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INTRODUCTORY COURSE
Part 2 - Practice
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Introduction
This part of the Introductory Course includes a set of individual practices to be done in your own
time, throughout 9 weeks in a row. Here you will find exercises, methods and techniques that will
help you align with the Draconian Current and provide foundations for development of your magical
skills that you will need in further initiatory work with the Draconian Path and the Atlantean Current.
These methods include trance exercises, meditations, astral vision practices, Kundalini work, and
others. Trance exercises are the same as provided in the first part of this course, the other workings
have been designed specifically for this project or derived from books, essays and other materials.
These sets, however, don't include exercises for astral projection as such. Instead, you will experience
astral energies through pathworkings, mirror work, dreamworkings, sigil meditations, evocations and
invocations. Astral projection is a skill that comes with time and systematic practice of purification
and empowerment. When you empower your subtle body and properly open and activate the
chakras, your personal power zones, you will start to project in a natural way and your consciousness
will separate from the flesh through simple trance techniques. If you try to speed up this process by
forcing your mind to learn astral projection, focusing on this task only, you will probably only waste
your time and get discouraged about the whole thing. Do not force anything, certain magical skills
come naturally, in the systematic process of learning and successive development of basic abilities.
In Draconian magic, doors to the Nightside and gateways of your inner mind are opened with blood,
your vital substance. Therefore, in meditations with seals and sigils it is necessary to anoint them with
blood, at least during the first working. You can repeat the blood offering every day, but this is not
essential, unless it's specified in instructions of particular workings.
The work of the course consists of 9 weekly sets of practices. Each weekly set is a coherent working
program which will successively guide you through the basics of Draconian magic and prepare you
for initial encounter and communion with Draconian and Atlantean Gods. When you finish the course
and you'd like to continue the work and participate in the initiatory program of the Temple, you will
have to write the report in which you should describe your results achieved through the work with
course practices. It is therefore important and recommended to keep a journal in which you will
regularly (after the practices) record your results. Having your report accepted by the Temple will
give you the opportunity to take Initiation into Draconian Current, and the Initiation will give you
access to the initiatory program and other advanced projects within the Temple. If we decide that your
results are not sufficient to continue the work in the Temple and undertake the initiatory program,
you may either receive further exercises and practices, or you will be advised to seek your magical
ascent through a different spiritual path. However, if you complete the work of this course, but you'll
decide that this work is not something for you, you can either leave the Temple or stay and participate
in open and less advanced projects only. There are no specific dates for the work of this course, and
you can feel free to start it at any time that feels right for you.
Each weekly set requires at least 1 hour of daily work. Practices should be done for 4-6 days in a row -
there are detailed instructions in descriptions of particular weekly sets. You can have 1-2 days off each
week. Remember, however, that the more time you dedicate to your practice, the better the results you
will have. So if you care about good results, take time to practice as much as you can. The workings
should be performed in the evening, but during the day it is recommended to find a few minutes for
purification and empowerment exercises provided in the first part of this course. This is not necessary,
but it can help you find energy for the other practices.
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Before you start the work:
- Think of your magical name and personality
- Create your Personal Temple
- Prepare sigils and tools you will need for the work
- Memorize meditations and visualizations so that you wouldn't have to reach for materials during the
practice. It is recommended to have only a small piece of paper with the general outline of the daily
workings.
- Plan your work - decide which days you'd like to take off and try not to miss any more days unless
it's absolutely necessary
Before each working, prepare your ritual space: place the Temple Sigil on the altar, prepare candles
(black and red are recommended), a ritual blade, and all other ritual tools you use (or you plan to use)
for your daily work. You may also place an image of Lucifer on the altar - a statue, a picture, or any
other depiction of the Lord of Ascending Flame, modern or from old books of magic. Sigils or images
of your personal patron Gods, incense, wine, etc. - feel free to decorate your altar as it seems right for
you. Temple Sigil should be painted in black and red on a golden surface (preferably wood) and kept
in your personal temple as the Gate to the Current. The gateways to the Other Side and in your inner
mind are opened with blood, your vital substance. It is necessary to anoint the sigils with blood and it
is recommended to repeat the blood offering each day, but if you really don't feel like doing this so
often, you can simply do it on the first day only, unless it's specified otherwise in instructions of
particular workings.
Do NOT change anything in the working program. If you're an advanced practitioner and you'd
like to alter the workings, please discuss this with us first.
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Week 1
The workings should be done in the order listed below. This is a daily set - all workings should be
repeated every day, for 6 days in a row. You can have one day off. All workings should be performed
indoors, in your personal ritual space.
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Dragon Invocation
Meditation with Dragon's Fire
Trance exercise: Breathing
Visualization exercise: Meditation with the Flaming Trident sigil
Dragon Invocation
Prepare 3, 7, or 11 red candles, incense (Dragon's Blood is recommended), and a ritual blade.
Light the candles and burn the incense.
Take a few deep breaths, then draw the symbol of the Trident with the ritual blade in front of you, and
recite the words of invocation:
Ho Ophis Ho Archaios,
Ho Drakon Ho Megas!
I invoke the Dragon!
Lord of Waters! Dragon of the Earth! Apocalyptic Fire! The Breath of the World!
Primal Source of all Creation!
I call the Dragon of the Void,
Ancient Serpent who holds the Universe in coiled embrace,
The Gate and the Key to the depths of my soul!
Awaken from your slumber in the heart of the Void
And rise up from the abyss of the Night!
I invoke your timeless essence which is the soul of the world,
I invoke your blood which is the vital force of every living being,
I invoke your Darkness and your Light!
I seek rebirth in your Black Womb, where the Flame of Godhood is born!
Vibrate (or shout aloud) eleven times the word:
VOVIN
Ancient Dragon of Atlantis,
Rise up from the Void!
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I seek your energy, your life, your limitless essence!
I call you forth to enter my being!
I claim your heritage of blood!
And I seek to rest in your eternal arms!
Awaken your fire and fury within me,
Overcome my weakness with persistence!
Enter my flesh and inflame my soul with your timeless force,
So that I could carry the torch of victory
Treading upon corpses of those
Who choose slavery and ignorance over Knowledge and Power!
Dragon of the Void,
Awaken my body, my soul, my blood,
Inflame the spark of Divinity within!
I invoke you through your ancient names:
LEVIATHAN, TIAMAT, TYPHON, DAGON, LOTAN, TIETAN, YAMM, RAHAB, NAHAR,
TANNIN!
Come forth!
Meditation with Dragon's Fire
Visualize a hexagram consisting of two triangles - blue watery triangle pointed downwards and a red
fiery triangle pointed upwards. In the center there is a source of energy, a pulsating point - the divine
spark of Dragon's Fire. The hexagram is located in the heart area, in the Anahata chakra. Envision the
Dragon's force flowing from the heart chakra, activating all other chakras, above and below. After a
while, visualize that the blue watery triangle disappears, and focus on the triangle of fire only.
Envision how it becomes bigger and bigger, and finally it is all around you and you are inside the
triangle. You are in the very center of the pulsating source of Dragon's Fire. The triangle is burning
around and the flames form a pyramid that surrounds you. Around the pyramid there is a coiled
serpent with its tail in its mouth. The same serpent is coiled within your root chakra, at the base of
your spine. Breathe deeply, in a slow and steady rhythm. With each breath, envision that the serpent
outside the pyramid begins to move. In the same way moves the serpent within your subtle body. It
rises and ascends through your spine, while the serpent outside ascends too, coiling around the
pyramid. Your each breath is one movement of the serpent. Envision both serpents moving in the
same way, in the same rhythm. At the same time envision that you are becoming a serpent yourself.
See the world through the serpent eyes and feel your body rising and coiling around the Axis of the
World in a serpentine movement. Pay attention to everything you can hear or feel now. Let yourself
be carried by the experience and flow with the stream of Dragon's Fire. When you want to end the
meditation, visualize that the serpent descends and coils back. The pyramid of fire that surrounds you
becomes a triangle again, getting smaller and smaller, until it fits back inside the heart chakra. Then
envision the blue watery triangle reappearing and forming the hexagram with the fiery triangle, in the
same way as before. Focus for a while on the awakened and balanced Dragon Force, then finish the
exercise. You are now ready to proceed to other workings.
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