Drache Quarterly

Journal
February 2005

Dreams and
Understanding
by Audric
Delano

Interpreting
Revelations
by Saff ron
 Editorial
Drache by
Vincent Van-Damme
Quarterly Opposing Forces?
Journal
Our Covenant lies at a
crossroads at the start of this
century. Never before has
the daily ‘Requiem’ grown
Table of Contents so more factionalised as it
Editorial 2 has now. Perhaps now is the
Opposing Forces? 2 time to begin to review the
News 3 other covenants and provide
Breaking the rules on artifical blood 3
The rise of the Guardians 4
something that is sorely
Revelations: An Interpretation 5 lacking. Neutrality.
Evolution and the End of the Universe 7 By defining ourselves as the
Why Dreams Are Forgotten After Waking? 8 neutral “Fifth Brother”, as
opposed to the polar pairs
that are the other four, we
can engender a sense of
respect. And it is in this
place that we can explore our
studies, free of the relative
turmoil of politics, confident
that our neutral role is
respected by all.

Drache Quarterly Journal

Editor-in-Chief: Vincent Van-Damme

Contributors: Aimnestos, Saffron, Vincent Van-Damme, Adam Lemp,

Audric Delano

Additional Material From: New Scientist

(c) Drake Head Press

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News
Breaking the rules
on artifical blood
Numerous past attempts
to develop synthetic blood
have failed because doc-
tors got the basic science
wrong, claim a handful of
researchers.
This week it was announced
that a blood substitute based
on their alternative theories is
looking promising in an early
trial. Developing a suitable
blood substitute for people
has been a major effort for
decades. An artificial blood
would relieve shortages and
prevent patients being infect-
ed by contaminated supplies.
Ideally, it could be given to
anyone without triggering
rejection, so accident victims
could be given transfusions
immediately without test-
ing to see what blood group
they are. And a long-lasting
form that does not need to
be kept cold would be ideal
for use in disasters, wars and
remote areas. But company
after company has worked on
substitutes only to abandon
their efforts because of safety
concerns.
Most blood substitutes are
based on various forms of
haemoglobin, the protein that
carries oxygen in most ani-
mals. The guiding principles
are that artificial blood should
be thinner than real blood, so
that it circulates easily, and
have a low affinity for oxy-
gen, so that it releases oxy-
gen easily.
In the past decade, initial
trials of several substitutes
looked promising. But it
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turned out many had a disas-
trous effect- they made capil-
laries collapse, shutting off
the oxygen supply to tissues.
The reason, most research-
ers think, is that the haemo-
globin in artificial bloods is
free-floating, instead of being
enclosed in red blood cells.
This allows it to enter the
spaces between cells, where
it mops up nitric oxide- a mol-
ecule that helps keep blood
vessels open. But Marcos
Intaglietta of the University of
California, San Diego, is one
of a small number of scien-
tists who think the physical
characteristics of blood sub-
stitutes are to blame.
He argues that they thin the
blood, reducing shear stress
in the capillaries and leading
to vasoconstriction. Creat-
ing artificial blood with a low
affinity for oxygen is also a
mistake, says Robert Wins-
low, founder of blood substi-
tute company Sangart of San
Diego. He says current blood
substitutes release their oxy-
gen in the arteries instead of
in the capillaries like normal
blood.
This early release can itself
trigger vasoconstriction.
Winslow’s company has put
these ideas to the test with
a blood substitute called
MP4. It contains haemoglobin
molecules coated with poly-
ethylene glycol to make them
bulkier, so the resulting fluid
is thicker, or more viscous,
than normal blood. The coat-
ing also gives MP4 a higher
affinity for oxygen than other
substitutes.
Studies have shown that MP4
releases oxygen in the capil-
laries, as intended. This week
Sangart announced that a
small trial involving around
20 patients in Sweden has
produced positive results.
Details have not yet been
released, but other tests in
which pigs were given MP4
revealed no signs of vasocon-
striction (Journal of Applied
Physiology, DOI: 10.1152/jap-
plphysio.00530.2003).
Tests in hamsters that had
lost a lot of blood showed
they actually fared better
when given MP4 than real
blood (Critical Care Medicine,
vol 31, p 1824). The animals
needed less MP4 than real
blood to oxygenate their tis-
sues. The researchers think
this is because it releases
oxygen only where levels are
lowest.
Is the apparent success of
MP4 proof that Winslow and
his colleagues are right? Not
necessarily, says John Olson,
an expert in blood substitutes
at Rice University in Houston,
Texas. He thinks MP4 works
well simply because the
coated haemolglobin is too
big to squeeze into the spac-
es between cells and destroy
nitric oxide.
Viscosity and oxygen affin-
ity are probably not the key
factors. Intaglietta, however,
can point to recent experi-
ments that suggest viscosity
is important. At the moment,
when patients lose blood,
they are initially given salt
water to replace the lost
volume. But too much saline
thins the blood, leading to
vasoconstriction.
Intaglietta’s team has shown
that if animals are given a
“plasma expander” that has
a higher viscosity than saline,
their capillaries stay open.
Animals given this expander
can survive longer than those
given saline, even when their
blood oxygen falls to levels
that would normally be fatal.
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The rise Ordo Dracul. While the
Guardians are not any more
hordes the Kogian keep,
and the places of power we
organized than the rest of all defend are in constant
of the the Order they are willing
to work together in multi-
need to Military defense.
This is not necessarily the

Guardians domain efforts towards

mutual goals. These
emergency defense that
the Sworn can provide, but
goals are usually militarily rather the night to night
An Opinion piece written offensive or defensive guard duty that keeps
by Aimnestos, Guardian in nature, and thus their mortals, lupines, and
of Washington DC, USA reputation outside the sorcerers out of our treasure
(delwin@gmail.com) Order is transferred to the hordes.
It has been stated on a Ordo Dracul as a whole. With It is not a glamorous job,
number of occasions that the this reputation of military but someone has to do it.
Ordo Dracul does not need capability as well as our That someone is your local
a martial branch outside of long standing reputation for Guardian.
the Sworn. It has also been scholarly might we begin to For those cities that do
stated that we are all shiny present ourselves as the not have Guardians yet,
happy people that need to only Covenant that in fact contact me and I will
get along. There are three does have it all. Scholarly help you establish them.
reasons for the existence of bent to match the Circle Koiagans can also contact
the Guardians: and the Carthians, Military me to get more manpower
might to match the Invictus to protect that which needs
First there is the rather and the Lancea Sanctum, protecting.
exclusive nature of the and our own quest for
Sworn. They are quite rare, transcendence to unify the
and quite strict in their two positions.
acceptance requirements.
Given that there are not
very many of them. While
each is of great respect
and power individually they
are more like the Special
Forces to the Guardians’
army division. When
there is a job that requires
surgical precision, massive
power implemented on
a specific target, or war
time leadership the Sworn
is there to aid us. When it
comes to the night to night
guard duty, the foot troops,
and the wet-work that just
doesn’t need that kind of
force then the Guardians
are there to fill the gap.
Finally we see the core
reason for the Guardians.
Second we have the
We are called Dragons for
necessity of a public face
a reason. Those treasure
of the military might of the

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Revela- Jewish apocalyptic texts: commentary in symbolic
The Book of David, Enoch I, form, dealing with the
Enoch II. persecution facing the
tions: An believing people, offering
Next, let us look at the a message of hope. The

Interpreta- author. Three times in persecution mentioned in

Chapter 1 and once in the Book of Daniel is that of
Chapter 22, the author the Jews from the Seleucid
tion
By Saffron
identifies himself as John. Empire, dated 168-164 B.C.
But is this John the disciple Enoch I may be as old or older
who followed Jesus? Looking than the Book of Daniel and
back at early manuscripts, deals with the persecution
There are four different
it is obvious that the John of the Jews under Antiochus
ways to approach
of Revelations authorship IV. Enoch II was written
apocalyptic literature. First,
must be John the disciple. shortly prior to or in the 1st
is the Historicist view—the
The Gospel of St. John is the century A.D., and it deals
text as a prediction of a
most poetic Gospel, written with the persecution of
future history such as a
in highly educated, well- the Jews under Rome (and
war between country a and
spoken Greek. Revelations, ends with the destruction of
country b or corporation a
on the other hand, is Jerusalem and the temple in
and corporation b, et cetera.
written in Greek with an Jerusalem).
Second, is the Futurist
Aramaic accent and is
view—the text as the end of
filled with “Aramaicisms” In all apocalyptic writing,
the world, in toto. Third, is
such as altered word order, there is a difference between
the Idealistic view—the text
and poor Greek grammar. the stated villain and the
is a poetic expression of
Some lines in Revelations implied, or actual, villain.
the struggle between good
are so badly written that The real villain is alluded to
and evil (i.e., a theological
scholars cannot discern using symbols. In that way,
poem where good triumphs
what the author means people in possession of the
over evil). The fourth view,
and have translated their text would be protected
and the view that is going
“best guess.” We also know from treason should their
to be the focus of this
from historical record that persecutors find the text.
series, is the Preterist view,
there are two Johns—John For example, in the Book of
meaning past-in-fulfillment
the Apostle and John the Daniel, the villain named is
or Zeitgeschichtlich. In
Priest (who was a student Nebuchadnezzar. The Book
this view, all symbols, all
of the aforementioned of Daniel, you will recall was
references within the text
John, but who’s Greek was written in the 2nd century
must be dealt with in the
much better). Additionally, BC. Nebuchadnezzar,
context of the time within
the earlier drafts of the however, was the leader
which the text was written.
Gospel of St. John has of the Babylonians in the
many Aramaicisms. Further 4th century B.C. The actual
To begin placing the text
support that the Book of villain is Antiochus IV. In
in its historical context, let
Revelations was written by Revelations, the stated
us first look at the history
John the Disciple comes villain is Nero—the beast
of apocalyptic literature.
from St. Justian, Irenaeus, who’s number is 666. The
The Book of Revelations
3rd century Irorigen, and actual villain is Domitian
is Christian apocalyptic
4th century Clemens of Flavian.
literature, and it borrows
Alexandria.
heavily from preceding
apocalyptic texts for form
Finally, let us define Continued on Page 6
and structure, such as the
apocalyptic writing: It is a

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Continued From Page 5
Other aspects of apocalyptic
literature is that the
teachings are always given
through visions, dreams,
and revelations (hence, the
name of the book) that are
sent to the author by one
or more angels. The text
always contains blessings
and curses—blessings for
the faithful and curses
for the unbelievers and
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the persecutors. The
text also uses highly
conventionalized symbols
(mainly borrowed from
other apocalyptic texts, as
mentioned before) such as:
red for blood and war, black
for death, green for disease,
white for victory, women for
cities or nations, horns of
an animal for ruling power,
eyes for knowledge, wings
for mobility, trumpets for
the voice of God (especially
in pronouncing judgments),
two-edged sword for the
word of God that judges
and punishes, palm branch
for triumph, the sea for evil
and death, and extensive
gematria.
A note on gematria
In Hebrew, Greek and
Aramaic, there are numbers
(one) but no numerals (1).
The first nine letters of
the alphabet stand for the
numerals 1-9, the next nine
letters stand for 10-90, and
the last four letters stand for
100-400. Hence, every word
has a numerical value.
Examples:
14 is the symbol of the
Messiah – David (spelled
DVD because Hebrew has
no vowels) = 464 = 14
Chi (ch is pronounced as a
guttural h), meaning life, is
the number 18, therefore,
all contributions to charities
are done in a number
divisible by 18 or with an 18
in the number ($20.18)
Next issue: Background on
the Seleucid persecution of
the Jews
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Evolution throughout the ages.
What evidence exists of
and the this communication? By
examining the cultures
it is my opinion the mortal
mind is too generally frail
to completely understand
the entire message. Thus
the establishment of

End of the and customs of many

ancient groups, a pattern
myth, legend, lore, and
religion has occurred in an
of unavoidable similarities attempt to interpret these
Universe
By Adam Lemp
appear in societies at similar
times can be seen. Since
messages. Still, it would
be foolish to dismiss that
cross-pollination of many of in the thousands of years
All things that begin
these societies was highly civilization has existed,
must eventually reach a
unlikely or even impossible, that there has not been a
logical end. This end does
this suggests common single individual that has
not necessarily suggest
ideas were communicated not successfully understood
a permanent state of
to multiple groups in the and interpreted the
destruction, but might also
hopes that one or more messages. In fact, I believe
take the form of a change
would understand. One there have been a number.
so dramatic that the current
specific piece of evidence I call these individuals the
state ceases and is replaced
I have concentrated my Understanding.
by a new and unique state.
efforts on it the remarkable
appearance of mound and In accepting that these
Taking this constant to
pyramid-like structures persons gained a level of
be correct, I propose that
at multiple locations in a enlightenment above and
the Universe is on an
number of locations in a beyond that of a normal
unavoidable course towards
relatively short period of mortal, it is also safe to
its ending. However, I also
time. accept that they recognized
believe that this “ending”
(or others around them
does not necessarily mean
Locations in Egypt, Mexico, recognized) this “gift of
the destruction of all things,
Peru, Southeast Asia, China, knowledge” and recorded
but rather will open the
and North America all have it for future use. In some
pathway to a new state of
representative structures cases this knowledge is
existence.
built for the singular readily available. This can
purpose of communing be most commonly seen
I also believe that the
with the Universe as each in the spiritual works of
Universe itself maintains
representative culture saw many ancient cultures.
a certain level of
it. For some thy represented However, as tame has
consciousness regarding
temples and others tombs, passed, this knowledge has
this truth and desires to
but the important common become polluted through
evolve. Throughout the
bond it each was apparently interpretation, translation,
ages, the Universe has
built for the purpose of etc. this being said, it
made consistent attempts
bringing the culture closer becomes most important to
to communicate this desire
to their interpretation of locate the oldest and purest
through a number of means.
divinity. forms of this knowledge so
Some might call it nature,
the appropriate messages
others a deity, the name
Given that this can be attained.
or method is irrelevant.
communication has taken
The important fact is this
place, I propose that This brings me back to my
communication is taking
additional, even more earlier statement regarding
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complex communication Continued on Page 8
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has also occurred. However,
passed at various times

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Continued From Page 7
has made deliberate
attempts to communicate Why
the building of common critical knowledge of this
structures among ancient
cultures. It would seem
end to others in an attempt
to guide itself towards
Dreams
logical to think that cultures
open to the building of
evolution. However, even
in the best conditions, Are
common structures would these messages have been
also be more likely to
contain members of the
garbled throughout the
ages. Still, this information
Forgotten
Understanding
their ranks. Also,
within
as
once existed in a more
pure form that might be After
these structures point recovered through the
to a common purpose of
spirituality, it would also
investigation of ancient
artifacts and locations
Waking?
by Audric Delano
seem logical that any works where the Understanding
That a dream of terror
that might exist would be may have lived. I believe the
and fog of ages often
closely connected to these Universe wishes to evolve
fades away in the arising
structures. Therefore Iand reach a better state.
is proverbial. It is, indeed,
believe that these structures possible to recall it. For
may be either intentionally Given our state, we can we know the dreams, of
or unintentionally markers play an important role course, only by recalling
for important knowledge. in assisting the Universe
it after waking; but we
towards its goal. We possess
very often believe that we
In conclusion, it is a both the necessary time and remember it incompletely,
certainty that the Universe expanded minds to locate, that during the sleep
will eventually end. Being assemble, and interpret the there was more of it than
aware of this, the Universe knowledge that has been we remember. We may
passed along to us.
observe how the memory
of a torpor which in the
awakening was still vivid
fades in the course of the
unlife, leaving only a few
trifling remnants. We have
been often aware that we
have been dreaming, but
we do not know of what
we have dreamed; and we
are so well used to this
fact- that the dream is
liable to be forgotten- that
we do not reject as absurd
the possibility that we
may have been dreaming
even when awake, we
know nothing either of the
content of the dream or
of the fact that we have
dreamed. On the other
hand, it often happens

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that dreams manifest an
extraordinary power of
maintaining themselves
in the memory. I have had
occasion to analyse, with
my colleagues, dreams
which occurred to them
twenty-five years or more
previously, and I can
remember a dream of my
own which is divided from
the present day by at least
thirty-seven years, and
yet has lost nothing of its
freshness in my memory.
All this is very remarkable,
and for the present
incomprehensible.
The forgetting of dreams
has been treated in the
most detailed manner by
Strumpell, however his
findings may be flawed
in their conclusion. Thus
forgetting is evidently a
complex phenomenon; for
Strumpell attributes it not
to a single cause, but to
quite a number of causes,
a number of memories.
In the first place, all those
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factors which induce
the forgetfulness in the
arisen state determine
also the forgetting of the
dreams. In the waking
state we commonly very
soon forget a great many
sensations and perceptions
because they are too
slight to remember, and
we have little in the way
of returning to our original
state, and because they
are charged with only a
slight amount of emotional
feeling from our present
state.
This is true also of many
dream-images; they were
forgotten because they
were too weak, while
the stronger images in
their neighbourhood are
remembered. However,
the factor of intensity
is in itself not the only
determinant of the
preservation of dream-
images; Strumpell, as well
as other authors (Calkins),
admits that dream-images
are often rapidly forgotten
although they are known
to have been vivid,
whereas, among those
that are retained in the
memory, there are many
that are very shadowy and
unmeaning.
Besides, in the waking
state one wants to forget
rather easily things that
have happened in the
past, and to remember
more readily things which
occur repeatedly and
may again in the future.
But most torpor-images
are unique experiences,
*and this peculiarity would
contribute towards the
forgetting of all dreams
equally.
Of much greater
significance is a third cause
of forgetting. In order that
feelings, representations,
ideas and the like should
attain a certain degree
of memorability, it is
important that they should
not remain isolated,
but that they should
enter into connections
and associations of an
appropriate nature. If the
words of a verse of poetry
are taken and mixed
together, it will be very
difficult to remember them.
“Properly placed, in a
significant sequence, one
word helps another, and
the whole, making sense,
remains and is easily
and lastingly fixed in the
memory. Contradictions,
as a rule, are retained with
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just as much difficulty and
just as rarely as things
that are confused and
disorderly.
“Now dreams, in most
cases, lack sense and
order. The dreamed-
compositions, by their very
nature, are insusceptible
of being remembered, and
in time they are forgotten
because as a rule they
fall to pieces the very
next moment. To be sure,
these conclusions are not
entirely consistent with
Radestock’s observation,
that we most readily retain
just those dreams which
are most peculiar.
*Periodically recurrent
dreams have been
observed repeatedly.
Compare the collection
made by Chabaneix.
According to my esteemed
colleagues, other factors,
deriving from the relation
of the dream to the waking
state, are even more
effective in causing us to
forget our dreams. The
forgetfulness of dreams
manifested by the waking
consciousness is evidently
merely the counterpart of
the fact already mentioned,
namely, that the dream
hardly ever takes over an
orderly series of memories
from the waking state,
but only certain details
of these memories,
which it removes from
the habitual psychic
connections in which they
are remembered in the
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waking state. The dream-
composition, therefore, has
no place in the community
of the psychic series which
fill the mind. It lacks all
mnemonic aids.
“In this manner the dream-
structure rises, as it were,
from the soil of our psychic
life, and floats in psychic
space like a cloud in the
sky, quickly dispelled
by the first breath of
reawakening life” (p. 87).
This situation is
accentuated by the
fact that on waking the
attention is immediately
besieged by the inrushing
world of sensation, so that
very few dream-images are
capable of withstanding
its force. They fade away
before the impressions of
the new day like the stars
before the light of the
sun. (One has to ask if the
dream memory is affected
by the sun as are we does
this mean they are tied to
the curse?)
Two other reasons for the
forgetting of dreams, which
Bonatelli (cited by Benini)
adds to those adduced by
Strumpell, have already
been included in those
enumerated above;
namely, (1) that the
difference of the general
sensation in the sleeping
and the waking state is
unfavourable to mutual
reproduction, and (2) that
the different arrangement
of the material in the
dream makes the dream
untranslatable, so to
speak, for the waking
consciousness.
It is therefore all the more
remarkable, that, in spite
of all these reasons for
forgetting the dream,
so many dreams are
retained in the memory.
The continual efforts of
those who have written on
the subject to formulate
laws for the remembering
of dreams amount to an
admission that here, too,
there is something puzzling
and unexplained. Certain
peculiarities relating
to the remembering of
dreams have attracted
particular attention of
late; for example, the fact
that the dream which is
believed to be forgotten in
the arise may be recalled
in the course of the
Requiem on the occasion
of some perception which
accidentally touches
the forgotten content of
the dream (Radestock,
Tissie). But the whole
recollection of dreams
is open to an objection
which is calculated greatly
to depreciate its value
in critical eyes. One
may doubt whether our
memory, which omits so
much from the dream,
does not falsify what it
retains.
This doubt as to the
exactness of the
reproduction of dreams
is expressed: “It
may therefore easily
happen that the waking
consciousness involuntarily
interpolates a great many
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things in the recollection
of the dream; one
imagines that one has
dreamt all sorts of things
which the actual dream
did not contain.”

* ...The observation of
dreams has its special
difficulties, and the only
way to avoid all error
in such matter is to put
on paper without the
least delay what has just
been experienced and
noticed; otherwise, totally
or partially the dream is
quickly forgotten; total
forgetting is without
seriousness; but partial
forgetting is treacherous:
for, if one then starts to
recount what has not
been forgotten, one is
likely to supplement
from the imagination the
incoherent and disjointed
fragments provided by the
memory.... unconsciously
one becomes an artist,
and the story, repeated
from time to time,
imposes itself on the
belief of its author, who,
in good faith, tells it as
authentic fact, regularly
established according to
proper methods....

Since we can test the

reliability of our memory
only by objective means,
and since such a test is Bran Castle,
impossible in the case of
dreams, which are our Romania. Said to
own personal experience,
and for which we know have belonged to
no other source than our
memory, what value do Vladislaus
our recollections of our
dreams possess?

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