Stairway to Heaven
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
The Dawn of Dragon Bloodlines in Mesopotamia and Egypt.
by Iona Miller, 2018
It's dragons all the way down. The archaic meaning of the Dragon is wisdom and eternity. In China, the Dragon was not only a metaphysical property of nature, it symbolized learned instructors (“wise men”). Egypt's sovereign throne is the 'Dragon Seat.' The Dragon, the Crocodile, and the Pharaoh were One -- SOBEK.
On December 25, 3117 B.C. a total solar eclipse culminated at Sunrise of Winter Solstice. This date matches the start of Hebrew, Hindu and Maya Calendars. It is the beginning of the Reign of Me-Sin, or Menes, "he who endures." He may be an allegorical figure, but many stories link him to the Mesopotamian Nimrod, considered the root of the dragon lines of Babylonia and Egypt. One legend claims Athothis/ Nimrod/Osiris was married to Hept, wife of Menes (his uncle Mizraim). Hept was another name of Isis. Nimrod was allegedly killed by a dragon (Set, a mythic persona of Shem).
Both Nimrod and Menes (Aha) may be mythologized figures. Early genealogies are a hopeless mish-mash, but there are Biblical, genealogical, and archaeological standard interpretations. My own genealogy lists Nimrod as my 99th Gr-Grandfather with a descent through Abraham, the Exilarchs, Kings of Judea and Emesa, Moorish and Spanish lines down to the English marriage bridge of Sir Walter Blount and Sancha, Lady of Alaya. Menes standard descent is similar, but descends through Arab lines of Sheba, through Vizcaya Spanish lines, down to the same English-Iberian match. 
Rare: A reconstruction of the tablet, right, showing what the images originally looked like.
Libation Cup of Gudea -- Archaic Holy Grail of Sumer
The relief portrays a unique depiction of the ancient Sumerian lion-serpent-dragon Tiamat, standing guard over the terrestrial Tree Of Life, which is entwined with a serpent. The image is repeated on both sides of the original cup, forming one of the oldest known images of the snake and the caduceus.
These days on exhibition in the Louvre Museum, the votive chalice was a favourite possession of King Gudea, who ruled the Mesopotamian city of Lagash from 2141 to 2122 BC. However the cup itself has been dated to as early as 4000 BC, which would explain the archaic Sumerian iconography and perhaps, the earliest known depiction of the Dragon in Indo-European history. The cuneiform inscription reads:
"To the god Ningizzida, his god Gudea, patesi of Lagash, for the prolongation of his life, has dedicated this."
It is said that Ningizzida is identified with the star goddess Ishtar, who is also identified with the celestial Dragon Tiamat and often pictured with a caduceus of serpents climbing the tree of life.
Stairway to Heaven
In 2011, a carving of the Tower of Babel was found on a stone tablet or stele dating back over 2,500 years. King Nebuchadnezzar II, who ruled Babylon 2,500 years ago, stands next to a huge ziggurat, consider the Tower of Babal, a typical "Stairway to Heaven," much like a pyramid. The archaeological site of this towering edifice is known, though it is utterly ruined. The Smithsonian says this tablet is further proof that the tower of Babel was an actual building.
Gardner suggests that Raneb, pharaoh of the Second Dynasty, circa 2852–13 B.C.E. , was a grandson to Nimrod, and listed Boethus, son of Nimrod, as Pharaoh Hotep- Serhemwy. We don't know the exact relationships between Egyptian pharaohs and the Dragon bloodlines descending from Ham, Noah's son, but that is the story. Others equate Nimrod and Osiris.
Still others claim a marriage bridge between Nimrod and Semiramis, as the daughter of a Pharaoh. Theosophists claim postdiluvian Egyptian kingship came from conquest sponsored by Nimrod. All the dynastic trappings , including the Tiamat dragon cult and the intermarrying within the dynastic family came through the pure Anunnaki/Nephilim bloodlines.
Menes (c. 3150 BCE) is the legendary first king of Egypt, thought to have united Upper and Lower Egypt through conquest. He also founded the First Dynasty, the great city of Memphis, and established his capital there. The legend of Menes (who may be Narmer) is a meaningful ideal, a symbol of the whole, of Egypt. SOBEK is foundational.
Diodorus Siculus describes a myth where Menes rode on the back of a crocodile to escape rabid hunting dogs (symbolic enemies). So, Menes 'rode the dragon' to safety. He founded the city of Crocodilopolis, in thanks. Menes raised a great city in the name or governorship of the crocodiles, where the creatures were honored by people from all over Egypt.
The dragon priests of the sacred city of Shedet, known to the Greeks as Crocodilopolis, told this story. Here a sacred crocodile was kept in its own artificial lake. Attendants adorned it with gems and gold. When it died, it was mummified and replaced by a new crocodile god.
The city served as the capital of the Faiyum and was the cultic center for the crocodile deity SOBEK. The crocodile story should be transferred to Dynasty XII pharaoh Amenemhat III. His daughter was Sobeknefru who became Pharaoh. Many monarchs incorporated the name of the god in their titles. Yet, all pharaohs constitute one archetype -- the Sobek crocodile/dragon archetype. In some temples Horus is called ‟Horus the Glittering Crocodile,” and “Horus the Dazzling Crocodile.”
In Egypt, Hermes Trimegistus was thought to be the repository of mankind's knowledge prior to the Flood. In the Book of Hermes, Pymander appears to Hermes in the shape of a Fiery Dragon of "Light, Fire, and Flame." Pymander is the "Thought Divine" personified. In Hermetic lore, Hermes Trimegistus slew the dragon Typhon -- symbolizing ignorance -- using a special staff, the caduceus.
The winged dragon is a symbol that unites heaven with earth, a pictogram of "As Above; So Below." It is the Soverign Intelligence of Light and Life. In yoga the dragon energy is kundalini. Its wisdom is the secret of primal energy hidden in us all, or perhaps more in some than others. The Adept is the reawakened Dragon who is the Universal Medicine, and living Stone.
The Vision of Hermes Trimegestus recounts that "Hermes wandered in a rocky, desolate place to meditate and pray. Following secret instructions of the Temple, he freed his higher consciousness from bondage to his physical senses. Thus released, his divine nature revealed to him The Mysteries. He beheld a terrible, awe-inspiring figure: the Great Dragon, with wings stretching across the sky and light streaming in all directions from its body.
The Great Dragon called Hermes by name, and asked why he meditated on the World Mystery. Terrified, Hermes prostrated himself before the Dragon, beseeching it to reveal its identity. The great creature replied it was Poimandres, the Mind of the Universe, Creative Intelligence, and Absolute Emperor of all.
Hermes besought Poimandres to disclose the nature of the universe and the constitution of the gods. The Dragon acquiesced, bidding Hermes hold its image in his mind. Immediately Poimandres' form changed. Where it had stood was a glorious, pulsating Radiant Light, the spiritual nature of the Great Dragon itself. Hermes was "raised" into the midst of this Divine Effulgence and the material universe faded from his consciousness."
The Key of Alchemy
In Hermetics, the three parts of wisdom are alchemy, astrology and theurgy. Theurgy is reliant on an alliance with divine spirits (i.e. angels, archangels, Gods). There are many of these godnames in the longevity rite in the Triangle Book. Alchemy is the key to theurgy. The disciplines illuminate and potentiate one another. Astrology provides the timing.
Alchemy provides the chemical basis of rejuvination with diet, herbal elixers, even the “white powder” of philosophical gold – monoatomic gold – as a dietary supplement. Sir Laurence Gardner describes this miracle medicine and calls it the true Philosopher’s Stone.
Does Hermes allude to reincarnation when he states: "O son, how many bodies we have to pass through, how many bands of demons, through how many series of repetitions and cycles of the stars, before we hasten to the One alone?"
Hermeticism inspired the Renaissance, Illuminati, Freemasons and Rosicrucians. The Dragon root also may explain why Comte de Saint-Germain was involved in a Jacobite plot to restore the Stuart dynasty to the English Throne (1743). Was his spying in the interests of a shared bloodline?
In fact, this Dragon connection may explain why he was itinerant, not merely a wandering magician, scholar and businessman -- but a man with a mission. Was this dragon emblem the symbol of his natural family? As a Hungarian or Transylvanian prince, was he either part of or in a struggle to restore a bloodline, bred for rulership and magic?
Alchemy always has layer upon layer of meaning, and in this case the emblem and opening sentence conceal a political message of a royal lineage, described since the dawn of history as Dragons. St. Germain was heir to this lineage though the politics of the day necessitated hiding his true identity, much like Sir Francis Bacon had to hide the fact he was the “natural son” of Queen Elizabeth a few decades earlier. In St. Germain's time, the Hapsburgs were allied with the Papacy and overthrew his ancient family.
Alchemical philosophy is often referred to as Hermetic thought. Many books talk about the hermetic school of Tuthmosis III of Egypt, who reigned about 1450 BC. But it is not generally known that the school he originally inherited was the Royal Court of the Dragon. Founded by the priests of Mendes in about 2200 BC it was subsequently ratified by the 12th dynasty Queen Sobeknefru.
Legend says that this sovereign and priestly Order passed from Egypt to the Kings of Jerusalem. Then it passed to the Black Sea Princes of Scythia and into the Balkans - notably to the Royal House of Hungary, whose King Sigismund reconstituted the Court just 600 years ago. Today it exists as the Imperial and Royal Court of the Dragon Sovereignty, and after some 4,000 years it is the oldest sovereign Court in the world.
Here There Be Dragons
An ancient lineage of Hungarian Shamans evolved out of Egypt. The Dragon cult of Egypt emigrated to Hungary and formed the Royal Court of Dragons. It was from this lineage that the Pendragon family came to England.
The Dragon Court can first be identified in Egypt under the patronage of the priest-prince Ankhfn Khonsu at about 2170 BC. It was subsequently established more formally as a pharaonic institution by the twelfth dynasty Queen Sobekh Nefru in 1785 BC.
The Court was re-formed in 1408 by Emperor Sigismund von Luxemburg, King of Hungary, later to become Holy Roman Emperor in 1433. The Dragon kings whom the court has supported have rightfully ruled many nations and empires throughout history. In the case of England, the last legitimate Dragon monarch was Richard III.
Royal Dragon Bloodline; Secret Dragon Wisdom
The Royal Court Of The Dragon was established in Egypt under Ankhfnkhonsu, and more formally by Queen Sobeknefru to provide an institution for the pursuit of the work of the Dragon of Al-Khem otherwise known as Thoth or Hermes.
From Al-Khem we have alchemy, the Great Work of the Dragon. The most famous books attributed to him are The Emerald Tablets and The Pymander. Dragons, the oldest living creature, have been here throughout human history. There have been many legends and manuscripts about these wonderful creatures.
When the Imperial and Royal Dragon Court was reconstituted by King Sigismund in 1408 as the Societas Draconis, it was based upon an ancient bloodline tradition which Sigismund assumed that he had inherited from his presumed Egyptian and Scythian ancestors through the Pictish, Dragon Princess Maelasanu of Northumbria and the Ancient and Original Angevin Royal House of Vere of Anjou, the Imperial Dukes of Angiers.
This line had descended through the Tuatha de Danaan (the Dragon Kings of Anu) on the one hand, and the Egyptian Dragon Dynasty of Sobek on the other. The latter strain included the bloodline of the Davidic House of Judah who married into the descent of the Merovingian Kings of the Franks.
Sigismund assumed a personal entitlement to this legacy in 1397, the date upon which he sought to reconstitute Princess Melusine’s Dragon Court - as Societas Draconis - in a manner that he deemed the most suitable to enhance his power base and establish his royal claims.
Following its subsequent formal inception in 1408, the Court recruited members from a number of prominent royal and noble houses. Historians have noted that these were not particularly known for their religious orthodoxy, including the later House of Vere in England, as one authority on Sigismund’s Dragon Court has asserted.
In 1408 (when Britain was in her Plantagenet era), the Dragon Court was formally reconstituted as a sovereign body at a time of wars and general political turmoil. As we have seen, the Court’s dubious re-emergence was instigated by Sigismund von Luxembourg, King of Hungary.
Having presumptuously and erroneously assumed to have inherited the bloodline legacy in 1397, he drew up a pact with twenty-three royals and nobles who swore to observe ’true and pure fraternity’ within the Societas Draconis, a style subsequently misidentified as the Ordo Draconis (Hungarian: Sarkany Rend). Although the original Court was by no means an Order in the recognized chivalric sense, the misnomer was strategically retained for the purposes of identification.
Along with Sigismund and the twenty-three nobles, Sigismund’s second wife, Barbara Cille (daughter of the Austrian Duke Hermann of Styria), was joint sovereign. Barbara was a Vampire who was taught by Ibrahim Eleazar, the keeper of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, and it is she who is the model for the beautiful Countess Carmilla Karnstein in Le Fanus novel of the same name.
Sigismund’s daughter Elizabeth was also a member of the Court, and the inclusion of the entire family thereby achieved the traditional overall standard of twenty six members or two magical circles of thirteen. Others prominent in the Societas Draconis were the Kings of Poland and Aragon, the Duke of Lithuania and the unrepentant heretic, the Duke of Split.
Shortly after this foundation, Sigismund was crowned Holy Roman Emperor and, as a result, the noble fraternity achieved a heightened status as an imperial edifice. Although the Court’s ancient origins were steeped in pre Christian lore, Pope Eugene IV was obliged to approve his Emperor’s non Catholic establishment, for the nature of the Dragon, even if you fake it, is such that its kingly tradition surmounts the mundane constraints of denominational dispute.
Vlad Tepes, a 15th-century Prince in Romania, founded the capital city of Bucharest. His popularised name, Dracula, means "Son of Dracul", and Dracul (or Dragon) was a style by which his father was known within the Grail fraternity of the Ordo Draconis (The Imperial Court of the Dragon) from 1431. As a Transylvanian, there is no way St. Germain would be unaware of this powerful and locally esteemed heritage. His ancestors were Princes of Transylvania -- Dragons in their own right.
Sigismund Rákóczi (Zsigmond)- elected Prince of Transylvania 1607-1608; George I Rákóczi (György) - elected Prince of Transylvania 1630-1648; Rákóczi, Ferenc II (1676–1735). Prince of Transylvania, ruling prince of the allied Hungarian Estates, leader of the anti-Habsburg war of independence. As detailed in Bloodline of the Holy Grail, the brutal Catholic Inquisitions of the Middle Ages were set against all the so-called heretics who in one way or another supported the Messianic Blood Royal (the Sangréal) of the Dragon Kings against the corrupted dogma of the bishops. Many of the victims were classified as occultists and witches, and they were charged with upholding the ancient and heretical cult of Draco, the Prince of Darkness. They were proclaimed by the Church authorities to be vampires! (Gardner, StarFire)
Today, the Imperial and Royal Dragon Court itself exists as a closed fraternity, a collective of individuals, comprising those who, unlike Sigismund, can trace their ancestry and affiliations back to the ancient, pre-Christian Elven, Grail and Dragon families via Anjou.
The Five Holy Obligations of the Order include
1. Protection of the Earth
2. Upholding of Peace
3. Support of the Downtrodden
4. Defence of the Feminine
5. Pursuit of Knowledge
It is in these respects that the Court of the Dragon is most active - supporting at all times the sovereignty of the individual and the responsibilities to protect life and liberty which are inherent within that sovereignty, while pursuing avenues of hitherto suppressed knowledge for the benefit of all. The primary aspects of the Order's constitution are: Nobility, Equity and Justice.
The Court retains the traditional three tier degree system that Sigismund borrowed and to which he appended three separate representations of the alchemical Ouroboros emblem for the distinct ranks of the Court. A fourth emblem, configured in the form of the Egyptian Ankh or Albigensian Cross, was used by the family officers of the Inner Temple.
Sir Laurence Gardner on Dragons and St. Germain
St. Germain was clearly motivated by WHO he secretly was, and who he thought he was. We know from the history of Comte St. Germain that he was accused of being a Jacobite, and spying for the Stuarts in England. Historian, Sir Laurence Gardner is a direct link to this hidden agenda today -- virtually a modern day St. Germain, still working for the restoration of his bloodline.
This lineage traces itself to Egypt and is later preserved in Asia, by the Scythians. Coming from Hungary and/or Transylvania, St. Germain, being of noble blood himself, was well aware of this lineage and its symbolic Dragon. Reading between the lines, could this be the hidden cause of his trips to England and his continuous travels throughout Europe and the Orient? Sure, he enjoyed learning new things, but it can be shown that many of his trips were politically motivated. It is significant he worked to restore the Stuarts.
Dragon Blood
