Genetic Genealogy * Hermeneutics * Philosophy * Anthropology * Shamanism * History * Esoterics * Myth * Mysticism
Signum Draconis: Order of the Dragon symbol on the ceiling of the first floor of Prandau-Normann Castle in Valpovo, Croatia. The Order of the Dragon (lat. Societas Draconistrarum, hun. Sárkány Lovagrend, ger. der Drachenorden, ser. Ред Змаја / Red Zmaja, cro. Zmajev red, rom. Ordinul Dragonului) was a monarchical chivalric order for selected nobility, created in Hungary in the late Middle Ages. Founded in 1408 by Sigismund, King of Hungary (ruled: 1387-1437) and later Holy Roman Emperor (ruled: 1433-1437), the Order primarily flourished in Germany and Italy. According to a surviving copy of its statute, the Order required its initiates to defend the Cross and fight the enemies of Christianity, in particular the Ottoman Turks. (Source: Wikipedia)
De Vere Lineage
Double Dragon
Senior Line of the Dragon Blood
Blood Relationship * Imperial Status
Authenticity and legitimacy are based on factual history and the power of sacred history.
The Scottish Branch of the House of Vere are and always were the senior Branch of the Family under the laws of male primogeniture then pertaining in the medieval period. Hugh III de Vere was the younger son. Ralph de Vere was the eldest. He moved to Scotland and joined the Court of King Malcolm in 1167, along with his cousin and Liege, Conan of Britanny. As those laws, Salic Laws, were enforced by the Church they are, in any event, spurious and never actually held any sway of any royal dynasty. So whichever way you look at it, The Oxfords were a minor, junior branch of the House of Vere.Count Milo de Vere, Duke of Angers, was the first Count of Anjou.
It is also a fact that Fulk the Red usurped the title of Count of Anjou, some 100 years after Milo's death.
The 'Ordo Draconis' fantasy: Societas Draconis, formed in Hungary by my cousin King Sigismund, was called 'Societas Draconis'. It has often been confused with 'Societas Draconistrarum'. The two are utterly different. Societas Draconis was never an Order of Chivalry. To be such, it was required that, as the name implies, the "Order" had to have an 'Order' or set of holy regulations and that, and its very foundation, must have been approved of by the Pope.Furthermore, if it had been an Order of Chivalry, it was duty bound to have a Catherda or Holy Seat, an Order Chapter or Chapel.
Societas Draconis had neither a Chapel or a Chaplain.
It observed no Saints Days or Holy Holidays. It never knighted anyone (an obvious prerequisite for an Order of 'CHIVALRY'), it had no Order or set of regulations and its application for recognition by the Holy See was an afterthought which ocurred to Sigismund some years after Societas Draconis's Public Manifestation in 1408. It had actually been conceived of in 1397 and convened in secret.It is often claimed that the function of Societas Draconis was to advance the Roman Catholic, "christian" cause, and to kill all Muslims. This is erroneous. The purpose of Societas Draconis was to maintain solidarity and peace within the borders of Europe and discourage war amongst the European potentates. Furthrmore, the Spiritual Teacher of Societas Draconis was the Imam Ibrahim Eleazar, a Muslim Cleric and Mystic. A large proportion of its membership were anti-Roman heretics. The "Rule" of the Society was simple. Hold all property in common, share all property in common, bequeath all propty in common and within the membership of the Society, eschew war and wear Black on Friday, the Day of Venus, the Bright and Morning (Falling) Star.
On the other hand Societas Draconistrarum "The Order of the Dragon Overthrown" which was domiciled in the adjacent Balkans, did have slightly more of a problem with the Ottomons and any conflicts arising between "Christians" and Muslims has been assumed to have also been the case with the Hungarian Society. The Hungarians managed to thwart any Muslim invasion of Eastern Europe, thanks to Vlad III Draculea; but the Serbian Order wasn't so successful.However, the two organisations were quite distinct. So, in summary. Societas Draconis wasn't and isn't religious, it wasn't and isn't an Order of Chivalry, it is a Royal Collective of individuals which originated as an Imperial and Royal Dragon Court and stays an Imperial and Royal Dragon Court.
I am the senior heir of the House of Anjou, and the senior heir of the House of Vere,
descending in an unbroken single dynasty and name for 1300 years (Anjou) and 2400 years (Vere) respectively.
It is academically and historically documented and I have the genes to prove it.
Senior Line of the Dragon Blood
Blood Relationship * Imperial Status
Authenticity and legitimacy are based on factual history and the power of sacred history.
The Scottish Branch of the House of Vere are and always were the senior Branch of the Family under the laws of male primogeniture then pertaining in the medieval period. Hugh III de Vere was the younger son. Ralph de Vere was the eldest. He moved to Scotland and joined the Court of King Malcolm in 1167, along with his cousin and Liege, Conan of Britanny. As those laws, Salic Laws, were enforced by the Church they are, in any event, spurious and never actually held any sway of any royal dynasty. So whichever way you look at it, The Oxfords were a minor, junior branch of the House of Vere.Count Milo de Vere, Duke of Angers, was the first Count of Anjou.
It is also a fact that Fulk the Red usurped the title of Count of Anjou, some 100 years after Milo's death.
The 'Ordo Draconis' fantasy: Societas Draconis, formed in Hungary by my cousin King Sigismund, was called 'Societas Draconis'. It has often been confused with 'Societas Draconistrarum'. The two are utterly different. Societas Draconis was never an Order of Chivalry. To be such, it was required that, as the name implies, the "Order" had to have an 'Order' or set of holy regulations and that, and its very foundation, must have been approved of by the Pope.Furthermore, if it had been an Order of Chivalry, it was duty bound to have a Catherda or Holy Seat, an Order Chapter or Chapel.
Societas Draconis had neither a Chapel or a Chaplain.
It observed no Saints Days or Holy Holidays. It never knighted anyone (an obvious prerequisite for an Order of 'CHIVALRY'), it had no Order or set of regulations and its application for recognition by the Holy See was an afterthought which ocurred to Sigismund some years after Societas Draconis's Public Manifestation in 1408. It had actually been conceived of in 1397 and convened in secret.It is often claimed that the function of Societas Draconis was to advance the Roman Catholic, "christian" cause, and to kill all Muslims. This is erroneous. The purpose of Societas Draconis was to maintain solidarity and peace within the borders of Europe and discourage war amongst the European potentates. Furthrmore, the Spiritual Teacher of Societas Draconis was the Imam Ibrahim Eleazar, a Muslim Cleric and Mystic. A large proportion of its membership were anti-Roman heretics. The "Rule" of the Society was simple. Hold all property in common, share all property in common, bequeath all propty in common and within the membership of the Society, eschew war and wear Black on Friday, the Day of Venus, the Bright and Morning (Falling) Star.
On the other hand Societas Draconistrarum "The Order of the Dragon Overthrown" which was domiciled in the adjacent Balkans, did have slightly more of a problem with the Ottomons and any conflicts arising between "Christians" and Muslims has been assumed to have also been the case with the Hungarian Society. The Hungarians managed to thwart any Muslim invasion of Eastern Europe, thanks to Vlad III Draculea; but the Serbian Order wasn't so successful.However, the two organisations were quite distinct. So, in summary. Societas Draconis wasn't and isn't religious, it wasn't and isn't an Order of Chivalry, it is a Royal Collective of individuals which originated as an Imperial and Royal Dragon Court and stays an Imperial and Royal Dragon Court.
I am the senior heir of the House of Anjou, and the senior heir of the House of Vere,
descending in an unbroken single dynasty and name for 1300 years (Anjou) and 2400 years (Vere) respectively.
It is academically and historically documented and I have the genes to prove it.
The red and gold tinctures and metals on the field of their heraldic escutcheon, [traditionally symbolising the plumage of the Phoenix] superimposed by the White Star – literally the falling star of Lucifer – are the Arms of the Vere and reflect their ancient line of descent from Sathaniel or the Devil. The escutcheon, supported by two dynastic, hermetic Dragons becomes, historically, the Ancient Alchemical Seal of the House. The Phoenix of the Scythians was the Raven. The Raven itself, or rather the double-headed Raven found in Transylvania, devolved down to the Hittites and from them it was eventually adopted and modified as the double-headed black Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire).
"The princedoms of Vere are ancient cultural manifestations of genetic qualities carried in the historical Elven Blood Royal. Established in Angiers in 740 a.d. as a Royal House arising from far older sacral-regal, Pictish, Scythian Vere origins rooted in antiquity, the House of Vere is recorded in a single name and in an unbroken line for over one thousand three hundred years, and consequently is one of the oldest surviving royal dynasties in Europe."
Dragon God-Kings & Cosmic Punctuation
Sumerian and Babylonian King-Lists reveal the belief that “kingship” was “sent down” from “heaven” -- decreed by the gods. Many indigenous antic cultures followed the same tradition, including the Xiongnu, Scythians and Saka. Dynastic lists of pre-diluvial Sumerian kings were later re-catalogued in Babylon by Priest-Scribes. The Egyptians also produced and monumentalized King-Lists, documenting the lineage of the Houses of their God-Kings in stone for all of Eternity. A name remembered was an afterlife assured.
Geomythology
The chronology of Sumerian King-Lists is interrupted by a cosmological disaster – the Deluge or Great Flood -- the fall of a great star or comet into the Burckle Crater near Madagascar. Mythic events can be plotted against archaeological evidence, including this Holocene impactor.
Past Is Prologue
Supernatural creatures are associated with the flood storm in nearly half the cases Masse studied. Typical are dragons such as Tiamat, giant snakes or water serpents, giant birds, giant horned snakes, a fallen angel, a star with fiery tail, a tongue of fire, and similar elongated things in or from the sky. Looking in detail at descriptions in the mythology, particularly those of the Indian subcontinent, Masse sees a close resemblance to the naked-eye appearance of a near-earth post-perihelion comet. The fallen angel or fallen star may even be the origin of tales that are the backstory of ancient de Vere lines, which carry that symbol to this day on their armorials.
Plotting the distribution of great flood myths together with specific reported phenomena like directions from which great winds blew or tsunamis came, Masse finds that the most efficient way to account for them is by positing a very large comet impact in the central or southern Indian Ocean. This might not account very well for flood myths in the Americas, but Masse thinks that flooding there could have resulted from partial disintegration of the incoming comet, with two or more pieces falling on different parts of the earth over a period of hours or days.
Some of the myths speak of multiple events happening in close succession. Another suggested Mesopotamian impact is Umm al Binni in Southern Iraq, postulated as a bollide fall around 2350 BC. Was it the end of Eden? But the really big impact, he thinks, the most lethal of the bunch, occurred somewhere south of Madagascar. If Masse is right, a comet impact big enough to have devastating effects on human civilization occurred in 2807 BC--a bit under 5,000 years ago.
The Sumerian civilization began in antediluvian times, prior to the civilization-wreaking Deluge recounted in Sumerian texts. As glacial eras came and went, sea-levels rose and fell. The Biblical Deluge event included a terrifying comet-fall from the South, torrential storms and the rise of ground water levels from melting glaciers and ice at the end of the last Glacial period. Pre-Babylonian, pre-Sumerian Ubaid, and Mittani periods are not the true absolute origins for “prehistoric” civilization, which hark back to a Central Asian homeland on the Black Sea before it was inundated by the Mediterranean. Order was reinstituted as civilizations arose following the last Ice Age with a warming period.
Modern research points to many deluge events with a variety of origins. Effects on humanity depended on proximity to these cataclysmic events. Mystical texts speak of a “primordial sea” or “Abyss” that first swept over the earth (or universe) prior to the separation and manifestation of individual ‘forms’ in existence. These legends lost in the pre-dawn mists before time may refer to the disaster wrought by the Laurentian comet, which fell roughly 11,000 - 13,000ya on the massive glacier near the Great Lakes, changing their outlet from the Gulf of Mexico to the St. Laurence Seaway. This impact undoubtedly created climatic havoc in Eurasia, as it did in the Americas.
No longer dismissed as myth, all the ancient records agree that something came before it, disagreeing only on a timeline and details. Even the Judeo-Christian texts support the idea that the Deluge took place long after the creation of humans. The entire Biblical Deluge story is found practically verbatim on cuneiform tablets from the Epic of Gilgamesh, derived from thousands of years of tradition before the Semitic culture emerged after Abraham left Ur in Sumeria.
Sumerian and Egyptian records are very clear about the "divine" nature of the GOD-KINGS. These original overseers were considered divine. They either came down from the stars/sky, or mystically united the heavens and earth, providing the knowledge and technologies that facilitated the growth of civilization. The reign of these divine beings was eventually replaced by hybrid demigods before finally passing to the control of a specialized segment of mankind.
The concept of Dragon dynastic succession remains paramount – the idea that the “divine blood” flows from the heart of the ‘true’ kings in the line, which in turn is passed on to their offspring. The tradition of Divine Right to Rule is as ancient as human society and the basis of sovereignty. It is the essence of the Dragon Lineage. The hallmark of Dragon Kings and Queens is authority and clarity of vision by which they rule.
The origins of the word “ruler,” “regent” and “realm” all reflect the absolute “god-like” nature of the original king. More than simply a title of power, this role required the person to be an active intermediary between the people and the gods, mediating as one who unites heaven and earth as a priest-king. The “realm” is always inseparable from this king. The king and his land are one. The king and his people are one. The fate of one was undeniably reflected in the other throughout history many times over. A good and just king resulted in expansion and fruitful land, whereas the rule of unjust tyrants weakened the integrity of the Empire every time.
Properly guided kings realized from their Dragon cores that they were Divine Representatives on Earth with all that entails. In fact, the freedoms, responsibilities and penalties of the population all rose relative to class. The ‘true’ kings understood that they existed for the people, representatives of the gods on earth, exercising the same divine power that had been executed by the gods themselves in the cultivation of humanity. The descent of kingship came from the ancestral gods of heaven, but is carried in the hearts of men – passing on genetic memory in the form of ‘divine blood’ via jure divino – episcopal law upheld by one ‘anointed’ through the royal bloodline...the holy Tree of Life.
Myth and Geology by Luigi Piccardi, W. Bruce Masse
http://books.google.com/books?id=F7pZfLUoHJIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=myth+and+geology&source=bl&ots=vN7KiixaEK&sig=C5dLLeZI3E2G233hd3LQg1FNu5Y&hl=en&ei=jFuzTdbQHY3EsAOR9-XpCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
Comet/Asteroid Impacts & Human Society
http://books.google.com/books?id=Gpwgm022ltMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=comet+asteroid+impacts+and+human+society&source=bl&ots=YKXLpCXOYL&sig=h48zUKqThmjVYKGS0x1DbN2ZgkM&hl=en&ei=IVyzTbaLDIugsQOU_pziCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false
Geomythology
The chronology of Sumerian King-Lists is interrupted by a cosmological disaster – the Deluge or Great Flood -- the fall of a great star or comet into the Burckle Crater near Madagascar. Mythic events can be plotted against archaeological evidence, including this Holocene impactor.
Past Is Prologue
Supernatural creatures are associated with the flood storm in nearly half the cases Masse studied. Typical are dragons such as Tiamat, giant snakes or water serpents, giant birds, giant horned snakes, a fallen angel, a star with fiery tail, a tongue of fire, and similar elongated things in or from the sky. Looking in detail at descriptions in the mythology, particularly those of the Indian subcontinent, Masse sees a close resemblance to the naked-eye appearance of a near-earth post-perihelion comet. The fallen angel or fallen star may even be the origin of tales that are the backstory of ancient de Vere lines, which carry that symbol to this day on their armorials.
Plotting the distribution of great flood myths together with specific reported phenomena like directions from which great winds blew or tsunamis came, Masse finds that the most efficient way to account for them is by positing a very large comet impact in the central or southern Indian Ocean. This might not account very well for flood myths in the Americas, but Masse thinks that flooding there could have resulted from partial disintegration of the incoming comet, with two or more pieces falling on different parts of the earth over a period of hours or days.
Some of the myths speak of multiple events happening in close succession. Another suggested Mesopotamian impact is Umm al Binni in Southern Iraq, postulated as a bollide fall around 2350 BC. Was it the end of Eden? But the really big impact, he thinks, the most lethal of the bunch, occurred somewhere south of Madagascar. If Masse is right, a comet impact big enough to have devastating effects on human civilization occurred in 2807 BC--a bit under 5,000 years ago.
The Sumerian civilization began in antediluvian times, prior to the civilization-wreaking Deluge recounted in Sumerian texts. As glacial eras came and went, sea-levels rose and fell. The Biblical Deluge event included a terrifying comet-fall from the South, torrential storms and the rise of ground water levels from melting glaciers and ice at the end of the last Glacial period. Pre-Babylonian, pre-Sumerian Ubaid, and Mittani periods are not the true absolute origins for “prehistoric” civilization, which hark back to a Central Asian homeland on the Black Sea before it was inundated by the Mediterranean. Order was reinstituted as civilizations arose following the last Ice Age with a warming period.
Modern research points to many deluge events with a variety of origins. Effects on humanity depended on proximity to these cataclysmic events. Mystical texts speak of a “primordial sea” or “Abyss” that first swept over the earth (or universe) prior to the separation and manifestation of individual ‘forms’ in existence. These legends lost in the pre-dawn mists before time may refer to the disaster wrought by the Laurentian comet, which fell roughly 11,000 - 13,000ya on the massive glacier near the Great Lakes, changing their outlet from the Gulf of Mexico to the St. Laurence Seaway. This impact undoubtedly created climatic havoc in Eurasia, as it did in the Americas.
No longer dismissed as myth, all the ancient records agree that something came before it, disagreeing only on a timeline and details. Even the Judeo-Christian texts support the idea that the Deluge took place long after the creation of humans. The entire Biblical Deluge story is found practically verbatim on cuneiform tablets from the Epic of Gilgamesh, derived from thousands of years of tradition before the Semitic culture emerged after Abraham left Ur in Sumeria.
Sumerian and Egyptian records are very clear about the "divine" nature of the GOD-KINGS. These original overseers were considered divine. They either came down from the stars/sky, or mystically united the heavens and earth, providing the knowledge and technologies that facilitated the growth of civilization. The reign of these divine beings was eventually replaced by hybrid demigods before finally passing to the control of a specialized segment of mankind.
The concept of Dragon dynastic succession remains paramount – the idea that the “divine blood” flows from the heart of the ‘true’ kings in the line, which in turn is passed on to their offspring. The tradition of Divine Right to Rule is as ancient as human society and the basis of sovereignty. It is the essence of the Dragon Lineage. The hallmark of Dragon Kings and Queens is authority and clarity of vision by which they rule.
The origins of the word “ruler,” “regent” and “realm” all reflect the absolute “god-like” nature of the original king. More than simply a title of power, this role required the person to be an active intermediary between the people and the gods, mediating as one who unites heaven and earth as a priest-king. The “realm” is always inseparable from this king. The king and his land are one. The king and his people are one. The fate of one was undeniably reflected in the other throughout history many times over. A good and just king resulted in expansion and fruitful land, whereas the rule of unjust tyrants weakened the integrity of the Empire every time.
Properly guided kings realized from their Dragon cores that they were Divine Representatives on Earth with all that entails. In fact, the freedoms, responsibilities and penalties of the population all rose relative to class. The ‘true’ kings understood that they existed for the people, representatives of the gods on earth, exercising the same divine power that had been executed by the gods themselves in the cultivation of humanity. The descent of kingship came from the ancestral gods of heaven, but is carried in the hearts of men – passing on genetic memory in the form of ‘divine blood’ via jure divino – episcopal law upheld by one ‘anointed’ through the royal bloodline...the holy Tree of Life.
Myth and Geology by Luigi Piccardi, W. Bruce Masse
http://books.google.com/books?id=F7pZfLUoHJIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=myth+and+geology&source=bl&ots=vN7KiixaEK&sig=C5dLLeZI3E2G233hd3LQg1FNu5Y&hl=en&ei=jFuzTdbQHY3EsAOR9-XpCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
Comet/Asteroid Impacts & Human Society
http://books.google.com/books?id=Gpwgm022ltMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=comet+asteroid+impacts+and+human+society&source=bl&ots=YKXLpCXOYL&sig=h48zUKqThmjVYKGS0x1DbN2ZgkM&hl=en&ei=IVyzTbaLDIugsQOU_pziCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false
House of Vere fielded over twenty
prominent earls in an unbroken line over 561 years of British history.
The House of Vere was credited with being the senior bloodline of
England, both by its contemporaries and by later historians, and the
Veres acted for centuries as Great Chamberlains to the various royal
dynasties that came and went over time. As Great Chamberlains, they were
the closest advisors to the monarchs and were therefore the major
influence or power behind the British throne. In all this time the
family never considered it expedient to stoop to pick up the Crown.
April 2011 New
NEW 4-2011 Interview -
http://quintessentialpublications.com/twyman/?p=1730
Invisible Hand Episode 27:
Interview with Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg
The Invisible Hand features a new interview with Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg, author of the books The Dragon CedeThe Dragon Legacy. He refers to himself as the Sovereign Prince of an entity called Drakenberg, as well as the Sovereign Head of an organization called The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court. The court is made of people who claim descent from a collection of royal bloodlines related to De Vere’s family. They all have titles recognized by the Court as having standing in the sovereign kingdom of Drakenberg.
Here, we focus on this concept of Drakenberg , as a “freedom technology,” somewhat like the sovereignty movement in the US, Canada and Britain. In that movement, people who choose to “go sovereign” file paperwork with the government announcing their freedom from the government’s rule, thus proclaiming that their own individual sovereignty is supreme.
This is the true tradition upon which sovereignty has historically been based — royal blood that denotes inherited rights to titles and land and a "divine" mandate— to rest your own claim of sovereignty upon in the modern world. This is like talking to the elite on terms that they can understand, saying “Don’t mess with me, because I’m a prince, not just another slave.” Drakenberg is inherently ethereal in nature. Most states are merely corporations — imaginary entities brought to life by legal proclamation.
Drakenberg is transcorporeal, paradoxically both alive and dead, apparent and hidden, real and surreal, at the same time. Because of this, it represents real power that cannot be overthrown since it resides in our collective spirit. This is the "transcorporeal / transnational" idea behind it. It is an essentially metaphysical nation-state. Yet it absolutely "exists" in corporeal form wherever Dragons live out their ultraterrestrial lives, including the depth dimensions of life. We embody everything that that is the sovereign dragon nation. and
http://quintessentialpublications.com/twyman/?p=1730
Invisible Hand Episode 27:
Interview with Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg
The Invisible Hand features a new interview with Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg, author of the books The Dragon CedeThe Dragon Legacy. He refers to himself as the Sovereign Prince of an entity called Drakenberg, as well as the Sovereign Head of an organization called The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court. The court is made of people who claim descent from a collection of royal bloodlines related to De Vere’s family. They all have titles recognized by the Court as having standing in the sovereign kingdom of Drakenberg.
Here, we focus on this concept of Drakenberg , as a “freedom technology,” somewhat like the sovereignty movement in the US, Canada and Britain. In that movement, people who choose to “go sovereign” file paperwork with the government announcing their freedom from the government’s rule, thus proclaiming that their own individual sovereignty is supreme.
This is the true tradition upon which sovereignty has historically been based — royal blood that denotes inherited rights to titles and land and a "divine" mandate— to rest your own claim of sovereignty upon in the modern world. This is like talking to the elite on terms that they can understand, saying “Don’t mess with me, because I’m a prince, not just another slave.” Drakenberg is inherently ethereal in nature. Most states are merely corporations — imaginary entities brought to life by legal proclamation.
Drakenberg is transcorporeal, paradoxically both alive and dead, apparent and hidden, real and surreal, at the same time. Because of this, it represents real power that cannot be overthrown since it resides in our collective spirit. This is the "transcorporeal / transnational" idea behind it. It is an essentially metaphysical nation-state. Yet it absolutely "exists" in corporeal form wherever Dragons live out their ultraterrestrial lives, including the depth dimensions of life. We embody everything that that is the sovereign dragon nation. and
The dragon or fairy gene was very rare and true
archdruidic, royal
dragon families were rarer still. Persecutions excepted, if this
were not the case anyway, then perhaps many fairy stories of the
popular genre which originated from outside the dragon culture would
never have taken hold, because the reality would have been
constantly staring people in the face.
Traditionally and consistently, the symbol of both wisdom ( Sophia) and healing was the serpent or, as it was also known, the dragon. In keeping with this the kings and queens of pre-catholic history were noted for their healing capabilities and as such, in Judaic mythology, were called, perhaps after the archangel Raphael, the Repha'im or Rapha'Elohim; the healing gods of the Anunnaki. Raphael was the Prince who appeared to Adam in Eden according to Milton.
No mention of this is made in Genesis and one suspects that of the two entities that did appear to Adam, Enlil and Enki, or if you like: God and the Catholic Satan. Raphael - the Angel of the Rising Sun - must have been Enki who gave Kingship to man in the form of the Elven Overlords and after whom, by various related epithets; including 'The Repha'im', the Elven Kings are known.
Authorities believe that these people were identical to both the Nephilim and the Anakim of Idumea and Canaan. In early heraldry, derived from ancient sources, the dragon was depicted as a serpent with the wings of a swan. This image was also given the wings of a bat.
The dragon nevertheless was humanoid and so the symbolism in the dragon glyph ought rather be interpreted to substantiate the etymology of the word itself. The serpent stands for the wisdom and healing powers of the sacred king or queen whose regalia often consisted of serpent-like scale armour and whose consciousness soars above that of humanity as if carried on wings, which were symbolized by shamanic swan's feather cloaks.
The nocturnal habits of the dragon people, typically those of the Cimmerian Scythians, were noted by their contemporaries and the swan's wings of the dragon glyph attributed to them were either interchangeable with, or substituted by, those of the bat to signify this.
One of their earlier names - Anunnaki - means "heaven meets earth". Lots of fanciful notions have been put forward to suggest that the Anunnaki were from outer space, but a far simpler way of understanding the name is to ask a simple question: "when do the heavens - the An or Stars - meet the Earth?". The answer is of course - "at night time".
When considering the nature of the elves or the Anunnaki, rather than believing they came from a different planet, it might be worth considering that they occupied a different dimension. If this sounds equally as fanciful and implausible, consider this. A multitude of different animal species on this planet can be seen and touched.
However, because of their physiology and chemical make-up were different and these differences in synaptic connections and hormone levels altered their perceptions of their universe, these species actually lived in another dimension and at a higher frequency, where time and the environment for them were totally different to the way humans perceived them. The level to which the fairies experienced life was far deeper than the level to which humans experienced it.
In real terms the fairies inhabited an entirely alien world but occupied the same planet. In this sense they were from a different dimension, characterized and regulated by their body chemistry which enabled them to see more in the environment than humans could. In this they were no more remarkable than any other non-human species we are able to study today.
Flies, Sharks, Dolphins and a host of other lifeforms have attributes and abilities humans do not possess and the way in which they interact with the planet is completely alien to the way in which humans do. For a fly time is completely different and for a Shark, any warm blooded creature glows with a blue, electro-chemical haze or aura, proving to some extent, the veracity of the theory of Kirlian photography.
The Fairies were dragons and this means that they 'saw clearly', they saw subtler emanations than man could. In order to be able to do this the fairy would have to have their senses tuned into a higher frequency than man, meaning that the fairies, perforce, were tuned to a higher frequency of perception and activity generally.
In cybernetic terms, any system that is faster and consequently higher than a given base is called a nautonnier or navigator and in cybernetics these systems are set over and in control of the slower functional operations within any given mechanical or organic arrangement.
If we transpose this theory onto human society we get leaders and followers, where the leaders are supposed to be able to function at a faster rate than the followers and thereby anticipate any given direction the system might go in and plan sensible strategies that the system might adopt for its well-being.
Today this is a joke and incompetent, self-seeking, middle class idiots more often find themselves voted into control of vast social systems which, once upon a time, no-one would trust to anyone but the Elves.
In the past therefore, because the Fairies were, for millennia, physiologically bred and exhaustively trained to operate at a higher level than men, humans often invited them to become social navigators or nautonniers. The Sumerian word for a navigator is a GALL, which sounds a bit like a Gael, doesn't it? The language of the western Royal Scythians was Gaelic and the Royal Scythians were the fairies, the Elves: The Dragons.
The dragon's fiery breath symbolized the pneuma, the spirit of the divine, which coalesced into the Torah or cosmic law that the Dragon queens and kingsvampyr overlords or fairy overkings.
Though humanoid, Dragons were not Homo Sapiens but from the far older elven race sometimes called in literature - the Elda or Eldar, probably suggested or derived from the name of an ancient queen and her ancient, former habitation in Mesopotamia and possibly intended, in its attribution as a simile for Elder perhaps, to imply some form of racial primogeniture.
Reflected upon within the context of early Sumerian historical records, such a synonym would indeed seem to be apposite, inasmuch as this ancient and mysterious people claimed that the Dragons, with Queen Hawah Elda's assistance, made mankind.
Traditionally and consistently, the symbol of both wisdom ( Sophia) and healing was the serpent or, as it was also known, the dragon. In keeping with this the kings and queens of pre-catholic history were noted for their healing capabilities and as such, in Judaic mythology, were called, perhaps after the archangel Raphael, the Repha'im or Rapha'Elohim; the healing gods of the Anunnaki. Raphael was the Prince who appeared to Adam in Eden according to Milton.
No mention of this is made in Genesis and one suspects that of the two entities that did appear to Adam, Enlil and Enki, or if you like: God and the Catholic Satan. Raphael - the Angel of the Rising Sun - must have been Enki who gave Kingship to man in the form of the Elven Overlords and after whom, by various related epithets; including 'The Repha'im', the Elven Kings are known.
Authorities believe that these people were identical to both the Nephilim and the Anakim of Idumea and Canaan. In early heraldry, derived from ancient sources, the dragon was depicted as a serpent with the wings of a swan. This image was also given the wings of a bat.
The dragon nevertheless was humanoid and so the symbolism in the dragon glyph ought rather be interpreted to substantiate the etymology of the word itself. The serpent stands for the wisdom and healing powers of the sacred king or queen whose regalia often consisted of serpent-like scale armour and whose consciousness soars above that of humanity as if carried on wings, which were symbolized by shamanic swan's feather cloaks.
The nocturnal habits of the dragon people, typically those of the Cimmerian Scythians, were noted by their contemporaries and the swan's wings of the dragon glyph attributed to them were either interchangeable with, or substituted by, those of the bat to signify this.
One of their earlier names - Anunnaki - means "heaven meets earth". Lots of fanciful notions have been put forward to suggest that the Anunnaki were from outer space, but a far simpler way of understanding the name is to ask a simple question: "when do the heavens - the An or Stars - meet the Earth?". The answer is of course - "at night time".
When considering the nature of the elves or the Anunnaki, rather than believing they came from a different planet, it might be worth considering that they occupied a different dimension. If this sounds equally as fanciful and implausible, consider this. A multitude of different animal species on this planet can be seen and touched.
However, because of their physiology and chemical make-up were different and these differences in synaptic connections and hormone levels altered their perceptions of their universe, these species actually lived in another dimension and at a higher frequency, where time and the environment for them were totally different to the way humans perceived them. The level to which the fairies experienced life was far deeper than the level to which humans experienced it.
In real terms the fairies inhabited an entirely alien world but occupied the same planet. In this sense they were from a different dimension, characterized and regulated by their body chemistry which enabled them to see more in the environment than humans could. In this they were no more remarkable than any other non-human species we are able to study today.
Flies, Sharks, Dolphins and a host of other lifeforms have attributes and abilities humans do not possess and the way in which they interact with the planet is completely alien to the way in which humans do. For a fly time is completely different and for a Shark, any warm blooded creature glows with a blue, electro-chemical haze or aura, proving to some extent, the veracity of the theory of Kirlian photography.
The Fairies were dragons and this means that they 'saw clearly', they saw subtler emanations than man could. In order to be able to do this the fairy would have to have their senses tuned into a higher frequency than man, meaning that the fairies, perforce, were tuned to a higher frequency of perception and activity generally.
In cybernetic terms, any system that is faster and consequently higher than a given base is called a nautonnier or navigator and in cybernetics these systems are set over and in control of the slower functional operations within any given mechanical or organic arrangement.
If we transpose this theory onto human society we get leaders and followers, where the leaders are supposed to be able to function at a faster rate than the followers and thereby anticipate any given direction the system might go in and plan sensible strategies that the system might adopt for its well-being.
Today this is a joke and incompetent, self-seeking, middle class idiots more often find themselves voted into control of vast social systems which, once upon a time, no-one would trust to anyone but the Elves.
In the past therefore, because the Fairies were, for millennia, physiologically bred and exhaustively trained to operate at a higher level than men, humans often invited them to become social navigators or nautonniers. The Sumerian word for a navigator is a GALL, which sounds a bit like a Gael, doesn't it? The language of the western Royal Scythians was Gaelic and the Royal Scythians were the fairies, the Elves: The Dragons.
The dragon's fiery breath symbolized the pneuma, the spirit of the divine, which coalesced into the Torah or cosmic law that the Dragon queens and kingsvampyr overlords or fairy overkings.
Though humanoid, Dragons were not Homo Sapiens but from the far older elven race sometimes called in literature - the Elda or Eldar, probably suggested or derived from the name of an ancient queen and her ancient, former habitation in Mesopotamia and possibly intended, in its attribution as a simile for Elder perhaps, to imply some form of racial primogeniture.
Reflected upon within the context of early Sumerian historical records, such a synonym would indeed seem to be apposite, inasmuch as this ancient and mysterious people claimed that the Dragons, with Queen Hawah Elda's assistance, made mankind.
"THE TWO-HEADED DRAGON"
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35561058/The-Dragon-Legacy-the-Secret-History-of-an-Ancient-Bloodline-de-Vere
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35561058/The-Dragon-Legacy-the-Secret-History-of-an-Ancient-Bloodline-de-Vere
The Head of the House formally addresses me as "the Dragon Prince" of the House of Vere.
In brief, the recorded Dragon lineage starts with the Annunaki and descends through the proto-Scythians, the Sumerians in one branch and the early Egyptians in another; the Phoenicians, the Mittani, back to the Scythians again through marital alliance, along to the "Tuatha de Danaan" and the Fir Bolg; down through their Arch-Druidic, Priest-Princely families, to the Royal Picts of Scotland and the high kings of the Horse Lords of Dal Riada; through to the Elven dynasty of Pendragon and Avallon del Acqs, and down to a few pure bred families today.
Dragon tradition related to all the current genetic and historical evidence says yes they were. Both relatively recent and ancient accounts of Dragons or Elves going back to the Annunaki speak of them as having clearly distinct physical attributes, and these attributes are inherited from a species that scientists now assert preceded the human genetic bottleneck by about thirty thousand years. These attributes are not human in the accepted sense. Whether this ancient race was hybridised with another before history is anybody's guess, but their later hybridisation to produce the Elven God-Kings and Ring Lords (the King Tribe), is clearly recorded in the Cylinder Rolls.
The Nephilim and the Watchers are of the Dragon race. as were the gods of ancient cultures of Greece, India, Sumeria . These pantheons are derived from one another. The Platonic Atlantis theory is preceded by a much older tradition relating to the "Ogdoad." The Ogdoad, sacred to Jesus himself, were the eight great Gods who raked the Sacred Mountain - "Atlantis" - after the original Flood. This Flood occurred in the Black Sea and the Sacred Mountain, so inundated, was believed to be the Pontus Euxine. Apparently the Ogdoad failed in their attempt to bring fertility back to the Holy Place and abandoned it for a life wandering the planet. This is probably why the legend of the Flood spread and can be found in most cultures.
The Ogdoad turn up in Chinese myth, in early Egyptian religious texts, and even in much later Viking legend, where the gods of the Aesir were said to have abandoned the Sacred Mountain after the Flood. From the Ogdoad, who were the first Dragon god-kings of ancient proto-Scythia, we obtain the gods of the Anunnaki, and those later pantheons that derived from them. It is not to be doubted that after the Flood the children of the Anunnaki had established incredible civilisations in their time, so I suppose you could say that the cultures of the Sumerians (whose language, termed "proto-Sumerian", originated in Transylvania), the Egyptians and even the early settlers in northern Europe stemmed from and reflect an antediluvian prototype, a much older pre-Flood "Golden Age" presided over by the ancient Dragon god-kings and goddess-queens. The mistake would be to put the Atlantean period too far back in time and to locate Atlantis where Plato did. Scientists have proved the Biblical Flood to be in the Black Sea and this region is where most of the Titanic and Olympian sagas, associated with the Dawn of the Gods, unfold.
Anciently Dragon blood, the blood of the 'gods', is the true source of divine right kingship. To say that Dragons are the rightful rulers of the world's governments today might raise some contention. Perhaps it would be more realistic to suggest that they may well be the rightful rulers of the world's governments in the future.
"The Dragon" is a term I use generally to mean the dragon archetype resting within the Dragon blood and passed on through the genes. It is the conduit through which flow the memories of the wisdom and experience of the Dragons who have gone before. The word "dragon" is derived from the Greek "edrakon", which is an aorist of the word "derkesthai", which means "to see clearly". "The Dragon" therefore is the inherited Dragon archetype and that archetype is the conduit of clear sight through which racial knowledge flows. Clear sight also and principally refers to transcendent consciousness.
Notably in our family the Dragon Court is also derived from the Court of the Pendragon Kings whose lineage we inherit through numerous marital alliances with our close cousins, the Dukes of Hamilton, whose estates bordered our own in Lanarkshire.
The Hamiltons were the heirs presumptive to the throne of Scotland. Lateral inheritance from the extinct cadet cousin branch of the Vere earls of Oxford brings to the contemporary Court, via the 11th earl, Richard de Vere, the degree of Societas Draconis - latterly misnamed "Sarkany Rend" - a membership bestowed upon him, it is believed academically, during his investiture into the Prince's Degree of the Order of the Garter, along with the Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg, at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. The heraldry of the family prior to Richard's investiture into Societas Draconis already included the ancient Dragon motifs on both the paternal and maternal sides of the family, denoting pure Dragon blood in both descents, and reflecting the continuing presence of the Dragon Court in the family since the time of Princess Milouziana of the Scythians.
The contemporary Dragon Court is furthermore a combination of what Aleister Crowley would term several "currents", of which the major external one to the family proper was bestowed via the Black Country Covenant of the Baphometic Order of the Cubic Stone, who trace their origins back to the Knights Templars.
This was given in recognition of my family's hereditary involvement in Royal Witchcraft and the historical Dragon tradition. Other external currents derive from the Knighthood of the Plantagenet Clan Donnachaid, Dragon cousins to the House of Vere, and laterally from Dr. John Dee's "School of Night", of which Edward de Vere, the seventeenth earl of Oxford, was a prominent member. Edward also performed the rites of Dragon kingship in the family, specifically the rite of the kingship of the Calle Daouine.
Down the centuries the Royal Dragon Court is carried continuously in the Vere Dragon Blood. It would be correct to say I inherited the Dragon Court by virtue of being a senior blood descendant of the House of Vere, and I am recognized as a Dragon sovereign by the other senior members of the family.
DUCHY OF ANGIERS & ROYAL HOUSE OF VERE:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/dragons/esp_sociopol_dragondescent2.htm
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/dragons/esp_sociopol_dragondescent2.htm
The Vere do go straight to Romulus, Via Atia of the Julii.
The Julian and Claudian Clans claimed descent from Venus (Ishtar of the Sumerians)
via Aenas, Romulus and Remus (The Dragon -Wolf Clan).
The Julian and Claudian Clans claimed descent from Venus (Ishtar of the Sumerians)
via Aenas, Romulus and Remus (The Dragon -Wolf Clan).
The Meaning of the Vere name in Eurasia: Simple Introduction
The Vere name appears first in Sanskrit, which originated with the Aryan-Scythians of the Iranian Plateau and Greater Scythia in 1800 Bc. It has correlates in numerous Indo-European language branches, in which the name means exactly the same thing.
In Gallic we have the situation where the letters “P” and “B” are interchangeable, and where “Bh,” “B” and “Mh” translate as “V,” as does the letter “F.” In Russian Cyrillic “B” also translates as “V.”
Sanskrit: Vira = Man, Hero (mighty overlord). Broken into its component syllables: Vi = High; Ra (from Ri/Rig) = Royal/King.
Avestan (Old Eastern Scythian): Vira = Man, Hero (mighty overlord) Broken into its component syllables: Vi = High; Ra (from Ri/Rig) = Royal/King.
Kushan (Old Western Scythian), Danaan and Pictish Scythian (Ireland and Scotland): Fer/Ver/Vere = High King. (cf; Irish Gaelic – Fir = Man). Broken into its component syllables: Ve = High; Re (from Ri/Righ) = Royal/King. Cf: Ardrigh = Gaelic; High King.
Roman: Viri = Mighty, Great, Overlord (as in the Latin “Virideus”: Mighty God or Chief God).Broken into its component syllables: Vi = High; Ri (from Ri/Regis) = Royal/King.
Old German: Ver/Vor/Uber or Wer = Man, Truth, Over. (as in Waerloga or Warlock where Waer = Truth and Loga = to lie. Waerloga means to present lies as the truth. It refers to a traitor and has no connection with witchcraft). Cf: Uberherr = Overlord.
Old French: Ver = Green/Spring (fairy and witch associations with the forests and fertility, see: Melusine de Vere, the Dragon/Fairy Witch of the forest maze of Angiers), Truth/Glass/Crystal (transparency or truth, cf; "The crystal womb of the Virgin from whence shone the light of Christ").
Old Romano-British – Ver/Vor = Overlord (Ver/Vortigherna - “Vortigern”: Overlord or High King).
Old Anatolian (Turkey): Vere (Over/lord) directly related to Vber/Uber (over/lord), meaning Witch (Archdruid)/Vampire. From thence to Romania and Transylvania where vampire/overlord is “Oupire,” on to Russia where vampire/overlord is “Upiore.”
Because of the interchangeable nature of the letters P, B, Bh, Mh and V in ancient Europe, the following applies.
Anatolia was originally a Gaelic-Scythian district controlled by the druids. The word Vber (vampire-witch-druid-overlord) would therefore have translated as V-Ver.
In Scythian (Gallic) Transylvania Oupire (vampire) would have originally been “Ou – Vir – E.”
In Scythian Bulgaria (and later Eire) Fir is pronounced VIR; meaning “Man.” Our early ancestors: The Fir Bolg predecessors of the Tuadha de Danaan in pre-Christain Ireland, originated in Bulgaria. Scholars have stated that the word “Bolg” means bag and, because of this somewhat tenuous translation, others have assumed that the name Fir Bolg meant “Men of the bags” and have attributed the epithet to a time when they claim that the Fir Bolg were enslaved and forced to carry bags of earth from point a, to point b, by their captors.
In The Dragon Legacy I specifically pointed out that the word “Bolg” meant “God” (as does the British “Bog” syllable in the word “Boggart” or Fairy). In particular Bolg is the male component of the Gallic God of Lightning and has a direct linguistic and deific correlation with the Sumerian/Babylonian Anunnaki-Dragon God of Lightning and Storms: Baal.
Consequently the name “Fir/Vir/Ver Bolg” actually means “Men of God,” specifically the God of Lightning (and Storms). In the Gothic, Shamanic and Kabbalistic Traditions Lightning becomes the Great Serpent or Dragon which descends the Tree of Life from Heaven to Earth as inspiration from the Gods.
Therefore “Fir/Vir/Ver Bolg” means specifically: “Priests/Overlords of the Dragon”; inspired from, and directly connected to, the Gods. Likewise, as with “Bolg,” its British counterpart “Bog” meaning both “god” and “fairy” (Vey or Vere), indicates our ancient and continuing union with Godhead and the divine knowledge, wisdom and inspiration (Dragon Fire/Lighning) residing within our holy, royal blood.
In Siberia, the Shamans carried magical bags made from the skins of the Crane, which bird (formerly a sacred symbol of the Gallic Druids) is still sacred to the Hokkaido shamans of the Ainu of Northern Japan today.
The meaning of the name “Fir Bolg” as “Men of the Bags” is therefore purely incidental, and the carrying of the earth of one’s motherland in bags when one migrated to a new land, was a tradition which was Scythian in origin, and stretched from as far afield as Transylvania to Scotland.
In this we are reminded that vampires generally, ( and mythically Dracula in particular), covered the bottom of their coffins with native soil. In the 19th century, displaced Scots (Scythians) who suffered the Highland Clearances, migrated with Scottish soil in their boots and shoes, so they would always be walking on the sacred earth of their homeland. This ancient tradition relates to the belief that the sovereignty of the earth where one is born carries power.
In Russia the word Upiore (vampire) would have translated “U – VI – ORE.”
In Old German Uber translates as “U- VER.” Hence Uberherren: Uverherren = Overlords.
In Old French, Fairy also appears as Fey or Vey. This is a Gallic leftover where the letter “F” translates as the letter “V.” This tradition still abides in the modern Welsh language. Consequently the name (Title) Vere is also synonimous with Vey or Fey.
In all instances the word “witch” (a clear seer) and the word “dragon” (a clear seer) are synonymous. Vere therefore also means “Dragon” and “Witch” (Druid/Fairy). Vere = Fairy King, via “fairy” which in Latin means Controller of Fate or Overlord. As above.
The direct linguistic and terminological links and relationships between these noun-verbs is utterly apparent and obvious, representing the transmigration and corruption of loan words and root meanings across Eurasia.
In summary the noun-verb “Vere” has justifiably been surrounded in an aura of magic, mystery and holy blood traditon for millenia and acquired a certain mystique arising from the myths and legends which have become the accretions attaching themselves to the historical, socio-political fact of Vere High Dragon Kingship. Consequently, the name Vere, contrary to the opinion of some authors, is not Norman-French in origin, and was not adopted by the Veres from the names of their estates. Rather, these estates, villages and towns derived their names from their Vere overlords.
The Vere name appears first in Sanskrit, which originated with the Aryan-Scythians of the Iranian Plateau and Greater Scythia in 1800 Bc. It has correlates in numerous Indo-European language branches, in which the name means exactly the same thing.
In Gallic we have the situation where the letters “P” and “B” are interchangeable, and where “Bh,” “B” and “Mh” translate as “V,” as does the letter “F.” In Russian Cyrillic “B” also translates as “V.”
Sanskrit: Vira = Man, Hero (mighty overlord). Broken into its component syllables: Vi = High; Ra (from Ri/Rig) = Royal/King.
Avestan (Old Eastern Scythian): Vira = Man, Hero (mighty overlord) Broken into its component syllables: Vi = High; Ra (from Ri/Rig) = Royal/King.
Kushan (Old Western Scythian), Danaan and Pictish Scythian (Ireland and Scotland): Fer/Ver/Vere = High King. (cf; Irish Gaelic – Fir = Man). Broken into its component syllables: Ve = High; Re (from Ri/Righ) = Royal/King. Cf: Ardrigh = Gaelic; High King.
Roman: Viri = Mighty, Great, Overlord (as in the Latin “Virideus”: Mighty God or Chief God).Broken into its component syllables: Vi = High; Ri (from Ri/Regis) = Royal/King.
Old German: Ver/Vor/Uber or Wer = Man, Truth, Over. (as in Waerloga or Warlock where Waer = Truth and Loga = to lie. Waerloga means to present lies as the truth. It refers to a traitor and has no connection with witchcraft). Cf: Uberherr = Overlord.
Old French: Ver = Green/Spring (fairy and witch associations with the forests and fertility, see: Melusine de Vere, the Dragon/Fairy Witch of the forest maze of Angiers), Truth/Glass/Crystal (transparency or truth, cf; "The crystal womb of the Virgin from whence shone the light of Christ").
Old Romano-British – Ver/Vor = Overlord (Ver/Vortigherna - “Vortigern”: Overlord or High King).
Old Anatolian (Turkey): Vere (Over/lord) directly related to Vber/Uber (over/lord), meaning Witch (Archdruid)/Vampire. From thence to Romania and Transylvania where vampire/overlord is “Oupire,” on to Russia where vampire/overlord is “Upiore.”
Because of the interchangeable nature of the letters P, B, Bh, Mh and V in ancient Europe, the following applies.
Anatolia was originally a Gaelic-Scythian district controlled by the druids. The word Vber (vampire-witch-druid-overlord) would therefore have translated as V-Ver.
In Scythian (Gallic) Transylvania Oupire (vampire) would have originally been “Ou – Vir – E.”
In Scythian Bulgaria (and later Eire) Fir is pronounced VIR; meaning “Man.” Our early ancestors: The Fir Bolg predecessors of the Tuadha de Danaan in pre-Christain Ireland, originated in Bulgaria. Scholars have stated that the word “Bolg” means bag and, because of this somewhat tenuous translation, others have assumed that the name Fir Bolg meant “Men of the bags” and have attributed the epithet to a time when they claim that the Fir Bolg were enslaved and forced to carry bags of earth from point a, to point b, by their captors.
In The Dragon Legacy I specifically pointed out that the word “Bolg” meant “God” (as does the British “Bog” syllable in the word “Boggart” or Fairy). In particular Bolg is the male component of the Gallic God of Lightning and has a direct linguistic and deific correlation with the Sumerian/Babylonian Anunnaki-Dragon God of Lightning and Storms: Baal.
Consequently the name “Fir/Vir/Ver Bolg” actually means “Men of God,” specifically the God of Lightning (and Storms). In the Gothic, Shamanic and Kabbalistic Traditions Lightning becomes the Great Serpent or Dragon which descends the Tree of Life from Heaven to Earth as inspiration from the Gods.
Therefore “Fir/Vir/Ver Bolg” means specifically: “Priests/Overlords of the Dragon”; inspired from, and directly connected to, the Gods. Likewise, as with “Bolg,” its British counterpart “Bog” meaning both “god” and “fairy” (Vey or Vere), indicates our ancient and continuing union with Godhead and the divine knowledge, wisdom and inspiration (Dragon Fire/Lighning) residing within our holy, royal blood.
In Siberia, the Shamans carried magical bags made from the skins of the Crane, which bird (formerly a sacred symbol of the Gallic Druids) is still sacred to the Hokkaido shamans of the Ainu of Northern Japan today.
The meaning of the name “Fir Bolg” as “Men of the Bags” is therefore purely incidental, and the carrying of the earth of one’s motherland in bags when one migrated to a new land, was a tradition which was Scythian in origin, and stretched from as far afield as Transylvania to Scotland.
In this we are reminded that vampires generally, ( and mythically Dracula in particular), covered the bottom of their coffins with native soil. In the 19th century, displaced Scots (Scythians) who suffered the Highland Clearances, migrated with Scottish soil in their boots and shoes, so they would always be walking on the sacred earth of their homeland. This ancient tradition relates to the belief that the sovereignty of the earth where one is born carries power.
In Russia the word Upiore (vampire) would have translated “U – VI – ORE.”
In Old German Uber translates as “U- VER.” Hence Uberherren: Uverherren = Overlords.
In Old French, Fairy also appears as Fey or Vey. This is a Gallic leftover where the letter “F” translates as the letter “V.” This tradition still abides in the modern Welsh language. Consequently the name (Title) Vere is also synonimous with Vey or Fey.
In all instances the word “witch” (a clear seer) and the word “dragon” (a clear seer) are synonymous. Vere therefore also means “Dragon” and “Witch” (Druid/Fairy). Vere = Fairy King, via “fairy” which in Latin means Controller of Fate or Overlord. As above.
The direct linguistic and terminological links and relationships between these noun-verbs is utterly apparent and obvious, representing the transmigration and corruption of loan words and root meanings across Eurasia.
In summary the noun-verb “Vere” has justifiably been surrounded in an aura of magic, mystery and holy blood traditon for millenia and acquired a certain mystique arising from the myths and legends which have become the accretions attaching themselves to the historical, socio-political fact of Vere High Dragon Kingship. Consequently, the name Vere, contrary to the opinion of some authors, is not Norman-French in origin, and was not adopted by the Veres from the names of their estates. Rather, these estates, villages and towns derived their names from their Vere overlords.
My Kingdom is Not of This World
My Kingdom is Not of This World
Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg,
Author of The Dragon Legacy: The Secret History of an Ancient Bloodline
Interview by Tracy R. Twyman
The monarchical system in Britain is, to the greatest extent, impotent, and so if one wanted real political power, the last place one would find it would be on the throne of England. We have no need for thrones or crowns to remind us of who we are.
Just as the work of Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln introduced the study of the "Grail bloodline" to the English-speaking world in the 1980s, so has the work of two individuals redefined the scope of this study in more recent years. But while the better-known Laurence Gardner has received fame, fortune, accolades, and numerous book contracts as a reward for his work, a lesser-known figure has lurked quietly in the shadows up until the present.
As the Sovereign Grand Master of the Imperial and Royal Dragon Court and Order, Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg provided the inspiration, the research, and a hefty portion of the writing for Gardner's Genesis of the Grail Kings and Realm of the Ring Lords. Yet amazingly, de Vere is not listed as co-author on many editions of Genesis, and receives no credit at all in Ring Lords. Both of these books, credited to Laurence Gardner, are based almost entirely upon the text From Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells, by Nicholas de Vere, recently published by The Book Tree under the title The Dragon Legacy.
But there is much in the original de Vere text that is not to be found in the Gardner version, and there is an authenticity to de Vere's work, derived from the fact that he is the true inheritor and guardian of this tradition - the Dragon tradition, also known as the Grail tradition. De Vere has spent two decades delving into history, mythology, science, religion, and his own family archives to compile what is perhaps the most extensive and insightful text upon this subject ever published. What de Vere has come up with is enough to comprise not just another pop culture craze, but an entirely new theology, with a new philosophy and politics as well.
Clearly de Vere is not out to get rich or be popular, as he has already forgone numerous opportunities to obtain both. Writing about an elite genetic strain of humanity that descends from a super-human race, and which possesses abilities inaccessible to those outside of that strain, is not exactly a ticket to universal adulation. To the contrary, de Vere's assertions regarding the elite status of the Dragon bloodline have branded him completely anathema to the Wiccan and New Age communities who would otherwise be among those most open to his message. Which begs the question: why has Nicholas de Vere spent the last twenty years of his life on this monumental task, and why does he continue to do so?
In addition to his groundbreaking work as a researcher and author, de Vere serves as the head of an elite occult order with origins stretching back to the Knights Templar, and he holds a potential claim to several important royal titles. This, some have supposed, is the real motivation behind his work. Some believe that de Vere wants to be the King of England or France, an assertion that he flatly denies. Others see in de Vere a candidate for nothing less than the anti-Christ himself, and see in the Dragon Court an international Satanic conspiracy somewhere on a level between the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Bilderberg Group. But while it is true that, when the Great Dragon of Revelation does emerge to take hold of the world, he will undoubtedly be of the Dragon blood, and may even be a member of the Court, Prince Nicholas de Vere is certainly not he.
As I am sure he would humbly admit himself, de Vere's mission is simply to prepare the way for He who is yet to come. Listen, then, dear readers, to the interesting and powerful message of Nicholas de Vere.
TT: How long ago did you write The Dragon Legacy?
NDV: About six years ago. The Dragon Legacy was known on the net as From Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells and this was a summary of years of research and reflection. Some of it appeared in Laurence Gardner's Genesis of the Grail Kings and then after I published it on the web, Laurence based his third book Realm of the Ring Lords largely on what I had already published.
TT: What were your main sources of information when compiling the book?
NDV: On the so-called Dragon "path" one is imbued hereditarily with Dragon capabilities in varying measures. As one progresses these capabilities wax and wane according to necessity. One of the main capacities is the Derkesthai Process, in which information is "channeled" through the conduit of the Dragon archetype; specifically the racial consciousness of those of the Dragon blood. Through this process one may pick up naturally, all sorts of information relating to varied aspects of the Dragon Tradition in its many branches and manifestations. However, this is of no use intellectually and rationally without informed academic confirmation and corroboration.
To this end, another Dragon capacity is to be able to obtain after the fact those confirmations required. I anticipated works before I read them, either through meditation or through experience on the Dragon Path. In a not too dissimilar manner Kekule discovered the "Benzine Ring."
I would say that the serious academic backbone of The Dragon Legacy in terms of corroboration and confirmation, lies in the work of Dr. David Barker; George Woodcock; Lysander Spooner; Professor Miranda Green; Pierre Proudhon; Professors Pierpaoli and Regelson; David Anderson; The Oxford English Dictionary and an old associate Mr. C. Murray Hall M.A. (Lecturer in Barbarian Cultures: Sussex University).
Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg,
Author of The Dragon Legacy: The Secret History of an Ancient Bloodline
Interview by Tracy R. Twyman
The monarchical system in Britain is, to the greatest extent, impotent, and so if one wanted real political power, the last place one would find it would be on the throne of England. We have no need for thrones or crowns to remind us of who we are.
Just as the work of Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln introduced the study of the "Grail bloodline" to the English-speaking world in the 1980s, so has the work of two individuals redefined the scope of this study in more recent years. But while the better-known Laurence Gardner has received fame, fortune, accolades, and numerous book contracts as a reward for his work, a lesser-known figure has lurked quietly in the shadows up until the present.
As the Sovereign Grand Master of the Imperial and Royal Dragon Court and Order, Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg provided the inspiration, the research, and a hefty portion of the writing for Gardner's Genesis of the Grail Kings and Realm of the Ring Lords. Yet amazingly, de Vere is not listed as co-author on many editions of Genesis, and receives no credit at all in Ring Lords. Both of these books, credited to Laurence Gardner, are based almost entirely upon the text From Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells, by Nicholas de Vere, recently published by The Book Tree under the title The Dragon Legacy.
But there is much in the original de Vere text that is not to be found in the Gardner version, and there is an authenticity to de Vere's work, derived from the fact that he is the true inheritor and guardian of this tradition - the Dragon tradition, also known as the Grail tradition. De Vere has spent two decades delving into history, mythology, science, religion, and his own family archives to compile what is perhaps the most extensive and insightful text upon this subject ever published. What de Vere has come up with is enough to comprise not just another pop culture craze, but an entirely new theology, with a new philosophy and politics as well.
Clearly de Vere is not out to get rich or be popular, as he has already forgone numerous opportunities to obtain both. Writing about an elite genetic strain of humanity that descends from a super-human race, and which possesses abilities inaccessible to those outside of that strain, is not exactly a ticket to universal adulation. To the contrary, de Vere's assertions regarding the elite status of the Dragon bloodline have branded him completely anathema to the Wiccan and New Age communities who would otherwise be among those most open to his message. Which begs the question: why has Nicholas de Vere spent the last twenty years of his life on this monumental task, and why does he continue to do so?
In addition to his groundbreaking work as a researcher and author, de Vere serves as the head of an elite occult order with origins stretching back to the Knights Templar, and he holds a potential claim to several important royal titles. This, some have supposed, is the real motivation behind his work. Some believe that de Vere wants to be the King of England or France, an assertion that he flatly denies. Others see in de Vere a candidate for nothing less than the anti-Christ himself, and see in the Dragon Court an international Satanic conspiracy somewhere on a level between the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Bilderberg Group. But while it is true that, when the Great Dragon of Revelation does emerge to take hold of the world, he will undoubtedly be of the Dragon blood, and may even be a member of the Court, Prince Nicholas de Vere is certainly not he.
As I am sure he would humbly admit himself, de Vere's mission is simply to prepare the way for He who is yet to come. Listen, then, dear readers, to the interesting and powerful message of Nicholas de Vere.
TT: How long ago did you write The Dragon Legacy?
NDV: About six years ago. The Dragon Legacy was known on the net as From Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells and this was a summary of years of research and reflection. Some of it appeared in Laurence Gardner's Genesis of the Grail Kings and then after I published it on the web, Laurence based his third book Realm of the Ring Lords largely on what I had already published.
TT: What were your main sources of information when compiling the book?
NDV: On the so-called Dragon "path" one is imbued hereditarily with Dragon capabilities in varying measures. As one progresses these capabilities wax and wane according to necessity. One of the main capacities is the Derkesthai Process, in which information is "channeled" through the conduit of the Dragon archetype; specifically the racial consciousness of those of the Dragon blood. Through this process one may pick up naturally, all sorts of information relating to varied aspects of the Dragon Tradition in its many branches and manifestations. However, this is of no use intellectually and rationally without informed academic confirmation and corroboration.
To this end, another Dragon capacity is to be able to obtain after the fact those confirmations required. I anticipated works before I read them, either through meditation or through experience on the Dragon Path. In a not too dissimilar manner Kekule discovered the "Benzine Ring."
I would say that the serious academic backbone of The Dragon Legacy in terms of corroboration and confirmation, lies in the work of Dr. David Barker; George Woodcock; Lysander Spooner; Professor Miranda Green; Pierre Proudhon; Professors Pierpaoli and Regelson; David Anderson; The Oxford English Dictionary and an old associate Mr. C. Murray Hall M.A. (Lecturer in Barbarian Cultures: Sussex University).
Sorcerer Kings
Although Merovingian culture was both temperate and surprisingly modern, the monarchs who presided over it were another matter. They (The Sorcerer Kings) were not typical even of rulers of their own age, for the atmosphere of mystery legend, magic and the supernatural, surrounded them, even during their lifetimes. If the customs and economy of the Merovingian world did not differ markedly from others of the period, the aura about the throne and royal bloodline was quite unique.
Sons of the Merovingian blood were not 'created' kings. On the contrary they were automatically regarded as such on the advent of their twelfth birthday. There was no public ceremony of anointment, no coronation of any sort. Power was simply assumed, as by sacred right.
But while the king was supreme authority in the realm, he was not obliged - or even expected - to sully his hands with the mundane business of governing. He was essentially a ritualised figure, a priest-king, and his role was not necessarily to do anything, simply to be. The king ruled in short, but did not govern.
Even after their conversion to Christianity the Merovingian rulers, like the Patriarchs of the Old Testament, were polygamous. On occasion they enjoyed harems of oriental proportions. Even when the aristocracy, under pressure from the Church, became rigorously monogamous, the monarchy remained exempt. And the Church, curiously enough, seems to have accepted this prerogative without any inordinate protest. According to one modern commentator: Why was it [polygamy] tacitly approved by the Franks themselves?
We may here be in the presence of ancient usage of polygamy in a royal family - a family of such rank that its blood could not be ennobled by any match, however advantageous, nor degraded by the blood of slaves ... It was a matter of indifference whether a queen were taken from a royal dynasty or from among courtesans...
The fortune of the dynasty rested in its blood and was shared by all who were of that blood.
And again,
'it is Just possible that, in the Merovingians, we may have a dynasty of Germanic Heerkonige* derived from an ancient kingly family of the migration period'.
Extracted and expanded upon by Henry Lincoln, from 'The Long Haired Kings' by
J. M. Wallace-Hadrill; Fellow of Merton College Oxford.
* Fritz Kern, Gottesgnadentum und Widerstandrecht (1954).
The House of Vere are descended in numerous lines from the Merovingian dynasty and consequently share in this ancient Germanic Royal Blood Tradition. Prince Milo de Vere - married to Charlemagne's sister - and as Head of the Imperial House and Chief of the Imperial Army, was himself an Imperial Prince.
Although Merovingian culture was both temperate and surprisingly modern, the monarchs who presided over it were another matter. They (The Sorcerer Kings) were not typical even of rulers of their own age, for the atmosphere of mystery legend, magic and the supernatural, surrounded them, even during their lifetimes. If the customs and economy of the Merovingian world did not differ markedly from others of the period, the aura about the throne and royal bloodline was quite unique.
Sons of the Merovingian blood were not 'created' kings. On the contrary they were automatically regarded as such on the advent of their twelfth birthday. There was no public ceremony of anointment, no coronation of any sort. Power was simply assumed, as by sacred right.
But while the king was supreme authority in the realm, he was not obliged - or even expected - to sully his hands with the mundane business of governing. He was essentially a ritualised figure, a priest-king, and his role was not necessarily to do anything, simply to be. The king ruled in short, but did not govern.
Even after their conversion to Christianity the Merovingian rulers, like the Patriarchs of the Old Testament, were polygamous. On occasion they enjoyed harems of oriental proportions. Even when the aristocracy, under pressure from the Church, became rigorously monogamous, the monarchy remained exempt. And the Church, curiously enough, seems to have accepted this prerogative without any inordinate protest. According to one modern commentator: Why was it [polygamy] tacitly approved by the Franks themselves?
We may here be in the presence of ancient usage of polygamy in a royal family - a family of such rank that its blood could not be ennobled by any match, however advantageous, nor degraded by the blood of slaves ... It was a matter of indifference whether a queen were taken from a royal dynasty or from among courtesans...
The fortune of the dynasty rested in its blood and was shared by all who were of that blood.
And again,
'it is Just possible that, in the Merovingians, we may have a dynasty of Germanic Heerkonige* derived from an ancient kingly family of the migration period'.
Extracted and expanded upon by Henry Lincoln, from 'The Long Haired Kings' by
J. M. Wallace-Hadrill; Fellow of Merton College Oxford.
* Fritz Kern, Gottesgnadentum und Widerstandrecht (1954).
The House of Vere are descended in numerous lines from the Merovingian dynasty and consequently share in this ancient Germanic Royal Blood Tradition. Prince Milo de Vere - married to Charlemagne's sister - and as Head of the Imperial House and Chief of the Imperial Army, was himself an Imperial Prince.
cont.
TT:
How did you begin research into your family history?
At what point in your life did you become aware of "the Dragon
legacy" in your family? Is it something you grew up with?
NDV: From the age of seven onwards my father told me about our ancestry, an ancestry steeped in royal blood and most significantly of all, in what is termed Royal Witchcraft, which is a major, ancient, draconian, druidic facet continuing within the later history of the Dragon tradition and within the Vere family.
My father educated me about our particular origins in the royal and noble Blackwood family of Lanark, Scotland. This dynasty sired the most significant practitioner of the Dragon tradition in his time: Major Thomas Weir of Vere of Edinburgh, my 11th great grandfather.
As a witch lord and the prince consort to the elven queen of the Lallan, Thomas performed the ancient Gaelic rites of the sacred kingship of Epona, and consequently founded this rite of kingship within my lineage. So I received the tradition at an early age from my father and he received it from his father, and so on.
TT: Your formal title is "Prince Nicholas de Vere." What does this title imply?
NDV: I trace my lineage back in an unbroken bloodline to the imperial prince Milo de Vere, Count of Anjou in 740 A.D., son of Princess Milouziana of the Scythians. She was recorded throughout France as being the Elven, Dragon Princess of the Scottish Picts, and her Grandson, Milo II, derived his Merovingian descent through his father's marital alliance with the imperial house of Charlene.
Later in history we picked up numerous other lines of Merovingian descent and the attitude in the house of Vere today, both here and in Ireland, reflects that of the Merovingians themselves where inheritance and blood descent is concerned.
Concerning my maternal lineage: my mother is descended from the ancient Collison Jarls of Norfolk, and is the third cousin of the head of the House of Vere. We are a very tightly knit family. The head of the House himself is of Royal Collison descent and this matrilinear Collison extraction also stems from the ancient House of Vere and Princess Milouziana of the Scythians. We are Veres on all sides of the family.
The overall head of the House of Vere today is the Prince Mhaior. By Papal Investiture and by inheritance from the House of the royal O'Brien descendants of King Brian Boru of Tara, the Prince Mhaior is himself an Archduke - not an insignificant Irish earl, as some totally ill-informed malcontent once triumphantly proclaimed in a ridiculous, failed attempt at an exposé of me.
The Head of the House formally addresses me as "the Dragon Prince" of the House of Vere.
TT: Who are the "Dragons" that you write about in your book?
NDV: In brief, the recorded Dragon lineage starts with the Annunaki and descends through the proto-Scythians, the Sumerians in one branch and the early Egyptians in another; the Phoenicians, the Mittani, back to the Scythians again through marital alliance, along to the "Tuatha de Danaan" and the Fir Bolg; down through their Arch-Druidic, Priest-Princely families, to the Royal Picts of Scotland and the high kings of the Horse Lords of Dal Riada; through to the Elven dynasty of Pendragon and Avallon del Acqs, and down to a few pure bred families today.
TT: Were the Dragons originally a separate species from what we would call "human"?
NDV: Dragon tradition related to all the current genetic and historical evidence says yes they were. Both relatively recent and ancient accounts of Dragons or Elves going back to the Annunaki speak of them as having clearly distinct physical attributes, and these attributes are inherited from a species that scientists now assert preceded the human genetic bottleneck by about thirty thousand years. These attributes are not human in the accepted sense. Whether this ancient race was hybridised with another before history is anybody's guess, but their later hybridisation to produce the Elven God-Kings and Ring Lords (the King Tribe), is clearly recorded in the Cylinder Rolls.
TT: Are these Dragons the same as the "Nephilim" of the Bible or the "Watchers" of The Book of Enoch?
NDV: The Nephilim and the Watchers are of the Dragon race, yes.
TT: Were the gods of ancient cultures (Greece, India, Sumeria, etc.) Dragons?
NDV: These pantheons are derived from one another so again the answer in simplistic terms is yes.
TT: What kind of civilization did the Dragons reign over? Would you say that it was the same as the Atlantean or antediluvian civilization?
NDV: The Platonic Atlantis theory is preceded by a much older tradition relating to the "Ogdoad." The Ogdoad, sacred to Jesus himself, were the eight great Gods who raked the Sacred Mountain - "Atlantis" - after the original Flood. This Flood occurred in the Black Sea and the Sacred Mountain, so inundated, was believed to be the Pontus Euxine. Apparently the Ogdoad failed in their attempt to bring fertility back to the Holy Place and abandoned it for a life wandering the planet. This is probably why the legend of the Flood spread and can be found in most cultures.
The Ogdoad turn up in Chinese myth, in early Egyptian religious texts, and even in much later Viking legend, where the gods of the Aesir were said to have abandoned the Sacred Mountain after the Flood. From the Ogdoad, who were the first Dragon god-kings of ancient proto-Scythia, we obtain the gods of the Anunnaki, and those later pantheons that derived from them. It is not to be doubted that after the Flood the children of the Anunnaki had established incredible civilisations in their time, so I suppose you could say that the cultures of the Sumerians (whose language, termed "proto-Sumerian", originated in Transylvania), the Egyptians and even the early settlers in northern Europe stemmed from and reflect an antediluvian prototype, a much older pre-Flood "Golden Age" presided over by the ancient Dragon god-kings and goddess-queens. The mistake would be to put the Atlantean period too far back in time and to locate Atlantis where Plato did. Scientists have proved the Biblical Flood to be in the Black Sea and this region is where most of the Titanic and Olympian sagas, associated with the Dawn of the Gods, unfold.
TT: Is Dragon blood the true source of divine right kingship, in your opinion? Are the Dragons the rightful rulers of the world's governments?
NDV: Anciently Dragon blood, the blood of the gods, is the true source of divine right kingship. To say that Dragons are the rightful rulers of the world's governments today might raise some contention. Perhaps it would be more realistic to suggest that they may well be the rightful rulers of the world's governments in the future.
TT: When you refer metaphorically to "the Dragon", what exactly are you referring to?
"The Dragon" is a term I use generally to mean the dragon archetype resting within the Dragon blood and passed on through the genes. It is the conduit through which flow the memories of the wisdom and experience of the Dragons who have gone before. The word "dragon" is derived from the Greek "edrakon", which is an aorist of the word "derkesthai", which means "to see clearly". "The Dragon" therefore is the inherited Dragon archetype and that archetype is the conduit of clear sight through which racial knowledge flows. Clear sight also and principally refers to transcendent consciousness.
NDV: From the age of seven onwards my father told me about our ancestry, an ancestry steeped in royal blood and most significantly of all, in what is termed Royal Witchcraft, which is a major, ancient, draconian, druidic facet continuing within the later history of the Dragon tradition and within the Vere family.
My father educated me about our particular origins in the royal and noble Blackwood family of Lanark, Scotland. This dynasty sired the most significant practitioner of the Dragon tradition in his time: Major Thomas Weir of Vere of Edinburgh, my 11th great grandfather.
As a witch lord and the prince consort to the elven queen of the Lallan, Thomas performed the ancient Gaelic rites of the sacred kingship of Epona, and consequently founded this rite of kingship within my lineage. So I received the tradition at an early age from my father and he received it from his father, and so on.
TT: Your formal title is "Prince Nicholas de Vere." What does this title imply?
NDV: I trace my lineage back in an unbroken bloodline to the imperial prince Milo de Vere, Count of Anjou in 740 A.D., son of Princess Milouziana of the Scythians. She was recorded throughout France as being the Elven, Dragon Princess of the Scottish Picts, and her Grandson, Milo II, derived his Merovingian descent through his father's marital alliance with the imperial house of Charlene.
Later in history we picked up numerous other lines of Merovingian descent and the attitude in the house of Vere today, both here and in Ireland, reflects that of the Merovingians themselves where inheritance and blood descent is concerned.
Concerning my maternal lineage: my mother is descended from the ancient Collison Jarls of Norfolk, and is the third cousin of the head of the House of Vere. We are a very tightly knit family. The head of the House himself is of Royal Collison descent and this matrilinear Collison extraction also stems from the ancient House of Vere and Princess Milouziana of the Scythians. We are Veres on all sides of the family.
The overall head of the House of Vere today is the Prince Mhaior. By Papal Investiture and by inheritance from the House of the royal O'Brien descendants of King Brian Boru of Tara, the Prince Mhaior is himself an Archduke - not an insignificant Irish earl, as some totally ill-informed malcontent once triumphantly proclaimed in a ridiculous, failed attempt at an exposé of me.
The Head of the House formally addresses me as "the Dragon Prince" of the House of Vere.
TT: Who are the "Dragons" that you write about in your book?
NDV: In brief, the recorded Dragon lineage starts with the Annunaki and descends through the proto-Scythians, the Sumerians in one branch and the early Egyptians in another; the Phoenicians, the Mittani, back to the Scythians again through marital alliance, along to the "Tuatha de Danaan" and the Fir Bolg; down through their Arch-Druidic, Priest-Princely families, to the Royal Picts of Scotland and the high kings of the Horse Lords of Dal Riada; through to the Elven dynasty of Pendragon and Avallon del Acqs, and down to a few pure bred families today.
TT: Were the Dragons originally a separate species from what we would call "human"?
NDV: Dragon tradition related to all the current genetic and historical evidence says yes they were. Both relatively recent and ancient accounts of Dragons or Elves going back to the Annunaki speak of them as having clearly distinct physical attributes, and these attributes are inherited from a species that scientists now assert preceded the human genetic bottleneck by about thirty thousand years. These attributes are not human in the accepted sense. Whether this ancient race was hybridised with another before history is anybody's guess, but their later hybridisation to produce the Elven God-Kings and Ring Lords (the King Tribe), is clearly recorded in the Cylinder Rolls.
TT: Are these Dragons the same as the "Nephilim" of the Bible or the "Watchers" of The Book of Enoch?
NDV: The Nephilim and the Watchers are of the Dragon race, yes.
TT: Were the gods of ancient cultures (Greece, India, Sumeria, etc.) Dragons?
NDV: These pantheons are derived from one another so again the answer in simplistic terms is yes.
TT: What kind of civilization did the Dragons reign over? Would you say that it was the same as the Atlantean or antediluvian civilization?
NDV: The Platonic Atlantis theory is preceded by a much older tradition relating to the "Ogdoad." The Ogdoad, sacred to Jesus himself, were the eight great Gods who raked the Sacred Mountain - "Atlantis" - after the original Flood. This Flood occurred in the Black Sea and the Sacred Mountain, so inundated, was believed to be the Pontus Euxine. Apparently the Ogdoad failed in their attempt to bring fertility back to the Holy Place and abandoned it for a life wandering the planet. This is probably why the legend of the Flood spread and can be found in most cultures.
The Ogdoad turn up in Chinese myth, in early Egyptian religious texts, and even in much later Viking legend, where the gods of the Aesir were said to have abandoned the Sacred Mountain after the Flood. From the Ogdoad, who were the first Dragon god-kings of ancient proto-Scythia, we obtain the gods of the Anunnaki, and those later pantheons that derived from them. It is not to be doubted that after the Flood the children of the Anunnaki had established incredible civilisations in their time, so I suppose you could say that the cultures of the Sumerians (whose language, termed "proto-Sumerian", originated in Transylvania), the Egyptians and even the early settlers in northern Europe stemmed from and reflect an antediluvian prototype, a much older pre-Flood "Golden Age" presided over by the ancient Dragon god-kings and goddess-queens. The mistake would be to put the Atlantean period too far back in time and to locate Atlantis where Plato did. Scientists have proved the Biblical Flood to be in the Black Sea and this region is where most of the Titanic and Olympian sagas, associated with the Dawn of the Gods, unfold.
TT: Is Dragon blood the true source of divine right kingship, in your opinion? Are the Dragons the rightful rulers of the world's governments?
NDV: Anciently Dragon blood, the blood of the gods, is the true source of divine right kingship. To say that Dragons are the rightful rulers of the world's governments today might raise some contention. Perhaps it would be more realistic to suggest that they may well be the rightful rulers of the world's governments in the future.
TT: When you refer metaphorically to "the Dragon", what exactly are you referring to?
"The Dragon" is a term I use generally to mean the dragon archetype resting within the Dragon blood and passed on through the genes. It is the conduit through which flow the memories of the wisdom and experience of the Dragons who have gone before. The word "dragon" is derived from the Greek "edrakon", which is an aorist of the word "derkesthai", which means "to see clearly". "The Dragon" therefore is the inherited Dragon archetype and that archetype is the conduit of clear sight through which racial knowledge flows. Clear sight also and principally refers to transcendent consciousness.
cont.
TT:
What percentage of the world's populace would you say
possesses this Dragon blood? Is it predominately found in
certain types of people? How can you tell a Dragon from other
types of people?
NDV: Roughly ten percent of Europeans have Dragon blood, and stem from families whose physical attributes clearly point to a genetic inheritance over 100,000 years old. This figure is calculated from research deriving from studies by Oxford University and matched to historical accounts.
TT: How did the Dragon race begin, and how did they become a separate race from the rest of humanity?
NDV: They didn't originate from outer space, that's for sure. A principal element of the Dragon genome originated in the vast forests of central Europe, and cut off from other species, they developed as a distinct race. By the time of the Anunnaki they had been hybridized to form the ancestors of the later Elves or Dragon kings and queens.
TT: Did dragons possess "magical" powers? If so, do their descendants possess them as well?
NDV: It depends what you mean by "magical." The greatest magic of all is to be able to naturally still one's mind to the point where one sees that "all acts are magical acts." As a natural course of events stemming from transcendent perception, certain facilities are within the grasp of Dragons. These abilities, though they vary, are hereditary.
TT: Your former co-author Laurence Gardner writes a lot about "starfire" and the power of pineal secretions, which are portrayed as being analogous to the Elixir of Life or Philosopher's Stone, bestowing increased brain capacity, magical ability, and prolonged life upon he who consumes it. These are elements that he clearly picked up from your research. In your writing, you claim that people of "Dragon blood" are the only ones bio-chemically equipped to produce these substances in their own bodies at a high enough level to yield results. But Gardner has written much about this so-called "monatomic gold", and seems to think that this is a synthetic substitute for "starfire" which ordinary people can consume to become Dragons themselves. Do you know anything about this substance? What is your comment on Mr. Gardner's theories?
NDV: Firstly the physical, hormonal elements of Starfire are only one side of the story, and in my book I clearly state that the whole process contains several other "psycho-somatic" elements, not least that pertaining to relationship.
As for being able to pop a pill to become a Dragon, this kind of stupid New Age attitude stems from the ridiculous, totally indefensible greed-driven free market assertion that anyone can become anything they choose, and the totally unfounded PC notion that everyone is equal.
This kind of pathetic liberalism, born as a reaction to the socially inculcated victim mentality, should be abhorred by all rational beings, and so my attitude towards the concept of monatomic gold as a great social leveler and equalizer is one of contempt.
However, you don't make lots of money by telling the bulk of your readership that they are genetically excluded from a process they cannot experience or understand; you sell New Age drivel by telling the ingenuous that they can all assume any role they like, and adopt any trendy "lifestyle" choice that whim and deceitful advertising dictates. As you know, I don't write to make money, so I don't care who I offend with the truth. Can I pop a pill to turn me into a black African Masai warrior? No. Is there a powder I can take to change me into a woman? Of course not. I don't see the need for monatomic gold myself. "Starfire" and the Seraphic relationship worked perfectly well for me, and in any case you are either genetically a Dragon or you are not, and no amount of monatomic gold is going to change your genetic makeup.
TT: What was the original meaning and purpose of vampirism?
NDV: Vampire stems from the word "vber" or "uber", and means "witch." It originates in Anatolia; the location of the seven yearly Druidic gatherings: the Nemetons. "Witch" in Gaelic is "Druidhe", or "druid." In practical terms and suggested by the term "uber" itself, a Scythian druid was an overlord, and so originally a vampire was an overlord, and hence a Dragon.
The purpose of vampirism depends on the type of vampirism practiced. Starfire was the purpose of "royal" or druidic vampirism in the ancient Scythian families, and in Scythian "warrior" vampirism, drinking the blood of fallen brothers in battle was intended to take their essence and bravery into the recipient. The blood of vanquished foes was also drunk. In both cases this also had the advantage of topping up one's adrenaline and testosterone levels in the heat of conflict. The folklore image of the vampire in Europe stems from this historical root. Vampirism was an integral part of Scythian/Dragon life.
NDV: Roughly ten percent of Europeans have Dragon blood, and stem from families whose physical attributes clearly point to a genetic inheritance over 100,000 years old. This figure is calculated from research deriving from studies by Oxford University and matched to historical accounts.
TT: How did the Dragon race begin, and how did they become a separate race from the rest of humanity?
NDV: They didn't originate from outer space, that's for sure. A principal element of the Dragon genome originated in the vast forests of central Europe, and cut off from other species, they developed as a distinct race. By the time of the Anunnaki they had been hybridized to form the ancestors of the later Elves or Dragon kings and queens.
TT: Did dragons possess "magical" powers? If so, do their descendants possess them as well?
NDV: It depends what you mean by "magical." The greatest magic of all is to be able to naturally still one's mind to the point where one sees that "all acts are magical acts." As a natural course of events stemming from transcendent perception, certain facilities are within the grasp of Dragons. These abilities, though they vary, are hereditary.
TT: Your former co-author Laurence Gardner writes a lot about "starfire" and the power of pineal secretions, which are portrayed as being analogous to the Elixir of Life or Philosopher's Stone, bestowing increased brain capacity, magical ability, and prolonged life upon he who consumes it. These are elements that he clearly picked up from your research. In your writing, you claim that people of "Dragon blood" are the only ones bio-chemically equipped to produce these substances in their own bodies at a high enough level to yield results. But Gardner has written much about this so-called "monatomic gold", and seems to think that this is a synthetic substitute for "starfire" which ordinary people can consume to become Dragons themselves. Do you know anything about this substance? What is your comment on Mr. Gardner's theories?
NDV: Firstly the physical, hormonal elements of Starfire are only one side of the story, and in my book I clearly state that the whole process contains several other "psycho-somatic" elements, not least that pertaining to relationship.
As for being able to pop a pill to become a Dragon, this kind of stupid New Age attitude stems from the ridiculous, totally indefensible greed-driven free market assertion that anyone can become anything they choose, and the totally unfounded PC notion that everyone is equal.
This kind of pathetic liberalism, born as a reaction to the socially inculcated victim mentality, should be abhorred by all rational beings, and so my attitude towards the concept of monatomic gold as a great social leveler and equalizer is one of contempt.
However, you don't make lots of money by telling the bulk of your readership that they are genetically excluded from a process they cannot experience or understand; you sell New Age drivel by telling the ingenuous that they can all assume any role they like, and adopt any trendy "lifestyle" choice that whim and deceitful advertising dictates. As you know, I don't write to make money, so I don't care who I offend with the truth. Can I pop a pill to turn me into a black African Masai warrior? No. Is there a powder I can take to change me into a woman? Of course not. I don't see the need for monatomic gold myself. "Starfire" and the Seraphic relationship worked perfectly well for me, and in any case you are either genetically a Dragon or you are not, and no amount of monatomic gold is going to change your genetic makeup.
TT: What was the original meaning and purpose of vampirism?
NDV: Vampire stems from the word "vber" or "uber", and means "witch." It originates in Anatolia; the location of the seven yearly Druidic gatherings: the Nemetons. "Witch" in Gaelic is "Druidhe", or "druid." In practical terms and suggested by the term "uber" itself, a Scythian druid was an overlord, and so originally a vampire was an overlord, and hence a Dragon.
The purpose of vampirism depends on the type of vampirism practiced. Starfire was the purpose of "royal" or druidic vampirism in the ancient Scythian families, and in Scythian "warrior" vampirism, drinking the blood of fallen brothers in battle was intended to take their essence and bravery into the recipient. The blood of vanquished foes was also drunk. In both cases this also had the advantage of topping up one's adrenaline and testosterone levels in the heat of conflict. The folklore image of the vampire in Europe stems from this historical root. Vampirism was an integral part of Scythian/Dragon life.
World Govt. Chart - Heidelberg University
cont.
TT: Is the Dragon bloodline a Satanic or Luciferian bloodline?
NDV: Yes is the honest and simple answer.
TT: If a person believes that they have the Dragon gene, and they want to start developing the powers inherent in their blood, what course would you suggest they follow?
NDV: Developing powers for their own sake isn't magic, it's greed, and greed and ambition are the destroyers of transcendent Dragon perception. Power flows naturally for those whose vision is clear, and clear perception will determine that those powers are used with detachment. Jesus said "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you." The fact of the matter is that to Dragons, Dragon magic is simple and straightforward and fundamentally it relies in discovering simplicity and stillness within the self.
If the reader believes they are of the Dragon Blood and they wish to explore the transcendent concept, in lieu of a lengthy explanation for which there isn't space within the confines of this interview, I would recommend a little book entitled The First and Last Freedom, written by Jiddu Krishnamurti.
TT: What is the history of the Dragon Court of which you are the Sovereign Head? Did you inherit this title, and if so, who from?
NDV: The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court appears repeatedly throughout the history of my family. It is the physical, cultural manifestation of the Dragon spirit inherent within the Vere Dragon blood, reaching back long before the time of Christ.
Briefly, to give a few examples, in more recent times it was the Royal Court of the Dragon Princess Milouziana from whom we are descended in numerous lines, and later it was the fairy Court of Alberic de Vere, the legendary Oberon.
Immediately following Alberic it was the Court of his son, Robert de Vere, earl of Huntingdon, who was the historical Robin Hood; the elven, sacral priest-king of the witches. Later the Dragon Court was manifest in the "Thirteen Covens of Mid-Lothian", and in the cabal of Lady Somerville, the witch-mother of Thomas of Edinburgh. Thomas was the grandson of Sir William Vere of Stonebyres and the elvin, Dragon priest-king of the Thirteen Covens.
Sir William was the son of James, 7th Baron Blackwood. Lady Jane Somerville's heraldic family badge is recorded as the fiery dragon surmounting the pentacle, denoting Dragon blood in the House of the Somerville earls.
Notably in our family the Dragon Court is also derived from the Court of the Pendragon Kings whose lineage we inherit through numerous marital alliances with our close cousins, the Dukes of Hamilton, whose estates bordered our own in Lanarkshire. The Hamiltons were the heirs presumptive to the throne of Scotland.
Lateral inheritance from the extinct cadet cousin branch of the Vere earls of Oxford brings to the contemporary Court, via the 11th earl, Richard de Vere, the degree of Societas Draconis - latterly misnamed "Sarkany Rend" - a membership bestowed upon him, it is believed academically, during his investiture into the Prince's Degree of the Order of the Garter, along with the Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg, at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. The heraldry of the family prior to Richard's investiture into Societas Draconis already included the ancient Dragon motifs on both the paternal and maternal sides of the family, denoting pure Dragon blood in both descents, and reflecting the continuing presence of the Dragon Court in the family since the time of Princess Milouziana of the Scythians.
The contemporary Dragon Court is furthermore a combination of what Aleister Crowley would term several "currents", of which the major external one to the family proper was bestowed via the Black Country Covenant of the Baphometic Order of the Cubic Stone, who trace their origins back to the Knights Templars. This was given in recognition of my family's hereditary involvement in Royal Witchcraft and the historical Dragon tradition. Other external currents derive from the Knighthood of the Plantagenet Clan Donnachaid, Dragon cousins to the House of Vere, and laterally from Dr. John Dee's "School of Night", of which Edward de Vere, the seventeenth earl of Oxford, was a prominent member. Edward also performed the rites of Dragon kingship in the family, specifically the rite of the kingship of the Calle Daouine.
NDV: Yes is the honest and simple answer.
TT: If a person believes that they have the Dragon gene, and they want to start developing the powers inherent in their blood, what course would you suggest they follow?
NDV: Developing powers for their own sake isn't magic, it's greed, and greed and ambition are the destroyers of transcendent Dragon perception. Power flows naturally for those whose vision is clear, and clear perception will determine that those powers are used with detachment. Jesus said "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you." The fact of the matter is that to Dragons, Dragon magic is simple and straightforward and fundamentally it relies in discovering simplicity and stillness within the self.
If the reader believes they are of the Dragon Blood and they wish to explore the transcendent concept, in lieu of a lengthy explanation for which there isn't space within the confines of this interview, I would recommend a little book entitled The First and Last Freedom, written by Jiddu Krishnamurti.
TT: What is the history of the Dragon Court of which you are the Sovereign Head? Did you inherit this title, and if so, who from?
NDV: The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court appears repeatedly throughout the history of my family. It is the physical, cultural manifestation of the Dragon spirit inherent within the Vere Dragon blood, reaching back long before the time of Christ.
Briefly, to give a few examples, in more recent times it was the Royal Court of the Dragon Princess Milouziana from whom we are descended in numerous lines, and later it was the fairy Court of Alberic de Vere, the legendary Oberon.
Immediately following Alberic it was the Court of his son, Robert de Vere, earl of Huntingdon, who was the historical Robin Hood; the elven, sacral priest-king of the witches. Later the Dragon Court was manifest in the "Thirteen Covens of Mid-Lothian", and in the cabal of Lady Somerville, the witch-mother of Thomas of Edinburgh. Thomas was the grandson of Sir William Vere of Stonebyres and the elvin, Dragon priest-king of the Thirteen Covens.
Sir William was the son of James, 7th Baron Blackwood. Lady Jane Somerville's heraldic family badge is recorded as the fiery dragon surmounting the pentacle, denoting Dragon blood in the House of the Somerville earls.
Notably in our family the Dragon Court is also derived from the Court of the Pendragon Kings whose lineage we inherit through numerous marital alliances with our close cousins, the Dukes of Hamilton, whose estates bordered our own in Lanarkshire. The Hamiltons were the heirs presumptive to the throne of Scotland.
Lateral inheritance from the extinct cadet cousin branch of the Vere earls of Oxford brings to the contemporary Court, via the 11th earl, Richard de Vere, the degree of Societas Draconis - latterly misnamed "Sarkany Rend" - a membership bestowed upon him, it is believed academically, during his investiture into the Prince's Degree of the Order of the Garter, along with the Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg, at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. The heraldry of the family prior to Richard's investiture into Societas Draconis already included the ancient Dragon motifs on both the paternal and maternal sides of the family, denoting pure Dragon blood in both descents, and reflecting the continuing presence of the Dragon Court in the family since the time of Princess Milouziana of the Scythians.
The contemporary Dragon Court is furthermore a combination of what Aleister Crowley would term several "currents", of which the major external one to the family proper was bestowed via the Black Country Covenant of the Baphometic Order of the Cubic Stone, who trace their origins back to the Knights Templars. This was given in recognition of my family's hereditary involvement in Royal Witchcraft and the historical Dragon tradition. Other external currents derive from the Knighthood of the Plantagenet Clan Donnachaid, Dragon cousins to the House of Vere, and laterally from Dr. John Dee's "School of Night", of which Edward de Vere, the seventeenth earl of Oxford, was a prominent member. Edward also performed the rites of Dragon kingship in the family, specifically the rite of the kingship of the Calle Daouine.
Keeping alive the name of my father...causing his name to flourish forever.
Bio
Prince Nicholas de
Vere von Drakenberg
In the first few years of his life, Nicholas de Vere was raised in the Hertfordshire countryside. At the age of seven, Nicholas’ family moved to the remote outskirts of the Kentish village of Kemsing, and then later to isolated rural settings in Devon and Sussex. Nicholas’ father and mother had contempt for human beings and human society. Thus, they sought to protect Nicholas from their mediocrity and banality in the sanctuary of the country. Nicholas’ father was a skilled backwoodsman and during these formative years Nicholas was instilled with country knowledge, as well as a deep respect for the natural world and its delicate balances.
As he was growing up, Nicholas’ father taught him of the family’s royal Scottish origins and of its involvement with royal witchcraft within the dragon tradition, which had been passed down to Nicholas’ father by his own parents. Nicholas’ father was gifted with the “king’s touch.” His paternal grandmother - a Scottish Gael - was a skilled seer, and his maternal grandmother had spent years as a student of mediumship.
Both of Nicholas’ parents were deeply committed to his broader education, and fostered in him at an early age a love of Homer, the Sagas, classical history and mythology. Nicholas’ father was an ardent admirer of the work of Omar Khayyam. Consequently Nicholas grew and developed in isolation, detached from the vacuity of human culture, enveloped in a world of intellectualism, magic, mysticism and imagination. Nicholas was raised by his father to honor the female highly and, as a result of his father’s teaching, he discovered that the greatest spiritual expression of human relationship is seraphic in nature: the union of the divinity within the male and female.
At the age of twelve, Nicholas was magically dedicated to the dragon tradition formally, and at the age of thirteen he first enacted the rite known as “ Starfire.” Following this period his mother obtained for him works by Aliester Crowley, and he studied the principals of the Black Arts in earnest, gaining a considerable degree of competence in ritual magic. At the age of fifteen Nicholas underwent the ancient rite of kingship which, in accordance with archaic Gaelic tradition, bestows the mantle of sovereignty arising from the very Earth itself.
By the 1980’s, Nicholas had become intimately conversant with a broad spectrum of magical traditions, and political perspectives. During this period he met and rejected numerous proponents of the Wiccan and New age Movements, considering them to be uninformed, self-deluding and magically incompetent.
On Midsummer’s night, 1985 Nicholas’ skill in and knowledge of magic was acknowledged. His family’s hereditary involvement in royal witchcraft and the Dragon tradition was recognized by the Black Country Covenant of the Baphometic Order of the Cubic Stone. He was bestowed with the highest accolade of the covenant: that of Magister Templi. The Order traced its origins back to the Knights Templars and Nicholas was able to use his investiture as an invocational key in the pursuit of deeper, unwritten knowledge. In 1991 Nicholas was invested as a gartered and anointed knight of the Plantagenet Clan Donnachaid by Lord Lir of Orkney, the head of a cousin branch of the House of Vere.
During the 1990’s, Nicholas developed a series of associations with university lecturers and post-graduate scholars. Following the academic exchanges which ensued, Nicholas was encouraged by them to construct the basis for what is now known as The Dragon Legacy. This was further influenced significantly by his experience of seraphism and hierogamy during this period, and by years of commitment to the elven, Dragon tradition - a tradition within which he is recognized as a royal Dragon prince by the House of Vere, and is acknowledged as such by the British Government.
Today, Nicholas de Vere is the sovereign of the Dragon Court of the Royal House of Vere. As a proponent and scholar of magic he is unrivalled. He is the original magical prince; the rightful king of witches by familial inheritance whose ancient, royal elven blood lineage is unquestionable.
Currently Nicholas lives reclusively as a bachelor in a quiet village in the English countryside, and aside from his magical pursuits, he has a broad range of secular interests including an eclectic taste in music. He is a renaissance man, a polymath.
Nicholas is deeply concerned about environmental issues and animal welfare, concerns shared by his immediate family and by the House of Vere in general, whose number include skilled and experienced ecologists. Nicholas has contempt for the blind pursuit of money and power, and values above all things simplicity and transcendence, which he believes are key to the continued existence of life on Earth in the future.
In the first few years of his life, Nicholas de Vere was raised in the Hertfordshire countryside. At the age of seven, Nicholas’ family moved to the remote outskirts of the Kentish village of Kemsing, and then later to isolated rural settings in Devon and Sussex. Nicholas’ father and mother had contempt for human beings and human society. Thus, they sought to protect Nicholas from their mediocrity and banality in the sanctuary of the country. Nicholas’ father was a skilled backwoodsman and during these formative years Nicholas was instilled with country knowledge, as well as a deep respect for the natural world and its delicate balances.
As he was growing up, Nicholas’ father taught him of the family’s royal Scottish origins and of its involvement with royal witchcraft within the dragon tradition, which had been passed down to Nicholas’ father by his own parents. Nicholas’ father was gifted with the “king’s touch.” His paternal grandmother - a Scottish Gael - was a skilled seer, and his maternal grandmother had spent years as a student of mediumship.
Both of Nicholas’ parents were deeply committed to his broader education, and fostered in him at an early age a love of Homer, the Sagas, classical history and mythology. Nicholas’ father was an ardent admirer of the work of Omar Khayyam. Consequently Nicholas grew and developed in isolation, detached from the vacuity of human culture, enveloped in a world of intellectualism, magic, mysticism and imagination. Nicholas was raised by his father to honor the female highly and, as a result of his father’s teaching, he discovered that the greatest spiritual expression of human relationship is seraphic in nature: the union of the divinity within the male and female.
At the age of twelve, Nicholas was magically dedicated to the dragon tradition formally, and at the age of thirteen he first enacted the rite known as “ Starfire.” Following this period his mother obtained for him works by Aliester Crowley, and he studied the principals of the Black Arts in earnest, gaining a considerable degree of competence in ritual magic. At the age of fifteen Nicholas underwent the ancient rite of kingship which, in accordance with archaic Gaelic tradition, bestows the mantle of sovereignty arising from the very Earth itself.
By the 1980’s, Nicholas had become intimately conversant with a broad spectrum of magical traditions, and political perspectives. During this period he met and rejected numerous proponents of the Wiccan and New age Movements, considering them to be uninformed, self-deluding and magically incompetent.
On Midsummer’s night, 1985 Nicholas’ skill in and knowledge of magic was acknowledged. His family’s hereditary involvement in royal witchcraft and the Dragon tradition was recognized by the Black Country Covenant of the Baphometic Order of the Cubic Stone. He was bestowed with the highest accolade of the covenant: that of Magister Templi. The Order traced its origins back to the Knights Templars and Nicholas was able to use his investiture as an invocational key in the pursuit of deeper, unwritten knowledge. In 1991 Nicholas was invested as a gartered and anointed knight of the Plantagenet Clan Donnachaid by Lord Lir of Orkney, the head of a cousin branch of the House of Vere.
During the 1990’s, Nicholas developed a series of associations with university lecturers and post-graduate scholars. Following the academic exchanges which ensued, Nicholas was encouraged by them to construct the basis for what is now known as The Dragon Legacy. This was further influenced significantly by his experience of seraphism and hierogamy during this period, and by years of commitment to the elven, Dragon tradition - a tradition within which he is recognized as a royal Dragon prince by the House of Vere, and is acknowledged as such by the British Government.
Today, Nicholas de Vere is the sovereign of the Dragon Court of the Royal House of Vere. As a proponent and scholar of magic he is unrivalled. He is the original magical prince; the rightful king of witches by familial inheritance whose ancient, royal elven blood lineage is unquestionable.
Currently Nicholas lives reclusively as a bachelor in a quiet village in the English countryside, and aside from his magical pursuits, he has a broad range of secular interests including an eclectic taste in music. He is a renaissance man, a polymath.
Nicholas is deeply concerned about environmental issues and animal welfare, concerns shared by his immediate family and by the House of Vere in general, whose number include skilled and experienced ecologists. Nicholas has contempt for the blind pursuit of money and power, and values above all things simplicity and transcendence, which he believes are key to the continued existence of life on Earth in the future.
It's Dragons All the Way Down
Down the centuries the Royal Dragon Court is carried continuously in the Vere Dragon Blood.
It would be correct to say I inherited the Dragon Court by virtue of being a senior blood descendant of the House of Vere, and I am recognized as a Dragon sovereign by the other senior members of the family. Academic sources and references pertaining to these Dragon descents are found within The Dragon Legacy.
TT: How can one become a member of the Dragon Court, and once a member, what does one do? What is the current function of the Dragon Court?
NDV: Today the Court consists of participating family members here and in Ireland. In addition to these, we have emeritus officers whose functions are invaluable to the running of the Court.
One of the current, "outer" functions of the Dragon Court is as the custodian of the Dragon tradition within the Vere family, which includes the continuing study of the history and genealogy of its various branches, and the amendment of records as fresh knowledge comes to light.
Membership of the Dragon Court is given rarely. We are not a joining club, nor do we operate for monetary gain in any sense. As time passes, the Dragon Ethos demands that the Dragon Court change and develop according to expediency. In the future we may well expand the membership of the Court to take in new Dragon members or to expand the number of emeritus officers.
However, for those who are interested in joining, we have created the Dragon Society (Societas Draconis), an auxiliary group that is open to qualified applicants and requires less commitment than full membership in the Dragon Court. It is available for those who wish to study the history of the Dragons and associate with other Dragons.
Visit http://www.sovereign-grand-duchy-of-drakenberg.org/Home.html
to learn more about it.
TT: Many people have ascribed to you a radical political agenda, and say that you are trying to use your genealogy as a springboard for a bid for the throne of England, and other such nonsense. What is your response to these claims?
NDV: I cannot take such assertions seriously. The educated reader will already know that the House of Vere fielded over twenty prominent earls in an unbroken line over 561 years of British history. The House of Vere was credited with being the senior bloodline of England, both by its contemporaries and by later historians, and the Veres acted for centuries as Great Chamberlains to the various royal dynasties that came and went over time. As Great Chamberlains, they were the closest advisors to the monarchs and were therefore the major influence or power behind the British throne. In all this time the family never considered it expedient to stoop to pick up the Crown, as the House of Vere was above such considerations. It is apparent, given the family's pre-eminently powerful and influential historical position within British society, that the English monarchy was a trivia beneath the dignity and ambition of the House. I see no reason to change that opinion today, so as you say, the notion that I would demean myself by making a bid for the throne is utter nonsense. We have standards to maintain in this family.
In any event the monarchical system in Britain is, to the greatest extent, impotent, and so if one wanted real political power, the last place one would find it would be on the throne of England. We have no need for thrones or crowns to remind us of who we are.
TT: Are you a monarchist?
NDV: By definition Stalin was a "monarch", as were all the presidents of the United States. By such a definition I cannot be said to be a monarchist per sé. I am only a royalist with the greatest of qualifications because not all who contemporarily claim to be royal or those who have occupied the positions of royalty in history have actually been of royal blood.
TT: How do you feel about the current British monarchy?
NDV: I have no feelings about them one way or another. They have a tendency to frighten the hell out of British wildlife during the hunting season but in other respects they seem harmless enough, so I see no real reason not to leave them where they are. What would you replace them with anyway? President Blair? What a scary thought.
It would be correct to say I inherited the Dragon Court by virtue of being a senior blood descendant of the House of Vere, and I am recognized as a Dragon sovereign by the other senior members of the family. Academic sources and references pertaining to these Dragon descents are found within The Dragon Legacy.
TT: How can one become a member of the Dragon Court, and once a member, what does one do? What is the current function of the Dragon Court?
NDV: Today the Court consists of participating family members here and in Ireland. In addition to these, we have emeritus officers whose functions are invaluable to the running of the Court.
One of the current, "outer" functions of the Dragon Court is as the custodian of the Dragon tradition within the Vere family, which includes the continuing study of the history and genealogy of its various branches, and the amendment of records as fresh knowledge comes to light.
Membership of the Dragon Court is given rarely. We are not a joining club, nor do we operate for monetary gain in any sense. As time passes, the Dragon Ethos demands that the Dragon Court change and develop according to expediency. In the future we may well expand the membership of the Court to take in new Dragon members or to expand the number of emeritus officers.
However, for those who are interested in joining, we have created the Dragon Society (Societas Draconis), an auxiliary group that is open to qualified applicants and requires less commitment than full membership in the Dragon Court. It is available for those who wish to study the history of the Dragons and associate with other Dragons.
Visit http://www.sovereign-grand-duchy-of-drakenberg.org/Home.html
to learn more about it.
TT: Many people have ascribed to you a radical political agenda, and say that you are trying to use your genealogy as a springboard for a bid for the throne of England, and other such nonsense. What is your response to these claims?
NDV: I cannot take such assertions seriously. The educated reader will already know that the House of Vere fielded over twenty prominent earls in an unbroken line over 561 years of British history. The House of Vere was credited with being the senior bloodline of England, both by its contemporaries and by later historians, and the Veres acted for centuries as Great Chamberlains to the various royal dynasties that came and went over time. As Great Chamberlains, they were the closest advisors to the monarchs and were therefore the major influence or power behind the British throne. In all this time the family never considered it expedient to stoop to pick up the Crown, as the House of Vere was above such considerations. It is apparent, given the family's pre-eminently powerful and influential historical position within British society, that the English monarchy was a trivia beneath the dignity and ambition of the House. I see no reason to change that opinion today, so as you say, the notion that I would demean myself by making a bid for the throne is utter nonsense. We have standards to maintain in this family.
In any event the monarchical system in Britain is, to the greatest extent, impotent, and so if one wanted real political power, the last place one would find it would be on the throne of England. We have no need for thrones or crowns to remind us of who we are.
TT: Are you a monarchist?
NDV: By definition Stalin was a "monarch", as were all the presidents of the United States. By such a definition I cannot be said to be a monarchist per sé. I am only a royalist with the greatest of qualifications because not all who contemporarily claim to be royal or those who have occupied the positions of royalty in history have actually been of royal blood.
TT: How do you feel about the current British monarchy?
NDV: I have no feelings about them one way or another. They have a tendency to frighten the hell out of British wildlife during the hunting season but in other respects they seem harmless enough, so I see no real reason not to leave them where they are. What would you replace them with anyway? President Blair? What a scary thought.
It's Dragons All the Way Down
TT:
There are a lot of wild theories being bandied about
on the internet regarding the agenda of the Dragon Court. "New
World Order: The Movie" (http://www.geocities.com/newworldorder_themovie/dragoncourt.html)
regards the Dragon Court as part of an Illuminati conspiracy
involving Satanism and Nazism. "Heeding Bible Prophecy" (http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/watch-unto-prayer/prophecy.html)
seems to proclaim nothing less than that the scion of the
Devil - the Anti-Christ himself - will emerge from the ranks
of the Dragon Court. David Icke and Arizona Wilder (http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles2/gardnershifts.html)
claim that your former co-author (and former Dragon Court
member), Laurence Gardner, shape-shifted into a reptile and
sacrificed babies in an underground military base at Montauk,
New York. How close are these claims to the truth? What sinister
activities are you hiding, Mr. de Vere?
NDV: People think that the Anti-Christ will emerge from the ranks of the Dragon Court? How intuitive of them. My views on Nazism are well known. Nazism was a peasant movement populated by the worst in German peasant scum. Its "Aryan" philosophy and aspirations were a complete joke, and its blind devotion to nationalistic jingoism was the height of psychological blindness and wishful thinking. You can't make genetic Aryans - a race of kings - out of a nation of genetic turnip-peasants.
As for Satanism, if we mean adherence to Satan as some externalised deity separate from the Dragon blood and the object of religious devotion, such is an illogical nonsense. Originally the Satans in Biblical terms were nothing more than Circuit Prosecutors within the Jewish Theocratic system. Who in their right mind would worship lawyers? I wish people would study the facts. It would save so much time and energy.
David Icke, dear, oh dear, oh dear. David once announced on his website that Laurence Gardner and his cronies performed blood-drinking rituals at his "Columba House." Before uttering this ridiculous libel David should have contacted the Post Office and checked as to where "Columba House" was actually situated. If he had done so, the Post Office would quite happily have told him that "Columba House" was in fact a six inch by twelve inch Post Office Box at the local Post Office Branch in Tiverton, Devon. Exactly how many shape-shifting reptilian vampires and their victims can you get into a standard British Post Office Box?
Having all shape-shifted into reptilian vampires, David Icke would then have us believe that they all shrunk to the size of Minnie Mouse and got a postal worker to put them in the box. If the reader thinks this is possible or even probable, and I am sure that some who stay glued to the Internet all day will, then it is also entirely possible that the reader will believe that Laurence Gardner sacrificed babies at Montauk.
David Icke is concocting all this out of his cynical, fiscally motivated imagination and flogging it to a willing audience who, frighteningly enough, actually swallow it whole.
What sinister activities am I hiding? The internal activities of the Court are confidential.
TT: What are your personal beliefs regarding God, spirituality, and religion?
NDV: "Beliefs" regarding God and spirituality create religions, and religions create division and fear, within the individual and consequently within society as a whole. Religion is a crutch for the power hungry, the lazy, the weak minded and the unregenerate. Religions happen when people don't get the point of the message and blindly worship the message and the messenger, instead of grasping the gnosis inherent within the words that the message conveys.
TT: Who do you think the Judeo-Christian god Jehovah really was? Do you believe that there is any historical basis behind the symbolic notion of Jehovah's conflict with Satan?
The Jews got the main tenets of their religion from the Babylonians during the exile. Therefore one can say that although the later Jehovah is a composite, his main attributes can be traced back to the god Enlil, and it was Enlil who started a war with his step-brother Enki concerning their individual number-ranking and seniority of position within the Anunnaki dynasty. So in general terms we can say that the conflict between Jehovah and Satan originated in a petty family squabble.
TT: What is your opinion of Christ and his ministry?
NDV: A pretty good one.
TT: How do you feel about the Wiccan and New Age movements?
NDV: Again my views of the Wiccan and New Age movements are also well known. Wicca, the so-called "Old Religion" is no more than sixty years old and the New Age movement is nothing more than a baseless, cynical marketing ploy geared towards extracting money from the gullible.
TT: How do you feel about the sudden surge of interest in the "Grail bloodline" following the publication of The Da Vinci Code? Do you think that the popularization of the idea is dangerous?
NDV: Some people, the minority, will maintain their interest and study the subject further, whilst the bulk of readers will treat the book as a novel experience and pass on to other subjects, once their curiosity has been satisfied. This happens with every new publication. The only inherent danger would be to the subject itself, once the money-vampires of the New Age get hold of it and try opening weekend workshops in "How to become a member of the Grail Bloodline." It would then get promoted and marketed as a "lifestyle choice" open to all. Once such familiarity has bred the inevitable public contempt, the subject may well be rendered valueless to the new enquirer.
TT: What is the one most important thing you want people to take away after reading The Dragon Legacy?
Firstly, one of the central themes of the book is transcendent consciousness. I would like to feel that the reader may derive some interest in this concept from reading The Dragon Legacy and will pursue the subject further.
Secondly, the Dragon families have been with us for millennia and, in the course of time, their innate and rightful destiny will cause them to rise again.
NDV: People think that the Anti-Christ will emerge from the ranks of the Dragon Court? How intuitive of them. My views on Nazism are well known. Nazism was a peasant movement populated by the worst in German peasant scum. Its "Aryan" philosophy and aspirations were a complete joke, and its blind devotion to nationalistic jingoism was the height of psychological blindness and wishful thinking. You can't make genetic Aryans - a race of kings - out of a nation of genetic turnip-peasants.
As for Satanism, if we mean adherence to Satan as some externalised deity separate from the Dragon blood and the object of religious devotion, such is an illogical nonsense. Originally the Satans in Biblical terms were nothing more than Circuit Prosecutors within the Jewish Theocratic system. Who in their right mind would worship lawyers? I wish people would study the facts. It would save so much time and energy.
David Icke, dear, oh dear, oh dear. David once announced on his website that Laurence Gardner and his cronies performed blood-drinking rituals at his "Columba House." Before uttering this ridiculous libel David should have contacted the Post Office and checked as to where "Columba House" was actually situated. If he had done so, the Post Office would quite happily have told him that "Columba House" was in fact a six inch by twelve inch Post Office Box at the local Post Office Branch in Tiverton, Devon. Exactly how many shape-shifting reptilian vampires and their victims can you get into a standard British Post Office Box?
Having all shape-shifted into reptilian vampires, David Icke would then have us believe that they all shrunk to the size of Minnie Mouse and got a postal worker to put them in the box. If the reader thinks this is possible or even probable, and I am sure that some who stay glued to the Internet all day will, then it is also entirely possible that the reader will believe that Laurence Gardner sacrificed babies at Montauk.
David Icke is concocting all this out of his cynical, fiscally motivated imagination and flogging it to a willing audience who, frighteningly enough, actually swallow it whole.
What sinister activities am I hiding? The internal activities of the Court are confidential.
TT: What are your personal beliefs regarding God, spirituality, and religion?
NDV: "Beliefs" regarding God and spirituality create religions, and religions create division and fear, within the individual and consequently within society as a whole. Religion is a crutch for the power hungry, the lazy, the weak minded and the unregenerate. Religions happen when people don't get the point of the message and blindly worship the message and the messenger, instead of grasping the gnosis inherent within the words that the message conveys.
TT: Who do you think the Judeo-Christian god Jehovah really was? Do you believe that there is any historical basis behind the symbolic notion of Jehovah's conflict with Satan?
The Jews got the main tenets of their religion from the Babylonians during the exile. Therefore one can say that although the later Jehovah is a composite, his main attributes can be traced back to the god Enlil, and it was Enlil who started a war with his step-brother Enki concerning their individual number-ranking and seniority of position within the Anunnaki dynasty. So in general terms we can say that the conflict between Jehovah and Satan originated in a petty family squabble.
TT: What is your opinion of Christ and his ministry?
NDV: A pretty good one.
TT: How do you feel about the Wiccan and New Age movements?
NDV: Again my views of the Wiccan and New Age movements are also well known. Wicca, the so-called "Old Religion" is no more than sixty years old and the New Age movement is nothing more than a baseless, cynical marketing ploy geared towards extracting money from the gullible.
TT: How do you feel about the sudden surge of interest in the "Grail bloodline" following the publication of The Da Vinci Code? Do you think that the popularization of the idea is dangerous?
NDV: Some people, the minority, will maintain their interest and study the subject further, whilst the bulk of readers will treat the book as a novel experience and pass on to other subjects, once their curiosity has been satisfied. This happens with every new publication. The only inherent danger would be to the subject itself, once the money-vampires of the New Age get hold of it and try opening weekend workshops in "How to become a member of the Grail Bloodline." It would then get promoted and marketed as a "lifestyle choice" open to all. Once such familiarity has bred the inevitable public contempt, the subject may well be rendered valueless to the new enquirer.
TT: What is the one most important thing you want people to take away after reading The Dragon Legacy?
Firstly, one of the central themes of the book is transcendent consciousness. I would like to feel that the reader may derive some interest in this concept from reading The Dragon Legacy and will pursue the subject further.
Secondly, the Dragon families have been with us for millennia and, in the course of time, their innate and rightful destiny will cause them to rise again.
AKA "Tom Weir" - Mistaking Magick for Mystification
In 1985 I (NDV) entered a Covenant of the Templar Order of the Cubic Stone. Some months later it seemed like an appropriate time to expand upon this and perform and invocation of my ancestor Major Thomas Weir, followed by an evocation of that which I had invoked.
In typical Ceremonial Magical Tradition I enveloped and surrounded myself with the exoteric trappings of his identity. I changed my Christian and Surname to Thomas Weir on my documents and electoral register, I was gifted his rank and I drew him up from the very bloodlife itself. His power and knowledge enveloped me. I evoked it to the point where I almost became him in the flesh incarnate. There is a secret word of ancient power for this.
BINGO.
Job done.
I remained him for 14 years. When the invocation was complete in 2000, and as I had learned all I needed, I re-interred him back in the Vere Blood Memory and left him to Rest In Peace. I returned to my own name and identity but, I forgot to change the entry in the Electoral Register.
Around this time I was approached by a lady who called herself Isis Argenta. She ran a recording studio out of Brixton, London. She was enthusiastic about my stuff and we spoke at length for some time.
Eventually she said that she would arrange a series of lectures for me in London. Out of politeness I said I would think about it. She went ahead and did it. My attitude to lectures is the same as it was then. I am a recluse, I don't do Public Speaking, and "read the bloody book". She informed me that she had made the arrangements and I apologised and declined her.
In so doing I had refused to sign her meal ticket. She was not the happiest Bagel in the Hamper. She nosed around in the hope of finding something to use against me and Lo.....the Angel of the Lord sent her to the Electoral Registry. To her, I was Nicholas de Vere, my real name, but on the Register, I was still Thomas Weir.
Bingo!
She told others who spread the falsehood far and wide across the Internet for their own pathological or self-aggrandizing reasons.
So that is the Ballad of the life and death and unfortunate and inadvertant return from the Grave of poor old Major Thomas Weir. A Magical Invocation who wouldn't bloody well die!!!!!! As Tom Weir, I was just a bit of magical conjuration. I am going to stake the bastard in his coffin this time.
Please, if anyone accuses me of being "Tom Weir" in future, tell them this simple little Tale of Art! Thank you.
Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem: Lady Clara Vere De Vere
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though this is placed among the poems published in 1833 it first appeared in print in 1842.
The subsequent alterations were very slight, and after 1848 none at all were made.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
Of me you shall not win renown:
You thought to break a country heart
For pastime, ere you went to town.
At me you smiled, but unbeguiled
I saw the snare, and I retired:
The daughter of a hundred Earls,
You are not one to be desired.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
I know you proud to bear your name,
Your pride is yet no mate for mine,
Too proud to care from whence I came.
Nor would I break for your sweet sake
A heart that doats on truer charms.
A simple maiden in her flower
Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
Some meeker pupil you must find,
For were you queen of all that is,
I could not stoop to such a mind.
You sought to prove how I could love,
And my disdain is my reply.
The lion on your old stone gates
Is not more cold to you than I.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
You put strange memories in my head.
Not thrice your branching limes have blown
Since I beheld young Laurence dead.
Oh your sweet eyes, your low replies:
A great enchantress you may be;
But there was that across his throat
Which you hardly cared to see.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
When thus he met his mother's view,
She had the passions of her kind,
She spake some certain truths of you.
Indeed I heard one bitter word
That scarce is fit for you to hear;
Her manners had not that repose
Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
There stands a spectre in your hall:
The guilt of blood is at your door:
You changed a wholesome heart to gall.
You held your course without remorse,
To make him trust his modest worth,
And, last, you fix'd a vacant stare,
And slew him with your noble birth.
Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere,
From yon blue heavens above us bent
The grand old gardener and his wife [1]
Smile at the claims of long descent.
Howe'er it be, it seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.
I know you, Clara Vere de Vere:
You pine among your halls and towers:
The languid light of your proud eyes
Is wearied of the rolling hours.
In glowing health, with boundless wealth,
But sickening of a vague disease,
You know so ill to deal with time,
You needs must play such pranks as these.
Clara, Clara Vere de Vere,
If Time be heavy on your hands,
Are there no beggars at your gate,
Nor any poor about your lands?
Oh! teach the orphan-boy to read,
Or teach the orphan-girl to sew,
Pray Heaven for a human heart,
And let the foolish yoeman go.
[Footnote 1: 1842 and 1843. "The gardener Adam and his wife." In 1845 it was altered to the present text.]
[The end]
Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem: Lady Clara Vere De Vere
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though this is placed among the poems published in 1833 it first appeared in print in 1842.
The subsequent alterations were very slight, and after 1848 none at all were made.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
Of me you shall not win renown:
You thought to break a country heart
For pastime, ere you went to town.
At me you smiled, but unbeguiled
I saw the snare, and I retired:
The daughter of a hundred Earls,
You are not one to be desired.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
I know you proud to bear your name,
Your pride is yet no mate for mine,
Too proud to care from whence I came.
Nor would I break for your sweet sake
A heart that doats on truer charms.
A simple maiden in her flower
Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
Some meeker pupil you must find,
For were you queen of all that is,
I could not stoop to such a mind.
You sought to prove how I could love,
And my disdain is my reply.
The lion on your old stone gates
Is not more cold to you than I.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
You put strange memories in my head.
Not thrice your branching limes have blown
Since I beheld young Laurence dead.
Oh your sweet eyes, your low replies:
A great enchantress you may be;
But there was that across his throat
Which you hardly cared to see.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
When thus he met his mother's view,
She had the passions of her kind,
She spake some certain truths of you.
Indeed I heard one bitter word
That scarce is fit for you to hear;
Her manners had not that repose
Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.
Lady Clara Vere de Vere,
There stands a spectre in your hall:
The guilt of blood is at your door:
You changed a wholesome heart to gall.
You held your course without remorse,
To make him trust his modest worth,
And, last, you fix'd a vacant stare,
And slew him with your noble birth.
Trust me, Clara Vere de Vere,
From yon blue heavens above us bent
The grand old gardener and his wife [1]
Smile at the claims of long descent.
Howe'er it be, it seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.
I know you, Clara Vere de Vere:
You pine among your halls and towers:
The languid light of your proud eyes
Is wearied of the rolling hours.
In glowing health, with boundless wealth,
But sickening of a vague disease,
You know so ill to deal with time,
You needs must play such pranks as these.
Clara, Clara Vere de Vere,
If Time be heavy on your hands,
Are there no beggars at your gate,
Nor any poor about your lands?
Oh! teach the orphan-boy to read,
Or teach the orphan-girl to sew,
Pray Heaven for a human heart,
And let the foolish yoeman go.
[Footnote 1: 1842 and 1843. "The gardener Adam and his wife." In 1845 it was altered to the present text.]
[The end]
Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem: Lady Clara Vere De Vere
