Cardoza's Dragon Magick and Alchemy

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DRAGON: (1) an ancient spiritual force, (2) a human or other being who attains spiritual knowledge and power, (3) a pet name for lizards, (4) an object of fantasy among the young.

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MAGICK: The application of spiritual knowledge and power to transform the self and its perceived realities, usually through meditation and/or ritual.

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ALCHEMY: The Art and Science of redeeming our lost union with Universal Spirit through a personal transformation called the Great Work.

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DRAGON DREAMS

"Those who manage to enter the Abyss and pass through the Dragon Gate (Lung-men) are turned into Dragons." -- The Old Master
Out of the Dream we came, and out of the Dream, the Truth - or so say the Sooth. The dreams we have forge our Truths, and the Truth there is shapes our dreams." -- DreamMaster

Thirty years have passed since I started having dreams of being with a Dragon, who told me that I was its son; because of this, I've come to consider the Dragon a personal totem. Originally, the word Dragon came into the Greek from the Sanskrit word DRIKANNA, which means 'three-fold watcher,' after its three horns. The Dragon sometimes changes its size, from very small to very large, but mostly appears about the size of a tractor-trailer. It also changes its colors sometimes, but is usually irridescent. The Dragon has no teeth, which symbolizes its unwillingness to harm others; it is, however, known as "the crusher" from its saturnine influence of squeezing out the earthly energies which trap us in mundane realities. Although the Dragon appears to speak, its thoughts are transmitted telepathically while it does so. The Dragon walks on all fours, but sits on its haunches and uses its front legs as arms and hands. Each leg ends in a five-toed claw. There are two sets of wings, both diaphanous. The primary wings are larger, with semi-circular, crenelated ridges along the edges (they always remind me of the Great Wall of China). The smaller, secondary wings are located farther down the body, under the main wings. The Dragon's powerful, whip-like tail is as long as the body ("its power is in the tail"). The image of a Dragon with its tail in its mouth symbolizes lack of spiritual development, the energy bound up in the cycle of reincarnation. On those occasions when I have been able to make a bargain with the Dragon, the bargain is always sealed by the following: three strands of my hair are woven into a circle and swallowed by the Dragon, which then pricks its hand with a claw and I drink three drops of its blood.

In one dream, the Dragon said to me: "Lo, I am Apophis-Set, the Lord of Unbalance; but know that that which men call unbalance is really balance, and that which men call balance is really unbalance. My color is black and my number is 69. I am 11, and the Opener of All Gates; I am 88, and the Death of Transformations; I am 99, and contain All Possibilities."

In another dream, the Dragon was under water near some reeds, and it told me that it could often be found in conjunction with deeply growing reeds under water. The reeds were identified with the reed in which Prometheus brought down the fire of the gods to man, which was also the spinal column through which the Dragon-fire flows.

In yet another dream, the Dragon showed me that the entrance to Eternity is the seventh chakra (psychic center), the violet crown center on the top of the head ("I am Seven, for I am the Seeker of Knowledge"), the DragonGate, which is also a city, the City of the Dragon.

The Dragon Apophis Set, by Don Cardoza, from a Dream

Seal of Apophis-Set, by Aleister Crowley

In one of our DreamMaster's dreams, the Dragon explained itself like this: "In the Beginning was a fluted song, 'midst the dawning of All-That-Is, and so I was replicated to know and know again all souls of my perch. Pregnant with the souls of my perch, I prepared to send them to pioneer in Europa when a spark from without burst within and the perch was shattered. The energies of my souls mixed with the energies of the souls of the spark from without, and double beings were created: part demon, part human. And I was rent asunder in the Abyss. The spark from without forever bound part of me to Time, while the other part cannot reach here - divided we stand, poised in the Abyss, suffering incompletion - and corruption rushes in to fill love's void." The manifesting of the mixed souls - stemming from the spark from without - prevented the Dragon's oneness. However, the attaining of the status of universals by some of its souls enabled the Dragon to reform into a single being and re-enter Eternity.

Over the past thirty years, I've tried to categorize the Dragon according to the various stereotypes available: (1) Fallen Angel (Book of Enoch), (2) Universal Mind (Pymander of Hermes), (3) Lord of Wisdom (Chinese philosophy), (4) Guardian of the Gate between the Worlds (Carlos Castaneda and Michael Harner), (5) Guide to Immortality (The last Alchemical figure French Alchemist Nicolas Flamel had carved on his local church, its last picture showing a Red Dragon carrying off the transformed Alchemist into Eternity), or (6) Creator of the Universe (Theosophical Stanzas of DZYAN). At various times, dreams have shown the Dragon to be partly all of the above, and then some. The double souls among some humans cause them to ask larger questions about the nature of existence and to seek beyond consensus ideas. The preferred destiny of such persons is to become universals, to unite the individual soul with the Universal Spirit as in the Great Work of Alchemy, to seek the DragonGate, the Mysterious Pass, and enter into the freedom of Eternity.

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DRAGONS OF THE ORIENT

The three-toed Dragon is Japanese, while the four-toed Dragon is Chinese and represents the earthly power of the Emperor. The five-toed Dragon is Chinese and represents the spiritual power of the Adept. The sphere which accompanies the Dragon represents the spiritual attainment of the the Adept, the Pearl of Great Price, Philosophers' Stone or Risen Kundalini. Dragons teach the "knowledge of the clouds," the direct knowledge of spiritual realms.

The Dragon is one of the most ancient symbols in China, with bronze castings predating the invention of writing. The Chinese considered the Dragon just, benevolent and the bringer of good fortune. As a symbol of authority, the Dragon was worn on the robes of the Imperial family and nobles. There are two kinds of Dragons, smooth and scaly, with separate words for each. The Chinese generally depict the Dragon without wings, although sometimes it appears with fins to indicate its aquatic nature. However, in the oldest depictions of the Dragon, a wingless Dragon is accompanied by one with wings.

The Dragon is paired with the Phoenix to symbolize long life, prosperity and wedded bliss, and with the Tiger to symbolize the forces of heaven and earth. Whenever Dragons are painted, the last thing done is called Awakening the Dragon, which is accomplished by painting in the the eyes of the Dragon.

The number nine is part of the Dragon mythos in China, with various legends stating that the Dragon is composed of nine creatures, that there are nine species of Dragons, and that the Dragon has nine sons:
1. Haoxian - a reckless and adventurous Dragon whose image can be found decorating the eaves of palaces.
2. Yazi - Valiant and bellicose, his image is seen on sword hilts and knife hilts.
3. Chiwen - Chiwen likes to gaze into the distance and his appearance is often carved on pinnacles.
4. Baxia - Baxia is a good swimmer and his image decorates many bridge piers and archways.
5. Pulao - Pulao is fond of roaring and his figure is carved on bells.
6. Bixi - Bixi is an excellent pack-animal whose image appears on panniers.
7. Qiuniu - Qiuniu loves music and his figure is a common decoration on the bridge of stringed musical instruments.
8. Suanmi - Suanmi is fond of smoke and fire; his likeness can be seen on the legs of incense burners.
9. Jiaotu - Jiaotu is as tight-lipped as a mussel or a snail. His image is carved on doors.

The Nine Dragon Wall is a famous Chinese artifact built in Beijing in 1756. This wall was an imitation of a legendary Nine Dragon Wall over a thousand years old.

Although Chinese culture is believed to have begun in the north, in the south, across the bay from Hong Kong Island is the ancient city of Kowloon (Chiu Lung--literally, 'Nine Dragons'), a stronghold of piracy, rebellion and black markets, where a 5,000 year old kiln and Neolithic rock carvings have been found.

The ancient Chinese believed there were five Dragon Kings, one at each quarter and the chief in the middle. When they change positions, they cause mountains to tumble; rising to the surface of the sea they cause typhoons and whirlpools; taking to the air they cause storms. In the springtime, when the constellation of the Green Dragon rises in the east at the beginning of the rainy season, Dragons ascend into the skies; in the fall they dive down into the depths of the sea. The Dragon Kings are immortal, and are said to be the same as the Naga (serpent) Kings of India.

The four types of Dragons are:
1. Celestial Dragon - carries on its back the palaces of the gods (guards the realms of the Immortals and the Fu-sang Tree of Paradise, with its ten suns representing the first spirit and its nine manifestations.)
2. Divine (Spiritual) Dragon - makes the winds and rains for the benefit of all life on earth
3. Terestrial Dragon - determines the course of streams and rivers, and the lung mei (paths of Dragon power across the earth)
4. Hidden (Subterranean) Dragon - stands watch over treasures forbidden to all men except those who gain Immortality.

The Dragon is one of the four ancient Watchers in the Heavens: the Green (later, Azure) Dragon of the East / Spring, represented by the Dragon Heart (Antares)(the horns of the Dragon are Spica), the Unicorn of the West / Fall (later, the White Tiger), represented by the Pleiades, the Phoenix of the South / Summer(later, the Red Bird), represented by Sirius, and the Somber or Hidden Warrior of the North / Winter(later, the black tortoise), represented by the Void (there are no visible large stars in this quarter). These associations are at least 3500 years old, and may be from an even earlier period. The actual positional path of the Sun moves in the opposite direction from the seasonal associations of Spring and Fall. During early dynasties, when the handle of the Big Dipper (the "North Seven Stars") didn't set below the horizon in China, these stars appeared to rotate counterclockwise throughout the year, in the opposite direction to the Sun's movement through the ecliptic; thus, they could have been used as a determination of the seasons. Alternatively, if this anomaly is due to the precession of the earth's axis, these associations would have had to have been created 18,000 years ago.

Chinese Dragon Wisdom
The I Ching hexagram Chien was said to represent the Dragon.
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Chien represents what is great, the creative penetration of the correct, the firm and the advantageous. Through heaven above and below we understand the relationship between the beginning and the end. Each of the six lines reaches its accomplishment at the appointed time. They mount the chariot drawn by these six Dragons at the proper hour, and drive across the sky.

Six (at the top) - The Dragon flies too high. There will be cause for repentance.
Five - The Dragon flies across the heavens. It is a favorable time to see the great man.
Four - The flight across the Abyss is not sure. He who is resolute suffers no reproach.
Three - The superior man is active all day long. At nightfall his mind is still full of care. Danger, but no reproach.
Two - The Dragons appears in the field.
One - The Dragon lies concealed in the deep.

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PATH OF THE DRAGON

The ancient Chinese found lines of energy running across the earth, and they called these lung mei, the paths of the Dragon. The Dragon's heart can be found at a lonely knoll standing in a small valley among the hills. From here the veins of the Dragon current run over surrounding ridges and hills. Near the heart its force is strong and active. At this center the Dragon and the Tiger, the female and male curents, meet harmoniously. The yang of the White Tiger rules sharp rocks, steep mountains and high ridges, while the yin of the Blue Dragon rules lower hills and the gently undulating countryside. The ancient Chinese believed that these paths of the Dragon covered the entire earth. Seasonal rituals were performed to mark the running of the Dragon current through the earth in accordance with astronomical influences overhead, and mounds were used for astronomical sightings to predict the correct time, while standing stones were erected to mark the path of the Dragon.

When the path of the Dragon runs in straight lines for any distance, the energy builds up and becomes dangerous for living things. By erecting a barrier such as a stone circle, burial mound or building on such a line, the energy is diffused into the barrier. Since the benign influence of the energy was needed for the welfare of man, only royal personages were allowed to be buried on a Dragon path. The breaking up of straight lines of the energy is the reason Chinese buildings have eaves and roofs of varying heights along a street. A class of men arose called the "direction men," who mapped out the lines of the Dragon path at any particular place and decided where things had to be placed within rooms and the landscape to keep the good influences of the energy and dispel the bad. Today this practice is known as Feng Shui. Whenever the landscape was found to not be in harmony with the path of the Dragon, earthworks were undertaken, with mountain tops being flattened or sharpened, whole mountains being cut down or new mounds being put up. On one such artificial mound outside of Peking known as Coal Hill is on a major path that divides China north and south; the Emperor would ascend this hill each year to perform a ritual to invoke the power of the Dragon for his land. Several lung mei converge in Shensi Province in northern China, where a field of over 100 pyramids was discovered by a western pilot in 1947. The pyramids are believed to have been constructed between 10,000 and 5,000 BC, but their position in the Forbidden Zone has prevented further research. At least one of the pyramids appears to be as large as the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

While pyramids and megalithic structures around the world are thought to diffuse the Dragon current into the surrounding area with fertilizing and harmonizing energies, inner chambers discovered in many of these structures are believed to act as accumulators of the Dragon power to stimulate physical regeneration, development of psychic abilities and attainment of spiritual illumination.

Several lung mei lines run across the water from China to cross Japan. Along one of these lines, researchers discovered an underwater city near Okinawa in 1997. The city appears to have been carved out of a mountain and contains broad avenues and a pyramid. Scientists from the Ryukyu (Okinawa's old name) University have estimated the date of the city at around 10,000 BC.

In ancient Britain, the paths of the Dragon were also mapped out, and today they are called ley lines. These lines of energy run absolutely straight, going through lakes and over steep mountains. Most of the megalithic monuments and Bronze Age structures in Britain, including stone circles, standing stones, barrows, tumulii, wells, moats, hill forts and earthworks, are aligned along leys. Many of the cup and ring designs carved on these monuments mirror the constellations overhead as well as show the way to the next standing stone or circle.

In ancient times, the dragon power that flowed through the leys was known to wax in the Spring and wane in the Fall; thus, fertility rites were observed, when at summer's end (Samhain to the Celts, though these rites considerably predated the Celts in Britain) a festival and ritual was held that ended with "killing" the dragon. Usually an important local person had the honor of leading the festival, and this was continued throughout the occupation by the Celts and into the Middle Ages. Many British families have coats-of-arms commemorating an ancestor who "killed" a dragon. The Celts continued these rites, and made many references to the great men of the past who constructed the monuments the Celts had taken over. In Wales, the Goddess Elen of the Ways, who ruled sunrise and sunset, was the guardian of the old paths.

When the Romans arrived in Britain, they cemented their reputation for building straight roads by building on top of the old straight tracks of the leys they found there. This is why so many roads attributed to the Romans seem to link ancient stone monuments. The Romans found these straight tracks in all of the countries they conquered, and often built on top of them because they were so convenient. These old straight tracks are generally dated from 10,000 to 4,000 BC.

When the Christian church arrived in Britain, many churches were built at places of ancient sanctity; thus, today most old churches are also on ley lines. The dragon killer St. Michael took over the high ridges (thus most of St Michael's churches are on hill tops), while the dragon killer St. George took over the lowlands.

According to the old tales of how Michael took over from the Dragon, they fought for seven days and found that they were an even match. Michael received the magick of the Dragon, whose mark was now upon him. On St. Michael's feast day, originally on the Fall Equinox, but now the 29th of September, everyone stays up all night. The whole family makes a circuit on horseback of the nearest St. Michael's church, and a dance is performed between a man and a woman called the Cailleach an Dudain; the man "kills" the woman with the touch of a Druid's wand and then resurrects her by touching each part of her body with the wand and breathing into her mouth.

Modern dowsers have mapped many of these lines and found that they double in width at sunrise and sunset, and fluctuate during the phases of the moon and at the turning of the seasons. At the full moon the energy is most intense at noon and quiets down just before sunset. At certain times, the energy reverses direction. The largest such line found is called the E-line; this line circles the globe and is 70 to 100 paces wide.

The path of the Dragon is not only an old knowledge, it also was known throughout the ancient world. Old straight tracks, marked with standing stones and stone circles, can be found all over the earth.

In Australia, the old straight paths of the serpent run across the deserts, where the aborigines have divided the job of maintaining the rock paintings made by their ancestors at points where the lines cross. Today, each tribe settled in an area takes care of its portion of the lines of power, going out at the right season to repaint the rocks and sing songs of the creation to release the power of the serpent to fertilize the land.

Ayers rock, called Uluru by the aborigines, is the largest monolith in Australia. Aborigines who oversee the rock consider it the center of life in Australia and say that it marks the spot where two serpents come together.

The absolutely straight roads of ancient Persia, which run for miles across the land, as well as the straight paths connecting standing stones in Ethiopia, are well known to modern day travelers. The mystic Gurdjieff wrote that while traveling in Turkestan, the only way he could navigate across the countryside was by following the straight paths from standing stone to standing stone; he also states that in ancient times, these stones were associated with the dragon.

Tales of the ancient paths turn up in old literature everywhere. For example, in the Bible's 'Book of Samuel' we read how the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant but decided to get rid of it after a run of bad luck. They put it in a cart pulled by oxen and sent the oxen off on their own. The oxen "took the straight way of Beth-Shemesh... turned not right nor left,' and ended at a standing stone. In ancient Greece, the energy of Dragon Python, worshipped at Delphi as the creator of the earth, connected all of the ancient holy sites and was ruled over by the twins Castor and Pollux of the constellation Gemini -- ruled by Hermes (Mercury), who oversees both energy and paths. Many myths of the ancient world reflect the "killing" of the Dragon or Serpent, which later became a symbol of newer religions supplanting the old. From the Babylonian Dragon Tiamat (the first creator) being killed by her children, to Apollo killing the Dragon Python (father of the earth) to the relatively modern St. Patrick driving the serpents out of Ireland (there never were any snakes there), the old knowledge remains embedded in myth, symbolism and tradition.

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DRAGONS: THE GOOD, THE EVIL & THE ILLUMINATED

In High Ancient Days, in the time before the Moon, before there was life on Earth, the seven Tears of the Dragon fell upon the barren planet. Immortal life sprang from the tears, but it could not sustain itself and fell into the duality of the two trees, into the cycle of births and deaths. Life and human nature, joy and sorrow, light and dark, Spirit and soul, intellect and emotion, the one became many and in each pair of Forces, each seeks the other's transformation. The dark power, the love of earthly pleasures or sensory stimulation, as well as the light power, the intellectual and logical order of the consensus world, have to be overcome if we are to regain our original spiritual state (union of our individualized consciousness with universal consciousness). Both powers have to be overcome in apotheosis if one is to be 'saved.' The Dragon of light is represented by man as an eagle, while the Dragon of darkness is represented as a serpent. The transcendence of BOTH the light and the dark to enter into a higher state of being is still a taboo idea, only followed by those who seek to become Dragons themselves.

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THE DRAGON GATE

The Guardian of the Gate between the worlds is the Dragon, which jealously guards its treasure of jewels - the souls of men whose consciousness is attuned to consensus reality and held there by bonds of belief and emotion. The Old Master said the Dragon Gate is made of spirit and energy joining together. If you can unite desire and reason, then the way to the Mysterious Pass will be opened. The Gate is hidden from the average man by a veil of intensity, energy vibrating at a higher speed than we are used to perceiving. Changing the focus of our consciousness activates unused energies within us, giving us the increased energies necessary for walking the worlds. The Dragon guards the Gate against the unworthy, and the "conquering" of the Dragon by Sages, Prophets and Saints is an indication that they have passed the Guardian. The entrance to the gate make take any form, such as a tunnel, a bridge or a wall of fog. The Guardian sometimes separates into two overlapping forms which coalesce back into one, showing forth the Great Mystery of entering Eternity.

ATEA ORAIN IRIKIA DAGO. NI IRTEN NAITEKE. -- (The Door is now open. I am able to go out.)

DZYU, the Serpent of Consciousness, is the master of the passage into manifestation. It is a secret fire that flashes through the hidden depths of the universe, moving in the spaces between realities. The excremental vibrations given off by the Serpent as it moves constitute the manifested realities. In its end is its beginning; it doesn't go anywhere, because just 'being' is its purpose. It consumes the energies of consciousness.

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THE IMMORTALS

There are thousands of human Immortals (called Dragons) on the Earth, accumulating virtue so that they may make the Crossing (to Eternity). There are five classes of Immortals. Ghost Immortals can communicate spiritually and can subsist for a long time (when they lose their Way and begin subsisting off the energy of the living, they become vampires). Human Immortals are like others, except that they can avoid illness and live extremely long lives. Earth Immortals do not need to eat or shelter from the elements, but they cannot yet project the Spirit. Spiritual Immortals have supernatural powers and can dissolve into energy and solidify back into the physical form. Celestial Immortals can leave our world to enter directly into spiritual realms and return. What marks all of these Immortals is their need to achieve further purification before they can permanently leave the Earth. Lesser Immortals (the norm) shed their bodies and project their Spirit into Eternity, while the greater Path is to seek further Work to transform the physical body as well.

Dragon Facts

The term 'messiah' is a reference to the Dragon. The word actually comes from the Egyptian and means 'crocodile,' a beast often considered an earthly representative of the Dragon. Egyptian Pharoahs were anointed with crocodile fat when they ascended the throne to indicate that they would be fierce and fearless like the crocodile in protecting their people from enemies; thus, 'messiah' became one of the titles of Pharoah. When the Jews were in captivity in Egypt, they borrowed the word to refer to their prophesied future king. Later, those Jews who followed Jesus appropriated the term to refer to their spiritual king, Jesus. Since many ancient peoples, including the Chinese, Indians and Babylonians, all used the term 'Dragon' to refer to wise men with spiritual powers, it was ironically quite appropriate to refer to Jesus as a Dragon (Messiah).

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." ~Jesus

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DRAGON MAGICK

The following information came to me in dreams of the Dragon. Real Dragon Magick is not just using regular magick with Dragon images woven into it or creating fantasies about the Dragon and adding magick to them; it is magick given directly to us by the Dragon when we meet with it in other spaces. I use the term 'other spaces' to indicate that while dreams are usually remembrances of our travels on what we call the astral plane, this is not the normal habitation of the Dragon and sometimes not where our meetings with the Dragon occur. We are multi-dimensional beings, existing in many worlds, universes, times and dimensions simultaneously, and we sometimes manage to cross over into 'other spaces' during our spiritual seeking.

On Contacting the Dragon

Despite anything you may have read or heard, there is no relationship between Low Magick (such as Witchcraft) and the Dragon. There are not tons of Dragon spirits wandering around the astral waiting to be found by seekers, to personally guard them from trouble. The Dragon represents a universal spirit of immense power, and humans do not "have" Dragons - it's quite the other way around. If you are "of" the Dragon (have a bit of the Dragon in your spirit), then you may make contact with the Dragon. This is not a fast and easy process, but a turning of your spirit in the right direction (that is, towards the inner mysteries of the spirit, which is best represented in today's magickal mileau by extraterrrestrial mysteries).
First surround yourself with Dragon symbols - and, if possible, a Dragon piece of jewellry you can wear all the time, such as a ring. It helps if this is of silver, and is regularly charged in a meditation and/or ritual for spiritual guidance. You should read everything you can about magick (limiting yourself to the twinkie books on magick, such as those on Wicca will add years to your work). I advise you to get into Aleister Crowley's and Kenneth Grant's books. Take notes on those things you think are significant, and start writing down your dreams everyday. Basically, the more you are consumed with your magickal quest through being submerged in magickal studies, the more likely you are to make contact with the Dragon.

Entering The City of the Dragon

It is a walled city with three high towers and a circular vault-like Gate. On the Gate is a design like the old peace symbol of three lines moving from the center to the edges of the circle. In order to pass the Guardian of the Gate, you must answer the three riddles of the Dragon:
(1) What is the riddle of your self?
(2)What is the riddle of your quest?
(3)What is the riddle of the cities?
The answers to the riddles are three mantras vibrated as three musical notes which correlate to psychic centers:
(1) "A" - red root center
(2) "C" - yellow solar plexus center
(3) "E" - blue throat center
As you answer each riddle in turn, the Gate will go through three changes as it turns and opens:
(1) rotates clockwise one third and sinks inward (male)
(2) rotates clockwise one third and comes out (female)
(3) entire Gate sinks inward and opens (male & female)
In the City of the Dragon, each one who seeks spiritual transformation builds a Tower of his or her own through their efforts to transform.
Once, after doing pathwork on my own Tree of Knowledge to enter the City of the Dragon, I had a dream where I awoke in my tower in the City of the Dragon. I was laying on a slab of rock that rose from the floor, and standing over me were three robed beings. One was female and two were male. The female called herself Ha-Fra-Ti, and said she was an aspect of my Higher Self there to teach me about spiritual transformation. She had long dark hair and almond-shaped golden eyes. After metamorphosing into a red-head wearing a brief black leather outfit, she showed me her belt, which had the word "ILIL" on it. As I looked at it, the word reversed in my mind into "LILITH" and I suddenly understood something about a union with the Higher Self. Over the years, I've had many dreams of being in the tower with Ha-Fra-Ti teaching me things about magick.

Gaining Knowledge in the City of the Dragon

The Dragon took me into the center of the City of the Dragon. There was a square park surrounded by walls without an entrance. Those who pass through the Lake of Fire unharmed may pass through one of the walls as if it weren't there. Here dwells the Higher Self (seen as an aged couple strolling arm in arm), and here grows the Tree guarded by the Dragon. In the center of the park was a low domed building from which a continuous sound of partying emerged. I 'knew' that the party was made up of other aspects of myself, but I didn't get to investigate this, as my task this time was to speak to the Dragon of knowledge I could not fit together into a coherent pattern. The words emerged from me as glowing spheres of energy, which my Higher Self collected and fed to the Dragon. Once the Dragon had eaten and digested this 'food,' it excreted a seed which my Higher Self planted in the 'ground of my being.' The seed instantly sprouted and grew into a Tree of Knowledge whose topmost bloom contained a red-violet gem. This my Higher Self plucked and pushed into me, whereupon I was filled with light-energy and new understanding. One of my resulting flashes of insight was that a symbol of Saturn from the Key of Solomon, an inverted triangle with lines running from the points to the center, was a symbol by which the Dragon could be invoked.

The Mirror of the Soul

The Dragon took me to the City to show me the Mirror of the Soul. This Mirror has five sides, each showing a being who is part of one's soul, and who exists in his or her own reality. The Mirror can take different forms, such as an arc or a circle. ("Hear ye the words of the Fathers: There are only Arcs of Existence throughout the fabric of All-That-Is."--DreamMaster) This time, it was a circle, and the outside reflected the fronts of my aspects and the near future, while the inside reflected the backs and the recent past. I was there to refocus my energies to aid my Work of transformation. I started in the north and walked forward into my first reflection, integrated with it, and turned to face inward. I saw a pentagram inscribed on the ground, each point connecting one of the sides of the Mirror. I then walked the pentagram, merging with each of my aspects from behind before going on. As I approached my beginning point, the five aspects merged into one and I was pulled into a three-fold vortex of energies in the center of the Circle. Here I was told by the Dragon to circulate my energies to aid my transformation. Although on another level I actually had a nine-fold reflection of selves, the five-fold Mirror of the Soul, reflected the five most dominant aspects of the Nine.

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