The Book of the Black Dragon: Et Nigrum Draconicon
Being the Theory of the Black Dragon
by Peter Hamilton-Giles
(Volume 1 of the Book of the Black Dragon Series)
This enchiridion for the Black Dragon is the first volume for expounding sorcery associated with the dirt track road, which must forever be adumbrated by the outer precinct of the crooked path, for this inner sanctum presents the dirt ridden yet adamantine road which leads to the Black Dragon and the great mystery of telluric sorcery. It began as a realisation of a work that was formed by the Dragon’s Column, this being the working group that went on to contribute towards Andrew Chumbley writing The Dragon Book of Essex. Yet there are some stark contrasts to be made between this book and that, for the reader must know this is an earth bound book. This is to be realised by turning away from the heavens and looking beyond into the defiled depths of those who have fallen into the coils of Azde-Ahab-Haris. By having recognised this rhizomatic network of endless possibilities, the demiurgic force imbibing the ophidian flow has placed confidence in those who work with both hands by transmitting this work.
As a result, the book leads the reader through a sequence of ritual actions and interactions with specific daemons associated with points on the Black Dragon, with each point acting as a gateway for reifying the very principle of Being through the notion of becoming. Anticipatory in nature, the trappings of ceremonial magic are here discarded. The sorcerer instead locates the ritual space through flesh in relation to the horizon - The Proklosis Ring. At this non-place the sorcerer is encouraged to follow the instructions and insights contained in this grimoire, for there are steps and measures which must be taken to traverse the Black Dragon’s form. By so doing the horizon becomes the coiled serpent, and the earth becomes the gateway through which to engage with the ophidian source for all our Otherness.
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Table of Contents (abridged)
Preface
Intentionality and the Dirt Track Road
Declaration
The Threshold
The Apotropaic Chamber Vessel
Empowering the Apotropaic Chamber Vessel
The Void
Meditations on the making of ritual space
The making of a ritual place under the gaze of Azde-Ahab-Harris
Azde-Ahab-Harris and the making of form
The Five Primary Points of Azde-Ahab-Harris
Taht-Shujah-Aswad-Yushu-I: The Tongue
Taht-Ahfan-I-Tanhadir: The Fang
Taht-Tannin-I-Ghayb: The Sinistral Eye
Taht-Darakshan-I-Daw: The Dextral Eye
Subsequent reflections
The Seventh Seal
Sorcerous Virtues
The Seven Backward Steps of Descent
The Dragon’s Head and the Daemon Emissary Taht-Laenon-Dayira-Wilahu
Blood-Soaked Cord of the Proklosis Ring
Beyond Confine, Beyond Condition
Horizon to Our Endeavour
The 12 Axioms of LIA
Colophon
Notes
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Illustrated by Carolyn Hamilton-Giles.
Hardcover Library Edition
415 pages. Black cloth-bound with gold foil embossing to front cover and spine. Red & black head and tail bands.
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Press, reviews, endorsements
Book Review by Occult Works - watch on YouTube here
Book Review by Magick Library - watch on YouTube here
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About the Black Dragon Series - by the author
The Black Dragon along with its telluric emphasis came about in the early 1990s. Having been a long-term friend of Andrew Chumbley, with a mutual interest in matters of the occult, we had been following our own path. However, we had some common ground for what some might consider as the usual suspects, Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, Kenneth Grant et.al. while at the same time we both had an interest in African diasporic spiritual beliefs, and with that there came a particular fascination with what would become known as the Ophidian Current.
It came about that one fine summer’s day when sitting by a stream close to Andrew’s grandmother’s house that I proposed the formation of the Dragon’s Column. This would be a small working group exploring in greater detail aspects encapsulated by Ophidian mysteries. And so it was that the Dragon’s Column was formed, and the rest, as they say is history, because most of you will own or know of The Dragon Book of Essex that Andrew wrote, which is a redacted and amended version of those raw more powerful early days in which we worked.
Over the years this intentional redaction continued to bother me. Further pressure was placed upon me to respond when others began to rewrite the history of the Dragon’s Column and Andrew’s involvement in it. Some may conclude the Black Dragon series is consequently borne from wanting to fulfil a vendetta, yet in reply I would say I am reanimating the sorcerous enterprise Andrew and I first conceived by that stream on that lazy summer’s day some 30 years ago.
As time passed, this idea to commence work on a reinvigorated Dragon’s Column, as originally conceived, came to fruition. And it did so by showing time presents a gestative period into which fascinations can be poured. Indeed, it is from this knowing that the Black Dragon books have conspired to build from the roots up a vision of sorcerous practice.
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About the Author
Peter Hamilton-Giles is an author and researcher of the esoteric, academically trained in anthropology and religious studies his primary interest is in occult philosophy. He is co-founder of the Dragons’ Column along with Andrew Chumbley. His first book was The Afflicted Mirror published by Three Hands Press in 2013, this was followed by The Baron Citadel also published by Three Hands Press in 2015, since then he has written many books for Atramentous Press, his first was The Witching-Other published in 2017 which was followed by Standing at the Crossroads in 2018. He is currently working on the long anticipated follow up to the Dragon Book of Essex (A. D. Chumbley, 2014), the Book of the Black Dragon Series. His primary interests are in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics and how these apply to an occult context.
About the Artist
Carolyn Hamilton-Giles is a self-taught artist and has had her work featured in a number of Three Hands Press titles, these include the journal Clavis, The Baron Citadel, Witch-Ikon, The Witching-Other, as well as being included in a THP art exhibition in Los Angeles in 2011. Using techniques such as automatic drawing and trance induced separation, Carolyn has created a unique form of art that has included creating covers for Atramentous Press books.
