Look around you and judge for yourself. After a thousand years of tyran-nical misrule, European society is finally beginning to throw off the shackles of merchant class stupidity. Unfortunately this new found dissent and "free-dom" has no direction either, and the path society is treading will inevitably become littered with the corpses of the fallen.
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There is a stark difference between the two concepts and conditions of natural empathy and social fear. One comes from within, the other is applied from without. If people were naturally co-operative and naturally empathic, the Grail Code would be a universal behavioural constant in an ordered world of ecological sensitivity and social harmony. This, plainly and manifestly is not, and never has been the case, and certainly not since the Church came to power. The Grail Code arises naturally from, and is pertinent solely to, the Grail Blood.
The Grail Code is the behavioural benchmark by which those of the Grail or Dragon Blood might be recognised, but it is not the code that efficiently orders the behaviour of the Dragon Families in their dealings with those not of the Grail Blood.
In Genesis of the Grail Kings Laurence Gardner commented on the love that the Anunnaki had for social order, which was echoed in Transylvania where Vampires were said to have a reputation for pathological meticulous-ness and where nearby, Dracula ran his kingdom with the precision of a well oiled machine.
In the earlier days of the Anunnaki it is quite feasible that the collective empathic consciousness was particularly strong and we might see here the foundation of the Grail Code within the family of the Gods. Nevertheless, later there were still incidents of internecine strife. However, where outsiders were concerned, the Grail Code was only applied inasmuch as it related to maintaining order for the benefit of the Overlords. Was there any question of the Gods being "nice" to man or applying the Grail Code solely for man's benefit? There was a difference between the Grail Code for the Grail Blood and the Grail Code as it applied to man. One has to say that Enlil was right, concerning his rivalry with Enki and their differing views on treatment toward man.
As the Blood weakened, the capacity to apply empathy and co-operation appropriately weakened. This resulted initially in family wars, and latterly in the kind of mental weakness, confusion and cultural misapplication which ended in the genocide of the race by Catholic opportunists.These are pertinent lessons that the Bloodline would do well to learn if it is to rebuild itself again. It doesn't necessarily mean, because the Bloodline is at the end of the seventh millennium of its recorded history, that it is too late to turn back the clock. However, if the Dragon is to survive at all. it mus learn the lessons of history, redefine its identity and strive to Mor once more. If it doesn't, its culture will die completely.
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An old saying from British folklore asserts that if the land loses its Elves, the land dies. In two thousand years the face of the countryside in Britain and Ireland in particular has changed completely and there is now nowhere that man hasn't manipulated, exploited or raped. Compared to what it was, the land is indeed dead. Its spirit has almost gone.
The spirit of the land, its innate magic and mystery, has died because the Elves have all but died as well. The land consequently has no real voice any-more, no champions and no orators. Without the Dragon Queens and the Elven Overlords to interpret the will of the Earth (and without Brehon Law to protect it from fools) man himself fails to hear the deeper message the land gives him.
The ancient forests of giant Oak and Beech are no more, and the sacred places have been either built on in acts of blasphemy by an evil religion or torn up by the mindless merchant-class ancestors of today's mindless, mid-dle-class consumer population.
In the theory of critical mass, sometimes called the "99th Monkey Effect" based on Jung's theory of Collective Consciousness working through Rupert Sheldrake's "Field of Morphic Resonance"-the collective mind of a race creates a spiritual and cultural archetype whose field of reso-nance can be felt in the material world. In the case of the Elves, that Archetype was manifest in the Age of Magic. Simply put, when the Elves lived, they created a field of magic around them, the power of which arose from the very sovereignty of the earth itself. However, when the Church killed the Elves, the Earth was silenced and the magic largely died.
Having assisted the Church to kill off the Elves, man now stands alone against a being he uses with contempt for his own gain, but whose power against him is limitless and whose patience with him is not. The highest so-called authorities on Earth have finally realised what they have done and even they, the United Nations Organisation, say that the clock is ticking and time is running out.
The spirit of True Romance and Magic is all but dead. It diminished when the Church enslaved the spirit of mankind to a material, hateful god. However, the Sundered Tribes can be reborn, the Dragon blood can be restored and enriched, and the Dragon Queens and Elven Lords can rise once more to restore to people a sense of wonder, a sense of hope and an Age of Magic.