"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 can 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.

Some of the magickal knowledge given to me by the Dragon is presented on the main page under the heading 'On Dragon Magick'.

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.