against them, accompanied by a few words, when they are
mailed out.
The Z2 Rituals and the Void

When a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
became an Adept and entered the Second Order of Rosae
Rubeae et Aureae Crucis, it was explained to them how the
entirety of the Order's initiatory teaching was actually
encapsulated within the Initiation Ritual of the Degree of
Neophyte, symbolising the outsider being brought into the
Sanctuary of the Mysteries and put through a series of
consecrations, after which he was admitted and purified.
One of the documents which was presented to the
new Adept was entitled 'Z2', which applied the Neophyte
Formula to several operations of practical magic, illustrating
how this basic Formula could be applied to all manner of
magical effects.
Any person who has Worked through the Seven
Heads curriculum thus far, should also realise the fact that
certain Formulae may be applied in many different ways to
attain many different magical results, because the actual
technology and process of magic is the same, only the
application differs.
So now that the Eye has been Opened in the Void, it
is important to learn how to channel and focus that Void
energy and reshape probability in order to manifest the results
you require.
The direct use and application of the Void for magical
purposes will be quite an eye-opener. But it must be said
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right now that by the time you are Working through the
Seventh Head perspective, even this methodology will seem a
caveman's level of Understanding. But the simple fact is that
even if you read ahead, you won't be able to apply the later
and more direct methodology until you have thoroughly
mastered and outgrown this one. The Seven Heads arise in
sequence.
So let's take a look at how the Magic of the Void is
applied to the same sequence of traditional magical operations
that the Golden Dawn used to demonstrate their Neophyte
Formula in their day:
I. EVOCATION
The first magical operation is that of evocation. This is the
process whereby the magician summons forth a 'spirit' (the
nature of such spirits will be discussed more fully under the
Fifth Head, with Gods being discussed under the Sixth Head.
For now, the magician should simply accept that it is possible
to conjure forth a spirit and leave speculations as to what such
a thing might be until some experience has been gained.)
Some people find evocation very difficult to do. This
is primarily because they don't know what to expect. I have
discussed fully the use of the imagination as a magical tool
under the Work of the Third Head in Apophis, however, and
this book isn't the place to revisit such basics; I will simply
refer the reader back to the earlier volume. Anyone who has
reached the point in the Order curriculum where they are
ready to actually practice this will be in no doubt about its
techniques, as they will already have the experience necessary
to inform themselves.
So, if you have reached the stage to be doing this
Work, you'll know roughly what to expect even if you have
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never evoked a spirit before. If you haven't and are reading

ahead, just enjoy reading about it and the power such magic
offers. Know that this power can be yours if you put the
Work in. Everything you need to know is contained in the
Order's publications.
The first question to be decided is which spirit to
evoke. To make things simple, I am going to use one from the
Goetia, a grimoire I made extensive use of in my younger
years and which is probably about the best known and most
coherent of the old grimoires. I am certainly not going to use
the methods contained in the Lesser Key of Solomon, I am
simply taking one of the spirits from the 'catalogue'.
The spirit concerned is named Vassago and is one I
have had good results with in the past. He excels in revealing
the secrets of past, present and future and knowledge of
things which are lost or hidden. He's one of the best 'private
investigators' I have ever employed and no secrets are safe
from the person who employs him with skill.
I will say from the outset that you will in time find it
more productive still to use spirits of your own creation /
discovery (so called 'artificial elementals' or 'servitors'). But
to begin with, it's very useful to employ those who have been
developed / discovered / created by others, with an existing
pedigree, especially those in a balanced, coherent collection
such as the Goetia.
Traditionally, a Working of evocation will involve the
magician tracing a circle around himself, usually fortified
with Names of Power which have significance to him. This
provides him a place in which to focus and amplify his Will.
The spirit is then conjured into a triangle which has been
traced outside the circle, where the amplified Will is
projected into a place where it may take form and appearance.
(The triangle is first and foremost a symbol of manifestation,
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another secret of the Order Seal.)

You may follow that pattern of Working if you so
desire. You should choose Names to fortify the circles which
are meaningful to you (suggestions: Set; Babalon; Apep;
Leviathan;
Odin;
Freyja;
Fafnir;
Jormungandr;
Midgardsormr; Nidhogg). However, there is an alternative,
which is what I use.
I subscribe to Anton LaVey's idea that the Infernal
Spirits are our allies and I do not wish to stand apart from
them. If I haven't the stomach to look an evoked spirit in the
face, I shouldn't be dealing with it in the first place, and I
should be closely examining my own self-belief. This applies
whether the spirit is seen as an independent entity, or even
more so if it is a projection of one's own psyche.
For me, therefore, there is no circle. The chamber in
which I stand, or the natural bounds of my exterior
environment if working outdoors, are the limits of my
Working space. I do use a triangle for manifesting the spirit,
but it is within my working space, not without. As a matter of
fact, it is normally only a few inches across, with my Void
focus object placed within it, as it is out of the Void that the
spirit will manifest. Since I use the triangle purely for
manifesting the spirit, not for confining it, the size is not an
issue, as it can pass beyond its limits once evoked.
Most traditional ceremonial magicians of the Golden
Dawn or other schools will throw their hands up in horror
now and tell you that the above paragraph is appallingly
reckless and dangerous. Tough shit, that's the way I roll.
They should learn a lesson from the practitioners who allow
loa to ride their own minds and bodies. That's real magic.
An evocation is actually a very easy thing to do once
you have learned the knack of 'seeing', which anyone who has
Worked through the Third Head should find a piece of cake. I
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have pared the operation down to its bare essentials. As with

everything, the key to success is the passion with which the
operation is Worked, and passion is something which is
easiest to arouse in an ascending, accelerating rush until the
peak is reached. Initiates will learn with practice how to most
efficiently reach their peak of magical passion.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Outline your working space and the triangle.

Open the ritual by invoking the Draconian Deities.
Carefully draw the sigil or seal of the spirit and place
it before your Void focus object. (Vassago's sigil is
illustrated below.)
5. Begin drawing through the Void energies and

infusing them into the sigil (this can be very
effectively done with breathing techniques).
Establish a vortex of unshaped Void energy rushing
through into the world and taking on the shape of the
sigil until it pulses and throbs with power.
6. Now begin your conjuration while focusing intensely
upon the sigil. Put as much passion into it as you can,
don't be afraid to whisper, roar, declaim and wave
your arms about. Magicians shouldn't be shrinking
violets and the level of emotion generated is of
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7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
critical importance. A sample conjuration of Vassago

is below.
Mighty Vassago, Prince among Spirits, you are
known to look favourably upon those who would
speak with you. Come to me now, Lord of Secrets,
and reveal to me those things which are Hidden
which I wish to know. Discoverer of all that lies
concealed, who has considered past, present and
future, reveal to me now those things which it is
needful for me to know. Mighty Vassago, I am in
need of answers. Speak freely with me,as to a friend,
be the revealer of secrets, make my store of
knowledge full. So shall I honour your good name
forever.
Turn your attention to the triangle of manifestation.
Let your passion and concentration go, chanting the
spirit's name over and over again until its presence is
clearly felt in the chamber and its shape appears
before you.
Ask what you will of the spirit, converse with it, give
it requests or instructions, once it has stabilised and
you can perceive it clearly.
Give the spirit a Licence to Depart: this releases it to
accomplish the Work you have asked it to do, and
also ensures the psychic projections you have
extended are all fully withdrawn and reintegrated.
Spirit Vassago, thank you for attending me and
being friendly to me. I give honour to you and bid
you farewell. Return to your place and let peace and
friendship remain between us.
Perform a banishing ritual to clear the working space
of any lingering attachments.
Close the ritual in your usual fashion.
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13. So It Is Done!
Two further comments should be made about evocation magic
at this point. The first is that in rituals such as the one above,
where you are seeking information, don't necessarily expect
the spirit to 'tell' you what you want to know during the actual
Working. The information tends to come through in all
manner of strange ways and coincidences over the next few
days or weeks.
The second comment concerns the appearance of the
spirit itself. Some spirits those of the Goetia in particular
have a traditional appearance ascribed to them, but even in
such cases it will be filtered through your own consciousness
and the shape will be unique to you. The perception of the
spirit is, of course, a clairvoyant phenomenon, although the
'hallucination' can be easily strong enough to provide a
seemingly solid, opaque image (this comes with much
practice, needless to say). Some claim that using copious
amounts of incense, or blood, or sexual fluids, can produce a
more tangible manifestation. I say that such things may
excite and enhance a magician's clairvoyant abilities to make
it seem so, but the phenomenon remains clairvoyant; we are
not dealing with physical entities here.
II. CONSECRATION OF TALISMANS
A talisman is a physical object which holds a specific magical
charge and exerts that imbued influence continuously without
the need of further Will to be exerted by the magician.
This is a relatively simple process. Anybody who has
read the material on sigils under the Work of the Second
Head in Apophis or gishjlmur will already really know
pretty much all they need to in order to create an effective
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design or bind-rune to effect magical change. The art of

talismanic magic simply involves placing that design upon a
material base and charging the base accordingly in a semipermanent fashion.
The main difference at this stage of Initiation is that
we now understand how to channel and shape the raw Void
energy to provide a massive boost to the talisman's charge.
A talisman can be carved or cut into wood, inscribed
on an appropriate metal, scratched onto a gemstone or crystal
or simply drawn upon paper, card or parchment. Talismans
for long term purposes should obviously be bound into long
lasting objects.
It was also traditional in some cases such as the
talismans illustrated in The Key of Solomon or in Israel
Regardie's How to Make and Use Talismans to inscribe an
appropriate verse from some inspirational text (usually
Biblical in the Judeo-Christian tradition, of course, though we
can cast much further afield than that). This is quite good
practice.
For this example, we will design a talisman for use by
a sex-starved magician who wishes for a few evenings of
lustful dalliance. The talisman illustrated below has a design
which is sigillised from the words 'SEXUAL PLEASURE'
using the Draconian alphabet from the book Dragonscales.
The verse around the edge of the talisman is an appropriate
one take from Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law: Take
your fill and will of love as ye will, where, when and with
whom ye will.
You could write this upon heavy duty paper with
purple ink (the colour of sexual magic according to Pete
Carroll's model in Liber Kaos), or inscribe it upon a silver
(for sexuality) or copper (for romance) disk.
The talisman design is overleaf, followed by the
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Working outline to charge it.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Open the ritual in your usual manner.

Invoke the Draconian Deities.
Sprinkle the talisman with water, then pass it through
a candle flame or cense it, providing it with an 'aura'
that will hold the charge. Say, Sparks of fire from
Muspellsheim met streams of ice from Niflheim in the
midst of the Void Ginnungagap.
From their
energetic mingling, whole worlds Came Into Being!
5. Place the finished talisman before your Void focus
object.
6. Begin channelling the unshaped, raw energies from
the Void, through the Eye, and infuse them into the
talisman, keeping up the intensity of concentration
until the design pulses and throbs with latent power.
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7. Arouse yourself and focus your mind with highly

erotically charged imagery. Some would recommend
that you should reach orgasm and anoint the object
with your sexual fluids; I would personally argue that
it is more efficacious to pour your actual arousal and
Desire and lust into the talisman.
Whichever
approach you choose, pour your sexual hunger into
the talisman.
8. Begin the following chant as you shape and
strengthen the energies of the Void, using them to
transform the talisman into a genuine magnet for the
opposite (or same, if you prefer) sex: Bring to me
my great desire, lusts aflame and loins afire.
9. Repeat the chant fervently until your concentration
and focus has reached its peak. Then place your
hands upon the talisman, sealing the current of Will
there.
10. Sprinkle the talisman with water and cense it or pass
it through the candle flame once again to seal it
completely.
11. Cover the talisman and put it away.
12. Close the Eye in the Void.
13. Carry out a banishing of some sort to dissipate any
excess energies.
14. Close the Working in your usual manner.
15. So It Is Done!
The fact that you now have a talisman to excite the favours of
the opposite sex doesn't mean that you'll have hordes of
maidens or lads banging on your door begging to be ravished,
of course. You'll still have to go out to suitable places and
meet appropriate people. The talisman will then draw to you
those who are resonant with your desires.
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III. INVISIBILITY
Invisibility is a very tempting and useful power to have. I'm
sure people reading this are salivating at the thought of what
they might be able to do if they were invisible. Well, the
Golden Dawn included a very fascinating and practical
example of an invisibility ritual in Z2, one which I performed
several times in my misspent youth, with varying but
improving degrees of success. So here is a very direct and
powerful but much simplified (the Golden Dawn version was
rather interminable) version which directly utilises Draconian
consciousness and taps straight into the Void.
As with most effective magic, when the Void
infiltrates this world directly, it insinuates itself into reality as
we perceive it instead of actually rewriting the laws of
physics. The path of least resistance, in other words. So you
become invisible by dint of not being noticed. It's like when
you're searching for the ketchup bottle in the kitchen, but can't
find it even though it's there right under your nose. So the
conjuration is a perception manipulator, it doesn't rewrite the
properties of light. It means that people don't notice you're
there. If you look in a mirror you'll still see yourself, because
you already know you're there. However, you may notice
some strange visual effects, because the spell will still be
affecting your perceptions.
So here's how to do it. Be aware that this is unlikely
to fool anyone who has undergone the sensory training in the
First Head of Apophis.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Open the rite according to your usual fashion.

Stand before your Void focus device, with a bowl of
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5.
6.
7.
8.
water on your left side and a lit candle on your right.

The vapour and flame provide an auric field that can
be shaped around you.
Draw the raw potential through and wrap it around
yourself in layers of misty Darkness, shrouding
yourself in an impenetrable veil of Not-Stuff. As the
layers continue to swirl around you, thickening and
darkening, shape them into an egg of Darkness, an
ovoid pocket of the Void which surrounds you and
moves with you. Visualise this strongly, until the
image of the egg of Darkness around you is
absolutely fixed in your mind.
Say, I am of the Blood of the Dragon, and from Her
substance am I shaped. I have drawn to me more of
the Dragon's breath from the realms Outside. I have
clothed myself with Darkness and the Void. I am
concealed by the incomprehensible, my existence
hidden by that which is Not. In this egg of Darkness,
I shall pass unseen. Invisible! Invisible! I am
invisible! No eyes may penetrate this veil of Shadow,
no thing may perceive this Unthing. Any eyes that
fall upon me shall behold me Not, for they cannot
understand the thing that they see, nor can their
minds grasp it. Their gaze shall slip off the icy
gloom, their minds recoil from the fiery Darkness.
Invisible! Invisible! I am invisible!
Repeat this conjuration until you are certain of its
success and the egg of Void-stuff is fully manifest
around you.
Leave your chamber and go forth to do the things you
wish to do unseen. The egg will travel with you,
always wrapping you and hiding you in the heart of
the Void, rendering you imperceptible.
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9. When you are done, return to your chamber and begin

visualising the Void substance unravelling and
coiling away like a nest of snakes, returning to the
Void through the dimensional window provided by
your focus object.
10. Say, Now the stuff of Chaos returns to its No-place
and the manifestation of 'I' returns. The concealment
is over, the game has been played. The Dragon's
fumes return to their place and I return to mine.
Worship and adoration to the Dragon of the Abyss,
the Mother of manifestation!
11. Ensure that all the last shreds of the disintegrating
egg of Void-stuff have been projected back through
the focus device.
13. Close the Working after your usual fashion.
14. So It Is Done!
Er, have fun, that's really all else I can say about this one.
IV. TRANSFORMATION
Under this heading, the Golden Dawn taught the method of
assuming God-Forms, primarily to train the Officers in their
complex Lodge ceremonies to effectively represent the Gods
in whose stations they were standing.
But let's have a bit more fun with this, shall we? Let's
go out on that Left-Hand Path edge. Let's offer up a ritual to
become a werewolf.
It goes without saying that digging deep into the
psyche and releasing your bestial urges and tendencies like
this is potentially an appallingly dangerous thing to do. But
not if you have properly Worked through the curriculum to
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this level. By now you should already have built firm bridges
to your instinctual nature and be wholly comfortable with all
aspects of yourself. This ritual will in such a case allow you
to explore your animal heritage more experientially. Needless
to say, if you haven't put in the prior Work, you'd be a fool to
do this and would have no one but yourself to blame. You
have been warned. The subtitle of this book isn't joking when
it warns of the possibility of madness.
If you're in a playful mood, you might like to prepare
the atmosphere by watching a werewolf movie or two
beforehand (or reading my book, Dread Souls).
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Invoke the Draconian Gods.
Stand before your focus device, with a bowl of water
on your left hand and a lit candle on your right.
Draw a large pentagram on the palm of your hand
(according to some legends, this was a mark of the
werewolf).
Draw through the Void energy, the Dragon's breath,
and draw it around you as a mist that closes in,
swirling around you.
Begin a rhythm of deep breathing, inhaling all of the
Void-stuff over the course of a few minutes. Feel it
moving within you, spreading throughout your whole
being, pumping around your cardio-vascular system,
tingling in your fingertips and toes, trembling in each
hair follicle.
You should be left pulsing and
throbbing with potential energy for change.
Say, Long has mankind been tamed, cast loose from
his bestial heritage. But I am not a civilised man. I
am a beast, proud and noble, and I will not turn my
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9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
back upon my carnal nature. I am honest about who

I am and where I have come from. I now summon
forth the Beast in Man to empower me and to teach
me what it means to be truly alive.
Now let the transformation begin. Allow a trembling,
a shaking, to seize your body. How successful you
are will depend entirely upon how completely you
offer up your body and mind to the Beast (which will
in turn be in proportion to your level of Selfconfidence and how certain you are of your own
Being), and how intensely and completely you are
able to visualise and feel the transformation taking
place.
You should literally feel your bones
elongating and distorting; your jaws lengthening;
your muscle tone bulking out; hair sprouting all over
your body; your teeth and nails lengthening and
sharpening.
When you feel the transformation is complete, let out
a howl to signify the fact.
Go out and run with the Beast.
When your experience is complete, return and stand
before your focus object once more.
Feel the transformation reversing, your human
proportions and aspect reasserting themselves.
Say, I have run with the wolf, and have enjoyed the
fellowship of my inner Beast, and have honoured the
heritage of my four-legged ancestors and the
wonderful creatures with whom I share this Earth.
Love and honour remain between us, we are all the
Children of the Dragon, enlivened by Her breath.
Close the Eye in the Void.
Close the ritual in your usual manner.
So It Is Done!
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V. DIVINATION
The Golden Dawn also inserted a Formula for 'Spiritual
Development' in Z2 at this point, but all I'm going to do is
refer the reader back to the initial procedure for Opening the
Eye in the Void represented in this chapter, which is the
entire be-all and end-all of spiritual development. So we'll
pass straight on to the next section, which deals with
divination.
I'm going to be very brief with this one, because it is
outside the scope of this book to teach you how to practise
divination, it's just too large a subject. There are some notes
on the subject under the Third Head in Apophis and details on
the meanings of runes in gishjlmur, or you can find details
on Celtic divination in my Book of Ogham (published by
Runa-Raven Press), or any number of books on the market
which will teach you the basics of reading Tarot.
A lot of people don't bother with a ritual framework
for their divinations, they simply cast the runes or lay out the
Tarot and set to. But using the following brief Formula to
Open the Eye in the Void will amplify the clairvoyant part of
the reading significantly, lifting a divination from being a
series of interpretations learned by rote to a true visionary
experience, with genuine flashes of insight.
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2.
3.
4.

Lay out the means of divination and cast the reading,
tracing the potentialities within the Void to illumine
your interpretation.
6. Close the rite in your accustomed manner.
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7. So It Is Done!
VI. ALCHEMY
I am not going to give a lot of detail concerning alchemy here.
To be fair, neither did the Golden Dawn. It's something I've
read a lot about, but have never paid an undue amount of
attention to. As far as the spiritual interpretation of alchemy
is concerned, the symbolism either floats your boat or not,
and it doesn't do a lot for me to be honest.
As far as the physical processes of alchemy are
concerned, I don't have a lot of truck with turning lead into
gold, there are better ways of filling your wallet. The search
for the Elixir of Life and immortality is better served by other
spiritual disciplines, some of which will be covered in the
next chapter.
There is a lot of value in transmuting substances,
however, or with suffusing an edible object such as a drink or
a solution with some healing or transformative power. This is
a type of alchemy which is well worthwhile and is similar to
the Eucharist in the Catholic Mass (if indeed any magical
potency remained in such ritual). It is for this reason that
most magical traditions feature some sort of Mass type ritual,
or the consecration and offering of food and drink.
The following brief ritual is used to infuse healing
power into a drink and a piece of cake, which can then be
given to a sick person to boost their energies and recuperative
powers. If the drink is of a suitable type, it can be stored in
bottles until needed. The ritual works best with alcoholic
beverages for some reason.
1. Open the Working according to your usual manner.
2. Invoke the Draconian Gods.
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3. Open the Eye in the Void.

4. Place the substance to take the charge before the Void
focus object.
5. Begin channelling Void energy through the Open Eye
and into the object. Let it soak in, entering and
energising every molecule and all the spaces between
till the food or drink visibly pulses.
6. Say, This food and drink is alive with the potential
of the Void, the very stuff of Creation itself before it
comes into manifestation. The Void contains within
itself all possibilities, all patterns, all matrices:
everything that will, may, or will never, come to pass.
I charge this energy by an Act of Will, focusing its
power upon healing. Since it is unshaped, it may
apply that charge to any ailment, adjusting and
shifting its precise attributes to suit the patient to
whom the food and drink is given, becoming a
remedy for their precise illness. Thus, this is a
Universal Medicine created here this day, the Secret
healing power of the alchemists. Whoever shall
partake of this substance will be healed of their ills!
7. Wrap or put away the food and cap the drink in a
bottle if they are to be preserved and not used
immediately.
8. Close the Eye.
9. Close the ritual in your normal manner.
It will be borne in mind that all of the above examples are
intended to be basic formulae only, illustrating the
fundamentals of the practice. The evocation and talisman
Workings already contain pre-designed sigils / seals, but all of
the Workings can be enhanced with such devices, and
expanded in any way you may choose. The Magic of the
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Void is a simple practice once it has been learned. These

examples are offered purely to show how it can be applied to
any magical operation you may care to name. It really can be
as simple as Opening the Eye and directing and shaping the
streams of potential Becoming. This is true Black Magic,
Worked by force of Will alone, drawing something into
Being from the Unmanifest and shaping its Reality through
Will.
Ror Piadph
The Enochian phrase above is rendered in English lettering as
'Ror Piadph' (to be pronounced as 'Roar Pee-ard-pay'), and its
meaning is 'the Sun in the depth of my jaws'.
This is a reference to Apep rising out of the mist of
Night and swallowing the Sun before it crests the eastern
horizon to bring in the morning. This is a concept which lies
at the very heart of Order mysticism, dating right back to the
Apep Workings which founded the Order of Apep (the
account of these Workings is published in Apophis).
The symbolism of this is profound and will echo
throughout the pages and the Work of Draconian
Consciousness. Apep swallowing the Sun symbolises the
destruction of the Universe that Is. The great Serpent of the
Outside has devoured the manifest Universe and taken it back
into the Void of potential, where time and space have no
reality, where dimensions are unextended and Unreal. The
Sun is the great symbol of the Cosmos; it is the ruler of the
solar system and (in humanocentric terms) the centre of the
Universe. Furthermore, by its rising and setting and seasonal
positioning, it is the measure of time. To swallow the Sun is
to remove the appearance of time and space. This will
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obviously have symbolic implications for the Work of the

Sixth Head when we get to it. It will have even more
pertinence to the Work of the Seventh Head. But it also has
relevance here, and in the Fifth Head.
When you Open the Eye in the Void, Apep
figuratively swallows the Sun as you gaze deep into the Void.
All dimensions and possibilities and patterns of manifestation
are then put on hold. It is your Will and consciousness (the
Set-like part of you) which can then gaze the Serpent
unflinching in the Eye and choose which things come through
into manifestation. The Eternal Word of Set is Xeper
(pronounced kheffer): I have Come Into Being, and
through my Coming Into Being, the Way of Coming Into
Being is established! The Key to Black Magic is the
Understanding of that moment when Apep swallows the Sun
and Set meets the Serpent's gaze, controlling It is the bridging
of the psyche, as the conscious Will pulls its figurative rabbit
out of the hat of the subconscious and Reality is forever
changed.
Although the true Understanding and actualisation of
Apep swallowing the Sun pertains to the Seventh Head, that
symbolism and process takes on a critical importance here
and now. The Initiate should fervently meditate upon it, and
the magical secrets that it unlocks, utilising the phrase Ror
Piadph as a mantra. This is essential to get the most out of
the Heads that are still to arise.
The Whisperings of the Void

One phenomenon which you will probably begin to
experience round about now is that of 'hearing' whisperings
that come from the Void. These are clairaudient phenomena
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which are echoes of things that were, or things that may be, or
possibilities so alien that they could never manifest in the
Universe as we now know it, but their seed-thoughts exist in
the Void nonetheless. At this stage, you cannot put too great
a reliance or too stringent an interpretation upon these things,
because you lack the experience to do so. Really, the insight
of the Sixth Head is required to make sense of these sibilant,
serpentine whisperings. But it is as well to be aware of them
now and to take note of them as they happen.
Hearing voices well, I did tell you this was a book
of Divine madness. Naturally, you should be very cautious
who you mention these whisperings to.
Much of what you hear will indeed be madness,
things that will never and can never be. These are all
undifferentiated expressions of the Chaos of the Abyss
seeping through into your Awakened consciousness. You
cannot gaze into those depths without stirring up That which
lies within. These are, in truth, the dreams of the Ancient
Dragon, and you should consider yourself blessed to hear
them, even the nonsense or nightmarish ones.
These Words are the psychic echoes of the Silence of
the Void: the inexpressible made perceptible, in tiny
murmurs and glimpses. They are the shed skins of the
Serpent, the sound of scales uncoiling in the Darkness,
signifying Nothing.
For now, they have little practical value for you, save
to make you aware of the nature of the madness and
multiplicity of the Void, the mind of Choronzon. Treasure
them for that. In later stages of your Initiation, they will
become much more significant.
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THE BEAST AND THE HARLOT
his chapter relates to the Work of the Fifth Head,

which is attributed to the Raging Lion. In other words,
it deals with the emergence of a new, unified Self from
the Void: a Self who is on the level of a Magister as
Understood by most occult Orders, one who displays the
qualities of this Head in abundance: strength, courage and
ferocity.
The actuality of the State of Being acquired by the
practitioners of this Work is actually contrary to that expected
by the people who tend to look ahead and idealise with their
rose-tinted spiritual spectacles. They will view the Initiate
who has 'crossed the Abyss' (a misinterpretation; it is not so
much a 'crossing' as a 'descending into', but let's stick with the
conventional nomenclature for the sake of simplicity) as one
who has transcended the lower ego and become selfless, and
who passes serenely through the world, calm and untroubled.
The figure of the Raging Lion expresses the true
nature of this state very well. The lower ego has indeed been
transcended, merged with the instinctual nature in the
bridging of the conscious and subconscious minds. This does
not extinguish the Self, however; it allows a new, super-Self
to arise, all of its parts now working together as a unified
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engine of Becoming.
The furnace that powers the Black Magus the
symbolic figure who represents the Work of this Head is
that of passion and fury. He is driven by Desire. This may
give the appearance of serenity to the outside observer, for
he moves with such precision and purpose that nothing may
stand in his way. He walks into a situation and it begins to
shift and change around him, by his sheer presence and force
of Will. His Will and Desire are incredibly focused,
operating at a white heat, and he seems serene because he
strides onward, obstacles melting and falling away at his
approach. He needs no extravagant gestures or dramatics, the
sheer intensity of his Will and Being are enough.
Let's take a moment to see what the Black Magus has
to say of himself:
The Black Magus

1. When Beast and Man combine in one Being, I shall
walk out of the Creative Darkness.
2. I am the Master of Reality, for I Know that the thing
which appears to be real is not Real at all,
3. thus I am the Master of Illusion.
4. My Will Alone is Real
5. and by force of Will alone I shall reshape the World.
6. What shape shall I bestow upon it?
7. The World will wear my face and will blaze with my
passions.
8. I am the Magus who walks out of the Abyss to tread
again his old haunts,
9. I am the one who is visible and tangible,
10. yet whose shadow changes all that it passes over,
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11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
not by spell or ritual or mighty invocation,

but simply by the power of my presence.
Wherever I stand is inflamed with my Desire
and dances to the flutes of the Void.
I am he who rides upon the Dragon's breath,
the Master of Mystery,
who Brings Into Being that which was Not yesterday,
who changes the patterns of Becoming with my
kaleidoscope Vision,
19. shaping the unshaped future from dreams and
fantasies,
20. for I Understand that all is trickery, done with
mirrors.
21. I am the Black Magus and this is my World.
The Demon Lover

As is made explicit in Apophis, the primary Initiation of the
Fifth Head involves the apprehension of the Other, the
Beloved.
The initiatory path up to this point has been
necessarily self-centred, developing one's own psyche and
abilities and integrating the various parts of the Self, building
bridges between the conscious and subconscious. But now
that this has been done, the Self looks outside of itself,
seeking its complement in the surrounding world.
Once the Eye has been Opened in the Void and the
symbolism of the Order Seal has been Understood on an
experiential rather than intellectual level, the Initiate
comprehends that the Serpent's Eye sends forth rays of Will
so that it can see itself reflected from many different angles
upon the surface of the Cosmos.
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The purest reflection and manifestation of the things

we truly Need, the things that complement our own manifest
forms and render us whole, is a contra-sexual being who
embodies the qualities that are the shadow side of our own.
The ultimate representative of this Principle is the Goddess
Babalon, but it enters our lives in many different ways,
speaking to our souls through our Sense of Beauty. It may
also manifest as a physical partner, or at least express itself
through such a person on occasion (in no instance should this
person be identified with the Principle).
It is a simple and obvious fact that once we have
reached deeply enough within our Selves to Open the Eye, the
Eye is then turned outward, looking beyond ourselves, instead
of continuing our previous inward focus.
This is also illustrated very well in the initiatory
model presented in gishjlmur: the first three Heads deal
with the process of inward integration, as the Hero unites the
human and Dragon consciousness, Sigurd slaying Fafnir and
discovering that the Dragon's powers are now his own to
command. But the next step after this is for the Draconic
Hero (the Initiate) to pass through the ring of flame (Opening
the Eye in the Void) and behold the Valkyrie (the Beloved).
This is also expressed in the fact that from this point onward,
until the Seventh Head is reached, the focus of the curriculum
shifts from the Mysteries of Fafnir to the Mysteries of
Jormungandr.
This process involves a kind of magic, and an
approach to the Mysteries, that is very, very different from
what the Initiate has done so far. Those who have not yet
Opened the Eye nor grasped its true implications, will resist
this magical current, or misunderstand it. Some people, who
may have read and appreciated the earlier books in this series,
are going to struggle with what I have to say in this chapter
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(let alone what I have to say in the chapters still to follow!)

But having gazed into the Abyss, all the old rules are out the
window. This is a whole new perspective, and I can't
emphasise enough that it takes some getting used to. There is
no point rushing with this, or trying to convince yourself that
you 'get it' when you don't. In true Left-Hand Path fashion,
you have to become a heretic, overturning your own old
conventions and preconceptions.
The Opening of the Eye is a crucial peak moment of
the initiatory path, and you will see properly for the first time.
A lot of the old ideas, a lot of the comfortable assumptions,
are going to inevitably get turned on their heads. This will
involve some feelings of guilt and doubt initially, with a great
deal of uncertainty. It is going to take you a while and a lot of
time and experience to get accustomed to your new focus and
motivation.
Those well-versed in the Runic Mysteries will
recognise the difference between galdor and seith. The magic
of the Fifth Head still relies upon the Will of the Initiate,
casting a call out into the Void. But a degree of passive
receptivity must now follow that call in order to perceive the
reply, almost a kind of mediumship. Given the training that
the Initiate has undergone throughout the first three Heads,
there will be little danger of delusion. For you have Become
as Set meeting the gaze of Apep.
This is a crucial addition to your magical technique.
Rather then Seeking the Mysteries within your own Self, it is
now time to actualise that Self. You will now begin Seeking
the Mysteries in the World, and they will speak to you in the
Form of the Other.
As discussed in Apophis, the Beloved or Demon
Lover is an Initiator / Initiatrix tailored to the Needs and
vibration of your own Self, a uniquely personal Deity. She is
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the projection of Babalon into your life, the Daughter of

Babalon as it were. She should not be confused with the
Goddess Herself, but is your interface with Her and should be
considered the Holiest of Holy in consequence. (Of course, I
use the term 'Her' as a male heterosexual Initiate; the Other
will manifest in the shape and sex that suits your own Desire.)
The purposes you discover with Her will be your
own, you will find and shape a Destiny together. Her purpose
is to inspire, to motivate and to keep you keen, also to give
you your rewards, to lift you up through your Desire when
you're feeling down. The Left-Hand Path is a hard road to
take, but we are not practitioners of self-denial, we are not
ascetics. If you are not getting rewards proportionate to your
Work, there is something wrong. The Other wishes to give
you pleasure in all things, and you need to allow Her to do so.
To quote the Beast: Ecstasy be thine and joy of Earth!
Shaping the Perfect Flesh

There are some exercises in Apophis to assist you in
approaching the Beloved. That volume should be consulted
for full details, but briefly the practice consists of making lists
of all the people you have ever felt romantic love for, or a
crush, plus a list of all the people you can recall that you have
ever felt sexual attraction towards.
By poring over the lists and making note of recurrent
features that always turn you on or make you ache with their
beauty, you are focusing your subconscious upon the
Principle of Beauty, turning the objects of your Desire over
and over again in your mind. This crystallises certain aspects
of Beauty and Desire in your deep mind, giving shape to your
perfect partner, a form which the Other can then inhabit.
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Having made the lists, it is important to engage your

own creativity in order to express the Beauty that is
illuminating your mind. Use the Draconian Consciousness to
guide your hands as you draw, paint and sculpt. Don't stop at
a single image or model either, keep trying. You will not be
satisfied with any of the representations you make, so don't
expect to be, but your fanatical persistence is a vital key to
unlocking the manifestation of the Beloved. When trying to
bring something major like this through into manifestation
from the Void, it is your persistence rather than your artistic
skill that matters. Keep trying, don't mind if you get
frustrated by your inability to capture the Beauty properly in
clay or on canvas. Instead, use that frustration to drive you on
to fresh efforts. This too is an aspect of the Other Coming
Into Being: this determination that drives you on. It is the
Eternal Feminine of Faust; it is Runa, the Mystery that is
always just over the horizon. Respond to its call and chase
after it untiringly.
If you are truly lacking in artistic talent, perhaps try
making a collage of beautiful faces and forms. The internet
has opened limitless galleries that can be printed out and
pasted on a board. Just be picky about what you use, ensuring
there is some aspect of each image that fuels your Desire.
The grit and determination to attend an art course in order to
better develop your skills for this purpose will also show the
mettle that the Other responds to. If you look at the
requirements Brynhild demanded in her husband, you will
have an inkling of how to please the Other with your
devotions.
By persisting in Work of this manner, you will find
that Babalon begins to appear to you in a shape that embodies
the appropriate qualities when you invoke Her. Her Daughter
may also begin to visit you, teasingly at first, whether in flesh
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or in Vision.
You may also have sexual encounters with people
who are astonishingly accurate manifestations of the Beauty
you are uncovering. I certainly have, experiencing levels of
ecstasy far surpassing ordinary sexual encounters. Very often
these people will be a channel for the Other for the simple
purpose to remind you of the pleasures She offers. Accept
what is freely given and move on, and give as good as you are
given.
In these ways, the Beloved will begin to take on
substance and clear shape in your psyche, and Her projection
will begin to manifest in the world. The Key to this magic is
communication: through all your senses, your words and
your emotions, whether through quiet appreciation or the peak
of orgasm.
The Pentagram of Desire

The magical model of the Pentagram of Desire has been
discussed at length in both Apophis and Dragonscales. I'm
not going to go into much detail about the basic symbolism
and utility of the design here, therefore, nor am I going to
speak overmuch of the important concept of 'tangential tantra',
which is discussed in Apophis and gishjlmur. Instead, I
will concentrate specifically upon how the Pentagram relates
to the Work of the Other and the further Mysteries that this
Work opens up.
The actual design of the Pentagram and the attribution
of its points is illustrated on the following page:
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The triangle of manifestation comprising LoverBeoved-Serpent is quite obvious in the diagram, each arising
in response to the other two: the interplay of Lover and
Beloved gives rise to the Remanifestations of the Serpent, the
metamorphoses of Reality itself; the interplay of the Self (the
Lover) and the initiatory matrix of the Serpent give rise to the
Desire of the Beloved, that which is Other; the interplay of
Beloved and Serpent give rise to the Self in their combination
of Life and Desire. This much is the obvious, encapsulated in
the simple Magic of the Void model which is apprehended
when the Fourth Head rises.
The Work of the Fifth Head, inspired by the passion
of the Raging Lion (which will be discussed more fully later
in this chapter), adds the tangential phenomena of the Dmon
and the Shadow into the mix, though, making more complex
and subtle shifts in the fabric of Reality as the Initiate works
his magic.
The nature of the Dmon will be examined later in
the chapter, but briefly it can be described as the Self who is
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ahead of self, a projection of your very highest and best

qualities, reflected back in time from a moment of your future
Becoming to assist you in the present. It is analogous to the
Higher Self or Holy Guardian Angel of other traditions.
What this basically means is that any Work energised from
the Fifth Head perspective will tend to offer opportunities and
insights that lead to initiatory progress, no matter how
mundane the original Work may have been. It also implies
that the Fifth Head Initiate will tend to see Keys for Selftransformation in absolutely everything, even when he isn't
actively involved in overtly magical Work.
The Shadow covers the tangential tantra spoken of
elsewhere, unforeseen and fascinating outspillings from the
Void. Apophis covers the importance of these and the fresh
perspective they bring, and the hugely important new Keys
they can provide. But their specific importance to the Fifth
Head Work and the reason they are introduced at this level is
that they offer up new avenues of Desire. This will be
covered later in this chapter when discussing the processes of
obsession and passion. It will pay dividends to meditate upon
this diagram and its interrelationships, because when the Void
offers up these opportunities, they need to be taken
enthusiastically and pursued with the great passion such an
amazing offering deserves. You need to devote yourself to
the manifestations of Shadow body and soul. This will not
necessarily be a comfortable experience, as the 'Shadow' title
implies. There are no guarantees or well-travelled roads to
follow when operating at this level.
Invoking the Beloved

That's enough talking and theorising, it's time to begin the
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experiential Work of the Fifth Head. This will teach you

more than any amount of theorising and is the purpose for
which this particular book has been written, to provide
practical means to pursue the higher levels of Initiation
instead of just waffling about concepts. The best teacher of
high concepts is down to earth experience.
The following ritual is designed to invoke the
Beloved after you have done the preliminary work of making
your lists and expressing your aspiration toward the Beloved
through your creative skills. The ritual should assist in
catalysing a manifestation, so keep your eyes open afterwards
and don't fail to act when it happens.
1.
2.
3.
4.

Place a chalice or drinking horn containing a suitable
blood red liquid (cherry brandy is highly
recommended) before your Void focus object.
5. Invoke Babalon. If you are female, you should
identify with Her energies and arouse them within
yourself; if you are male, you should attract those
energies towards you, pulsing in the air around you,
surrounding and embracing you:
Our Lady
Babalon, Queen of Heaven, Holy Whore, I invoke
You and I adore You! You, who are all passion and
ecstasy and Desire, You I invoke! You, who are
delight and frenzied madness, You I invoke! You,
who are sweet and subtle and languorous, who are
wild and fervent and dangerous, You I invoke! You
are the thunderous joy of timeless, perpetual orgasm,
in body and in soul. You, You I invoke! May my own
pleasure and ecstasy ever be a sacrifice unto You,
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6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
offered up in laughing delight to Your Beauty and

Love!
Draw Void-stuff through your focus object, shaping it
and charging it with your sexuality and your most
passionate Desire, till it throbs red and randy. Let
this energy be drawn into the liquid in the chalice
until it positively blazes with Babalonian Essence.
Whilst the Grail's contents blaze with Desire, add a
little of your own sexual fluids to the liquid. Mix
well.
Raise the chalice and say, Lady Babalon, I lift high
the Holy Grail, which holds the Blood of Your Saints
and the juices of Your lovely cunt, blazing with the
fire of the Dragon's breath! Blood and Venom!
Drink deeply from the chalice. You may either drain
it completely, or keep a little in a bottle which may
later be used as an extremely potent love potion.
Sit down and meditate upon the Form of the Ideal
Lover that you have come to know through the lists
and crafting exercises previously in this chapter.
Focus your concentration strongly, letting the Lover
take shape in your mind, every feature and texture
strong and clear. Exercise all five senses in depicting
the Lover, letting your Desire grow to a peak of
intensity.
Say, Lady Babalon, send my Demon Lover to me, to
assist me in the expression of my Desire, the
extension of Your Queendom on Earth! Let Your
Daughter attend me in a Form that will challenge me
and which I may comprehend, and let the Beloved
come to me in flesh, that we may enact Your dance
upon Earth, whether through one flesh or many.
Send your Vision and Desire out into the world,
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letting go of every last drop (you may wish to

masturbate to orgasm at this point, to assist the
process). At the final moment, say, I send forth my
wish as an arrow in the Aires, that it may return to
me as flesh.
14. Close the ritual in your normal manner.
15. So It Is Done!
The Beloved will express Herself (or Himself) to you in flesh
either permanently or fleetingly, through one person or
many manifesting in your life sometime after this Working.
It may be through someone you know or a stranger. The
Daughter of Babalon will also communicate with you, but on
Her own terms.
The Daughter of Babalon

What to make of this Spirit who is called the Daughter of
Babalon? She is a capricious and mischievous presence, who
will challenge you and your values at every turn, testing the
limits of your Desire and your very Being. She will come
through however and whenever She chooses; She is in
command, not you, if you wish Her counsel and aid.
To take a look at Her origins before going into
specifics, the Daughter of Babalon has Her roots in the socalled Enochian system of magic developed by Dr John Dee
and Edward Kelly (though neither of them ever termed it
'Enochian', referring to it as 'Angelic' though I concur with
Anton LaVey that the Angels are very much of the Dark
variety, and can be interpreted as much as angles as angels).
There have been three great champions of the
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Enochian system. The first of these is Dee himself, of course,

who with Kelly his skryer first developed the system. The
second is Aleister Crowley, who presented the operant basics
of the system in the compact and technically brilliant Liber
Chanokh, then opened up its philosophy and cosmology in the
sublimely beautiful The Vision and the Voice. Finally, there
is Gerald Schueler. My own take is much less white light
than Schueler's, as may be imagined, but his Work in crafting
a coherent and workable total system from the raw material is
sheer genius of the first order.
Of these three people, two have encountered and
written of the Daughter of Babalon, these two being Dee and
Crowley.
Crowley wrote of Her in The Vision and the Voice,
describing Her in some ecstatic passages when he recorded
his Vision of ZIP, the Ninth thyr.
And this palace is nothing but the body of a woman, proud
and delicate, and beyond imagination fair. She is like a child
of twelve years old. She has very deep eye-lids, and long
lashes. Her eyes are closed, or nearly closed. It is
impossible to say anything about her. She is naked; her
whole body is covered with fine gold hairs, that are the
electric flames that are the spears of mighty and terrible
Angels whose breastplates are the scales of her skin. And the
hair of her head, that flows down to her feet, is the very light
of God himself. Of all the glories beheld by the seer in the
Aethyrs, there is not one which is worthy to be compared with
her littlest finger-nail. For although he may not partake of
the Aethyr, without the ceremonial preparations, even the
beholding of this Aethyr from afar is like the partaking of all
the former Aethyrs.
The Seer is lost in wonder, which is peace.
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And the ring of the horizon above her is a company

of glorious Archangels with joined hands, that stand and
sing: This is the daughter of BABALON the Beautiful, that
she hath borne unto the Father of All. And unto all hath she
borne her.
This is the Daughter of the King. This is the Virgin
of Eternity. This is she that the Holy One hath wrested from
the Giant Time, and the prize of them that have overcome
Space.
This is she that is set upon the Throne of
Understanding. Holy, Holy, Holy is her name, not to be
spoken among men. For Kor they have called her, and
Malkah, and Betulah, and Persephone.
And the poets have feigned songs about her, and the
prophets have spoken vain things, and the young men have
dreamed vain dreams; but this is she, that immaculate, the
name of whose name may not be spoken. Thought cannot
pierce the glory that defendeth her, for thought is smitten
dead before her presence. Memory is blank, and in the most
ancient books of Magick are neither words to conjure her,
nor adorations to praise her. Will bends like a reed in the
tempests that sweep the borders of her kingdom, and
imagination cannot figure so much as one petal of the lilies
whereon she standeth in the lake of crystal, in the sea of
glass.
This is she that hath bedecked her hair with seven
stars, the seven breaths of God that move and thrill its
excellence. And she hath tiered her hair with seven combs,
whereupon are written the seven secret names of God that
are not known even of the Angels, or of the Archangels, or of
the Leader of the armies of the Lord.
Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, and blessed be Thy name
for ever, unto whom the Aeons are but the pulsings of thy
blood.
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She appeared in a far more subtle Form to Dee and

was there from the very beginning of the Enochian Work,
guiding him and Kelly all the way. Her Name was Madimi
and She appeared at first as a child, teaching the lore of the
magic and the spirit world to the two conjurers.
She spoke often of Her Mother, implying that Her
Mother was a spiritual authority at the very highest level (the
Enochian system being very hierarchical, as were all magical
models at that time). No doubt Dee and Kelly initially
assumed that Madimi was referring to one of the Marys or
some similar Christian woman. Nothing could have been
further from the truth, however.
As time passed, Madimi appeared in an older Form,
now a young woman, and She flaunted Her nakedness lewdly.
She urged Dee and Kelly to abandon their Christian morality,
for the breaking of taboos was the Key to all spiritual
liberation. Madimi's Enochian doctrine is thus wholly LeftHand Path. She taught a creed of rebellion and carnality and
personal reincarnation and immortality, in order to achieve
the ultimate spiritual liberation. She was in every way Her
Mother Babalon's Daughter.
In recent days I too have Worked extensively with
Madimi (I am very partial to the Enochian system). I am
engaged in a philosophical / artistic project under Her
guidance which will take years to complete and may bankrupt
me in the process. To give any less would be insulting.
The Daughter of Babalon is a specific Initiatrix who
may appear to Work with some Initiates at this Fifth Head
stage and beyond. It is not a given, however: She is Herself a
capricious and unpredictable being, who will do as She
pleases. Her manifestation is very much an example of
tangential tantra. She is not an essential part of the core
curriculum of Draconian Magic, though She may be an
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essential part of your own particular Work.

She is mentioned here for the benefit of those who
may encounter Her. No ritual is offered to approach Her, nor
should one ever be used. She comes and goes as She pleases
and is subject to none save Her Mother. You may be at Her
beck and call on occasion, but never vice versa.
Lust, Rage and Obsession

One of the great Mysteries of the Fifth Head, and one of the
unique features of Draconian Magic a feature which is
absent in nearly all other schools of the Left-Hand Path with
the possible exception of LaVeyan Satanism is that once the
Ordeal of the Abyss is passed (the Opening of the Eye in the
Void in our terminology), the Initiate becomes more
passionate and tempestuous, not less.
I am aware that this will be a contentious view. I
have heard Initiates who I respect very highly expressing the
opinion that the Magister is a figure of calmness and quiet
certainty. A Priestess of my acquaintance postponed her
appointment as a Magistra because she felt she did not yet
possess the requisite qualities of unflappability. I think the
conception is that an Initiate of this advanced stage should be
utterly unshakable, a rock in the midst of the storm, still and
immovable whilst all else is blown hither and thither.
And actually, crucially, that is precisely where the
misconception arises. The focal Essence of the Magister is
indeed the still eye of the storm, around which all howls and
rages. But the crucial truth that so many fail to grasp is that
he himself is the storm. He is the maelstrom that rages, he is
the thunder and the lightning, he is the storm, as Set is the
Storm.
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The Magister is not blown about by the tempests of

others, but he invokes many storms himself and revels and
laughs wildly in the changes and the turmoil he has called
into being. The Magister is certain in his own Being, but this
makes him a creature of passion, not of passivity. All
Initiates of the Fifth Head are driven by Desire, as illustrated
by the symbol of the Raging Lion.
We need to explore the psychology of this and the
reasons behind it. The root problem is that most people
even the most ardent Satanist find it hard to shake off the
indoctrination they have received in their early years. Take a
look now at the wholly unrealistic expectations we have of
politicians and celebrities. The same newspapers that delight
in others' misfortune, that lie and spy and steal, that display
naked women on page three, then point accusing fingers at the
actor or footballer or politician who is seen exiting a brothel.
Why? Because they expect such people to behave 'better',
because the indulgence of the flesh is seen as somehow
wrong, 'sinful', in spite of their own hypocrisy. And what
does the individual who has been caught out do? He either
denies it flatly if he thinks there is any chance of covering it
over and getting away with it, or else he wrings his hands and
apologises pathetically, pleading the public for forgiveness
for his disgraceful behaviour.
Just once, I would like to see someone strong enough
to answer the question, Did you have drunken sex with that
person? with the statement, Damn right I did, and they were
one hell of a ride! Cue cheesy grin and big thumbs up to the
camera. Isn't a passionate, virile person infinitely preferable
to a cringing, apologetic mess crawling before contemptible,
media-driven public opinion?
It must seem a bit of a shift in emphasis, I guess, since
the first three Heads' Work revolves precisely around bringing
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the magician's thoughts, habits and emotions strictly under

conscious control. But those were the responses and triggers
and 'hot buttons' that have been programmed into us and
which are cluttering our psychic landscapes with other
people's detritus. By the time an Initiate has mastered the
Third Head, before the Eye in the Void has been Opened,
these preconditioned responses which were never ours in the
first place should already be conquered.
What happens now, as the Fifth Head arises, is that
the magician begins to concentrate upon his own passions and
obsessions, as revealed by his meditations upon the Other.
You cannot properly seek after your Demon Lover unless you
are going to get enthused, aroused and lovestruck in the
bargain. The huge distinction which separates this from all
that went before is that it is you who are doing it yourself, by
your own Will. Your earlier passions in your pre-Initiate days
were a mixture of fragments which came bubbling up from
subconscious levels, muddled up with the things you had been
told you ought to obsess about by societal pressures,
advertising, etc. Your long meditations over your lists,
together with your creative endeavours, have sifted these,
separating the wheat from the chaff and getting to the
symbolic root of your Desire.
Now that you have obtained a clear Vision of that
Desire, you will want to chase after it with every power and
all the enthusiasm you have at your disposal. Nothing less
will do. This will be your consuming Quest, above and
beyond all else.
This Desire is not only a sexual / romantic / erotic
thing, of course. There will be an entire aesthetic bound up
with it, a set of internal guidelines, informed by your whole
Self, which will dictate the right thing for you to do in any
circumstance. This is the Work of the Magister: to pursue
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his Vision and reshape the world to better reflect it. If your
Vision is True, then no matter how selfish it may seem it can
only lead to the betterment of society as a whole. Only one
who has done the Work and has Opened the Eye can
accomplish this without creating another fucking twisted
religion in the process. (Even then, things sometimes spin
that way when 'reinterpreted' by others just look what some
are already doing to Crowley and LaVey but we cannot be
held responsible for the sheer dumb stupidity of others.)
I have used the word 'obsession' a couple of times in
this section quite deliberately. Because true obsession is what
you must cultivate in pursuing your Vision. No half-hearted
measures will do. Track down every scent of your Beloved,
chase her to the far corners of the world, seek her out in
strange times and places, follow your gut feelings and
hunches, do strange and bizarre things just to see if she
notices. At this initiatory stage, you will be required to put
yourself out and launch yourself on an unforeseen course very
many times. You will have no success without doing so.
This is something that many magicians of otherwise
lofty Initiation that I have met flounder with. They are so
used to being urged to control their passions, that now when
the position is reversed after passing through the Void, they
find it impossible to let go with their honed passions their
real passions informed by their own innermost Essence and
the Other who inspires them.
In so many ways, you must rediscover the enthusiasm
little children have at their play: you must throw yourself into
things, holding nothing in reserve. This does not come easily
to adults, but it is not an option, it is a requirement. And if
some morons dismiss you as a childish Fool, as a Divine
madman, you will know that they are untouched by your
Vision and will be lost in the desert ruins that are left behind
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when your Vision

Remanifestations.
rolls
the
world
on
into
new
Lycanthropy
I have written a little about the Path of the Werewolf in
gishjlmur and Dragonscales, the Hunger that is an aspect
of the Wolf Fenrir, a Hunger unshackled and insatiable.
There is a danger in following this Path for an
extended time, for the ravening werewolf ultimately
inevitably attracts the mob of peasants armed with burning
torches. But sometimes it can be just what is needed, and
there is nothing 'wrong' with it per se. As in all things, we
simply need to recognise that we must take full responsibility
for everything we do. The Beast is after all the consort of the
Harlot, and may bring us closer to Babalon.
The Path of the Werewolf most often occurs when the
Initiate's personal goals have been thwarted or interfered with
once too often. It seems that the Gods Themselves are
working against him, tripping his plans at every turn. In
reality, of course, this is the insidious corpse of his old
preconditioning, his low self-esteem and belief that he is
undeserving, sneaking back in from the Outside even after he
has banished it. For the Law of Draconian Magic is that
everything may Remanifest, and we must remain vigilant for
the devious, creeping return of once-defeated enemies. In
such a case, they clothe themselves as Gods who deny us,
obscuring the true Deities of the Path behind their wheedling
piety. In a sense, they are Gods, but the Gods of control,
conformity and coercion who once governed out uninitiate
selves, masquerading as our own spiritual guides.
The magician may here do one of two things:
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He may realise what has happened and vigorously

banish the imposters, raining curses down upon their debased
heads. He then refreshes his Vision and continues with his
course of action, pursuing his Desire.
Or he may have had enough and rail against the Gods.
In such a case, he assumes the form of Their enemy, Fenrir,
becoming a werewolf who ravens and feasts, thinking only of
his own urges and satisfaction. This period of savage
overcompensation and overindulgence will usually prove
cathartic in time. He will break through the barriers in
perception once his appetites are thoroughly slaked to satiety,
recognising the Gods who were denying him as false
projections of his prior insecuritities. Once their idols have
been cast down, he can resume his proper course under the
proper guidance of the Gods of the Left-Hand Path. In the
meantime, assuming the peasants haven't been too greatly
roused and put him to the stake, he will have enjoyed a whale
of time in indulging his cathartic blow-out.
Apart from this example of werewolfery as an
essential initiatory response to a negative stimulus, the Beast
may be usefully invoked and made manifest at Will. There
are times, once the Dragon has been integrated and has made
its powers available, that handing the reins of the Self over to
the instinctual nature can be beneficial until a troublesome
situation has been dealt with.
The reader is referred to the previous chapter and the
ritual formula to transform into a werewolf, which
commences on page 68. This Working will provide the
insight to respond instantly and effectively in dangerous
situations, giving greater skills of survival and fighting spirit
than your conscious self can deal with (unless, of course, you
are already a skilled martial artist). It should be noticed that
this kind of Working does not create a skill that is not already
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there, it simply maximises your natural aggression and

instincts and renders them immediately available. Anybody
who deliberately endangers themselves in order to 'test it out'
is an idiot who deserves a good beating. Why? Because that
sort of stupidity is the sort of thing your instincts would fight
against from the very outset.
Charisma and Command

Any Initiate who raises the Fifth Head into consciousness will
find that their charisma is maximised. Even people who are
normally shy and retiring will be able to guide and command
others when their consciousness is inflamed and their Vision
is burning bright. When the current of Will flows so strongly,
others especially those who have no developed Wills of
their own cannot help but be carried along.
As with everything, there is a knack to this. There are
a huge number of techniques that can be employed. If you are
speaking to an individual, you must hold their gaze, speak in a
carefully measured manner, mirroring their own speech
rhythms. If you are talking to a group, you must sound
reasonable whilst speaking emotional; again, the rhythm of
your words is important. In all cases, it is the flow of emotion
that is important rather than rationalisation. The choice of
words is also significant, as some words are musical in their
effect, conveying emotion and sincerity effortlessly.
It is, regrettably, far too large a subject to be covered
in this present volume. These techniques of persuasion and
manipulation are usually referred to as 'Lesser Magic',
although their use is anything but lesser. Once learned, these
principles will be your main weapons in the war against the
forces of non-consciousness, bewildering and wrong-footing
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those who would stand in your way, invigorating and

enthusing your allies, and generally getting things done. I
have turned several difficult situations around with the use of
my voice alone, turning enemies into unwitting allies, doing
exactly what I want them to do.
For the time being, I can only stress that the most
important ingredient is the outflowing of your Vision,
allowing it to shape your words, extending beyond you to
truly change those who listen to you.
To learn the basic techniques, you might wish to read
The Satanic Witch by Anton LaVey, where the Magus sets
down his years of experience in entertaining and direct words.
I will be writing a volume myself concerning the techniques
of Lesser Magic in the very near future also, so watch out for
that. In the meantime, any works on effective propaganda,
merchandising or persuasion / manipulation may be
consulted.
However the case may be, you will discover that
many of these secrets begin to become second nature to you at
this stage, whether you have chosen to deliberately hone them
or not. Your wisdom as Master of the Fifth Head will out.
Your Vision wants to be expressed, and will not allow itself
to be held back. It will flow through you, shaping the world
around you. But you owe it to yourself to develop your skills
and your reach as far as possible.
So much for command, which is a Lesser Magical
skill which can be learned and trained. Charisma is a
different kettle of fish. It is not a skill in itself per se, so
much as it is an effect. Charisma arises from the combination
of Being and Doing. This is why most people are so
uncharismatic: they have no idea of who they really are or
what they really want to be doing with themselves. They
have no Vision, no real sense of Self. In the terms of the Fifth
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Head, they have no Desire.

Have a think about some of the truly charismatic
people you know. They are all driven. They all know what
they want, and what they need to do to get it. They are
brimming with self-confidence. If they meet resistance, they
can overcome it seemingly effortlessly, turning a situation
around with but a few passionate words. Their mere presence
makes the impossible come to pass.
You might say that you don't have the level of selfbelief, certainty and single-minded determination that these
people seem to have. Well, by this stage in the curriculum
you bloody well should have! If you can't make your magical
Vision truly flow through you in waves of transformative
energy, sweeping all around you up in its wake, then you need
to go back and put some serious Work into refreshing the
basics. This level of Self-actualisation and passion is what
the Fifth Head is all about. You are expected to be able to
create real currents of change in the world, rearranging it
around you.
Don't get me wrong. All of us, no matter how far we
have come, have our own insecurities. We all have doubts
and fears and uncertainties. This is part of the process of
being a consciousness which actively seeks to experience a
transformative, dynamic Universe in which to manifest and
Remanifest. It means that change will always be happening
around the edges, new tangential tantra will always be
impinging upon reality. We cannot be control freaks.
But the one thing you should be absolutely certain of
is the focus of your own Self. By now the various parts of
your psyche should be unified and integrated, all bridges built
and handshakes accomplished, Working towards the same
goals. You should have become the constant around which
all else revolves, the axle of the wheel of creation. You
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should have learned to expect and celebrate the new, unusual

and surprising, provoking excitement and anticipation instead
of nervous uncertainty. If you have difficulty with these
things, go back and do some serious Work on yourself.
Similarly, you should by know have a clear Vision, a
clear Idea of how you want the world to be, and you should be
using your ingenuity to reshape the Universe in your own
image. That, after all, is what Gods are supposed to do.
It's all a question of feeling your magic and letting it
flow through you as an ecstatic stream. This process should
be basically automatic by now, requiring little in the way of
conscious steering. Just open yourself up and let out
everything that's inside you. Don't hide it away, just express
yourself freely and ecstatically.
That, my friends, is
charisma.
Bringing Passion into Your World

You need to be constantly on the lookout for ways to bring
passion and beauty into your world. This isn't just for reasons
of personal pleasure and enjoyment (important though these
things are: you need to really get your head around the fact
that the Left-Hand Path is a route to pleasure, not pain). It is
because these are the influences and the stimuli which will
open up new avenues of Becoming for you, signalling the
next steps in your personal evolution. Now that you have
done the hard Work of honing your Desire and invoking the
influence of the Other, your passions and your sense of
beauty will become the primary means of bringing change
into your world.
This requires that you be alert at all times, and have
the self-confidence to follow up on the things which open
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new paths before you. This does not mean that you become
some kind of sexual predator, preying upon anyone who takes
your fancy. That is the view of the non-Initiate who has not
yet truly learned to appreciate Beauty and the vistas that
Desire can unlock. It means adoration and appreciation,
delicacy and epicureanism. It doesn't mean that you will trick
that pretty waitress into the sack; it means you will give her a
generous tip in recognition of the Beauty she has brought into
your world. In exchange, she may say something that inspires
you, or some insight may strike you in an entirely unrelated
way later in the day in recognition of your sacrificial offering.
These are words that are difficult to understand if you
lack the proper insight. It requires the insight that comes to
one who has truly Opened the Eye in the Void and who
Understands that having done so, everything that then
transpires is as Crowley put it when describing the degree
of Magister Templi a direct communication between his
own soul and the Gods.
The following little ritual is intended to be used as
necessary whenever you feel you need to be reminded of your
passions and how they can speak to you, whenever you feel
your charisma could do with a little boost, whenever you want
to be reminded of what it really means to feel your magical
Vision opening up the potentials of the Void and flowing
them through you and out into the world, transforming
everything they touch, to the great delight of all.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Open the Working in your usual manner.

Remain within the Void, your inner Eye wide open.
Feel its energies, its myriad possibilities, often
mutually contradictory and laughter-filled, flowing
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5.
6.
7.
8.
through you. Realise that you are the still point that
balances them all, that decides what is Real and what
is a dream, and how there is ultimately no difference
except that which you momentarily choose there to be
for your delight.
Say: I rediscover my Sense of Self. I am the point
in the centre of the Circle. I am Hadit to Nuit, and
our Desire and love play creates the Universe. I am
the lens through which all experiences must be
viewed. I am the consciousness who Knows that
which is Not by witnessing that which Is, and who
perceives no difference save laughter between the
two. I am the one who unites and divides, all
according to my pleasure. I have no substance, for I
am infinitely small, yet everything that exists is
focused through me, and without me it is Not.
Ponder the infinite possibilities within the Void.
Imagine the five most fantastic and impossible and
incredible things that you possibly can. Write them
down or draw them, still ecstatic with Void
consciousness.
Say, I rediscover my Sense of Wonder. The world is
a marvel. All worlds are marvels. There is infinite
complexity and fascination and grandeur in all of the
patterns of the manifest Universe. There is wonder
and delight and enthusiasm in those patterns which
have not yet Come Into Being, yet who still exist and
unfold in my mind, awaiting their turn. All is
Wonder.
Consider that everything whatsoever is wonderful and
beautiful and spectacular. Even the things which
seem inimical to mankind, or cruel, or arbitrary, are
born out of the Beauty that is Life itself.
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9. Say, I rediscover my Sense of Beauty. All that

flowers and grows and unfolds and expands into
manifestation is beautiful and glorious and amazing.
The very existence of these things at all is amazing.
More beautiful still are the uncounted things which
still are concealed, which have not yet painted
themselves in the beauteous colours of incarnation,
yet who dance before me in the spaces of my own
mind. All is Beauty.
10. Return to yourself, filled with Self-awareness,
Wonder and Beauty.
12. Close the ritual in your usual manner.
13. So It Is Done!
Invoking the Striding God

If we look at the structure of the Enochian system, especially
as Aleister Crowley envisioned its spiritual 'levels' as the
Thirty thyrs of The Vision and the Voice, we find that the
Great Outer Abyss what we have been referring to as the
Void lies in the Tenth thyr, ZAX. Following this, the
Initiate who has crossed the Abyss / Opened the Eye in the
Void encounters Desire in the Form of the Daughter of
Babalon in the Ninth thyr, ZIP. Then in the Eighth thyr,
ZID, comes the experience of the Knowledge and
Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.
This Work relating to the Holy Guardian Angel was
absolutely central to Crowley's philosophy. As far as he was
concerned, any other operation of magic was an aberration
that could only detract from this one true purpose.
I wouldn't go as far as that. I would argue that every
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operation of magic is an expression of Will, which is

ultimately just another facet of this climactic experience of
communion with the Dmon. If you are truly Working your
Will in the world and pursuing your Desire, then everything
you do no matter how apparently disconnected is in effect
an invocation of the Dmon. Of course, the time will
inevitably come like now when your sense of personal
Destiny, built up by your past actions and experiences and
catalysed by your new Self-knowledge and Desire, positively
demands that a more specific and formal line of
communication is opened up to the God that you are in the
process of Becoming.
Crowley became obsessed with the Holy Guardian
Angel after reading and putting into practice a grimoire of
most unusual structure which had been translated by his oncementor Samuel Liddell Macgregor Mathers, who headed the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. This grimoire guided
the magician on a six month retreat of progressively more
intense invocations culminating in the experience of
communication with his Holy Guardian Angel. Following
this, he would be able to summon and command the demons
of Hell, which he could compel to execute various magical
effects and wonders by means of magical squares of letters
arranged in meaningful ways.
Crowley stripped the operation of much of its JudeoChristian symbolism and substituted an eleven month practice
based upon an ancient Egyptian formula, which he later
recorded in his Liber Samekh as an instructional paper for one
of his students. This paper is included in the major
collections of his writings, such as Magick and Gems From
the Equinox. It is a masterpiece of ritual composition, a true
Work of genius.
Crowley believed that his own Holy Guardian Angel
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was a spirit named Aiwass who had dictated the central Work
of his philosophy, Liber AL: The Book of the Law to him in
1904.
We need to take some time to consider just what this
entity might be before we press any further, however. The
original Abra-Melin volume claims it to be a literal angel of
the Jewish God. Crowley's opinion shifts and changes back
and forth throughout his life. At times, he claims that the
being is totally distinct from his own self, at other times it is a
being analogous to what is often termed 'the Higher Self'.
Perhaps the most useful way of looking at it is to
consider its form in Northern European lore, where it is called
the fylgja. The fylgja, or fetch, is believed to be a tutelary
spirit which attaches itself to the soul of the individual at birth
and then follows him throughout his life, guiding him along
the correct path to meet his destiny and obligations. The
unique thing about the fetch is that it is envisioned as being
both part of the individual's soul complex, and yet also
independent from and pre-existing it. The fetch is an entity
which is passed down the generations and moves from one
generation to the next, but which has an intimate connection
with the individual through whom it is currently manifest.
So how are we to think of the Dmon? Your views
upon it are bound to shift and flow over the years. Crowley's
certainly did and mine certainly do. It is a complex being, not
to be insulted by being summed up in a twee three word
statement.
A few things are certain or worth speculating about,
however:
The Dmon certainly expresses the Essence of that

which many traditions name the Higher Self. It
seems to be greater than that simple phrase implies,
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but certainly incorporates it.

The Dmon has an intimate Understanding of the
Destiny of the individual. This seems to extend
beyond the patterns and currents of manifestation that
have been set in motion during this current life alone.
There is some reason to presume that the Dmon has
been associated with the Initiate's Work if not the
Initiate himself in previous lifetimes.
The Dmon in certain respects and operations seems
to be a projection back from the future. It possesses
some foresight of how events may unfold and can
best be tweaked for maximum efficiency. At least in
part it seems to be a reflection of the very best
qualities the Initiate is currently capable of
envisioning but cannot yet personally reach. No
matter how far the Initiate may advance, the Dmon
always remains a like distance ahead. (There are
elements of the Sixth Head in this conception of the
Dmon).
The Dmon always acts as if it was a wholly
independent entity. It assists and advises the Initiate
on Its own terms and cannot be commanded or
coerced.
My current best postulation as to its nature is that the
Dmon may be thought to Come Into Being as an
entity which is projected into Reality at that point
where the Initiate's Will meets his best Understanding
of true Divinity and where the energies of the Void
are able to coalesce, drawing these things into a
coherent manifestation. (In these three facets of
Initiate / Divinity / Void we have the triangle of
manifestation expressed again, resulting in the
Dmon.) As such, the Dmon will shift and change
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as the nexus point moves and finds new expression as

a result of the initiatory process and the magician's
developing Understanding. But in all cases it will
manifest as its own Essence and be uniquely placed to
advise and counsel the magician.
It is significant to consider that if this latter postulate
is correct, this magical operation will put you in touch with a
God whose Essence will evolve and develop even as you do.
This is a profoundly useful thing, but emphasises the caution
that nothing Nothing is set in stone.
Some may question whether it is possible to continue
without taking the conscious step of trying to contact and
communicate with the Dmon. Well yes, of course it is
possible. Is it advisable? Perhaps. It depends upon your own
personality and how you view this sort of Work, and where
you think your Desire leads you. All the invocation of the
Dmon does is bring into conscious awareness a guidance
that is present in your subconscious prompting and hunches in
any case. In some ways, it comes down to an aesthetic choice
about the way in which you like to practice your magic and
pursue your Work. Do you want to converse ritualistically
with an apparently objective spirit? Or do you prefer to sink
deep within yourself and listen to the inner promptings which
are no less the whisperings of your Dmon? There is no right
or wrong way. As long as you are correctly keyed into your
Initiation at this stage, the outcome is the same.
My own practice which I am certainly not insisting
that everyone should follow, you should seek the balance that
works best for you and which brings tangible, measurable
results is as follows. I think it is important that the Initiate
should establish a formal rapport with the Dmon.
Therefore, I would advise that a ritual of invocation such as
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that which follows should be used by most readers of this

book until the sense of such a connection is established.
Also, I will always formally invoke the Dmon as one of the
Draconian Gods at the commencement of any ritual Working.
However, apart form those precise ritual conditions, my
communion occurs on an inner, meditative level, 'feeling' my
way through the insights and impulses that arise within the
deep places of my mind. This should not be a difficult thing
to do for anyone who has come as far as even the Third Head,
let alone the Fifth.
So that all said, let's get down to the practical side of
things and devise a ritual suitable for establishing the
Knowledge and Conversation of the Dmon:
1. This Working should be performed outdoors in a
suitably sacred or evocative site, as an overnight vigil.
Therefore, choose a place where you will not be
disturbed, bring warm clothing and a flask.
2. Open the ritual in your usual manner.
3. Invoke the Draconian Deities (including a call to your
Dmon to manifest and reveal Itself to you).
5. Say, I invoke and request the presence of my
Dmon, the fetch who was watched over me and
guided my footsteps since my birth; who knows my
Destiny and the things of which I am capable better
than I do myself; who has seen the pattern of my
future, and would guide my path to maximise my
results; who stands at the point where the Man ends
and the God begins; whose hand has been upon me
throughout the ages of time, steering me before this
life even began. Holy Dmon, Self who is ahead of
myself, supreme Initiator, most unique and personal
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6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
Divinity! Come to me this night, open your Mysteries

to me as I stand here in the Darkness, awash in the
potential of the Void. Ride upon the Dragon's breath
and raise me up to where You are!
Pass the night fervently thinking over every moment
when you have felt some invisible hand upon your
shoulders, when you have experienced the sense of
Destiny. Fervently aspire toward the consciousness
of the forces that have made you the person you are.
Whenever the concentration and focus become too
much, sit quietly and empty your mind, allowing
space for the Dmon to manifest, to slip through and
reveal Itself to you.
Continue cycling the prior two steps, working
yourself into a frenzy of aspiration, until the Dmon
appears to you in a blaze of ecstasy. Commune with
it and accept its guidance in whatever way seems
most right to you.
At sunrise, close the Eye in the Void.
Close the ritual in your usual way.
So It Is Done!
If you were not successful in establishing a strong
sense of the Dmon's presence, reschedule and repeat
until you succeed. This should be an easy and natural
thing for an Initiate of the Fifth Head to do.
If you were successful, integrate the Dmon's advice
and guidance into your ongoing Work.
The next steps in your Work should be suggested to you by

the results of this Working itself, and carry forward from this
time.
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The Army of Darkness

The Abra-Melin Working did not finish with the Knowledge
and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Over the next
three days, the Initiate who had managed to touch the Divine
and commune with his Dmon would evoke all the demons of
Hell, beginning with the Four Princes of the Evil of the
World, namely Lucifer, Satan, Leviathan and Belial. He
would then go on to conjure many hundreds of servitor
spirits, binding them all to Work his Will and perform
miraculous effects whenever he used one of the several
hundred magical square talismans which made up the third
part of the grimoire.
There is a wonderful, immaculate balance to this, one
which marks that grimoire tainted by the medieval pious
worldview though it may be as the creation of a genuine
Initiate. You cannot reach up and touch the Divine in any
meaningful way, unless you remind yourself that your Work
is here on earth. Divinity means spit all unless it can be
brought down and made manifest. No matter how lofty your
ideals and your philosophy, if you have no magical power to
wield, you are a braying ass. This goes against the creeds of
almost every religion and nearly all magical schools, but I'm
going to stand up and say it anyway. The magician who
cannot make his life better through magic is a wanker I don't
mean that figuratively, but quite literally, he's practising a
species of magical masturbation that might make him feel
warm and fuzzy inside but produces no offspring and no real
passion or relation to the World. I have encountered many
self-proclaimed Masters who consider themselves too
important and aloof to practise sorcery. These are invariably
people who turned tail and fled when the Void gaped open
before them, and have been soothing their egos with
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Otherworldly fuzziness ever since, avoiding anything that

might challenge their supposed lofty spiritual ideals. There is
a ridiculous notion of turning one's back upon magical powers
and considering them somehow 'beneath' the Initiate. Well let
me tell you something: if you have left enough room for
anything to be 'beneath' you, you haven't reached down far
enough. If you exclude any part of your Self from your
Initiation, you are doomed to collapse, without a foundation.
I have no time for any professed Adept who is afraid to get
his hands dirty.
The Void is a Chaos of magical potential, a field of
buzzing energy of every conceivable polarity. In order to call
yourself a magician, you must be able to draw this energy
through and shape it, manifesting something that can be seen,
heard, felt, tasted and smelt. It must be made Real, you must
be able to point your finger and say, I did that! Yesterday I
was alone, today I have love! Yesterday I was broke, today I
have money! And because these things are Real, you know
that the methods and the ideas you used to make them Real
are Real too, and not pipe dreams.
How you choose to reach down into the darkly
splendid depths of the Abyss is up to you. I shall present a
suitable Draconian ritual outline at the close of this section,
but it's a good idea to discuss the subject thoroughly first.
If we look first at the 'powers of Hell' as they are
described in the Abra-Melin grimoire, we find a simplified
version of the kind of hierarchy of spirits that the old
grimoires were so fond of. The four top guys in this model
are Lucifer, Satan, Leviathan and Belial. These are the four
Princes of Hell who the Initiate has to make his Pact with
after first drawing down the Divine energy of his Holy
Guardian Angel, which places him on a footing where he can
deal with them. As befits the grimoire, these are names from
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Jewish mythology, which came down through the Qabalistic

mystical and grimoire traditions to become familiar in the
Christian Middle Ages. They are certainly names to conjure
with in our contemporary society if you can work with the
aesthetic and not get tangled up in its inconsistencies and
general awkwardness.
Of significant importance to the Left-Hand Path
practitioner, these same four names were those which were
carried over into the formulation of the Church of Satan's
Infernal Hierarchy. The hierarchy was never intended to be
taken literally, it provided the magician with names upon
which he could call which had a real history and an
immediate emotional response, a thrill which arose from the
knowledge that these names invoked the most potent mythic
powers of Hell. That powerful emotional response to magical
Work is one of the foremost legacies of Anton LaVey's Work.
He understood that without engaging the proper emotions, no
effective magic could be worked.
The Satanic Bible was divided into four sections, each
named after one of these Princes of Hell: Satan presented the
'Infernal Diatribe', a passionate declaration of the basic stance
of Satanism; the Book of Lucifer discussed Satanic ideas and
philosophy in detail, laying bare the nature of Man; the Book
of Belial was a direct and powerful schooling in the
techniques of practical Satanic magic; Leviathan closed the
book with sample rituals and the texts of the Enochian Keys
as amended by Dr LaVey. There are those who now turn
their noses up at this book who should know better, but call it
how you will, it remains the best book ever written to tell you
how to work real magic and get results. It may not teach a
huge deal about Initiation, but if your sorcerous skills aren't
up to this standard, you've no right calling yourself an Initiate
anyway.
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Those Initiates who find the Satanic names to be

aesthetically evocative and delicious (as they certainly are)
may wish to use them as they stand. In such a case, the four
Infernal Princes should be called upon as friends and brothers
in the Work, as LaVey instructed, rather than in the more
pious manner of the original Abra-Melin grimoire. Our
worldview has advanced a long way since 'Abraham the Jew'
penned his instructional book, and such spirits should not be
'commanded' using the names of the Hebrew God by any Lord
of the Left-Hand Path today. They should be approached as
allies.
In Aleister Crowley's celebrated ritual outline for the
Abra-Melin Operation, his Liber Samekh, there is no mention
of the demonic conjurations. The ritual as given is solely for
the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of the
Holy Guardian Angel. This has led some foolish souls to
speculate that Crowley was dismissive of the second phase of
the Operation. This nave assumption is given the lie by his
own stated philosophy, which declares that his Adepts must
stand with their heads higher than the Heavens and their feet
lower than the Hells. In other words, they must manifest the
Demonic as well as the Divine. The final proof is given by
Crowley's disciple Kenneth Grant, who recalls in his book
Remembering Aleister Crowley that among Crowley's most
treasured possessions were his collection of Abra-Melin
magical squares, which he had copied out in his own hand,
but using the Enochian characters in place of English
lettering. These he would allow none save himself to touch.
Not every reader of this present book may wish to use
the Four Princes as They are presented here in their Work,
however. The Satanic paradigm, with its echoes of JudeoChristianity, does not suit all, and a purer, more specifically
Draconian approach to this phase of the Operation may be
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desired instead. With this in mind, I present a sample

Draconian ritual intended to activate the magical seals of the
Abra-Melin Working, and more importantly to balance and
fulfil the Divine Essence that the Initiate has touched in the
invocation of his Dmon.
1.
2.
3.
4.

Summon the Dragon by chanting the Merlinic Charm
of Making, repeating it over and over until you feel
the Draconian presence throbbing and pulsing in the
air around you, vibrating in the ground and pounding
in your veins: Anl nathrach, orth bhiss bethad,
do chl dnmha1
5. When the Dragon is present and strong, say, I am
one who has reached from the deepest stirrings of my
instincts, the life force itself, pre-conscious and
unformed, and has extended my arms to touch the
spark of Divinity itself.
In the flash of my
illumination, I cast my mind forward in time, beyond
the bounds and laws of the Universe, and perceived
the glory that I may yet Become. My Dmonic Self
has spoken to me, offering me wisdom and insight
that would otherwise be beyond my reach or
understanding, promising to guide my steps that I
may Come Into Being as a Striding God. If your
Dmon has communicated a Name to you, add,
Hail, N_______!
6. Wait until you can strongly feel the presence of your
Dmon within and around you. Then say the
1 See 'The Charm of Making' in Dragonscales
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following (adapting or extending as your Dmon may

suggest: I speak with the Voice of my Gods. The
Hand of Set is upon me, and I see through His Eye.
The lips and loins of Babalon inflame me with
Desire, rousing my Will into a fury. The Venom of
Apep fills my veins and spills from my mouth,
reshaping the manifest world around me. I speak
with the Voice of my own Dmon ascendant! (add
Name if known) The patterns of emergent Reality
are the shifting scales of the Serpent as It writhes
within the Void. All and Nothing are bound and
loosed as the Ancient Dragon coils and uncoils. The
Blood of the Dragon enlivens the Universe; the
Venom of the Dragon dissolves all into its parts.
Blood and Venom surge within me, streams of Dark
Magic that flow as I speak and act, pouring forth
upon the world wherever my attention is turned. I am
in my own Self a window upon the Void, a wearer of
the Helm of Awe, whose eyes are the mesmeric power
of Apep, creating and dispelling illusion as I laugh
and rave and seethe through Reality. I am a Master
in my own Being, the Black Flame burns strong
within me, reshaping All upon its forge.
7. Take time to meditate upon the meaning of these
realisations, then affirm, I am the Master of Black
Magic, by force of Will alone. I shall perceive the
patterns which underpin reality. I shall predict their
Becoming, and shall steer and shift them as I Will. I
shall find the symbols and the matrices to change
these patterns in a heartbeat, in the transition from
one timeless moment to the next. I am the Master of
Remanifestation!
8. Spend time reflecting upon all that you have said and
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Understood. Then Close the Eye in the Void.

9. Close the Working in your usual manner.
10. So It Is Done!
Unleash the Hounds of Hell

Now that you have communed with both the God and the
Dragon within you at the very deepest level you are currently
capable of (gishjlmur Adepts may practise the eihwaz
posture to further intensify this state), it is time to lay claim to
the magical powers which befit the Black Magus and which
form the basis of the third part of the Abra-Melin grimoire.
There are several ways in which you could go about
this. For Initiates who have come to this stage through the
runic curriculum of gishjlmur, the best way is to focus
upon the creation of Helms of Awe for magical purposes, as
detailed in that volume. The important thing is that sorcery
must be sustained at this level of Initiation, but there seems to
be a tremendous temptation for those who get here to grow
idle and to lay their sorcerous tools aside. I have met too
many Initiates people who were formerly great, the best of
their kind grown fat and lazy, sick and slovenly, their
magical empires crumbling around them as they retreat into
some mystical pipe dream. It is now more important than
ever to keep up your pressure on the world. Do not let your
magical 'muscles' grow flabby! Accept no setbacks, endure
no defeats. It's the will of the Gods has no place in LeftHand Path philosophy. If the Gods won't play ball, hand
Them Their arses. If Fate deals you a bum hand, break Fate's
cheating fingers. You will be tested with excuses and
laziness on all sides when you reach this point, and I have
seen far, far too many good people succumb.
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Those who do not follow the runic path may like to

use the Abra-Melin magical squares 'as is', thinking to tap into
their magical heritage. This is fine, if it suits your sense of
aesthetics and is magically potent for you. You can combine
this with conjurations of one or more of the demonic servitors
listed in the grimoire to add spice and power to your
Workings.
What I am going to suggest is the use of magical
squares which are custom made, then specially charged with a
specifically Draconian power. This carries forward the
principles of the grimoire tradition, but brings it comfortably
into our field, without need for philosophical wrangling to
make it 'fit'.
A simple method of producing magic squares of
letters for generation of sigils is given in Apophis and there is
no reason why the magician cannot use this technique in the
current context. We can even take a leaf out of Crowley's
book. As he wrote his squares out using the Enochian script,
we can substitute the English letters with runes, or with the
Draconian characters recorded in the chapter of Dragonscales
entitled 'A Draconian Alphabet'.
The basic technique of creating these squares is to
arrange the letters to spell out the basic thrust of the magic,
then to trace an angular sigil from the pattern of letters which
spells out the specific instruction.
Some examples will help make things clearer. To
keep with the general theme of things, I will produce fresh
squares and sigils for three of the purposes listed in the AbraMelin grimoire.
The eighteenth chapter of the third part of The Book
of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage is devoted to an
assortment of magic squares which are intended to heal a
wide variety of diseases. Healing is a common use for magic,
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so let's create a base magic square for the purpose of healing

to begin with. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet and
we need to reduce these to 25 in order to make a square grid
of 5 X 5 letters possible. For this reason, the letters I and Y
are considered to be identical. (As indeed, they were at one
time: the Draconian and Enochian alphabets take this further,
reducing the number of letters to 21.)
We now rearrange the order of the letters, placing the
letters that spell out the word 'HEALING' to the front of the
alphabet, followed by the remaining letters in their usual
alphabetical order. When we fill this arrangement of letters
into the 5 X 5 grid, we create the following square:
This in itself is a powerful combination of forces

which expresses to the subconscious mind perceiving it a
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magical Desire to heal. We can render it more puissant,

however, by rendering it in a magical script (in this case the
Draconian characters) which is less recognisable to the
conscious mind, but powerfully evocative to the
subconscious:
Now we want to trace a sigil over the square we have

created, to specify the particular type of healing that is
Desired. The twelfth square in the eighteenth chapter of
Abra-Melin is to heal wounds, so let's replicate this magical
effect by tracing the pattern of the letters making up the word
'WOUNDS' upon the square, beginning at 'W' (this end of the
sigil marked with a small circle) and tracing through to the
final letter 'S' (this end of the sigil being marked with a
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terminating bar). This provides us with the following figure:
The Initiate can now conjure forth the healing

energies (spirits) in the pattern of the square and trace the
sigil to shape them into a focused current intended to heal
wounds. A ritual outline to do this will be provided after
another couple of examples.
Another common use of magic is to influence the
weather. The eighth chapter of the Abra-Melin grimoire
concerns itself with the raising of tempests of various kinds.
(This is a particularly special skill for the Setian Initiate, since
Set is the Lord of Storms.) So let's arrange the letters of the
square to express our Desire for 'TEMPESTS'. In such a case,
where some letters are duplicated in the key word of a square,
the duplications are omitted. Thus 'TEMPESTS' becomes
'TEMPS'. This renders the following square:
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Transliterating this into the Draconian characters

gives us this:
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Now we need to decide upon the nature of the

tempest we wish to conjure.
Nothing beats a good
thunderstorm, so we can now trace a sigil for the word
'THUNDER' upon the square, which gives us the following
symbol:
The little loop in the lower left centre position

indicates the position of a letter on the square when the line
passes straight through it without deviating.
One final example should clinch it. Apep is the
Demon of Illusions, so it follows that an Apepian magician
should be able to spin illusions and cast forth visions.
Wouldn't you just know it, the twenty-seventh chapter of
Abra-Melin is devoted to the creation of visions. So let's
create a magical square whose purpose is to conjure
'VISIONS'. As in the previous example, the duplicate letters
in the keyword are omitted, giving us a square which looks
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like this:
Transformed into the Draconian letters, this becomes:
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Visions of what?
Well, what could be more
appropriate than Dragons? The twenty-ninth square in the
Abra-Melin chapter covers this eventuality. For our purposes,
let's trace a sigil for the word 'DRAGONS' upon the pattern of
letters in the square:
We now have three perfectly powerful magical

squares and associated sigils. All the Initiate now has to do is
devise a ritual to conjure and cast them, an example being
provided below. With practice, of course, such simple
sorceries can be cast perfectly powerfully in as short a time as
it takes to draw up the square and sigil, as the magician
vocalises, focus his Will and vents his Desire throughout the
process. But it helps to ritualise to begin with.
You will also want to decide whether you would wish
to draw up a new base square each time, or create a master
copy which can gain in power and awe with each successive,
successful use. Or, perhaps, take the best of both worlds by
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maintaining a master square which you have before you and

copy for each occasion, charging from the original. The sigil
component should always be fresh for each use.
2. Invoke the Draconian Deities (including your
Dmon).
4. Say, I invoke my Dmon, the Self ahead of my self.
(Call by Name, if known.) Come to me and open my
eyes and my mind, that I may Become all that I
Desire to be. Bestow Your wisdom and power upon
me, mighty one! I am Beast, Man and God in one!
The Universe trembles before me!
5. Either draw the square, or produce your master copy.
(For the present example, we will assume the square
to heal wounds. The words of the conjuration would
obviously need to be changed to suit.
6. Say, I stand within the Void. My Eye is open and I
see all things as the Dragon of Eternity sees them.
The patterns that create and sustain Reality are mine
to shape and to adjust as I Will. It is my Desire that
the web of Wyrd should now vibrate with the current
of healing. Powerful energies of restoration are
rising, Coming Into Being through the matrix of
manifestation which is mine to command. The whole
world pulses to the music of healing and
restoration.
7. Now trace the sigil to heal wounds. Draw it large and
place it before your Void focus object, drawing
energies into it, pulsing and strong. Continually trace
the sigil's shape in the air, flaring with brightness, as
you speak, feeling it sizzle out into the world.
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8. Say, I close all wounds, knitting together that which

has been sundered. The pattern of wholeness and
proper function is restored. All wounds are healed.
All hurts are soothed. I am the manifestation of the
Serpent who was before the beginning, and I send my
servitor serpents forth into the world to infest all
wounds, drawing them together and closing them,
healing and sealing and rendering like new.
9. If the patient with the wound is close by, lay the
square upon them and trace the sigil over their
wounds until they show signs of relief. If they are
distant, visualise them strongly and Will their wounds
to close, seeing it happen clearly in your mind's eye.
12. So It Is Done!
The Initiate is not restricted to the chapters of the Abra-Melin
squares, of course. They have simply been used here as
examples to illustrate how easy it is to replicate these magical
effects powerfully in a contemporary, Draconian manner.
You can make squares and sigils for any purpose you Desire.
This is a straightforward and effective method of sorcery.
Choosing Your Battles

Since this is the Head of the Raging Lion, it is at this stage
that the Initiate's passions usually lead him to involve himself
in the wider humanitarian, ecological or political goals which
dominate his times. The magician is now at a stage when the
Desire to influence and change the wider world is strong
within him and he has the very real power to do something
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about the issues that concern him, to really make a difference

and shape the world a little closer to his Vision.
It is at this point that you should really cultivate your
relationship with Babalon most closely, so that you can
Understand your Desire and be consumed with passion for the
issues that really affect you. Always keep Her lovely image
before you, so that you can focus upon what really matters to
you and avoid being distracted by side issues. As a magician,
you are playing directly with the underlying patterns, creating
impulse to change on a sweeping scale. The details and
minutiae should be left to people who operate on that scale.
Your concern is with the sweep of your Vision. You can
and eventually must direct others to fill in the gaps with
details.
I mention this here because you will inevitably be
drawn to all manner of problems in the world which greatly
offend your Vision of the way things should be, and you will
wish to do something about them. I can't tell you what or
what not to get involved in, because your Vision and
priorities will not be the same as mine. Between us, the
Initiates of Apep will weave a broad tapestry, but no one of us
will weave all the parts of it. It can be quite frustrating when
you belong to a standard occult Order and expect everyone to
be singing from the same hymn sheet and to be as passionate
about your projects as you yourself are. Initiates of the Fifth
Head of Apep will not expect this to be the case. Your Desire
is your own and it is up to you to manifest it. Others will
manifest their own Desires, which you may later find mesh
with yours on some level and contribute to the transformation
of the world.
The one thing I can tell you is how important it is to
keep your Desire in focus and keep on your own course. Do
not allow yourself to be sidetracked. If you forget your
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Vision and lose the impetus of your Desire, you will trip and
fall flat on your face.
Enemies and Allies

When you begin looking at events on a larger scale, you will
inevitably come into contact with other people who feel
passionately about some of the issues you are concerned with.
This can be a good thing or a bad thing.
It makes your task easier if you have soldiers
available to carry out your orders. (I am not talking literally,
of course.) But you have to remember that all of these people
have come to pursue this issue through motives of their own.
Their expectations are not necessarily allied with your Vision.
It cannot be taken for granted that everyone who is
moving in the same direction as you shares the same
principles and underlying ideals. It can be useful to harness
the energy of other people, but you need to be careful who
you ally yourself with in any binding fashion. As Anton
LaVey put it, the magician who curses an enemy should not
be squeamish if his target's doom is meted out by those he
would normally turn his nose up at. Use the currents that are
flowing in the world to your advantage, but be very, very
careful not to ally yourself with them.
Similarly, those who oppose your goals may be useful
to you on other levels. Some of the people who will assist
you a great deal in getting things done may act quite contrary
to your wishes in other ways.
So be careful when you label your friends and
enemies and be aware that these are mutable concepts. In all
cases, it is your Vision that matters. Do not allow yourself to
be sidetracked by other people's projects and issues. Keep
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your Vision upon your own Desire.
Passion and Immortality

The remaining subject which needs to be dealt with under the
auspice of the Fifth Head is a major one indeed: that of
immortality.
This is a subject which is dealt with extensively in the
preceding books in this series: Apophis, gishjlmur and
Dragonscales, which discuss such things as the structure of
the soul and the way in which it is integrated and works
together.
It is also described in these prior books how the
psyche does not need to 'become' immortal: it is already
immortal. What matters is how the Initiate integrates the
various parts of his psyche to carry the useful parts of his
experiences and memories forward with him into his next
Remanifestation.
I do not mean to cover the same ground in this present
volume, but wish to focus instead on emphasising the role of
Desire in this process of immortalisation.
Once people get to know a thing or two about magic,
a curious phenomenon almost always happens: they become
passionate and excited and often almost evangelical about the
magic itself. Most of the young Initiates I knew in the
Temple of Set burned to be a member of the Priesthood. I
remember having to gently explain to earnest, eager eighteen
year olds how they simply didn't have the depth of life
experience and that I would never personally consider anyone
below the age of thirty as Priesthood material. But they
thirsted for the next degree on the ladder, they ached to write
a bestseller about the magical arts. Magic itself had become
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their reason for living, the focus of their Desire. This is so, so
wrong.
Magic is not the goal, it is the means. Magic is not
enhanced by exhaustively complicating it, seeking out ever
more convoluted hierarchies of names. Magic is enhanced by
streamlining and simplifying it, by making each magical act a
simple demonstration of Art, an enactment of Vision. Magic
is a means to achieving the magical to shaping the world to
fit our Vision it is not an end in itself. The purpose of
magic is to beautify our Understanding and enrich our souls,
not to design a funky ritual. We need to practice and develop
our magic, turning it into a reliable and powerful tool that will
change the world as we Will and open our minds to the
promptings of our Deities both inner and outer so that we
may always be alert to new possibilities. But we must have a
purpose beyond all this, a Desire that makes it matter.
I can only take myself as an example. Like most
people, I have felt the lure of occult geekery, finding more
allure and excitement in rituals than in results. But I have
always fought against this, and some of those who have
known me longest can testify to the periods of silence and
withdrawal I would enter whenever I became aware of this
tendency and took action to wean myself of it. And it
worked, I experienced genuine Initiation in consequence,
slowly and painfully, I came to learn what really matters and
what magic is really for. Since I became a Master, I am
obliged and empowered to teach what I have learned, so I
have written books about magic, books which (I hope) help
other Initiates to discover the true Keys which make magical
practice worthwhile and meaningful.
But let's consider these books of magical instruction,
of which this present volume is the latest. These are not in
fact my most magical books. Yes, they are the ones that are
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categorised as 'occult'. Yes, they contain magical instruction.

But they are compilations of advice combined with magical
technical manuals. Their magic exists in what you the
reader will choose to do with them.
My other books my fiction are considerably less
popular, but much more intrinsically magical. This is because
they are not advice about doing things, they are not technical
manuals. They are Art, they are outpourings of my pure
creativity and as such they are intrinsically magical in their
own rights, they possess that spirit of Creation which is
inherent in magical practice as opposed to magical theory.
They place thoughts and reflections and emotions in readers'
minds and hearts, whether the vulgar humour of a Damsels
novel, the mythic grandeur of the Celtic tales of For Fear of
Little Men, or the deeply dark legends of Dread Souls. Art is
magic, and its effects upon the minds of those who experience
Art are the lasting legacy of the magician.
The Draconian series of books is a natural expression
of the things I have learned in order to pursue my own dreams
and bring my Desires into Reality. The purpose of these
magical instruction guides are to empower you to pursue your
own dreams and bring your Desires into Reality too. Apep
lives and breathes in your Desires and your Doings, ever
seething at the limits of possibility, where the Void meets
manifestation.
Take these books and learn from them how best to
action your Art, to define and pursue what you Desire, to
change the world to express your Vision. These things are
magic, not the words upon the page. Magic is not the ritual,
that is only the method; magic is what happens afterwards and
what motivates you towards. Magic is the dance of the Void,
the chance of the impossible, the laughter of living on the
edge and daring to dream.
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You cannot become a great magician by wanting to be

a great magician. You become a great magician by living
your life with Vision and purpose and seeking your Joy in the
world, dragging it into manifestation in spite of every
resistance. Then teach what you have learned.
The magician must cultivate now the things that will
keep his psyche intact when his body dies, which will carry
the various parts that have made him up through into rebirth
with full access to the memories of what he has already
accomplished. He must recognise that it is his Destiny to be
reborn, for the purpose of the Universe is to manifest itself.
The Void churns and longs for expression. He must cultivate
Joy, Courage, Love and Laughter here and now. He needs to
travel, seeking out and experiencing new things. He must
drink deeply of every new experience. He must seek his
Other, delighting in Her and how She is a mirror to him,
magnifying and multiplying his Essence. He must be filled
with Life. The ecstatic exhortations to fierce and joyful
living given to Crowley in The Book of the Law come to
mind. To conventional spiritual thought, these are seen as
unworthy and worldly pursuits. But the Initiate will recognise
them as the most Real and spiritual things of all.
It is your passion which will carry you through death's
door into new Remanifestation, punching your way back into
a new shape as a force that cannot be denied.
Do not fold up into an ivory tower with walls that
close ever in around you. This enfeebles your magic and does
not enhance it one bit. It is in the field of battle and play that
is the manifest Universe that you will be proven as a magician
and as an immortal Essence whose vitality cannot be
suppressed.
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The Litany of Immortality

The following ritual can be performed regularly from this
point on in your Work. It focuses the Will for the tasks that
lie ahead here and now in life, and also prepares it for
Remanifestation after the death of the current physical form.
The Celts had a similar litany, titled 'The Song of Long Life',
and some of Crowley's Work such as Liber NU and Liber
HAD expressed a similar theme.
As repeated Initiatory Workings go, they don't come
much more important than this one:
3. Draw the Void energy around yourself in a spiral
cloak, surrounding and shrouding you.
4. When your mind is focused, recite the following:
5. I am the expression of the Void,
cast upon the screen of Reality.
I am the Remanifestation of all that I have been,
and I shall Remanifest all that I may yet be.
I am not bound by time nor space,
for I am of the Outside,
spawn of Tiamat am I.
I have no past, I have no future,
I create myself anew with each moment that passes.
Time is my slave,
providing a structure in which my Passion may Play,
an instrument plucked by my Will,
resonating with the harmonies of my Desire.
My Work continues ever,
an echo of Nothing that ripples with laughter
through the haunted halls of the Void.
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My Desire is the Key to my Being;

as long as I love and lust, I live and grow.
I chase the image of my Beloved
throughout the wide fields of possibility,
playing mad and delightful games
with the mechanisms of manifestation,
ever-chasing, ever-yearning,
ever spinning the scope of the possible into new
shapes
that challenge all that has ever been.
I acknowledge no limits,
I play by no rules but my own,
and these I change as my Desire leads me.
As long as I Desire, I shall live.
I shall not die! I shall endure!
There is no end, for there is no beginning!
All is Nothing, and Nothing is All!
Only the dance of the Desired One matters,
leading and shifting wherever and whenever it will,
and I shall follow after, painting new vistas around
it,
bringing worlds into being as the testimony of my joy.
In my veins pumps the blood of the Serpent;
from my mouth streams the venom of the Serpent.
Time and space are my playthings,
Reality the canvas upon which I paint,
Desire the explosive force which brings the Universe
into Being.
All is the coiling and uncoiling of the Dragon:
Joy and Desire and uttermost Delight.
6. Spend some time absorbing and embracing the truth
of these statements.
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9. So It Is Done!
Mastering the Minefield

The Fifth Head is very much an expression of Indulgence, and
I have not held back from indulging myself in writing this
chapter. I have done my level best to offer very practical keys
to unlocking the Mysteries of the Raging Lion, utilising
adaptations of well known magical technologies. In doing so,
I have made the task of prospective Black Magi much easier
and more intelligible. I have also inevitably laid a minefield
before every reader's feet.
All of the advice and the methods offered in this
chapter will assist you in grasping the meaning and import of
the Fifth Head.. The danger is that you may mistake these
methods for the destination.
Because, when all is said and done, the Black Magus
the ultimate expression of the Initiate of the Raging Lion
is one who Works his magic by force of Will alone. All of
the rituals and methods and technologies used in this chapter
to awaken you to the potentials of this Head and open up its
energies to you, are toys and props. When you enter into this
Initiatory state in fullness of Being, you will accomplish all of
these things by pure Will. To cling to props, or to worry
about the correct wording, or the spirits upon which to call, is
to lose sight of the Lion's Head and tumble back into the
Abyss.
The Black Magus relies upon no spirits to carry out
his Will. If he calls upon one, or creates one, or externalises
his Desire as one whichever paradigm you feel to be correct
he knows that it is a way of projecting his own Will. It is
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not a magical essential, it is an expression of Art. At this

level of Initiation, the term 'the Dark Arts' is entirely
appropriate. Aesthetics and beauty and art are the driving
force behind the magician, but the actual magic itself is a pure
expression of Will, shaped by Imagination and fuelled by
Desire. To lose sight of this is to lose the Vision of this Head.
There is one more mine to avoid, which is the danger
of being po-faced. The signature of this Head is truly that
Divine Madness which is expressed in the subtitle of this
book. At this stage, you need to shake off the last vestiges of
that Judeo-Christian dourness which is drummed into us from
birth. Ours is a Path of laughter, madness, joy and delight.
Pleasure and Desire the things which are hated and
proscribed by the Right-Hand Path are our greatest
treasures.
But you know what? Too many self-professed Black
Magicians cling to this misery and sobriety. I have been
chastised for my levity and my enthusiasm for my hobbies,
when readers of previous volumes of my books have
expressed their concerned and sombre opinion that I would be
better employed in writing more books of a serious, occult
nature. Guys, go have a wank and lighten up, for fuck's sake.
You need to be silly and mad and passionate, you need to
throw yourself into your hobbies and interests, pursuing your
passions and Desires. You need to keep your imagination
and your sense of wonder fed. The moment you lose your
sense of fun and wonder, you might as well start wearing
sackcloth and ashes. It's the fact that I allow myself to have
so much fun that keeps me inspired to write more books at
what is a frankly incredibly prolific rate.
Have fun, and I'll see you on the other side of the
Abyss. Stay solemn and po-faced and well so long, and
thanks for all the doughnuts.
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GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS
he Sixth Head is that of the Rebellious Giant, and is

expressive of the Initiate who has managed to take the
momentous step of fully realising the existence of his
consciousness Outside of the bounds of time and space. In so
doing, he begins to lose the magics of transcending the
apparent rules and restrictions of manifest Reality, instead
flagrantly breaking the chains of temporal and spatial
location, popping up whenever and wherever he Wills.
These are frankly enormous claims, but any Initiate
who has properly Worked the curriculum this far will already
have Understood that this is wholly implicit in the notion of
the Eye in the Void. Every step along the Draconian
Initiatory curriculum has been leading up to the realisation
that the Initiated consciousness is not tied down by the spacetime continuum at all.
What is the space-time continuum, after all? What is
the Universe? It is but an Illusion, projected from the Void, a
structure which allows us to Play and to hang our power
symbols upon, so that a place may Come Into Being, in which
we may express and evolve ourSelves. Into this Universe we
project ourselves by birthing in human bodies, enjoying it in
full sensual delight. But the consciousness itself remains in
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the Void, looking upon the world through the Open Eye. This
is unconsciously true of all life perhaps of all manifestation,
even those things which we do not normally attribute life to.
But the Initiate Understands this completely and thus is aware
that the apparent rules of the game are arbitrary and may be
sidestepped or rewritten by those with the know-how.
Some may accuse the Initiate of 'cheating' in such a
case, but that isn't true. Firstly, as said above, the rules are
arbitrary, and it's us who put them there in the first place.
Secondly, the Initiate isn't breaking the rules that hold Reality
in place; thanks to his expanded consciousness, he is simply
able to access other rules which overrule the apparent ones,
which can't be seen or grasped by those who haven't studied
the gameboard as he has.
The White Magus

The White Magus is the role model for the Sixth Head. The
Black Magus represents the Initiate who has discovered his
home in the Darkness (the Void / the Unmanifest) and has
Wilfully entered therein to find what he may discover. The
White Magus is one who has explored that Darkness
thoroughly, shedding the light of his own consciousness into
its every nook and cranny, so that it is now translucent and
ablaze to him.
This entity is discussed further in
Dragonscales.
This is why the Sixth Head is attributed to the
Rebellious Giant. The White Magus is a Giant insofar as he
has outgrown the Universe that most people are bound by.
Reality is now something that he looks into from Outside,
seeing it from all perspectives, instead of being contained
within it. His relationship with the non-Initiate is that of a
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human with a new puppy sitting in a box. Both are actually

denizens of the same larger world (the entirety of possibility
and perhapsness within the Void), but one of them is stuck in
the box, whereas the other may come and go freely.
The White Magus is Rebellious because he seems to
ignore and transgress the rules that others live by. He cares
nothing for the conventions of social rules and he frequently
seems to flount the rules of Reality itself. This is because he
has overcome his conditioning and thrown off the constraints
which keep most people shackled. He has also expanded his
consciousness so that he can see the principles that lie behind
the apparent rules of Reality, and can thus apply the
principles of manifestation directly. This may make some of
his actions seem impossible to those who do not possess his
insight. They do not possess his actualised consciousness,
however, and you can only take a short cut if you're able to
see it in the first place.
The White Magus is one who has transformed the
Darkness by filling it with his own Light. He has heroically
walked into the Dark with only the lamp of his own
determination, courage and passion to light his way, and he
has made it his own.
The Initiate at this level is very closely akin to the
Degree most often termed Magus in many Initiatory systems
(the V of the Temple of Set, or the grade attributed to
Chokmah in the Qabalah-derived systems of Aleister
Crowley's A.'.A.'. or the Golden Dawn.
The Degree of Magus belongs to one who Utters a
Word which either institutes a new on or brings a new
current of Understanding into an existing one. At any rate
and by any definition, the mark of the Magus is that he
initiates a new current of magical thought, something which
brings fresh Divine Fire and Force down to Earth and brings
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about a quantum leap in magical philosophy and practice.

In the case of the White Magus, his Understanding of
Self and the Universe is so precise and focused that the forces
of change roll out from him, transforming everything he
interacts with. He has crystallised his own Initiatory process
and is able to pass it on to others, by word, by touch, and by
example. As the Rebellious Giant, he breaks down the
perceptual barriers which made such a magical leap difficult
before his advent.
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My abode is within the Darkness

and I have explored every nook, every cranny;
every shadowed corner has revealed its Secrets to me
and I have filled the Dark with the Light of my
consciousness.
I am the White Light that reveals all as it IS,
but I am veiled in the Shadow of the Void
and am a nightmare to those who have not glimpsed
the Outside.
I am of the Outside,
I see all of Space-Time extended before me,
an ever-branching tangle of possibilities.
I may play my music upon these strings,
sometimes high, sometimes low,
but always with delicious laughter.
I dance between the Angles in the places that are Not.
All times and places are one to me,
a shifting kaleidoscope of images and experiences,
my fingertips brushing all that IS,
my imagination embracing all that may be,
my kisses raining upon all that is Not.
The only Light is that which I imagine into Being,
as my mind dances in the Darkness.
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Set as the Transgressor of Boundaries

This process of transgression and boundary breaking has its
origins at the very roots of the Left-Hand Path, it is in its very
essence a philosophy of rebellion and self-determination.
If we look at the mythology of the Left-Hand Path
Deity Set, we find that He Came Into Being by tearing his
way out of his mother's womb. He became known as the
Neter who was against the Neteru - the God against the
Gods. Egyptian society and religion was heavily stratified,
and this regimentation was resisted and fought against by the
ferocious free spirit who was Set.
He became known as the God of storms, who drove in
the winds from the desert, upsetting the regimentation of the
daily routine, unleashing the violence of the raw elements.
The desert itself was His domain, a challenging and harsh but
free and inspiring land that stood against the regulated
tyranny of Egyptian civilisation.
Set was also the God of foreigners, those with alien
customs and outlooks, whose ways were strange and
frightening: outsiders who were not manacled by the weight
of Egyptian custom and tradition, to whom the rules and
manners of polite society were arbitrary things that they could
take or leave as they pleased.
This is the standard of Self-awareness and Self-rule
that the Lord of Darkness expects from His kinfolk today.
This should come as no surprise to those who have followed
the Draconian curriculum through. Here with the Sixth Head,
these rebellious principles are applied on a cosmic level.
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Liber OZ
Before proceeding further with this programme of rebellion,
we should pause to ask if there are any laws or rules that we
should regard? Of course there are. If there are no rules at all
in place, then there is no structure for us to hang Reality
upon. The vitally important thing is that the structure and the
rules should as far as possible be your own.
Aleister Crowley's Liber AL: The Book of of Law is a
remarkable document which sets forth the standard of
behaviour for modern Initiates. In the present instance, we
are looking for something a little more straightforward and
practical, though, a statement of guidelines for human
behaviour. Fortunately, Crowley later codified the principles
of The Book of the Law into a series of simple statements
specifying the rights of man and the rules for right living.
This he titled Liber OZ and it is reproduced overleaf.
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A New World Order

In Liber OZ, Crowley states plainly and simply the political
creed of the magician. It may of course be argued that this is
a Utopian ideal, which would never work in practice, since it
would be spoiled by human greed. Perhaps it would if
applied across the board. But this Law is intended for
Kings and not for slaves. It is intended for those who
know their Will and do it. It is not the job of the magician to
concern himself with political systems, but to know his own
Being and to live in the way that he Wills to do. These are
Principles that the Initiate will uphold, the pins which hold up
his Reality, and he will abide by them and them alone, no
matter what the muddled laws of nations may say.
Indeed, the very concept of nations at least as they
are understood today are an abhorrence to the Initiate.
Whatever borders and frontiers may exist are there to be
broken down and transgressed. The Initiate must be able to
move freely and without restraint. Note that I am not
decrying kin or culture gishjlmur and my ogham books
alone should demonstrate how closely I personally adhere to
the ideals of Northern Europe in general and the Isle of Man
in particular. But I am against the feckless, interfering rule of
regional governments and their rabid fantasies.
All of the world's problems could be solved by a very
few men with a little common sense and insight. Make
everybody accountable for themselves, and the truly strong
and noble will care for the truly weak and vulnerable as a
matter of course. I am not advocating this, however, for I
know how very rare are the individuals who truly live by
these principles. But that doesn't matter: it is up to you to
live and act in the way that best expresses your own nobility,
regardless of what others may think or do.
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Questions of immigration are particular hot potatoes

in the Western world at the moment. Yet as I have already
highlighted, the Initiate requires free movement across the
planet. So how may this problem be addressed? Simply by
removing it: open all borders wide, allowing everyone and
his dog to come and go as they please, with this one proviso:
no one is entitled to any benefits at all unless they have
contributed to the local economy for at least ten years. You'd
find the flow would fall away to nothing, except for the truly
courageous and noble souls who would bring their dynamism
and enthusiasm wherever they trod.
It is pointless to speculate about the wider scale
political ramifications of Liber OZ, however. It is certainly
something to aspire to, but not something which could ever
prove practical in my lifetime. We must do the Satanic thing
and manipulate the world that is in order to serve our
purposes, but we ourselves need to adhere to these nobler
guidelines. And where the precepts of Liber OZ are
contradicted by the law of the land, do the right thing whether
secretly or in open defiance. I have no qualms about
suggesting people should break the law if the law is wrong.
Yes, I do consider myself to be above the law. So should any
Initiate who has achieved this level. I am not advocating
deliberate criminal activity, of course, but I am saying that
your actions should be determined by right principles, not by
arbitrary rules.
It is a brave new world indeed. Just don't expect
everyone else to live in it.
The Void as a Window Upon the Cosmos

The astute Initiate will have realised that the design of the
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Order Seal of the Eye radiating nine angles within a circle,

implies that when the Initiate Opens the Eye in the Void, he
possesses the potential ability to perceive anything happening
anywhere at anytime. From the central point of the Eye, the
angles touch all of Space-Time and reflect back from each
point to the consciousness of the Eye.
Moreover, it will be understood that the Void
contains every possibility and every impossibility: everything
that has happened, is happening and will happen; everything
that might have happened, might be happening, might happen;
everything that never happened, is not happening, will not
happen. They are all there. All are present in the Void. The
choice of which fall into which categories is dependent upon
which vectors our angles are projected along, and these can
be changed by altering the focus and direction of the Eye,
steering manifestation along a different course. This will be
discussed more fully later in this chapter, commencing in the
section titled 'The Space-Time Labyrinth'.
Before we start to explore that tangled box of ideas,
however, we can appreciate the fact that according to this
model, the Initiate can perceive anywhere and anywhen by the
process of Opening the Eye in the Void and then correctly
focusing his attention and directing it appropriately. Remote
viewing becomes a possibility; observing events that
happened in the past, or the future, becomes a possibility.
These are tremendous powers if we can achieve them.
There are, of course, dangers associated with this
practice. Because you will be seeing purely with the mind
and not with the physical senses, everything you perceive will
be subject to personal bias, as it is filtered through your own
inner censors. This provides a very great margin of error for
the untrained, although an Initiate who has learned the mental
discipline of the Second Head and has much experience with
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the psychic powers of the Third Head will have little to fear
in this regard. This, after all, is what all of your prior hard
work and training has been for.
There is another danger to be taken into account,
which is a consequence of the fact that Reality is not a fixed
thing, and that Space-Time may shift which parts of itself are
manifest and which are not. But this is something which will
be discussed more fully below.
For the time being, let's ignore the Reality-shifting
problem and turn our attention upon the mechanic of viewing
itself.
Remote Viewing
A sample ritual outline is given below, in which the Initiate
utilises his Void focus device as a kind of shewstone or
skrying aid to direct his Will and Imagination.
There are four main ways in which the magician may
direct his Will in order to remotely view: he may wish to
view a particular place; he may wish to focus in upon a
specific person or object; he may wish to view a specific
event; or he may wish his own intuition to guide him to
witness a seemingly random event, some piece of valuable
knowledge of which he wasn't previously aware. The
following outline can be adapted for any of these purposes.
1.
2.
3.
4.
Open the Ritual in your usual manner.

Spend a few minutes in silent contemplation, your
gaze fixed upon your Void focus device. Immerse
yourself in the Void currents. Centre your attention
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wholly within the perspective of the Eye.

5. Say, My Eye is open upon the Void. I see with the
mind of the Ancient Dragon. My consciousness rides
upon the Dragon's wings. I extend my Will upon the
Dragon's breath, reaching out to the limits of the
Real. Here I shall see directly that which I Desire,
namely: ....... I travel, I behold; I travel, I behold; I
travel, I behold.
6. Focus your mind upon that which you desire to see.
If you wish to see a specific person, place or thing,
you may wish to place representations of it
(photographs, etc.) around your focus device.
7. Now send your mind forth. Keep your Will focused
and your wish foremost in your mind and trust your
instincts as you feel your way along the tendrils of
possibility, tracing your route from the centre point of
the Eye along the rays of the triangles in the Order
Seal until you connect with the surrounding circle,
the mirror of Reality.
8. Here you should perceive visions and impressions of
that which you wish to see. Do not restrict yourself
to sight alone, but allow all of your sensory apparatus
to feed information to your consciousness. As
instructed in the chapter relating to the Third Head in
Apophis, you should keep your mind open and
assimilate all of the information you are given, but
never push for more than you are given.
9. When the vision begins to fade, withdraw your
consciousness back to the Eye, then return to your
ordinary embodied consciousness.
10. Make copious notes before memory fades (and it will
if you don't record it meticulously).
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13. So It Is Done!
Dimensions in Time
I owe the lovely phrase 'dimensions in time' to the equally
lovely television programme Doctor Who1, in which it is
postulated that time whilst being a dimension in its own
right also contains dimensions within itself.
This makes especial sense if we accept the
Einsteinian view of Space-Time as a single integrated
phenomenon. Space is a dimension containing dimensions, so
why should time not be too?
Just as we travel through space by moving through
three spatial dimensions, so time has dimensions of past,
present and future. The thing is, in the spatial dimensions we
find ourselves 'here', which is a specific point in the Cosmos.
We may be aware of other places, but right now we are
located 'here'. Our awareness of anywhere that isn't 'here' is
actually only a mental construct. Places change as they
interact with the temporal dimensions, so you can only
actually know them by being there in the moment: by making
them 'here'.
It's the same with time. We find ourselves 'now',
which is a specific point in time. We may be aware of other
times we have memory of the past and we anticipate the
future. Our awareness of any time that isn't 'now' is actually
only a mental construct. The past changes, because it is
always filtered through our own memories and consciousness.
1 See the four episode story The Space Museum starring William
Hartnell as the Doctor
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No two people's recollection of a past event is ever the same.

The past is only an amalgamation of memory, and tends to
change as it moves more distant from 'now'. So we live only
in the 'here and now', but we are aware that there are places
and times beyond our current horizons. We can steer our
course towards these, both spatially and temporally.
The implication of viewing past, future and present as
dimensions of time is that we should be able to move through
them back and forth in all possible directions as we wish.
Time folds upon itself, leapfrogs itself, loops and twists.
In practice, of course, in everyday life, we seem to
move only in one direction, we are caught inexorably in the
flow from past to future. This may prompt some to believe
that the model is wrong. If we compare time with the spatial
dimensions, however, we find that it isn't so different. When
I stand in a field, just because there is an 'up' doesn't mean
that I can go there: my body isn't able to fly. Sure, we've
invented machines that can fly for us; maybe one day we will
build a time machine which will allow us to travel back and
forth in our bodies.
Until that time, however, our
consciousness can travel in time. If it couldn't, we wouldn't
be able to extrapolate probabilities and envision future events;
we wouldn't be able to relive our memories. We'll be making
very practical use of this ability in this chapter.
There is also the case that we may be moving in time
in all sorts of weird and wonderful sideways manoeuvres that
we aren't ordinarily aware of. Let's introduce a new model of
Reality appropriate to the Sixth Head which will demonstrate
how this may be the case. It's time to Open the Eye still
further and comprehend the Space-Time Labyrinth.
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The Space-Time Labyrinth

It should be evident to any Initiate who has come this far that
Reality is far more complex and mutable than most people
realise. This means that the simplistic model of the Cosmos
that most people operate with just won't cut it any more. We
need to create a new one which allows for multiple
possibilities of manifestation. If the future can be changed
and is not rigidly fixed in stone (and it certainly isn't), our
model of the Cosmos needs to take into account the existence
of multiple possible futures and, by implication, multiple
possible pasts. A simple linear route from A to B is frankly
laughable. You can draw such a route, to be sure, but you
also need to take into account all the routes you didn't choose
to follow.
We need to construct a brand new model of Reality as
it is perceived from the position of the Eye of the Dragon, not
as it is perceived with the physical eyes that are rooted in the
outer ring of the Order Seal.
Fortunately, there is an existing magical model that is
evident in almost every tradition globally which will suit our
purpose admirably. This is the model of the World Tree,
represented in Norse tradition as Yggdrasil, in the Qabalah as
the Tree of Life, and in just about every aspect of Celtic
tradition. Almost every shamanic tradition also represents the
Cosmos as a tree, the shaman ascending or descending the
ladder of worlds by scaling the branches or clambering down
the roots. It is the Serpent-girdled tree at the ends of the
world upon which the golden fleece hangs. This World Tree
model is obviously generally applied to the spatial
arrangement of the various worlds that constitute the Magical
Universe of the tradition in question, but if we embrace the
Einsteinian concept of Space-Time, surely the same model
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should apply to the temporal dimensions?

If now is the trunk of the tree, it is borne aloft upon a
complex network of roots, which stretch out and burrow
deeply into the Earth, dividing and sub-dividing, a
labyrinthine multiplicity of possible pasts, some of which
happened, some of which may have happened, some of which
probably never happened but are nonetheless manifest in
myth and legend, forming the matrix of our present
Becoming. The future branches out into an equally vast
number of possible boughs to climb upon, each one sending
out its own myriad twigs and shoots, leaves and fruits and
nuts springing forth upon every possible point. The present
itself is a product of myriad Remanifestations, represented by
the rings of the tree's trunk which mark the passing of the
years.
Our blinkered physical eyes and everyday mentality,
bound up in the ring of manifestation, may see only a linear
progress through life, beginning at the tip of one root,
climbing up the trunk and following a single branch into the
future.
Our more introspective, philosophical thought
processes may intuit the existence of the other possible routes
through the root system and the choices that may take us
along alternative branches. But the Eye within the Void the
Dragon's Eye which has its Essence Outside the Tree
altogether and only touches it through consciousness sees
the Tree in its entirety, and Understands that not only could
we choose an alternative route, but that every alternative
route exists within the magical multiverse, whether we choose
to manifest it or not. The Tree is a whole. Every possibility
within time and space exists, and the opportunity is there for
the magician to change course, or even to reverse course, or to
take an incredible multi-dimensional leap from one branch to
another. For our consciousness the Dragon within our core
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soars above the World Tree and gnaws at its roots. In our
ultimate manifestation, we are Nidhogg, the Dragon of
Darkness, the Serpent Bright.
Temporal Maps
It can be a very useful exercise to use this World Tree model
to map out your own matrix of possibilities on occasion. This
can be helpful in both divinatory and practical magical terms.
If you continually update your map of recollections and
reflections of the past and projections, hopes and expectations
of the future, it can help you to intuit exactly what you need
to do in order to accomplish the things you Desire; it helps
you to trace the unfolding patterns of manifestation and
Understand that which is most likely to happen given current
tendencies and trends; it can also show you exactly which
'junctions' on the Tree you need to change / manipulate in
order to ensure the future follows the route you wish it to.
Begin by drawing a point to represent the present
moment. Then note the immediate choices which brought
you to this point (it may be something as mundane as 'Made a
coffee and decided to put the principles of Kelly's book into
action'). Then write opposite it something which represents
what an alternative choice would have been (perhaps 'Decided
to listen to music' or 'Went out for a walk'). Every time you
write a choice that you took on the Tree, write an alternative
too that you might have taken. In time, you may decide to
write multiple alternatives, increasing your appreciation and
apprehension of the Space-Time Tree. Start small until you
get used to it, though.
Then write a handful of older choices from the more
distant past further down the Tree, some of the major past
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decisions which have brought you to where you are today.

Write alternatives for these too, choices which may have led
your life along an entirely different course.
You can keep going back to your diagram and adding
in more branching roots and choices in both the recent and
distant past, building a hugely complex map of all that you
could have been and done. But first, let's begin to sketch in
the first few upper branches.
Write down something which you feel fairly certain
will happen tomorrow. First write tomorrow's date, then
write something, perhaps '25/6/12: Had two boiled eggs for
breakfast', or '25/6/12: Went to work at 9am'. Then opposite
it write a possible alternative, perhaps something like
'25/6/12: Skipped breakfast and had an extra half hour in
bed', or '25/6/12: Quit my job and took a flight to Paris on a
whim'.
Then further up the Tree write a couple of your major
future plans or aspirations, things that you definitely want to
come to pass. Write alternative paths opposite these too,
things that might come to pass instead.
Gradually, your Tree diagram will become absurdly
complex, dividing and subdividing into thousands upon
thousands of roots and branches. You will need a better way
to keep track of them, perhaps a computerised flow charting
program. You will also come to increasingly Understand that
for every choice and alternative path(s) you chart, there are an
infinite number of other permutations that you can't possibly
record. You will gain an appreciation of the Cosmos in its
entirety, and insights into your path through it. You will
reach an intuitive Understanding that everything that can
possibly happen is entirely Real from the perspective of the
Eye in the Void. The entire matrix of possibilities exists,
infinite and eternal, with the Void surrounding and enfolding
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and permeating it. The only thing that changes is the path
your consciousness follows into manifestation, and this is
entirely mutable.
This Understanding is Key to the magic of the Sixth
Head. Mastery of this Head occurs when you discover how
you can not only trace a linear path through the labyrinth, but
may also double back, stay still or leap from branch to branch
like the Ape of Thoth, blinking from one Reality to another
instantaneously and without anyone else being any the wiser
that things were different just a moment previously. This is
the most fundamental Mystery of Remanifestation, which is
discussed fully in the next chapter, which deals with the
Seventh Head.
Practical Time Travel

There are two methods of time travel magic which will
suggest themselves to the Initiate at this time. One is
decidedly easier than the other, which is when the body
remains where it is and consciousness projects itself
backward or forward in time, receiving impressions of past or
future events. This method is detailed in this current section.
The other method is when a temporal nexus point is
found or created in the physical world and is used as a
Gate for the Initiates's entire incarnate manifestation to step
through into another time for a greater or lesser duration.
There are places where time zones overlap and fold around
each other. Guidelines on locating and using such are
provided later in this chapter.
The methodology for projecting consciousness back
and forth in time is not surprisingly very closely related to
that for remote viewing. It is, after all, a variation on the
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same theme if Space-Time is a single phenomenon. The only

difference is that the rays followed from the Eye to the
surrounding ring, the magic mirror of manifestation, angle
back or forth in the temporal dimensions as well as the
spatial, allowing the mind to receive impressions of a
different time as well as / instead of a different place. The
two may, of course, be combined with practice, so that an
Initiate sitting in the United Kingdom might experience an
event that happened several years previously in the United
States. He would simply project his consciousness along an
angle that cut through both temporal and spatial axes of
manifestation.
Here follows a simple ritual outline that can be
employed to send your consciousness across the borders of
time:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Open the Ritual in your usual manner.

Spend a few minutes in silent contemplation, your
gaze fixed upon your Void focus device. Immerse
yourself in the Void currents. Centre your attention
wholly within the perspective of the Eye.
5. Say, My Eye is open upon the Void. I see with the
mind of the Ancient Dragon. My consciousness rides
upon the Dragon's wings. I extend my Will upon the
Dragon's breath, reaching out to the limits of the
Real. Here I shall see directly that which I Desire,
wheresoever or whensoever it may be, namely:
....... I travel, I behold; I travel, I behold; I travel, I
behold.
6. Focus your mind upon that time and / or place which
you desire to see.
You may wish to place
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7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
representations of the time or event you wish to see

(photographs, etc) around your focus device. If you
wish to see the past or future of a specific place, you
may have photographs of it present, or you may boost
the ritual by performing it in the precise place if
feasible.
Now send your mind forth. Keep your Will focused
and your wish foremost in your mind and trust your
instincts as you feel your way along the tendrils of
possibility, tracing your route from the centre point of
the Eye along the rays of the triangles in the Order
Seal until you connect with the surrounding circle,
the mirror of Reality.
Here you should perceive visions and impressions of
the time you have focused upon, seeing its possible
manifestations swim into Being before your
consciousness. Do not restrict yourself to sight alone,
but allow all of your sensory apparatus to feed
information to your consciousness. As instructed in
the chapter relating to the Third Head in Apophis, you
should keep your mind open and assimilate all of the
information you are given, but never push for more
than you are given.
When the vision begins to fade, withdraw your
consciousness back to the Eye, then return to your
ordinary embodied consciousness.
Make copious notes before memory fades (and it will
if you don't record it meticulously).
Close the Eye in the Void.
Close the ritual in your usual manner.
So It Is Done!
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Finding Vortices in the World

I spoke previously about the possibility of finding places in
the world where time folds around itself and it is possible to
experience a time slip, shifting bodily into another time
where now and then somehow overlap. Such places may also
be used to translocate, moving from one place in the world to
another without crossing the intervening space.
There are three ways of identifying such places:
some are already clearly marked for you; some can be intuited
- an easy task if you have followed the Draconian curriculum
through to this point; others you can create for yourself,
whether temporarily or permanently.
The power places which are ready made for your use
are obviously the easiest to operate with at first. There are
two types of these. The truly ancient ones are the sacred sites
left upon the landscape by our ancestors. Places like stone
circles, sacred groves or wells, shrines and barrows. Be
aware that there are many such places which are not
commonly known, but which are marked by megaliths
nonetheless. My book WyrdWood: The Story of Dusty Miller
discusses these places of power in some detail. It is generally
found that such sites of power lie upon places where several
ley-lines (the currents of telluric power or Dragon energy
that flow across the land) cross and create a vortex of energy
which can be harnessed and applied for magical purposes.
You should consult old maps, folklore and legends of your
local area to find several such places close to your home that
you might Work within.
There are a couple of ways in which you might
discover further places of power for yourself. One way is to
obtain a map and use a ruler and pencil to trace local ley-lines
upon it, connecting known sacred sites or landmarks together.
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Wherever these lines cross, you may be certain there is a

power vortex which may be harnessed and put to use.
Another way to identify a power vortex without
recourse to a map and geometry is simple observation.
Research by the Dusty Millers (see my book referenced above
for further details) has shown that four leaf clovers are in
plentiful supply in such locations, so anywhere you find these
is significant. Trees that grow within the vicinity of such
vortices also tend to have multiple trunks growing from the
same roots. The number of trunks is indicative of the number
of ley-lines crossing at that point.
You will also sometimes intuitively grasp the
significance of a place, especially since your psychic
sensitivity has been enhanced by this curriculum of Work.
Such places will carry a distinct atmosphere, and the
landscape may suggest significant geometries which stimulate
the psyche.
Generally, such places will be raised
promontories or hilltops, or hollows: places where energies
spiral either upwards or downwards. Either are significant.
Places which have a reputation for being haunted or
'cursed' may also be profitably used. Some buildings and
places soak up an atmosphere over time and this increases the
mutability of Reality at that point, allowing shifts and
disturbances to become increasingly possible.
Anywhere that the angles and geometries are strange
and unsettling may be a portal that opens up to admit to other
worlds or times, allowing leakage or an overlap to occur.
Finally, it is possible to engineer such a place for
yourself, opening a gate on at least a temporary basis. In
order to do so, you will need to introduce strange and
unearthly angles into the locality, or a sense of monolithic
mass. A strong sense of either infinite space or oppressive
weight and claustrophobia will each assist in opening a rift in
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Reality, turning it in upon itself. Music can be played which

enhances this effect, either free and liberating or dark and
brooding. The introduction of your Void focus object into
this place will further warp the nature of Reality. Finally, you
can invoke the genius loci the spirit or atmosphere of the
place to cause it to turn upon its axis and open up a window
through which you may pass.
You should put some Work into locating or creating
such places in your region and spending time at them,
accustoming them to your presence, reaching out to their
energies with your mind, communing with the Void in these
places where the walls are thin.
Riding the Dragon Energy

The actual process whereby you experience a time slip or 'slip
through' from one place to another shifting from one 'gate'
where the walls of the world are thin to another is hard to
pin down. Writing a set ritual would be facetious, for this is
most definitely an operation of Art. It is not a precise science,
varying from one Initiate to the next, from one site to the
next. It is, as I say, an Art, and seems dependent upon a
certain intensity and ecstasy of emotion which shuts down the
usual awareness of your surroundings, if only for an instant.
Aesthetics play as large a part as method in this
process. All that I can tell you is that such things are
possible; they do happen. I have experienced a time slip,
when the past stepped into the present and physically
interacted with it (or vice versa).
I have never yet
spontaneously transported from one site to another, but the
phenomenon is well enough reported to accept its feasibility,
and it is certainly no more nonsensical to conventional
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thought than the time slip which I experienced. But it is, after
all, quite wrong to think of such things conventionally, as our
experience with the Space-Time Tree should have taught us
by now.
It is vitally important that you should learn to sense
not only the power arising from the vortices where ley-lines
cross, but also the currents that flow along the lines
themselves. These are key to travel and 'slippage'. At this
stage of magical practice, everything is about sensitivity and
artistry. These are things that you should have honed
already if you carried out the Work of the Fifth Head aright.
Aesthetics and sensuality are the magician's interfaces with
the Void and Reality. If you cannot appreciate this at present,
go back, reWork and Remanifest until you can.
You must learn to sense the currents of Dragon
energy, and you must then learn to flow with them and along
them.
It will soon become easy to displace your
consciousness to another location by this method. Enabling
the physical body to manifest elsewhere is the next step,
allowing you to actually interact with the other environment.
It is interesting to note that according to many
practitioners and observers of this power, the body does
not actually move.
Instead, a form of bi-location is
experienced. The Initiate remains where he was, but appears
in visible, sensible form at his desired destination also, and
interacts with the people and things there perfectly naturally,
returning to his original body when he is done. Sometimes
the original body falls into a trance when this bi-location
occurs; other times the Initiate is fully functional in both
places at once.
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The Memory of Trees

There is another technique that the Initiate may use at this
stage to assist in extending his consciousness throughout all
the ages of time.1 By now, you have arrived at the realisation
that Reality is sustained by the projection of consciousness
from the Eye, shaping Void-stuff into manifestation. For
most people, this process operates on an entirely
subconscious, involuntary level, but for magicians it is a
matter of Will, Desire and Imagination, for we are like Set,
who can meet the gaze of Apep without flinching and lay
claim to the World of Illusion.
This realisation should have led you to Understand
that every phenomenon in Nature can be Understood to be
at least on some level, in its uttermost roots possessed of
consciousness. This is why Elemental spirits may be
summoned, why places carry an 'atmosphere', a genius loci,
why we instinctively anthropomorphise phenomena, speaking
of the 'fury' of a hurricane, for instance. All manner of Gods
and spirits are reflections of this truth.
In such a Cosmos, we may expect other beings to
have manifested a personal consciousness also, one akin to
their own physical natures. We can perceive this most readily
in the higher animals, those who are most closely akin to
ourselves any dog or cat owner will testify to this. But such
consciousness may be manifest in other species entirely.
Such is the case with trees.
I am not going to go into any great detail on this
1 It will be understood that when speaking of 'the ages of time', I
am speaking in conventional terms purely for the sake of clarity.
Our new Tree model of Space-Time necessitates a much more
complex Understanding; this should be taken as read when
conventional phraseology is used in instances such as this.
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subject in the current book, for I have already written

extensively concerning the Dryads and their ways 1 for those
who wish to study the subject and understand the spirits of the
trees more fully. But suffice to say that trees possess
consciousness and awareness at least the equal of our own.
They also tend to live to very great ages and possess very long
memories.
Trees will communicate telepathically with courteous
humans who make the effort to reach out to them. Sit down
in a hollow or among the boughs or roots, still your mind and
try to connect with the mind of the Dryad. Just switch off and
listen. It may take some time to attune your thoughts to its
properly: the mental processes can operate on very different
scales and at very different rates. Compare it to talking with
one of Tolkien's Ents in The Lord of the Rings, whose
thoughts operated much more slowly, yet also more deeply,
than their Hobbit guests'.
Imagine how much each Dryad has seen and
experienced in its lifetime. If you befriend the trees of a
place, the Dryads of that locality may whisper some of their
secrets to you, illuminating the past as they share their own
memories via your consciousness.
I am just going to mention that rock too may harbour
memories which eons-old. Stone is a very good storage
substance, soaking up and hoarding all of the impressions and
emotions and experiences that have ever been played out in
its vicinity. It is hard and unyielding, but also direct and
guileless. What do you think lies behind the legends of the
sir seeking wisdom from the Etins?
1 See WyrdWood: The Story of Dusty Miller by Michael Kelly
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Stepping Outside
So far we have focused upon the power of the Sixth Head to
dramatically shift the Initiate's focus within the matrix of
Space-Time, conquering the boundaries of time and space.
We must not lose sight of what this new
Understanding means on a larger scale, though. What could
be larger scale than the Cosmos? That which is Outside,
that's what. This manifest world in all of its possibilities
is still only bubbles upon the surface of the ever-changing,
never-definable Void. It is the shadow play, of which the
Outside is the Reality.
So it is absolutely essential for the Initiate who bears
the mask of the Rebellious Giant to take some time to simply
go back to the Fourth Head practice of Opening the Eye in the
Void and spending long meditation in this state of
consciousness, considering its implications hard.
At this stage, you are not seeking to bask in the
perceptions of the Open Eye; you are more concerned with
what the Eye is, and what exactly surrounds it, along with
questions of the origins of each. All manner of difficult and
fascinating questions and reflections should be arising within
you the longer you sustain these Void experiences, and now
you will find that you are beginning to develop the perceptual
and philosophical tools necessary to answer them. Here is a
hint: Nothing is what it seems.
These exhaustive meditations will prepare you for the
mind-bending realisations that will awaken when the Seventh
Head rises and Apep swallows the Sun.
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Choosing Your Angles of Incidence

As you become more practised with projecting your
consciousness throughout time and space, it is inevitable that
you will begin to use the ability as a means of divination,
either seeking out information which is important to you or
planning ahead to see what factors your magical operations
need to influence.
This being the case, you need to learn to increase your
sensitivity to the different branches of the Tree. Following a
course in one direction may reveal one possible future, but
taking an alternative fork would have taken you to another,
possibly quite different one. Since the very act of viewing
one of these possibilities fixes it in your mind and makes it
increasingly likely to be the one which manifests, you need to
ensure that you follow the route which will prove most
favourable to you, guiding the currents of manifestation in
your wake. Even in the physical world, the more often a path
is trod, the more clearly defined it becomes and the more
likely it is to be followed by others. This simple rule is even
more pronounced in the world of the Void.
So make your sorceries easier by discovering the past
secrets and divining the future events which will prove most
helpful to your Desired outcome. And make note of all forks
in the road so that you can widen certain ways and restrict
others with your sorceries. These things will become second
nature to you with practice.
As a side note, you will find that the usefulness of the
Space-Time Tree model will also inform your divination with
more conventional means, such as runes or Tarot cards. Once
you have grasped the nature of the Tree, it will remain with
you and permeate all of your Work.
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The World of Is, As Opposed to the World of ShouldBe

I need to add a cautionary note at this point. It is all too easy
for the Initiate to become so accustomed to re-interpreting and
overlaying the past, and seeking alternative routes through
many possible futures, that he forgets that he is currently
rooted in the here and now in his manifestation.
All of these possibilities, might-bes and never-wills
that he so diligently extends his consciousness towards, lead
onwards from here, no matter which direction they tend in.
They lead onwards from here, they are not here. This is a
very important distinction to make. It is a deadly mistake to
become so immersed in possible Remanifestations that you
lose sight of what is manifest right now. And once you lose
your point of reference in the Real, the Eyes of Set no longer
fearlessly meet and hold the Eye of Apep; all descends into
fantasy and illusion and wish-projection. But the foundation
on which these things stand is no longer there, there is only
delusion and idiocy.
It is too easy to forget that there are three Draconian
Gods, who give rise to a fourth. Apep is the Eye in the Void,
the Illusion that births Reality from the sea of possibility.
Babalon is the Desire that motivates this process and gives it
worth and passion and meaning. Set is the Will and the Selfawareness who fixes the Real and makes it possible to Act
and to Come Into Being. The possibilities within the Void are
vast and immeasurable and the danger is that they will
overwhelm your awareness of the Real and devour your
stability. This is what happened to all of the other Gods; only
Set can hold the gaze of the Serpent. Be sure you do so.
It is a common complaint among human beings when
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something doesn't go their way, to exclaim, Well, it should

be the case! Don't make the mistake of living in a world of
what should be, because the world doesn't care. It just is the
way it is. As soon as you start making judgements of what
should or shouldn't be, you lose your awareness of what really
Is. It isn't your task as an Initiate to moan about what should
be; it is your task to Understand what Is, and Work to
transform it into what you Will. This you will never manage
until you see it with proper clarity.
So never mind what 'should be', Work with what Is,
so you can reshape the world and make it what you want.
Getting the world you want is achieved by hard Work, not by
false suppositions and expectations. Most failed sorcery is
the direct result of the magician failing to comprehend the
nature of the forces which are actually in play, thus being
impotent to affect them.
Bringing the Gods Down to Earth

As one who aspires to Divinity himself, the Initiate will
doubtless have given some considerable thought by now to
the nature of Gods and Goddesses, Angels and Demons, Elves
and Fairies, and all manner of other entity spoken of in
mythology, folklore and occult philosophy.
Let's consider some of these entities now and
speculate the possible means by which they might arise.
Some of them might be exactly what the lore tells
them to be. The fairy folk of Celtic legend, and their Divine
Lords the Tuatha De Danann, are said to be conscious beings
who inhabit a dimension close to our own, parallel with it in
some places and overlapping it in others. This is not beyond
the realms of possibility in the multi-dimensional, multiple-
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possibilitied Cosmos we have envisaged. The same would

hold true of similar entities in other mythologies, such as the
elves and dwarfs of Northern legend.
The souls of the dead are another order of spirit often
approached by magicians. We know where they come from,
of course, but even these are not as simplistic as might at first
appear to be the case. Apophis and gishjlmur have both
offered models of the soul which show our innermost beings
to be an overlapping conglomeration of several parts. Some
souls we deal with in necromantic Workings will merely be
the shades of the dead, their actual sense of Self and
individuality having long passed on into rebirth 1. In other
rare cases, we may access the mind and recollections of the
sovereign individual, especially if their death was recent. The
noblest manifestation of the souls of the dead in magical
Work, however, is the collection of race memories passed
down in our very genetic memory from our ancestral roots.
The ancestors live on in their descendants, manifesting
obligations and duties through us. This kind of ancestral
magic may be manifest through apparitions of the ancestors
themselves, or through interaction with the fetch, who often
carries these things into our consciousness 2.
Next, we can consider those orders of spirits known
as Demons or Angels in most occult lore. These are Infernal
of Heavenly spirits, messengers or workmen equipped to
provide the magician with information, wealth or power. The
grimoires are full of them, and such hefty occult tomes as
1 See Eliphas Levi's celebrated evocation of the ghost of
Apollonius of Tyana in his book Transcendental Magic as an
example.
2 See gishjlmur for more concerning the fetch or fylgja, a
transpersonal ancestral spirit who attaches itself to the soul in a
tutelary capacity.
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Israel Regardie's The Golden Dawn or Aleister Crowley's

writings, are filled with exhaustive lists of their names,
numbers and attributes.
It quickly becomes apparent, however, that such
entities as these originated as little more than lists of
attributes. Their names have specific meanings related to
their function; the gematria of their names adds up to numbers
appropriate to the tasks they will carry out; they are weighed
down with astrological attributions which further define them.
They are thus beings designed by a human magician for a
particular kind of purpose. They are projections of a series of
attributes, given shape and form by the animating Will of the
magician. In time, as their names are recorded in grimoires
and they are conjured and pressed into service by a growing
number of Initiates, they may very well accrue a being and a
consciousness of their own. Repeated use and application of
Will endow the 'tool' used with a consciousness of its own.
Anyone who has fabricated and used their own magical tools
will be able to testify to this. So such spirits take upon
themselves increased independence and personal intelligence
with every repeated use. This is why it can be dangerous for
novices who do not understand their origins to call upon the
spirits of the traditional grimoires.
The Golden Dawn tended to deal exclusively with the
evocation of Elemental or Angelic entities (though Crowley
was much less squeamish, regularly plumbing the deepest
Hells for allies). Their teachings imply that such entities
benefit from their contact with human Initiates and increase in
Being as a consequence. They imply that such communion
accelerates the evolution and transformation of the spirit into
an independent entity, capable of Initiation in its own right.
Experience would lead me to agree with this hypothesis.
This leads us to the case of so-called 'thought forms',
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'artificial elementals' or 'servitors', spirits which are created

for a specific purpose from the magician's own imagination,
having no prior existence in any grimoire or folklore. The
Initiate visualises an entity, endows it with the desired
qualities, then externalises and enlivens it by his own Will.
Even these personally created spirits will take on a life and
intelligence of their own and an increased independence with
repeated use. Their powers will also grow with repetition.
This level of increased independence is why it is so
important for an Initiate to befriend his servitors and ally
himself with them instead of following the Judeo-Christian
method of bullying and commanding them. It's small wonder
the pious magicians lived in such dread of their spirits when
these entities grew increasingly self-willed and began to
resent and despise their vicious and punitive conjurers.
That's the various orders of spirits discussed, but what
about the Gods Themselves? How did They arise?
The Gods of a people arose and developed parallel to
that people, as a blending of the spirit of the culture, the
environment in which they found themselves and the Divine
Principle itself. This combination shaped both the culture and
its Gods. This means that for those outside a given culture,
its Gods will always be more alien, although perhaps
manifestations of a familiar principle. But the Gods of your
own ancestors (and I mean the true culture at your roots, not
more recent vagabond gods imported from overseas) will
always be as Real to you as your own forefathers. The
ancestral Gods abide within your blood, your bones, your
consciousness, as real as the rest of your genetic heritage.
Some people will still tend to attribute to the Gods a
degree of autonomy, but may think of Them as thought-forms
conjured from the racial archetypes, or personifications of
natural phenomena. They may choose to give lip service to
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the Gods, finding Them to be effective magical symbols. But

they may stop short of granting Them any Reality. If it works
for you, that's fine, it's a popular theory and I can't disprove it.
Many of these questions you will have to answer for yourself
based upon your own experience.
I will here declare my own absolute conviction of the
literal existence of the three Draconian Deities: the Lord of
Darkness, the Principle of Consciousness; the Scarlet
Woman, the Principle of Desire; the Ancient Dragon, the
Principle of Remanifestation. The Principles embodied in
these Deities are too Essential to the very origins of Life and
Initiation to be a mere by-product of these processes. In these
cases, the Gods came first, before the magicians. They were
the origins of the magicians, the magicians can only be
because They ARE. They are the primal shaping of the Void
that allowed us to Come Into Being, to Desire and to
Remanifest. The Forms by which we know them may be
tailored to our Needs, but these three Principles came first,
and last, ever and never.
These three Gods flow through every Draconian
Initiate and it is we who may manifest Them in flesh. Do so
with joy and vigour.
Prophecy
I'm mentioning prophecy here as it is a natural function of the
Sixth Head. Every Initiate of the Rebellious Giant should be
a prophet.
This has nothing to do with the nature of time,
however, or of foretelling the future. Many people mistake
prophecy as a means of fortune-telling, but this is not the
case. Even the famous Biblical prophecies will be found to
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have been disgracefully misapplied and re-interpreted for the

New Testament, twisted completely out of context from their
Old Testament sources. It's a real education in spin to look at
these things, actually.
No, prophecy is mentioned at this point because it is a
function of the Sixth Head state of consciousness and it is
particularly appropriate to discuss it now, just after we have
considered the nature of the Gods.
Prophecy is the act of inspired Utterance, which is the
province of the Magus, channelling the consciousness of the
Gods through into the world. This done by simply opening
your mind to the Draconian Deities, building your magical
aspiration to a fever pitch, and speaking what comes through
you.
Examples of this are Aleister Crowley's The Book of
the Law and The Holy Books of Thelema; Dr Michael
Aquino's The Diabolicon and The Book of Coming Forth by
Night; Don Webb's The Book of the Heb-Sed. Historically,
the Prophecies of Merlin contained in Geoffrey of
Monmouth's Histories of the Kings of Britain is also a very
good example.
Within the Order of Apep, the text of The Apep
Workings (recorded in Apophis) is one example. The
statements attributed to the Black, White and Red Magi in
this present volume are also manifestations of this stream of
Divine consciousness, outpouring into words.
Your own prophecies will be expressions of the Work
you find yourself moved to do as you manifest your uttermost
Will and Desire in the world.
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The Breaking of the Boundaries of Belief

There does remain another dimensional barrier which remains
to be broken after rewriting all of your perceived rules about
the nature of Space-Time, and this is the barrier raised by
your very beliefs themselves.
This step is the preparation for the Work of the
Seventh Head, when the magician transforms into a dynamic
entity that flickers into constantly Remanifesting Being
between the poles of All and Nothing in a glorious Perhaps.
You should have realised by now through your
experiences of Void-stuff that the world is bound by your
own beliefs. These beliefs your expectations of what can
and should be are the self-imposed limitations which take
form as the Midgard Serpent, Jormungandr, who binds you
about. Instead, your rigid beliefs need to be torn down, so
that your spirit may fly free and wild as Nidhogg, the Dragon
Dark, the Serpent Bright.
This is something that requires constant vigilance
initially, and even after many years of the most extraordinary
magical experiences, you can still become hedged in and
restricted by your own beliefs and expectations.
Whenever things seem difficult or out of your control,
that is when you need to sit down and reflect anew upon the
nature of the Void and the manifestation of the Real. Trace
the Tree of possibilities anew, laughing as you go. Accept
and embrace the most ludicrous possibilities, become a
cosmic jester. Then look at your problems anew and simply
sidestep them. Remake the world to be the way you want it to
be. But before you can do this, you must realise and believe
the paths which will make it possible.
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Zain The Word of Silence

I mention the concept of Zain the Wordless on in
Apophis. This is a concept first expounded in the later
volumes of Kenneth Grant's Draconian Trilogies.
The magical concept of ons is discussed at length in
Apophis and I discuss the Idea of Zain there at some length
also. I won't retread the same ground in this current volume
to any great degree. Any Initiate who has progressed to the
Sixth Head stage will have at least an intuitive Understanding
of what an on is: magically speaking, it is not a measure of
time, but a particular resonance which affects the
evolutionary progress of the world. onics is magic on the
large scale, promoting worldwide metamorphosis instead of
just personal Becoming.
Each on resonates with a magical philosophy /
technology which is bound up in a Word which is Uttered by
a Magus. Some ons have multiple Words from multiple
Magi, the later Utterances enhancing and refining the primary
resonance.
For example, the on of Set, within whose sphere of
influence the Order of Apep was founded, is established upon
the Egyptian Word Xeper (pronounced 'kheffer' or 'khoffur'),
which means 'to Come Into Being', the Black Magical process
of realising and creating oneself as a discrete entity. This
Word is fully expressed in the Formula Xepera Xeper Xeperu:
I have Come Into Being, and through my Coming Into Being
the Way of Coming Into Being is established. It was Uttered
first by Dr Michael Aquino at the Temple's founding, and
later re-Uttered with an enhanced emphasis by Don Webb.
The Temple of Set has seen other Words Uttered by its Magi
over time, the most abiding of which are Remanifest, Rna
and Arkte. Remanifest is the Word of James Lewis, and
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describes the process whereby the intelligence who has Come

Into Being continually recreates himself and cannot be broken
down.
The doctrine of Remanifestation is of crucial
importance to the purest Understanding of Draconian
philosophy and is discussed at length under the Seventh Head
in the next chapter. This Word modified the onic Formula
to 'Xeper and Remanifest'. Rna is the Word of Dr Stephen
Flowers, and expresses the concept of Mystery, the Eternal
Feminine of Faust. The Formula is Reyn til Runa! - Seek
After the Mysteries! - an expression of the eternal drive and
Desire of the Initiate. Arkte, the Word of Lilith Aquino, is
expressive of the essence of Life itself and the responsibility
that arises from it.
So, in brief, an on is a cosmic-scale magical
Working, which steers and directs all progress and tendencies
toward change, under the guidance of the foremost Magi of
that on, each one of whom has gone out on a limb to cast
forth a new Teaching of world-changing implications.
We have also suggested that the Initiates of the Sixth
Head are those individuals who have attained a State of Being
which in many occult schools would be recognised as that of
a Magus.
In short, those who succeed in Becoming a Rebellious
Giant must give face and form to their rebellion by
crystallising their experience, insight and Understanding into
a new magical current unique to themselves, either to enhance
and refine the existing on or to create a new resonance.
This being the case, it becomes appropriate for
readers to ask themselves what form my own Rebellion has
taken, what new magical current have I unleashed?
It is something that goes back to the Apep Workings
upon which the Order of Apep was founded, and developed
further as I read Kenneth Grant's musings upon the Wordless
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on, Zain. I do not generally use Hebrew terminology or

Qabalah in my magical Arts, but I will nonetheless accept
Zain as a symbol of my magical apprehension. For in one
sense, the zig-zag shape of the letter 'Z' is the shape of a
Serpent, and the remaining three letters, 'AIN', are the word
signifying the Hebrew concept of the Nothingness that lies
Outside. So the word may be taken as a symbol of the
Serpent rearing in the Void. The Hebrew letter zain z is also
attributed to the card entitled The Lovers in the Tarot deck,
signifying Desire and sexual ecstasy as the means to enter
into the Void (or indeed emerge from it).
The Formula that expresses the Apepian magical
current is stated quite clearly at the end of the Apep Workings
(which are reprinted in full in Apophis). This Formula is
'There Is Never A Moment In Which You Are Not'. This
Formula contains very many double and triple meanings
within its few words, some of which are discussed in the
pages of Apophis.
It will be Understood now that the primary Teaching I
have delivered through the Work of the Order of Apep and
the curriculum of Draconian Magic is that the Void is the
source of all magic and all manifestation. I have opened wide
the gates of the Abyss and dived in headlong. I have called
the Crooked Serpent a friend and ally, a kindred Essence, not
a monster to be slain. I have pointed to a world of infinite
possibility, a world which encompasses not only all that has
been, is and will be; not only that which may be, may have
been and possibly might be the case; but also a world of that
which never was, is not, and may never be. And I have shown
all of these worlds to be equally valid when the Eye is
Opened in the Void. The only Reality is Outside. Creation is
a joke, a sham, a Play, all smoke and mirrors. But rather than
being a disappointment, this is a delight; we should take our
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Play with joy. We are beings of the Outside, who make

manifest in order to take our pleasure and sport.
The Word of the Void must therefore be an Unword,
a silent Utterance, expressed perhaps only as the sibilant
whisper of the Serpent. It cannot be spoken, for it Is Not. It
expresses Everything and Nothing and Maybe, all at once. Its
Utterance echoes in all times and in all places, and in None.
It is the sound of the Angles whereby the Eye intersects the
Cosmos.
It is the Unword. I may express it as loud, hearty
laughter; I may express it in the bliss of orgasm; but I must
also express it in the absence of these things; or the mere idea
and possibility of them.
I am Michael Kelly, who took to myself the name of
Fafnir and won the right to wear the Helm of Awe. I declare
myself Anti-Magus V-, Utterer of the Unword.
My
Utterance resonates throughout the Void. The world of
manifest things cannot hear It in Its fullness, but it is most
surely ruled by It.
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n this book, I have laid down the fundamentals of

Draconian Initiation in the most straightforward, practical
way I can. I have made every effort to describe the
possible pitfalls, whilst remaining fully aware that many will
blunder into them regardless, forced to learn the hard way.
For these are just words, and no words can prepare the
magician for the exhilarating terror of being swallowed by the
Abyss for the first time, finding his consciousness adrift in an
ever-changing maelstrom of everywhere and nowhere, forever
and never, not knowing if he will ever find his way back to
Self and sanity. No words can prepare you for this, yet
throughout I have championed this experience as the core of
the initiatory process. The experiential emotion is raw and
vast and all-consuming, shredding every nerve. But yes, the
rewards are worth it. I never, ever told you it would be easy,
though, did I?
And I know that this experience will be destructive
and unbearable to some perhaps to many. But I always said
that this was a path for the few, didn't I? The choice to follow
it, the risks you must take, the things that befall you these
are all your own. Do or do not, and accept the consequences
of your own decisions either way.
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I am at least now pleased to be able to show you a

Vision of the magician at the height of his powers: one in
whom the Red Flame of Self-Creation has ignited, who has
played the game and laughed aloud throughout, who remains
curious after conquering all. I can show you the one who has
raised the Head of Typhon, the Angel of the Fatal Wind, and
who rides on that hot wind of destruction and creation. I can
show you the Red Magus, in whom the Dragon with Seven
Heads is fully Awake and manifest, stepped from the Void
into this world.
The Red Magus

1. My colour is Red, the pulse of Life itself.
2. All is Life, the Cosmos is vital and vibrant.
3. All tends towards consciousness, for from
consciousness it was spawned,
4. given shape and form by a Will to Come Into Being.
5. A laugh, a sigh, a hope, such are the things the
worlds are made of,
6. unfolding out of Nothing , an origami Universe that
finds its shape
7. from the blank flat surface of a an empty page.
8. Mine are the fingers that shape the folds,
9. that sharpen the creases,
10. manifesting dimensions where there were None.
11. Mine is the Imagination that shapes,
12. the Will that plans,
13. the Desire that wishes to see something beautiful.
14. I fold out and in and up; I smooth and I crumple.
15. All things tend toward my Joy,
16. even as I wrestle with the Other Wills that are Not-
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Me;
17. they serve only to give definition and distinction to
my Work,
18. preventing sameness, preserving boundaries,
19. keeping live the chance for surprise and the laughter
it brings.
20. I Create and I Destroy as I Will;
21. it is done in but the blinking of an Eye.
Turning Oneself Inside Out

The single most important thing that distinguishes the Red
Magus is the ability to perceive the world on an onic scale
all the time. Anyone who has persevered with the Draconian
Initiatory curriculum up to the Third Head level or so will
have experienced occasional flashes of such illumination.
But the Red Magus or the Ipsissimus by the nomenclature
of other schools is aware of it all the time.
We are brought up to think of ourselves as beings
who move and exist within the Universe, creatures of the
world we are born into. The experience of the Eye Opening
in the Void should have done much to challenge this
assertion, and if you have Worked through all of the practical
and philosophical materials up to this point, your own
experiential knowledge should have done much to question
this worldview.
It is now time to try to look at the Reality of things by
turning your conceptions inside out. Your consciousness is
the Eye of the Ancient Dragon; it encompasses and
conceptualises all possibilities, including those which are so
remote and alien that they will never come to pass. But the
manifest Universe contains only those possibilities which
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have actually come to pass. Your consciousness is therefore

larger than the Cosmos, because it contains all of the other
possible permutations as well.
Therefore, the whole conception needs to be turned
inside out, so that you are no longer a speck in a vast Cosmos,
but the Cosmos is a speck in a vaster Imagination that is you.
You yourself in your manifest form are but a projection of
your Self within the realm of manifestation, an interface
whereby your consciousness may interact with and enjoy the
rest of the illusion which is Reality, the playground of Apep.
It is a fundamental precept of most occult philosophy
that the awakened Initiate is a microcosm of the macrocosm.
This works well in theory, and is in truth the only way in
which we can possibly approach the Work in its initial stages.
But by the time the Seventh Head rises into roaring
wakefulness, we come to realise that this was only ever a lie
told to children to help them to understand a truth that was far
too big for them: the Cosmos is actually a microcosm of our
macrocosm.
There will be those who scoff aloud at this, taking
offence at my 'arrogance'. But there will be others for whom
this will be a hammer blow that demolishes the old
conceptions and lets the truth come flooding in, a great
tsunami that destroys and sweeps away the old world, so that
we may create it anew.
For those who are reading this book but have not yet
done the Work, this may seem (a) bewildering; (b) a
nonsense; (c) a concept that you try to wrap your rational
mind around perhaps you can almost grasp it. But in large
part you will have to take this on trust. The experience will
collapse walls that you are not currently even aware exist.
We are fast approaching one of the most awesome
feats of Apep, oft spoken of in the pages of our Draconian
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guidebooks, but always previously symbolic. But let us now

apply our new Understanding and Vision and raise up the
Seven-Headed Dragon in the first rays of the new dawn, so
that Apep may swallow the Sun.
Ror Piadph To Swallow the Sun

All Initiates will be very familiar by now with the Seal of the
Order of Apep, the glyph of the Eye Opening in the Void,
which is Key to our magical philosophy and practice.
Our new Understanding as the Head of Typhon arises

and asserts the dominance of the Lord of Storms, suggests
that a better conception than an innermost Self looking out
into a vast Cosmos would be a vast Self looking in at a sea of
possibilities, in the middle of which an island of
manifestation floats, woven out of the interplay of these
currents.
It was Order Initiate Steve Armstrong, a gentleman
who plays hard with the Sixth Head, and who possesses a
supremely brilliant talent for visual imagination, who devised
the following diagram of the Inverse Eye, with the world of
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things in the midst of the Void. The angles whereby the Eye
intersects the manifest world are now transformed into teeth,
which surround all of Creation, threatening to devour it.
The surrounding Dark is the Void itself, out of which

all things are spawned; it is also the pupil of the Eye, now the
Infinity beyond the edges of the diagram rather than figured
as the centre. The nine rays are now curved through strange
angles and appear as teeth closing inwards as if to devour
Reality. The stars of the Cosmos are visible in the Ninefold
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pattern of Creation, but the Sun is in eclipse at the centre, for

Apep is now in the process of swallowing it.
It was also Steve who suggested the Enochian phrase
ROR PIADPH (Ror Pee-ard-pay), meaning the Sun in the
depth of my jaws, as the mantra of the Seventh Head.
Those who have read thus far and who have also
actually done some of the Work of the curriculum may find
themselves feeling a little giddy now. The foundations of
your magical worldview will have been turned upside down
and inside out, but if you have truly been diligent, you will
simultaneously realise that it actually could never have been
any other way. Now you are fitted to behold the Real.
Those who have not put the practice in will think that
they get this, but they won't. The experiential element is
crucial in order to live the transformation and Become
something new and dangerous.
And you know what? For those of you with the
Imagination to grasp it in its full meaning, this realisation is
beautiful and dangerous and madly exciting! You should be
thrilling with ecstasy at this apprehension.
You should devise for yourself a meditation to fully
explore and experience this new illumination, letting it ripple
through your Being. And you should and must do this in the
sure and certain knowledge that it will change you for ever!
This is a world-shattering cataclysm of an event, but glorious.
Divine madness lies ahead of you; the madness of Self-deceit
lies behind you, but you are alive and awake in the Eternal
moment. You will be searing yourself with the brand of an
Outer God, you will never be the same again, you will never
be able to look upon things the same way again. I have to
give you this warning, but at the same time I have to tell you
that it is far, far too late to turn back. But I have warned you
all along that you should not practise magic unless you
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yourself are willing to be changed thereby.

In your meditation, you should sit quietly, stilling
your thoughts. When you are ready, enter the Void and Open
the Eye. Visualise the Order Seal strongly and concentrate
upon all that it teaches and implies. Now, with your centre
focused within the pupil of the Dragon's Eye, feel it and you
turn inside out, a complete reversal, so that the pupil is now
the Infinite Dark that surrounds all, with the Cosmos but a
glimmer at its centre of attention, the teeth of the Serpent's
jaws closing upon it. Begin the chant of Ror Piadph!,
building to a convulsion of shrieking ecstasy as your chant
continues.
It is up to you to wrest all of the Secrets from this new
Seal, and Come Into Being as a Red Magus.
The Material World as the Manifestation of

Consciousness
It will now be apparent that consciousness has its origins in
that Set-like state of mind which can gaze into the Eye of the
Serpent of primordial Chaos. Moreover, all that springs forth
into manifestation out of that Chaos is the product of
consciousness in its interactions with potentiality. Also,
everything that we can ever know and experience is perceived
and filtered through our own consciousness, including our
personal perception of the world around us. Therefore, the
world around us is a projection of our own consciousness and
can be created, shaped and destroyed by the further action of
our consciousness upon its potentiality. We are left with the
inescapable Understanding that the World That Is is nothing
more nor less than the product of our own imagination.
This is not to say that we are omnipotent, for other
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consciousnesses shape Reality too. But we are in the fullness

of our strength and we laugh with delight at the new reflexes
cast forth by these tangential tantra. We are Gods, and God is
Mad.
By the standards of most of humanity, even the most
well-balanced and grounded of Initiates would be considered
truly mad. For once our eyes have been opened (and our Eye
has been Opened) to perceive these new ways of looking at
Reality, they can never again be closed. There is no return to
the days of blissful ignorance, no retreat from That Which Is.
You will need to find new ways to interact, new ways to
express yourself, new ways to form relationships, for the old
rules that governed such things are gone forever. This is
where the training of the Fifth Head the Understanding and
expression of your Desire will be your only friend, keeping
you reminded of the fact that you have a meaning and a
purpose that is Self-defined: the pursuit of Beauty and
Wonder. Beauty and Wonder and the Desire that drives you
to them will become more important now than ever before.
Without them and the focus they give, you might yet be lost
in the Void when the Seventh Head breaks through the last
boundaries.
If you remain in any doubt, if your Desire does not
burn hotly enough, roaring from the Dragon's jaws, then
renew the urgency of that earlier Work right now.
Being as a Function of Doing

The Self Comes Into Being as a consequence of the Will
acting upon the Void and interacting with the Universe that
manifests as a result. It is from this process of action that
consciousness, Self-knowledge and Self-reflection arise. It
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should never be forgotten that Being is a verb, not a noun.

We exist and find continuity (and immortality) as a
consequence of Doing.
The orthodox Buddhist seeks to find a place where
the Self no longer acts, no longer has consequences, and thus
ultimately no longer exists.. This is not our way.
The Draconian Initiate is no stranger to Nothingness
and Oblivion, as they are expressed in the Void, but he
destroys and negates in order to instantly recreate and
Remanifest, changing the nature of creation subtly as he does
so, introducing fresh, new elements for his delight.
So many religions and philosophies preach a
withdrawal from the world: the world is somehow corrupt
and 'fallen', a thing to be escaped from. There is a yearning
for something 'higher'.
The Draconian Initiate recognises the folly of this.
To any who have attained any degree of familiarity with the
Void, it is blatantly obvious that the world of manifestation is
the Desired and Willed-for projection, the place to which all
the energies and patterns of Creation flow. Yes, there are
other worlds and realms where consciousness may walk, but
they are the shadows and prefigurings of this one, where
manifestation takes its purest and most stable form. This is
the arena in which we must play. This is where our
consciousness chooses to project itself in order to experience
and play with the transformations and possibilities of its own
Essence. Worlds beyond this one may be more Ideal, but they
are similarly less Real, and their purpose is to filter the
patterns of manifestation through into this one, the great
Storm of Creation, where All is possible.
As a Mad God, it is up to you to ride upon your
passions and to pursue your Mad Desires in the world, riding
upon the Dragon's Breath and laughing as you go.
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The Throne in the Void

Didn't I say that this was a book of Divine Madness? For now
I'm going to contradict myself once again. Having just said
that our true place and purpose is the projection of our Selves
into the material Universe, I am now going to insist that the
core of consciousness itself remains ever in the heart of the
Void, staring out through the Open Eye.
Actually, there is no contradiction at all.
As
explained in the relevant sections of both Apophis and
gishjhlmur, the Self is made up of several parts: there is
no such thing as a simple, single soul.
One of the most straightforward, plain language
accounts of this phenomenon of 'multiple selves' making up
the Self may be found in Colin Wilson's excellent book
Mysteries. In this, he recounts his discovery of a 'ladder of
selves', each rung of which has a broader view than the
perspective of the rung below it. By shifting his attention
from the bustle of everyday concerns to the next rung up,
which was able to look at such matters from a more detached
perspective, Wilson succeeded in totally curing himself of a
series of crippling panic attacks.
Models of the many-faceted soul complex are
discussed in both Apophis and gishjlmur, or a more
detailed breakdown of the soul lore of the Celts may be found
in my Book of Ogham1. Such models are invaluable for those
who really wish to explore their psychological potential in
depth. However, all that is required in order to accomplish
the Work is an Understanding that the Self emanates in layers
from its core. The core of Self is a singular spark of
consciousness a Hadit, to use the terminology of Crowley's
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Book of the Law which Desires the infinite unfolding and

complexity of the manifestations of the Cosmos (Nuit). The
other rungs of the ladder of selves represent different
perspectives and positions within the matrix of possibilities
which lead to manifestation, culminating in the physical self
of the Initiate, Come Into Being within the world to
experience the changes and happenings that the Creative
matrix has wrought. These experiences are fed back to the
core Self.
All human beings are projections from a spark of
consciousness, an ember of the Ancient Dragon's Breath,
projected into the world which we have fabricated around
ourselves as a theatre for our play. The difference with
Draconians is that we know this to be the case; we know that
our ultimate Essence lies altogether Outside of Space-Time.
We are thus able to step our consciousness back from the
world at Will, allowing ourselves a good overview instead of
getting entangled in the unfolding of the pattern of events.
Where necessary, we can withdraw our awareness back to the
Eye itself and introduce radical change in the pattern to shift
the world into something more to our liking.
Everyone possesses this ability to some degree. The
dullest simpleton is sometimes aware of 'standing outside of
himself' or seemingly looking over his own shoulder, giving
himself advice, encouragement or chastisement, as if he were
somebody other than himself. But magicians, with trained
Wills, do it with efficiency and with results.
So live life as a King in the world, whilst never
forgetting that your Throne is in the Void and your Crown
spans worlds.
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The Secret of Remanifestation

The great Gift of the Ipsissimus James Lewis to the magical
world has been the Word Remanifest.
There are many meanings and interpretations to the
Word, the most basic of which is that patterns repeat; that
something which has happened once is more likely indeed
inevitable to happen again; that life and consciousness are
not extinguished, but must necessarily return, perhaps in new
forms, but nonetheless with a continuity.
Continuity is a great word which has always been
associated with the Order of Leviathan. Leviathan Itself is
the principle of continuity and ageless existence according
to the 'Statement of Leviathan' in The Diabolicon. The Self is
a continuum; through all of its changes and developments and
upheavals, it retains its continuity.
There are other facets to Remanifestation, though,
and these are the Keys of Power carried by the Red Magus.
The true power of Creation and Destruction (as seen from a
worldly perspective) which can be wielded by a Being with
the Red Magus' Understanding should be evident.
Once it is realised that Space-Time is a kind of multidimensional hologram containing all possible events and nonevents, and that our own Essence is Outside of it, it becomes
apparent that all normal notions of past, present and future are
a nonsense. The past becomes a reflection of things that
might have happened to engineer a given situation; the future
becomes an analysis of patterns suggested by apparent
motion; the present is not a thing, but a phase of
consciousness incorporating a tendency to change.
So what happens is that time does not flow from past
to future through the present. Instead, the present shifts and
changes dependent upon the patterns and possibilities
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inherent within it, transforming itself into a new shape

through the process of Remanifestation. The world that was
has blinked out of existence, Remanifesting as something new
that is expressive of the potential the old one possessed. It is
a new world, freshly Created, yet is simultaneously the old
one transformed. The overall Space-Time map expressive
of all possible happenings and non-happenings, and thus the
ultimate Reality has not changed one wit. But the
expression it projects for consciousness to interact with has.
And that is the world of the Red Magus in a nutshell.
The Red Magus, whose Eye is Open, who can see the
pattern in its entirety, and knows which currents of possibility
to direct his gaze along, thus possesses enormous power to
unmake and refashion the world according to his 'perfect
mind'.
This description will bewilder some, cause scorn in
others, make others believe they know what I'm talking about
on a purely intellectual basis. One or two, though, will shine
with the possibilities it holds.
So what does the Red Magus do with these powers
when he has them? The next, and closing, section will reveal
all...
The Armchair Ipsissimus

So where does all this leave us? I have to smile wryly to
myself as I consider this question. My answer will probably
surprise many of you, but it is one that the Draconian Gods
have drummed into me time and time again so I won't forget
it. Some of you will consider it a cop out, others will
consider it a betrayal, some of the more earnest and
'spiritually advanced' will refuse to believe it, insisting that it
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must be a blind that the 'true' Initiates will be able to see

through when they attain the correct state of exalted
consciousness. But some the true magicians, the heroic and
the beautiful and wonderful Children of Set will laugh out
loud and long and raise their glasses and their songs in joy
beneath the night sky.
When I started the series of Apep Workings back in
20021, I was taken on a magical roller coaster ride that tore
my unprepared consciousness through the raising of the
Seven Heads and the shedding of seven skins. I was
subjected to the Vision of the entire Draconian Initiation as
the Ancient Dragon shredded my soul. And then I was left to
pick up the pieces and sort it all into an intelligible order (and
indeed an intelligible Order).
But I will always remember the final visionary
experience with the thyr LIL. Here I was given the Key
Formula: There Is Never A Moment In Which You Are
Not. But I was also told a little truth that I did not record in
the account of the Workings in Apophis, but which may
pertinently be recounted here.
As I opened my eyes at the close of the Working,
seated in my armchair, Apep said to me, And there you sit, a
man reclining in his armchair, even as you began. So much
has changed. So much remains the same.
Because if you want to know the really, truly most
amazing and wonderful thing about the Red Magus, it is this:
he remains a man reclining in his armchair. He knows so
much, Understands so much, can cause the world to change
on every level. But he exercises his power with discretion,
because his greatest wonder is to project himself into that
world, even as everyone else, and to chase his Visions of
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Wonder, Beauty and Desire, dancing with Babalon, Cosmos

and Chaos together. He immerses himself in living and he
embraces LaVey's watchword of Indulgence wholeheartedly.
Because he has seen it All, and he has seen Nothing, and he
loves the Play. Life is for living, and here in the world of
manifestation is where we belong, projecting and
Remanifesting our consciousness as it delights in its own
metamorphoses and transformations.
I titled this final chapter 'The Emperor's New Clothes',
because this is where we find ourselves. The clothes are
indeed illusory, the glamour of the Serpent, but let us attire
ourselves in them richly. Some will point and laugh. But
that's okay, because we understand the joke and will laugh
with them, loudly and heartily. The children may see it as it
is, but they are not jaded and they can see and understand
magic. The masses will be fooled by the masks and fancies of
Apep as we weave our wonders about them.
Laugh, Live, Love and take your fill of Wonder,
Beauty and Desire. Remanifest your Vision and let the world
dance to the delightful tune of a God gone Mad.
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Also in the Draconian Magic Series

by Michael Kelly
APOPHIS
Behold the Seven-Headed Primordial Dragon.
The Serpent lurks in the deepest, darkest roots of human
consciousness. Each of its seven heads embodies a power
which may be awakened within the psyche.
This book outlines the transformative process whereby the
human Initiate becomes something much more than human. It
provides the weapons necessary to win the war of
consciousness against conformity. It openly teaches the
means of immortalising the Self.
A Practical Handbook of Draconian Left-Hand Path
Initiation.
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GISHJLMUR
The Book of Dragon Runes
gishjlmur takes the curriculum of Draconian Magic powered by the Dragon energies that lie in the deepest parts
of the human psyche and applies it within the context of the
runic tradition of Northern Europe.
The myth of Sigurd and the Dragon Fafnir is used as a heroic
role model for the Initiation of the reader, who is guided on a
journey of discovery which unlocks the hidden powers of the
body and mind, opening consciousness of higher dimensions
and timeless states of being.
The student is empowered by the polarised energies of the
three great Dragons of the North: Fafnir, the guardian of
riches; Jormungandr, the Midgard Serpent who establishes the
boundaries of the world; Nidhogg, the primal Dragon of
Chaos, who transcends life and death.
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DRAGONSCALES
Dragonscales is a collection of essays and articles which
supplement the Initiatory curricula presented in Apophis and
gishjlmur. The articles may be read alone or together with
the other two books in the series.
These essays explore some of the Draconian themes in greater
depth than was possible within the scope of the basic
curriculum, providing new avenues and techniques for
students to explore.
In particular, this book's contents shed much more light upon
the higher 'Heads' in the Draconian initiatory curriculum,
providing much food for thought for the more advanced
student.
With expanded lore, practice and philosophy across a broad
scope of subjects, this book will prove invaluable to all who
Seek After the Draconian Mysteries.
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Invoking the Beloved............................................88

The World of Is, As Opposed to the World of

raconian Consciousness is a book that aims to

The Path of the Draconian Adept

aggrandisement on the other. Sometimes the opportunity to

The Order of Apep

publication of the Order of Apep', as do the previous volumes

The primary resources provided by the Order so far

What Do I Need to Do First?

Time and Space, the transgression of boundaries

skills in clairvoyance and other psychic phenomena. You will

So What Comes Next?

important reason for this, something which distinguishes

THE EYE IN THE VOID

n this chapter, we are going to turn our attention upon the

In the chapter in Apophis which deals with the Fourth

Head is what the Initiate is aspiring toward. The book goes

An Adept is one who has put in that hard Work and

extended this control to his emotions, stilling them and

Initiate following a fairly rigorous training regimen in order to

Fourth Head consciousness without proper prior training is

The Nature of Leviathan

consciousness. It must not be assumed, however, that Tiamat

The system of Angelic Magic devised by Dr John Dee

Flesh of My Flesh, Bone of My Bone, Blood of My

The Serpent as Redeemer

Apep, often being interpreted as a Serpent or Dragon Himself,

different parts of our psyche from each other. The single

Looking Outside the World

Eye Opening in the Void inevitably turns many notions upon

This Seal and its various permutations is discussed at

between the conscious and subconscious and be prepared to

Dragon awaits. Centre yourself, knowing yourself to be

Cultivating the Vision of Set

Following this Setian invocation will be an Odinic

and have fully enlivened the rune streams within their

Fehu Into that Unmanifest field of all-potential, also

Elhaz I raise up my consciousness, calling upon the

The foregoing are two very different invocations and the

Invoking the Ancient Dragon

Invocation of the Ancient Dragon

I ride upon the Dragon's breath.

times first to accustom yourself to the idea.

will not constrain or confine me; I may overstep the bounds

The Ritual of Opening the Eye

Prepare and open the ritual in your preferred manner.

have you trembling and shaking as it hits you.

you will know what to expect).

Void, played according to ever-changing rules. The seeming

The Helm of Awe

Awe, a rayed bind-rune which sees the energy of the runes