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THE DRAGON-VESSEL IS born from the ashes of the Hieros Gamos and is exalted as the Sover-eign Vehicula of the Crooked Path; it is revered as the Fetish-urn of Purest Diablerie, the Very Image of Sorcery's God. The root of its ineffable empowerment is the point of the Sun's infernal descent -the nigrescent heart of the longest night; for the time of greatest outward darkness is hallowed as the most sacred hour: the epiphany for the secret light of initiation.
The urn which is to serve as the Dragon-vessel is to be obtained during the last days of the Hieros Gamos or during the interstitial time betwixt the end of the Marriage Rite and the time of its Midwinter consummation. It should be chosen by the Mage's fate, by the guidance of dreams and the unseen hand of the spirits. In size the vessel should be like unto the very skull of Man, for that indeed is its most perfect form. Elsewise let its substance be of clay, wood or glass, such as is fitting for the feast of insatiate flame. Having been obtained or fashioned by the aspirant, the new urn should be consecrated unto its destined purpose as the focus for the magical path - for the initiatory ordalium of the year and a day that lies between Black Sun and Black Sun. Being duly hallowed as the ordained repository of magical power the newly conse-crated vessel is to be brought -empty and barren - alone or in covine - unto the Circle of the ~ lidwinter Rite. At the summation of that most sacred mystery, when the old vessel has passed beyond, let seven offerings of ash be taken from the embers of the pyre and interred in the new and empty vessel. Likewise let seven offerings of breath be made, seven droplets of blood be poured and-from the eight roads that lead from the hearth unto the Circle's girth-let seven Gl'imol'ium G_l?nomoeia Dl'aco'Taus pinches of earth be taken. Let all be offered unto the mouth of the newborn Urn of Azhdeha.
At the binding of the Midwinter Rite let the Dragon-vessel be sealed and then wrapped in a cloth of crimson silk, even as a child swaddled in the flayed skin of its own begetter. The Drag-on-vessel is hereafter used as the primary external focus of all magical operations undertaken upon the Crooked Path. It is the Idol of Aversity within the Shrine of the Elder Worship. Its visible form shall be the mirror for the Seeker's own destiny and shall serve as the crossroads be-tween the Carnal Vessel of the Sorcerer's Flesh and the Aethyric Vessel of the Dragon's Celestial Body. All shall conjoin within this athanor; for all that is must turn and re-turn to the point of primordial empowerment.
Being made according to the methods of Arte, the Dragon-vessel is to be opened by the hands of Man solely at the ordained times of darkness throughout the year:-i) At the solitary working of the Oracle Rite at each Dark Moon.
ii) Upon each day of the last lunar month of the solar year -when the annual Covenant of the Sacred Marriage is renewed.
iii) During the rare and especial times of the Sun or Moon's eclipse, when the Dragon's lips do close about the celestial orbs of Helios and Luna.
At these times, being of subtil alignment unto the Night of the Black Sun, the offering of the World-field shall be made unto the Dragon-vessel's mouth, even the sacrifice of all Existence unto the very lips of the Antient One.
By the many deeds of the Path, by the fourteen ordeals upon the hooks and crooks of the Way, the Body of Qayin, the First-born Sorcerer, shall be imaged-forth in the Vessel: the Flesh of all Initiated Entity shall be revealed from the deep in the Star-polish'd Mirror of Azhaka.
The many-masked Vessel of the Crooked Way is conceived upon the point of the Black Sun, and is made manifest within the Voidwise Pyre of all Negation. From the Circle of its birth, the path of the Vessel goes forth through the ordeals of the year and the day. Having passed full-circle around the Wheel of Time, it must return unto its own source, to the forge of its mak-ing. Know ye therefore that the life of the Dragon-vessel is that of the Monarch of the World, crowned for but a single year at a time and destined to return unto the place of consecration - to the sacred pyre of its own self-creation. In the heart of Midwinter the throne of the Sovereign shall become the altar of royal execution ...
For as the last lunar month of the solar year comes round once more, the Urn of the Dragon shall serve as the Vessel of Marriage for the re-affirmation of the Covenant between the Elder Gods and Man. At that ordained time betwixt Dark Moon and Dark Moon at the end of the year, the Dragon-vessel shall serve as the repository for the Compact of Ka. Thus shall the Promise of the Hieros Gamos be exacted anew.
At the Dark Tide of Midwinter the Seeker returns unto the Rite of the Black Sun. Here the aged vessel must be slain, cast down into the forge to be rent asunder by the hands of the fire.
And as the old vessel dies, so from the ashen remains it shall be born anew. Seven offerings shall be taken once more from the hearth of the Black Sun and these shall enter the lips of a newly blessed vessel. The Monarch of the Round Arte shall rule once more for a year and a day; the Wheel of the Sacred Year shall turn and turn again.
As the Spirit of the Dragon-vessel transmigrates from fetish-urn to fetish-urn, from Midwin-ter to Midwinter, so the path of the Seeker shall transform from year to year - deed to deed, forever turning and re-turning to the initiatory source of the Royal Arte: the Birth-place and the Burial-ground of Qayin Azhaka.
This is the ritual and also tell me in detail how to do it.
The urn which is to serve as the Dragon-vessel is to be obtained during the last days of the Hieros Gamos or during the interstitial time betwixt the end of the Marriage Rite and the time of its Midwinter consummation. It should be chosen by the Mage's fate, by the guidance of dreams and the unseen hand of the spirits. In size the vessel should be like unto the very skull of Man, for that indeed is its most perfect form. Elsewise let its substance be of clay, wood or glass, such as is fitting for the feast of insatiate flame. Having been obtained or fashioned by the aspirant, the new urn should be consecrated unto its destined purpose as the focus for the magical path - for the initiatory ordalium of the year and a day that lies between Black Sun and Black Sun. Being duly hallowed as the ordained repository of magical power the newly conse-crated vessel is to be brought -empty and barren - alone or in covine - unto the Circle of the ~ lidwinter Rite. At the summation of that most sacred mystery, when the old vessel has passed beyond, let seven offerings of ash be taken from the embers of the pyre and interred in the new and empty vessel. Likewise let seven offerings of breath be made, seven droplets of blood be poured and-from the eight roads that lead from the hearth unto the Circle's girth-let seven Gl'imol'ium G_l?nomoeia Dl'aco'Taus pinches of earth be taken. Let all be offered unto the mouth of the newborn Urn of Azhdeha.
At the binding of the Midwinter Rite let the Dragon-vessel be sealed and then wrapped in a cloth of crimson silk, even as a child swaddled in the flayed skin of its own begetter. The Drag-on-vessel is hereafter used as the primary external focus of all magical operations undertaken upon the Crooked Path. It is the Idol of Aversity within the Shrine of the Elder Worship. Its visible form shall be the mirror for the Seeker's own destiny and shall serve as the crossroads be-tween the Carnal Vessel of the Sorcerer's Flesh and the Aethyric Vessel of the Dragon's Celestial Body. All shall conjoin within this athanor; for all that is must turn and re-turn to the point of primordial empowerment.
Being made according to the methods of Arte, the Dragon-vessel is to be opened by the hands of Man solely at the ordained times of darkness throughout the year:-i) At the solitary working of the Oracle Rite at each Dark Moon.
ii) Upon each day of the last lunar month of the solar year -when the annual Covenant of the Sacred Marriage is renewed.
iii) During the rare and especial times of the Sun or Moon's eclipse, when the Dragon's lips do close about the celestial orbs of Helios and Luna.
At these times, being of subtil alignment unto the Night of the Black Sun, the offering of the World-field shall be made unto the Dragon-vessel's mouth, even the sacrifice of all Existence unto the very lips of the Antient One.
By the many deeds of the Path, by the fourteen ordeals upon the hooks and crooks of the Way, the Body of Qayin, the First-born Sorcerer, shall be imaged-forth in the Vessel: the Flesh of all Initiated Entity shall be revealed from the deep in the Star-polish'd Mirror of Azhaka.
The many-masked Vessel of the Crooked Way is conceived upon the point of the Black Sun, and is made manifest within the Voidwise Pyre of all Negation. From the Circle of its birth, the path of the Vessel goes forth through the ordeals of the year and the day. Having passed full-circle around the Wheel of Time, it must return unto its own source, to the forge of its mak-ing. Know ye therefore that the life of the Dragon-vessel is that of the Monarch of the World, crowned for but a single year at a time and destined to return unto the place of consecration - to the sacred pyre of its own self-creation. In the heart of Midwinter the throne of the Sovereign shall become the altar of royal execution ...
For as the last lunar month of the solar year comes round once more, the Urn of the Dragon shall serve as the Vessel of Marriage for the re-affirmation of the Covenant between the Elder Gods and Man. At that ordained time betwixt Dark Moon and Dark Moon at the end of the year, the Dragon-vessel shall serve as the repository for the Compact of Ka. Thus shall the Promise of the Hieros Gamos be exacted anew.
At the Dark Tide of Midwinter the Seeker returns unto the Rite of the Black Sun. Here the aged vessel must be slain, cast down into the forge to be rent asunder by the hands of the fire.
And as the old vessel dies, so from the ashen remains it shall be born anew. Seven offerings shall be taken once more from the hearth of the Black Sun and these shall enter the lips of a newly blessed vessel. The Monarch of the Round Arte shall rule once more for a year and a day; the Wheel of the Sacred Year shall turn and turn again.
As the Spirit of the Dragon-vessel transmigrates from fetish-urn to fetish-urn, from Midwin-ter to Midwinter, so the path of the Seeker shall transform from year to year - deed to deed, forever turning and re-turning to the initiatory source of the Royal Arte: the Birth-place and the Burial-ground of Qayin Azhaka.
This is the ritual and also tell me in detail how to do it.