Dragon Rouge is a Nordic order with branches in many parts of the world. We study magic and occultism in both theory and practice. Dragon Rouge is one of few orders which focuses on the dark side of magic and the left hand path. We are exploring the nightside tradition on many different levels. Dragon Rouge is mainly an order for magical initiation, but also for brother- and sisterhood. Our aim is to make education and development of the occult possible and to be a meeting point for knowledge and experiences. Dragon Rouge is a practical magical order in which the individual experience is pivotal. We are focusing on an empirical occultism and a knowledge about the unknown based on experience.
There might be many reasons behind the decision to join Dragon Rouge. Some people become members because they share our cultural preferences and philosophical interests. Others become members because they wish to support our work or simply to share the draconian brother-/sisterhood. The main part of our members, however, become members because they want to be part of an order which enables them to practice advanced dark magic in a powerful and unique initiation system. The practical initiatoric magic is the foundation of Dragon Rouge.
Dragon Rouge explore the dark side focusing on five main paths.
— The Order
— Culture
— Philosophy
— Psychology
— Initiatoric Magic
Dragon Rouge is an order where a creative fellowship is nurtured and a strong brother- and sisterhood is upheld. Loyalty, honesty and devotion towards the work of the order are important principles for members of Dragon Rouge. Every member chooses personally to what extent he/she will participate in the official activities, but we emphasize the importance of working together with others in Dragon Rouge if one wants to reach results on the individual level. We are conducting ceremonies and magical workings together and are arranging study evenings and are inviting guest lecturers, traveling to cult sites and power places like ship tumuli in Sweden or places like Externsteine in Germany. For initiated members of Dragon Rouge there are also philosophical discussion evenings, dinners and festivities.
In culture we are interested in the Gothicism and the dark side in its different forms of expression. We are studying the Gothicistic literature and the horror romantic genre through writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Bram Stoker and Edgar Allan Poe. We are interested in classics of Satanic literature like Dante's "Inferno", "Paradise Lost" by Milton and the Faustian texts. Baudelaire and Comte de Lautréamont have inspired many of our members. Our interest in the Gothic tradition also reaches the Gothicism and we are influenced by poets and writers like Johannes Bureus, Georg Stiernhielm and the circle around the Gothic Society in Sweden. Among our members we have numerous musicians, painters, writers and academics.
Musically, Richard Wagner and his mythological operas are important in Dragon Rouge, but also modern experimental music. In art, our focus is on the Gothic ruin romanticism expressed by Arnold Böcklin and Caspar David Friedrich, and the symbolistic art of Franz von Stück and Fidus but also on surrealistic art by Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst. The dark magician and artist Austin Osman Spare is a good example of how magic and art is united. The above mentioned names are only fragments of a wide interest in the dark culture forms that we believe can give man a glimpse of the hidden sides of existence.
The philosophy of the dark side is represented by the left hand path and its ideology. The left hand path is founded around a philosophy which defines two main spiritual paths. One is the right hand path. It is evident in most forms of religion and mass movements. Its method is the magic of the light and its goal includes that the individual melts together with God. The other path is the left hand path. It emphasizes the unique, the deviant and the exclusive.
Its method is dark magic and antinomianism (going against the grain). The goal is to become a god. Among the magical writers that includes the left hand path we are reading among others Carlos Castaneda, Julius Evola and Kenneth Grant. Most philosophers interest us. We study texts by classical philosophers like Herakleitos, Plato and Plotinos, as well as newer thinkers like Nietzsche, Heidegger and Henri Bergson. We are also incorporating non-European philosophy and are reading classical Indian and Chinese texts like the Upanishads and Tao te ching. A major part of the philosophy of the left hand path can be found among the tantric teachings.
The dark side can also be understood from the perspective of psychology. One of the main theses of Dragon Rouge is that man presently uses only a fraction of his total capacity. We are experiencing only an insignificant part of reality. The major part of man is hidden. Through the traditional thousand year old occult practices man can contact these hidden sides. To the hidden parts of man belongs the undeveloped and non-actualized sides of the psyche. These can be made conscious and become realised if we are entering the dark side of our psyche. We will then confront all dark and repressed parts of the psyche like aggression, fears and basic instincts. C.G. Jung is the psychologist who is most important to Dragon Rouge. Jung said: "Illumination is not reached by visualizing the light but by exploring the darkness". From this perspective Dragon Rouge is working with the dark side.
Other psychologists that are interesting to us are among others the Jungian Marie-Louise von Franz, Wilhelm Reich with his force concept Orgon, and Stanislaf Grof and his psychedelic research. In the hidden areas of the human psyche we can find the so called parapsychological abilities like telepathy and psychometry. We are studying parapsychology and are conducting parapsychological experiments.
The members who wish can also enter into the initiatoric magic which is the actual foundation of Dragon Rouge. Here the adept reaches the deeper levels in the work of investigating the dark side. The three first levels of the 11 level initiatoric system are based on a letter course and the communication with a tutor from the order. The remaining levels of initiation are revealed only to those who passes the first preparatory levels. Besides the theoretic discipline the initiatoric work focuses on regular magical practice. The goal of the initiatoric magic of Dragon Rouge is self deification: a step by step process in which the magician is developing and ennobling him/herself and becomes a "god". To become a god means that one has transformed life from being predetermined and predestinated by outer conditions, to the stage where one reaches a truly free will. Man becomes a god when he ceases to be a creation and instead becomes a creator. In the initiatoric magic the magician works with:
1. Vision seeking, dream journeys and astral magic.
2. Activation of inner hidden forces and the conjuration of outer forces.
3. Communication with the shadow and the night side.
The draconian initiation is based on four main traditions: the Goetic Qabalah, the Odinic Runosophy, Tantra and Alkhemy. The magician's initiation is a life-long project, according to many magicians even a great work that might stretch through numerous incarnations. This is a spiritual quest that demands self sacrifice, dedication, patience and discipline – a quest that the magicians fulfills together with his/her magical brothers and sisters of the draconian path.
The Initiatoric Draconian Magic
The Draconian initiation is based on 1+9+1 levels that together constitutes 11 steps that corresponds to the Qliphoth and the 11 demon rulers who act as the nightside and antitheses of creation. The first step is where the uninitiated begins. An opening of the gate to the dark side. The following 9 steps represents the 9 levels of the night side or the underworld that Odin passes through on his initiation in the secrets of the runes. These steps brings the adept to the heart of darkness and transforms man into a god (like promised by the serpent in Genesis 3:5 when man begins the initiation by eating of the fruits of knowledge). The last step is beyond the limits of creation.
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2. Gamaliel 2.0°. The dark dreams. Astral magic. Witchcraft. The mysteries of the dark moon. The dark Goddess.
3. Samael 3.0°. The philosophy of the left hand path. The wisdom of insanity. Yezidi magic. The dark side of the Chakras.
4. A'arab Zaraq 4.0°. Luciferian magic. The dark side of Venus. Eroto-mysticism and the path of the warrior.
5. Thagirion. 5.0°. The illumination of the nightside. The black sun. The union of the god and the beast.
6. Golachab 6.0°. Ragnarök. The activation of Surt/Sorath. The magnetism of lust and suffering.
7. Gha'agsheblah 7.0°. The higher levels of eroto mysticism. Preparations for the abyss.
8. Satariel 8.0°. The opening of the eye os Lucifer/Shiva/Odin. The Drakon principle.
9. Ghagiel 9.0°. The lightening of the Luciferian star.
10. Thaumiel 10.0°. The accomplishment of the promise given by the serpent. Divinity.
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11 Thaumiel 11.0°. The black hole. The step into the new creation. Universe B.
The four main traditions behind the magical system of Dragon Rouge have one important thing in common. They are step by step leading the adept down into the darkness where he/she can become a god. By entering the dark side like Odin or Khepera and sacrificing oneself, one can be transformed from a creation to a creator.
The Qabalah is a mystery philosophy which has roots in Greek philosophy and which was kept alive in Jewish mysticism and in the western magical tradition. The Qliphoth is the dark side of this tradition. The Qliphoth is the principles of the shadow and the antitheses that are hidden behind everything. The side of light in the Qabalah represents mathematical/ geometrical principles through which God created the world. The Qliphoth corresponds to fractals and principles of chaos. The Qliphoth are the dividing and destructive forces. The Qliphotic Qabalah uses the forces of destruction to free the adept from the limitations of creation. Through these forces we can learn to create. In the Qabalah, Lucifer and the fallen angels are those who first used the Qliphotic forces to free themselves from God. The principles of light are keeping the angels and the rest of creation in their firm, predetermined circles. The dark forces break these circles and make a free will and an individual existence outside God possible.
Demonology and the Goetic magic are parts of the Qliphotic Qabalah in which the magician conjures and evokes personified dark forces in the shape of different demons. In Dragon Rouge we are using the traditional black magical and demonological texts for this purpose but we have adopted these old methods to our draconian system. The Testament of Solomon, the Keys of Solomon, the Lemegeton and Le Dragon Rouge are examples of demonological texts used by Dragon Rouge.
The Odinic Runosophy is the Nordic and Gothic tradition of initiation. Runosophy is the wisdom about the secret of the runes and the god Odin is the foremost initiate in these mysteries. In the old Norse and Germanic languages "runa" means "secret", "mystery", "hidden wisdom" or "secret whisper". On an outer level the word "runa" denotes old Norse writing signs. On a deeper level it symbolizes the forces of the universe and can describe the whole occult Nordic spirituality. The Odinic Runosophy is a Helwegr, a path to the realm of death and the goddess of death - Hel. In these deepest and darkest parts of existence the keys to wisdom and immortality are hidden.
In Dragon Rouge we are working with the runes in many different forms. One aspect is the disputed Uthark, which is thought to be the inner and hidden form of the rune row. We are also using the runosophical system of the Adulrunes by Johannes Bureus. The inner dimensions of the runes are called Adulrunor or Alrunor (Mandragora).
Odin is a dark and demonic god and the Odinic runosophy also includes lycantropy and necromancy. The Odinic Runosophy is a form of Gothic magic.
The Gothic magic is not only Runosophy and rune magic which focuses on the old Norse runic symbols. The Gothic magic is connected to the nightside and the dark mysteries. This separates the Gothic magic from the forms of rune magic that are connected to Asatro and the strife to recreate the old Norse faith. Gothic magic can not be connected to a certain time or place. The Gothic magic corresponds to a mythical dimension in which man becomes a god.
"There is a significant difference between the two Tantric paths, that of the right hand and that of the left hand (which both are under Shiva's aegis). In the former, the adept always experiences 'someone above him', even at the highest level of realization. In the latter, 'he becomes the ultimate Sovereign' (chakravartin = worldruler)".
Typhonian Alchemy is pivotal in the initiation system of Dragon Rouge. Alchemy is the art of ennobling and has its roots in ancient Egypt where it was called Khemeia, "the production of the black stone". The goal of this art was to produce an elixir of eternal life which was the same as the black stone or the black diamond. The word Khem means "black" and is the original black art in which man strives to become like the gods. Khem is also the name of the god of Alchemy. The dark god Set is also connected to Alchemy and the black stone. In the Greek and Hermetic tradition Khem was represented by Pan and Set by Typhon. The Typhonian alchemy can be traced to the oldest Egyptian, Greek and Hermetic traditions of Alchemy in which the goal corresponds to the left hand path. The Typhonian alchemy is constructed around a step by step ennobling process that represents the draconian levels of initiation.
The alchemistic process transforms coal, the fundamental element of all life, from its most weak and porous form through a hardening and ennobling process into the eternal indestructible black diamond (Adamas Ater, A.A.). This process is represented by the god Khepera and his entering of the kingdom of death where he dies and recreates himself as his own creation. In the Egyptian Book of the Dead Khepera says: "I am Khepera, the one who has created himself". Typhon represents the Red Dragon and the eternal primeval force and matter from which all originates.
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