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.