The magic well of Connia lies at the foot of a mountain ash. There who gaze therein may, If they can find a guide be led to the fountain of perpetual youth. The Ash berries fall into the waters and turn them to fire. Connla, the Druid, is the guardian of the well. The first Celtic vision explorations took place on December 29th 1897. It was through there Visionery explorations that Yeats and his colaberators obtained the knowlege that was to be the foundation of the castle of Heros project also known as Yeats Celtic mysteries. On January 13 1902 yeats wrote to Lady Gregory. I have done a great deal of work at my Magical rites, sketched them all out in their entirety. But Yeats vision of a celtic order was never to eventuate. Falling apart with the Order of the Golden Dawn after the split caused by the Sphere controversy. The Magical rituals are a full set of five initation rituals haveing two parts each. Lucy Shepard Kalogera published the rituals as part of her PhD in literature, English at Florida state university in 1977, Yeats Celtic Mysteries Kelogera Thought that the rituals were based on the rituals of the Golden Dawn and in part this may be true. But she could not explane why the first initiation was basedon the element of water and not earth as in the Golden Dawn system. I belive I can explane this. The Golden Dan rituals are based on the Kabbala tree of life. The rituals of yeats celtic order a based on the celtic wheel of the year begining with samhain the celtic new year coresponding to the element of Water. Dispite Yeats not baseing the rituals on the Kabbalastic Tree of life he had began to relate some of the visionery beings to the Tree. I have been shown also besides Fergus, there are two very old shadows who are the oldest of the Heroic race and represent Kether and Chochmar. The rituals of Yeats are group rituals having up to seven people taking part in them. But being the introverted solatery person that I am, Ive adapeted the rituals to solatery intiations. I know that there has been a lot of contraversy about self initiations. As Crowley once said there is no true initation but self initation. Out of these rituals and the visitionary explorations of Yeats and his colaberators was formed the Order Aire Dragan Dearg (The Order of the Red Dragon). The Order of the Red Dragon The order is structured into six grades the first Wayferer being a non grade akin to 0=0, the first true grade is weaver and corespondes to the element of water, The couldron of the Tutha de Deanna, the west, samhain and many more things yet to be discoverd. The second grade is mason and corespondes to the element of Earth. The third grade is Hero and coresponds to the element of air. The fourth grade is Herder and coresponds to the element of Fire. the fifth grade is the inner order grade of Hunter and coresponds to all of the elements combined or the element of spirit. The tools of the order are easy to obtain or make yourself which is the preferd method of obtaining them
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