Dragon Rouge
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Dragon Rouge is a society whose members believe in the occult and aim to explore dark magic.
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Dragon Rouge
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Dragon Rouge, or Ordo Draconis et Atri Adamantis, is a magical order which was founded on New Year's Eve 1989-1990 in Sweden. By now, it claims more than 500 members throughout the world, which if true makes it one of the numerically strongest magical organisations in northern Europe. There are two lodges in Sweden, one in Italy, one in Germany and another one in Poland. Furthermore there are ritual groups in other countries like Argentina or the Czech Republic as well.
It is unusual among magical orders in focusing on the dark side of magic and the Left-Hand Path - the only notable competitors being the Temple of Set, The Storm and the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis.
Dragon Rouge explore the dark side focusing on five main paths.
The order
Dragon Rouge conducts ceremonies, works magic together, arranges study evenings and invites guest lecturers. Members travel to cult sites and power places like ship tumuli in Sweden or the Externsteine in Germany. For initiated members of Dragon Rouge there are also philosophical discussion evenings, dinners and festivities.
The order is financed by an annual membership fee and specifically asks for donations.
Culture
Culturally, Dragon Rouge members are interested in Gothicism and the dark side, in its different forms of expression. Dragon Rouge members believe these can give man a glimpse of the hidden side of existence. Among Dragon Rouge's members are numerous musicians, painters and writers. The metal band Therion, popular in their field, and Dragon Rouge members, is particularly notable. Musically, Richard Wagner and his mythological operas are important in Dragon Rouge, but also modern experimental, Metal and Goth music.
Philosophy
The philosophy of the dark side is represented by the Left-Hand Path and its ideology. Its goal is Apotheosis, or becoming a god. Dragon Rouge does not display to the public a sacred text detailing how to achieve this aim. However, it has correspondence course teachings and inspired texts that are considered by members to be factual.
Among the magical writers studied are Carlos Castaneda, Julius Evola and Kenneth Grant. Dragon Rouge members are supposed to study texts by classical philosophers like Herakleitos, Plato and Plotinus, as well as newer thinkers like Nietzsche, Heidegger and Henri Bergson, and non-European philosophy in the Upanishads and Tao te ching. The order entertains a library.
Psychology
One of the main ideas of Dragon Rouge is that man presently uses only a fraction of his total capacity. Through the traditional thousand year old occult practices man is supposed to be able to contact these hidden sides. C.G. Jung is the psychologist who is most important to Dragon Rouge. Dragon Rouge are studying parapsychology and are conducting parapsychological experiments on an amateur level.
Initiatory magic
Initiation is mostly not conducted in formal ceremony, but expected to result from individual endeavours in magic. To "become a god" is interpreted as the state where the initiated has transformed life from a reaction to outer conditions into one governed by free will.
The system is a syncretism of four main traditions: the Goetic Qabalah, the Odinic Runosophy, Tantra and Alkhemy. An apparent majority of adherents to the latter three traditions disapprove of their use by Dragon Rouge. Techniques not originally part of any of these traditions, such as astral projection, are also included in Dragon Rouge magic.
The initiatoric Draconian magic
The Draconian initiation is based on 1 + 9 + 1 levels that together constitutes 11 steps that are named after the Qliphoth, the antithesis of creation in kabbalistic terms. The following 9 steps represent the 9 levels of the night side or the underworld that Odin passes through on his initiation in the secrets of the runes.
- 0. Member of Dragon Rouge Where the uninitiated begins.
---Initiation---
- 1. Lilith 1.0° The gate to the unknown: Members study the order's basic philosophy.
---Step into the Underworld---
- 2. Gamaliel 2.0° The dark dreams: Members work to study their dreams and achieve lucid dreaming.
Ordo Draconis Minor
- 3. Samael 3.0° Working woth Yezidi magic & The dark side of the Chakras.
- 4. A'arab Zaraq 4.0° Work around personal desires and choice.
---The Lesser Abyss--- Co-membership in other magical organizations is prohibited beyond this point.
Ordo Draconis Major
- 5. Thagirion. 5.0°
- 6. Golachab 6.0°
- 7. Gha'agsheblah 7.0°
---The Greater Abyss---
- 8. Satariel 8.0°
- 9. Ghagiel 9.0°
- 10. Thaumiel 10.0° The supposed state of divinity.
Adamas Ater
- 11. Thaumiel 11.0° The supposed state of being in a new creation.
Opposing views
Dragon Rouge is frequently depicted as a sect or a satanic organization by the tabloid press. The order states that they are hostile towards Monotheism, but not an atheistic nor a satanic organization, but a magical order.
The tabloid press and christian spokespersons have on several occasions called the sacrifice of individual drops of human blood in Dragon Rouge magic unacceptable.
Dragon Rouge appeared frequently in the Swedish media during the mid and late nineties. Dragon Rouge has occasionally been criticised by other occult groups for being too open towards the media. Many occultists also believe that a large part of the member base consists of Therion fans. The lodge master of the disbanded Thagirion Lodge in Germany has publicly admitted to the truth of this supposition in an interview to occult magazine Der Golem.
See also
External links
- Dragon Rouge central homepage (http://www.dragonrouge.net/)
- Lodge Heldrasil - Thuringen, Germany (http://www.heldrasil.de/)
- Lodge Sinistra - Malmoe, Sweden (http://www.dragonrouge.net/sinistra/)
- Lodge Sothis - Naples, Italy (http://www.dragonrouge.net/sothis/)
- Lodge Magan - Silesia, Poland (http://www.dragonrouge.net/magan/)