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Copyright: Nicholas de Vere 1985-2002. All rights reserved.

The following are technical support notes to the essays included in 'From
Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells'. As such there will be numerous repetitions of the
subjects covered in that work, as it was extracted largely from these notes. However, a
wealth of extra material follows which could not be drawn in detail into the narrative of
the essays. This material stems from 1985 and the copyright is registered from that
date.

The Sabbatical Goat

The symbol of the goat's head in the inverted pentagram is said to be the traditional
glyph of medieval European Satanic Witchcraft. Since that time the Sabbatical Goat has
become ubiquitous throughout the left hand path of occultism.The letters around the
perimeter, usually displayed in Hebrew consonants in common usage, spells L'V'Th'N:
Leviathan. In apocryphal Jewish holy literature it was Lilith, fleeing to the Red Sea, who
became identified with the Leviathan, a sea monster, often portrayed as a giant serpent or
Draken.

The colours used in representations of the above are invariably red on black.
Although thought of as Satanic, these colours on the Aziluth or Imperial level of the
Cabalistic Tree of Life are not Satanic at all, but are Sacred to Binah. The Emperor is red,
representing dynamism; and the Empress is black, representing the primordial sea of
Understanding or Being; i.e. Space/Time. Red and Black were used by Cathars, who
tied their Blue-Black Robes (cf. Sufi cloaks) with the hated 'little Red Cord', which also

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appears as the Garter or Points in Scottish Witchcraft. The use of a red cord has a
twofold symbolism in that it is also identified as the woollen cord that was wrapped
around the horns of the Scapegoat of Jewish history. The Scapegoat was identified as
Azazel, an angel or Nephilim/Watcher, a prototype of the later sacrificial God/King.

Binah is ruled by the Planet Saturn or Chronos. This takes us into the Titanic period
of civilisation which preceded the Jehovan or Olympic age. The sacred flower of Binah
is the Lily and its tree is the Cypress, used for both funerals and weddings (ie. both
destruction and creation), and its sacred animal is the bee, the Sacred Mason and the
drinker of the nectar of the Lily. Uniting the concept of marriage (sexual union) with
death (negation) is Tantric/Proto Cabalistic and therefore Aryan; and therefore Ubaid in
origin. The sex-negation concept is central to the theory of hierogamy, divine union and
courtly love which is expressed in alchemy and inextricably linked to the drinking of the
"nectar" of the Lily and the Rose.

This is the true meaning of the Merovian Bee, which in its use by them was also
intended to link them with the forgoing concepts and the Primordial Sea, the waters of
Chaos or Tiamat as well as Lilith.

Saturn (Anu) and Lilith's sacred colour is Purple, which is the origin of its use by
Emperors and kings. Displaying this colour denotes their descent from Lilith and also
the Titans.

Saturn is the predominent planetary sphere ruling Capricorn, whose planetary

archangel or nephilim was Azazel. The Sabbatical Goat developed from Khem (formerly
Azazel) whose cult was centred upon the Temple of Mendes. Later Grecian expressions
of this cult cast the Khem as Pan who, by the medieval period, had become Pan -Khem:
the Solar - Goat deity of the French witches who, trained by the Templars and Cathars
provided, in a very basic form, a plebian and religious variant of the more complex
scientific and genealogical tenets of those whom they supported and to whom "Satan";
the Sabbatical Goat, was the "Good God", the liberator from church oppression and the
iron grip of their other christianised overlords.

The principal figure at these sabbats was a figure with a shining gold torso and the
head and legs of a goat. It was revered as the Black and Gold Sun, echoing the origins
of Khem as a solar deity but also embodying the Draconian symbol of Sirius, the Black
Sun or eight pointed star.

In England Khem-Pan was known as Puck, son of Titania (Titans) and Robin Hood

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or Robin Goodfellow. Goodfellow is reminiscent of "The Good Folk" and provides one
of many links between English and Scottish Witchcraft and the Fairies, who are also
called the Gentry (because they literally were the lords and nobles of many districts) and
"Shining Ones".

British Sabbats were overseen by a "Man-in-Black", usually the local Lord or Baron
who was worshipped as the God of the Sabbat, ie.; Robin or Satan, Pan or Khem.

Witchcraft in Europe and Britain was run by the Templars and Cathars and provided
the groundswell of support at the grasroots level for the Fairy aka Grail aka Dragon
families and the doctrines which made them distinct. Witchcraft is original christianity,
practicing christian gnostic dualism and providing, in their tens of thousands, an army of
support for the scions of Christ.

The church persecuted Templars, Cathars and Witches equally as heretics. If

witchcraft was, as the fluffy bunny apologists of the 20th c. claim, a pagan religion, it
would not have attracted the animosity of the church, who only prosecuted heterodox
christians

A final note on Chronos/Saturn/Anu. He was the inventor of Agriculture and thus

may be identified with the Annunaki of Sumeria who also developed advanced farming
techniques and settled agriculture.Wherever one travels in the world the figure of Saturn
is invariably depicted as an old man with a beard leaning on a staff, even in societies
where the members don't grow facial hair themselves. He was the grim reaper, the god
who controlled the fate of man. As such, he was in the fullest and most precise terms the
God-King of the Fairies, the Fata or Fates.

Pan was the son of Hermes. Hermes was an intermediary between the Gods and man,
a prototype of the Pontiff or bridge, the God king. As mercury he is also identified with
Odin, another sacrificial god, whose totem animals, the raven and the wolf, both feature
as grades of initiation in Mithraism and are specific grades of Vampire in Romanian
tradition. The Stregoica or wolf-vampire (werewolf) of Romanian tradition derives from
the root word Strega, which is Latin and where Stregoica is a vampire in Romanian
(which is a Roman language), in Italian a Strega is a witch. The Turkish for Vampire is
Uber, a witch. Note Ubermensch.

Mithras is a balancing factor between good and evil, an intermediary very much like
Hermes. Odin as the one eyed God mediates between the worlds and to gain the wisdom
of both hung upon Ygdrassil, a Lilith - Samael symbol of the Tree of Life/knowledge.

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As a Blinded God he is reminiscent of the blind serpent who mediated between Lilith
and Samael at their union.

Chem-Zoroaster

Ham is known traditionally as Chem. In Hermetics and dualism he is known as

Chem-Zoroaster "a great and venerable Magus", the Archon of the 10th Age of
Capricorn. As Archon or representative, he is identified with Capricorn as its physical
manifestation, ie. he IS Capricorn. Originally the symbol for Capricorn was a creature
half Goat, half Sea Monster. This takes us back to the inverted pentagram of the
Sabbatical Goat encircled by the word (also meaning issuing from the space or womb
of) Leviathan who is the Sea Monster, (Lilith) and Sea Dragon of primordial chaos
(Tiamat). Therefore the Sabbatical Goat is Capricorn the Sea Goat. As the Egyptian
God, the Sabbatical Goat is Khem, the solar deity of Mendes and Khem is a variant
spelling of Chem who is Ham who is the Archon of Capricorn and Capricorn incarnate.

Ham the accursed one of the christian bible, moved to Egypt. As a Dragon God King
of the Line of Annunaki, the originators and Draconian Patrons of human Kingship,
Ham or Chem - Zoroaster became Khem the first Sebekh. The Sebekh is the Crocodile
(water/sea dragon or Leviathan) God, who is the Patron of Kingship. He wears a solar
(cf. Khem) disc upon his forehead suspended between two (goat) horns. Ham or Chem
is Sobekh 1st; T'Ham'Pthis, the first dragon king of Egypt to use the Sebekh title and
thus proclaim his right to create kings. First God King of the Egyptian cult of Draco.

The Sobekh title may distinguish the grafted line of the immigrant dragon kings of
Sumeria from the indigenous Semitic, Nubian and other dynasties.

Ham as Chem - Zoroaster and also as Khem and later Pan son of Hermes is closely
linked to the concept of Aryan Dualism and its symbol; the entwined serpents- Mazda
and Ahriman, light and dark. Mazda is Ormuzd and Ahriman is Enlil or Jehovah.
Ormuzd derives from the Indo-European Orm, a worm or Dragon and Masd, white or
light, hence white worm (see vampire mythology) or Dragon of Light. Ahriman is thus
the Dragon of Darkness, hence the Satanic inversion "Good is Evil and Evil is Good".
The entwined serpents or dragons appear as the serpents of the caduceus of Hermes,
who is father of Pan; the Goat headed solar deity Khem. The caducues is crowned with
a solar winged-disc and the entwined serpents are reminiscent of the double helix
ribbons of the thyrsis wand of Dionysus, which is crowned by the pine cone depicting

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the pineal gland. The symbols are variants of each other in a Hermetic sense.

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