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			Interview by Tracy R. 
			Twyman  
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						monarchical system in Britain is, to the greatest 
						extent, impotent, and so if one wanted real political 
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  Just 
			as the work of Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and 
			Henry Lincoln introduced the study of the "Grail bloodline" 
			to the English-speaking world in the 1980s, so has the work of two 
			individuals redefined the scope of this study in more recent years. 
			But while the better-known 
			
			Laurence Gardner has received 
			fame, fortune, accolades, and numerous book contracts as a reward 
			for his work, a lesser-known figure has lurked quietly in the 
			shadows up until the present. 
 As the Sovereign Grand Master of the Imperial and Royal 
			Dragon Court and Order, Prince Nicholas de Vere von 
			Drakenberg provided the inspiration, the research, and a hefty 
			portion of the writing for Gardner’s Genesis of the Grail Kings 
			and Realm of the Ring Lords. Yet amazingly, de Vere is 
			not listed as co-author on many editions of Genesis, and receives no 
			credit at all in Ring Lords. Both of these books, 
			credited to Laurence Gardner, are based almost entirely upon 
			the text  
						
						From Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells, 
			by Nicholas de Vere, recently published by The Book Tree 
			under the title 
			
			The Dragon Legacy.
 
 But there is much in the original de Vere text that is not to 
			be found in the Gardner version, and there is an authenticity 
			to de Vere’s work, derived from the fact that he is the true 
			inheritor and guardian of this tradition - the Dragon tradition, 
			also known as the Grail tradition. De Vere 
			has spent two decades delving into history, mythology, science, 
			religion, and his own family archives to compile what is perhaps the 
			most extensive and insightful text upon this subject ever published. 
			What de Vere has come up with is enough to comprise not just 
			another pop culture craze, but an entirely new theology, with a new 
			philosophy and politics as well.
 
 Clearly de Vere is not out to get rich or be popular, as he 
			has already forgone numerous opportunities to obtain both. Writing 
			about an elite genetic strain of humanity that descends from 
			a super-human race, and which possesses abilities 
			inaccessible to those outside of that strain, is not exactly a 
			ticket to universal adulation. To the contrary, de Vere’s 
			assertions regarding the elite status of the Dragon bloodline 
			have branded him completely anathema to the Wiccan and New 
			Age communities who would otherwise be among those most open to 
			his message. Which begs the question: why has Nicholas de Vere 
			spent the last twenty years of his life on this monumental task, and 
			why does he continue to do so?
 
 In addition to his groundbreaking work as a researcher and author,
			de Vere serves as the head of an elite occult order with 
			origins stretching back to the Knights Templar, and he 
			holds a potential claim to several important royal titles. This, 
			some have supposed, is the real motivation behind his work. Some 
			believe that de Vere wants to be the King of England 
			or France, an assertion that he flatly denies. Others see in
			de Vere a candidate for nothing less than the anti-Christ 
			himself, and see in the Dragon Court an international 
			Satanic conspiracy somewhere on a level between the Ordo 
			Templi Orientis and the 
			
			Bilderberg Group. But while 
			it is true that, when the Great Dragon of Revelation does 
			emerge to take hold of the world, he will undoubtedly be of the 
			Dragon blood, and may even be a member of the Court, Prince 
			Nicholas de Vere is certainly not he.
 
 As I am sure he would humbly admit himself, de Vere’s mission 
			is simply to prepare the way for He who is yet to come. Listen, 
			then, dear readers, to the interesting and powerful message of 
			Nicholas de Vere.
 
				
				TT: How long 
				ago did you write The Dragon Legacy? 
 NDV: About six years ago. The Dragon Legacy 
				was known on the net as From Transylvania to Tunbridge Wells 
				and this was a summary of years of research and reflection. Some 
				of it appeared in Laurence Gardner’s Genesis of the 
				Grail Kings and then after I published it on the web, 
				Laurence based his third book Realm of the Ring Lords 
				largely on what I had already published.
 
 TT: What were your main sources of information when 
				compiling the book?
 
 NDV: On the so-called Dragon "path" one is imbued 
				hereditarily with Dragon capabilities in varying measures. As 
				one progresses these capabilities wax and wane according to 
				necessity. One of the main capacities is the Derkesthai 
				Process, in which information is "channeled" through 
				the conduit of the Dragon archetype; specifically the 
				racial consciousness of those of the Dragon blood. 
				Through this process one may pick up naturally, all sorts of 
				information relating to varied aspects of the Dragon 
				Tradition in its many branches and manifestations. 
				However, this is of no use intellectually and rationally without 
				informed academic confirmation and corroboration.
 
 To this end, another Dragon capacity is to be able to 
				obtain after the fact those confirmations required. I 
				anticipated works before I read them, either through meditation 
				or through experience on the Dragon Path. In a not 
				too dissimilar manner Kerkule discovered the "Bezine 
				Ring."
 
 I would say that the serious academic backbone of The Dragon 
				Legacy in terms of corroboration and confirmation, lies in 
				the work of Dr. David Barker; George Woodcock; 
				Lysander Spooner; Professor Miranda Green; Pierre 
				Proudhon; Professors Pierpaoli and Regelson;
				David Anderson; The Oxford English Dictionary and 
				an old associate Mr. C. Murray Hall M.A. (Lecturer in 
				Barbarian Cultures: Sussex University).
 
 TT: How did you begin research into your family history? 
				At what point in your life did you become aware of "the Dragon 
				legacy" in your family? Is it something you grew up with?
 
 NDV: From the age of seven onwards my father told me 
				about our ancestry, an ancestry steeped in royal blood and most 
				significantly of all, in what is termed Royal Witchcraft, 
				which is a major, ancient, draconian, druidic facet 
				continuing within the later history of the Dragon tradition 
				and within the Vere family.
 
 My father educated me about our particular origins in the royal 
				and noble Blackwood family of Lanark, Scotland. This 
				dynasty sired the most significant practitioner of the Dragon 
				tradition in his time: Major Thomas Weir of Vere of 
				Edinburgh, my 11th great grandfather.
 
 As a witch lord and the prince consort to the elven queen of 
				the Lallan, Thomas performed the ancient Gaelic rites 
				of the sacred kingship of Epona, and consequently founded 
				this rite of kingship within my lineage. So I received the 
				tradition at an early age from my father and he received it from 
				his father, and so on.
 
 TT: Your formal title is "Prince Nicholas de Vere." 
				What does this title imply?
 
 NDV: I trace my lineage back in an unbroken bloodline to 
				the imperial prince Milo de Vere, Count of Anjou in 740 
				A.D., son of Princess Milouziana of the Scythians. She 
				was recorded throughout France as being the Elven, Dragon 
				Princess of the Scottish Picts, and her Grandson, Milo II, 
				derived his 
				Merovingian descent 
				through his father’s marital alliance with the imperial house 
				of Charlene.
 
 Later in history we picked up numerous other lines of 
				Merovingian descent and the attitude in the house of 
				Vere today, both here and in Ireland, reflects that of 
				the Merovingians themselves where inheritance and blood 
				descent is concerned.
 
 Concerning my maternal lineage: my mother is descended from the 
				ancient Collison Jarls of Norfolk, and is the third 
				cousin of the head of the House of Vere. We are a very 
				tightly knit family. The head of the House himself is of 
				Royal Collison descent and this matrilinear Collison 
				extraction also stems from the ancient House of Vere 
				and Princess Milouziana of the Scythians. We are Veres 
				on all sides of the family.
 
 The overall head of the House of Vere today is the
				Prince Mhaior. By Papal Investiture and by 
				inheritance from the House of the royal O’Brien descendants 
				of King Brian Boru of Tara, the Prince Mhaior is 
				himself an Archduke - not an insignificant Irish earl, as 
				some totally ill-informed malcontent once triumphantly 
				proclaimed in a ridiculous, failed attempt at an exposé of me.
 
 The Head of the House formally addresses me as "the 
				Dragon Prince" of the House of Vere.
 
 TT: Who are the "Dragons" that you write 
				about in your book?
 
 NDV: In brief, the recorded Dragon lineage starts 
				with 
				the Anunnaki and 
				descends through the proto-Scythians, the Sumerians in one 
				branch and the early Egyptians in another; the Phoenicians, the 
				Mittani, back to the Scythians again through marital alliance, 
				along to the "Tuatha de Danaan" and the Fir Bolg; down 
				through their Arch-Druidic, Priest-Princely families, to the 
				Royal Picts of Scotland and the high kings of the Horse Lords of 
				Dal Riada; through to the Elven dynasty of Pendragon and 
				Avallon del Acqs, and down to a few pure bred families 
				today.
 
 TT: Were the Dragons originally a separate species 
				from what we would call "human"?
 
 NDV: Dragon tradition related to all the current 
				genetic and historical evidence says yes they were. Both 
				relatively recent and ancient accounts of Dragons 
				or Elves going back to the Annunaki speak 
				of them as having clearly distinct physical attributes, 
				and these attributes are inherited from a species that 
				scientists now assert preceded the human genetic bottleneck 
				by about thirty thousand years. These attributes are not human 
				in the accepted sense. Whether this ancient race was hybridized 
				with another before history is anybody’s guess, but their 
				later hybridization to produce the Elven God-Kings 
				and Ring Lords (the King Tribe), is clearly 
				recorded in the Cylinder Rolls.
 
 TT: Are these Dragons the same as the "Nephilim" 
				of the Bible or the "Watchers" of The Book of Enoch?
 
 NDV: The Nephilim and the Watchers
				are of the Dragon race, yes.
 
 TT: Were the gods of ancient cultures (Greece, India, 
				Sumeria, etc.) Dragons?
 
 NDV: These pantheons are derived from one another so 
				again the answer in simplistic terms is yes.
 
 TT: What kind of civilization did the Dragons 
				reign over? Would you say that it was the same as the 
				Atlantean or antediluvian civilization?
 
 NDV: The Platonic Atlantis theory is 
				preceded by a much older tradition relating to the "Ogdoad." 
				The Ogdoad, sacred to Jesus himself, were the 
				eight great Gods who raked the Sacred Mountain - "Atlantis" 
				- after the original Flood. This Flood occurred in the 
				Black Sea and the Sacred Mountain, so inundated, was believed to 
				be the Pontus Euxine. Apparently the Ogdoad 
				failed in their attempt to bring fertility back to the Holy 
				Place and abandoned it for a life wandering the planet. This is 
				probably why the legend of the Flood spread and can be found in 
				most cultures.
 
 The Ogdoad turn up in Chinese myth, in 
				early Egyptian religious texts, and even in much later 
				Viking legend, where the gods of the Aesir were said 
				to have abandoned the Sacred Mountain after the Flood. 
				From the Ogdoad, who were the first Dragon 
				god-kings of ancient proto-Scythia, we obtain the gods of 
				the Anunnaki, and those later pantheons that derived 
				from them. It is not to be doubted that after the Flood the 
				children of the Anunnaki had established 
				incredible civilizations in their time, so I suppose you could 
				say that the cultures of the Sumerians (whose 
				language, termed "proto-Sumerian", originated in 
				Transylvania), the Egyptians and even the 
				early settlers in northern Europe stemmed from and reflect an 
				antediluvian prototype, a much older pre-Flood "Golden Age" 
				presided over by the ancient Dragon god-kings and 
				goddess-queens. The mistake would be to put the 
				Atlantean period too far back in time and to locate 
				Atlantis where Plato did. Scientists have proved 
				the Biblical Flood to be in the Black Sea and this region 
				is where most of the Titanic and Olympian sagas, associated with 
				the Dawn of the Gods, unfold.
 
 TT: Is Dragon blood the true source of divine 
				right kingship, in your opinion? Are the Dragons the 
				rightful rulers of the world’s governments?
 
 NDV: Anciently Dragon blood, the blood of the 
				gods, is the true source of divine right kingship. To say that
				Dragons are the rightful rulers of the world’s 
				governments today might raise some contention. Perhaps it would 
				be more realistic to suggest that they may well be the rightful 
				rulers of the world’s governments in the future.
 
 TT: When you refer metaphorically to "the Dragon", 
				what exactly are you referring to?
 
 NDV: "The Dragon" is a term I use generally to 
				mean the dragon archetype resting within the Dragon blood 
				and passed on through the genes. It is the conduit through which 
				flow the memories of the wisdom and experience of the Dragons 
				who have gone before. The word "dragon" is derived 
				from the Greek "edrakon", which is an aorist of 
				the word "derkesthai", which means "to see 
				clearly". "The Dragon" therefore is the inherited 
				Dragon archetype and that archetype is the conduit of clear 
				sight through which racial knowledge flows. Clear sight also and 
				principally refers to transcendent consciousness.
 
 TT: What percentage of the world’s populace would you say 
				possesses this Dragon blood? Is it predominately found in 
				certain types of people? How can you tell a Dragon from 
				other types of people?
 
 NDV: Roughly ten percent of Europeans have Dragon 
				blood, and stem from families whose physical attributes 
				clearly point to a genetic inheritance over 100,000 years old. 
				This figure is calculated from research deriving from studies by 
				Oxford University and matched to historical accounts.
 
 TT: How did the Dragon race begin, and how did 
				they become a separate race from the rest of humanity?
 
 NDV: They didn’t originate from outer space, that’s for 
				sure. A principal element of the Dragon genome originated 
				in the vast forests of central Europe, and cut off from other 
				species, they developed as a distinct race. By the time 
				of the Anunnaki they had been hybridized to form 
				the ancestors of the later Elves or Dragon 
				kings and queens.
 
 TT: Did dragons possess "magical" powers? If so, 
				do their descendants possess them as well?
 
 NDV: It depends what you mean by "magical." The 
				greatest magic of all is to be able to naturally still one’s 
				mind to the point where one sees that "all acts are magical 
				acts." As a natural course of events stemming from transcendent 
				perception, certain facilities are within the grasp of 
				Dragons. These abilities, though they vary, are hereditary.
 
 TT: Your former co-author Laurence Gardner writes 
				a lot about "starfire" 
				and the power of pineal secretions, which are portrayed 
				as being analogous to the Elixir of Life or 
				Philosopher’s Stone, bestowing increased brain capacity, 
				magical ability, and prolonged life upon he who consumes it. 
				These are elements that he clearly picked up from your research. 
				In your writing, you claim that people of "Dragon blood" 
				are the only ones bio-chemically equipped to produce 
				these substances in their own bodies at a high enough level to 
				yield results. But Gardner has written much about this 
				so-called "monatomic 
				gold", and seems to think that this is a 
				synthetic substitute for "starfire" which 
				ordinary people can consume to become Dragons themselves. 
				Do you know anything about this substance? What is your comment 
				on Mr. Gardner’s theories?
 
 NDV: Firstly the physical, hormonal elements of Starfire are only one side of the story, and in my book 
				I clearly state that the whole process contains several other "psycho-somatic"
				elements, not least that pertaining to relationship.
 
 As for being able to pop a pill to become a Dragon, this 
				kind of stupid New Age attitude stems from the ridiculous, 
				totally indefensible greed-driven free market assertion that 
				anyone can become anything they choose, and the totally 
				unfounded PC notion that everyone is equal.
 
 This kind of pathetic liberalism, born as a reaction to the 
				socially inculcated victim mentality, should be abhorred by all 
				rational beings, and so my attitude towards the concept of 
				monatomic gold as a great social leveler and equalizer is 
				one of contempt.
 
 However, you don’t make lots of money by telling the bulk of 
				your readership that they are genetically excluded from a 
				process they cannot experience or understand; you sell New 
				Age drivel by telling the ingenuous that they can all assume 
				any role they like, and adopt any trendy "lifestyle" choice that 
				whim and deceitful advertising dictates. As you know, I don’t 
				write to make money, so I don’t care who I offend with the 
				truth. Can I pop a pill to turn me into a black African Masai 
				warrior? No. Is there a powder I can take to change me into 
				a woman? Of course not. I don’t see the need for monatomic 
				gold myself. "Starfire" and the Seraphic 
				relationship worked perfectly well for me, and in any case 
				you are either genetically a Dragon or you are not, and 
				no amount of monatomic gold is going to change your 
				genetic makeup.
 
 TT: What was the original meaning and purpose of 
				vampirism?
 
 NDV: Vampire stems from the word "vber" 
				or "uber", and means "witch." It 
				originates in Anatolia; the location of the seven yearly Druidic 
				gatherings: the Nemetons. "Witch" in Gaelic 
				is "Druidhe", or "druid." In practical terms and 
				suggested by the term "uber" itself, a Scythian druid 
				was an overlord, and so originally a vampire was an overlord, 
				and hence a Dragon.
 
 The purpose of vampirism depends on the type of vampirism 
				practiced. Starfire was the purpose of "royal" or 
				druidic vampirism in the ancient Scythian families, and in 
				Scythian "warrior" vampirism, drinking the blood of fallen 
				brothers in battle was intended to take their essence and 
				bravery into the recipient. The blood of vanquished foes was 
				also drunk. In both cases this also had the advantage of topping 
				up one’s adrenaline and testosterone levels in the 
				heat of conflict. The folklore image of the vampire in Europe 
				stems from this historical root. Vampirism was an integral 
				part of Scythian/Dragon life.
 
 TT: Is the Dragon bloodline a Satanic or 
				Luciferian bloodline?
 
 NDV: Yes is the honest and simple answer.
 
 TT: If a person believes that they have the Dragon 
				gene, and they want to start developing the powers inherent 
				in their blood, what course would you suggest they follow?
 
 NDV: Developing powers for their own sake isn’t magic, 
				it’s greed, and greed and ambition are the destroyers of 
				transcendent Dragon perception. Power flows naturally for 
				those whose vision is clear, and clear perception will determine 
				that those powers are used with detachment. Jesus said 
				"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things will be 
				added unto you." The fact of the matter is that to Dragons,
				Dragon magic is simple and straightforward and 
				fundamentally it relies in discovering simplicity and stillness 
				within the self.
 
 If the reader believes they are of the Dragon Blood 
				and they wish to explore the transcendent concept, in lieu of a 
				lengthy explanation for which there isn’t space within the 
				confines of this interview, I would recommend a little book 
				entitled The First and Last Freedom, written by Jiddu 
				Krishnamurti.
 
 TT: What is the history of the Dragon Court of 
				which you are the Sovereign Head? Did you inherit this title, 
				and if so, who from?
 
 NDV: The Imperial and Royal Dragon Court appears 
				repeatedly throughout the history of my family. It is the 
				physical, cultural manifestation of the Dragon spirit 
				inherent within the Vere Dragon blood, reaching 
				back long before the time of Christ.
 
 Briefly, to give a few examples, in more recent times it was the
				Royal Court of the Dragon Princess Milouziana from whom 
				we are descended in numerous lines, and later it was the 
				fairy Court of Alberic de Vere, the legendary Oberon.
 
 Immediately following Alberic it was the Court of his 
				son, Robert de Vere, earl of Huntingdon, who was the 
				historical Robin Hood; the elven, sacral priest-king of the 
				witches. Later the Dragon Court was manifest in the 
				"Thirteen Covens of Mid-Lothian", and in the cabal of Lady 
				Somerville, the witch-mother of Thomas of Edinburgh. 
				Thomas was the grandson of Sir William Vere of Stonebyres 
				and the elvin, Dragon priest-king of the Thirteen Covens.
 
 Sir William was the son of James, 7th Baron 
				Blackwood. Lady Jane Somerville’s heraldic family badge 
				is recorded as the fiery dragon surmounting the pentacle, 
				denoting Dragon blood in the House of the Somerville earls.
 
 Notably in our family the Dragon Court is also 
				derived from the Court of the Pendragon Kings 
				whose lineage we inherit through numerous marital alliances with 
				our close cousins, the Dukes of Hamilton, whose estates 
				bordered our own in Lanarkshire. The Hamiltons were the heirs 
				presumptive to the throne of Scotland.
 
 Lateral inheritance from the extinct cadet cousin branch of 
				the Vere earls of Oxford brings to the contemporary Court, 
				via the 11th earl, Richard de Vere, the degree 
				of Societas Draconis - latterly misnamed "Sarkany Rend" 
				- a membership bestowed upon him, it is believed academically, 
				during his investiture into the Prince’s Degree of the 
				
				Order 
				of the Garter, along with the Emperor Sigismund of 
				Luxembourg, at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. The 
				heraldry of the family prior to Richard’s investiture into 
				Societas Draconis already included the ancient Dragon motifs 
				on both the paternal and maternal sides of the family, 
				denoting pure Dragon blood in both descents, and reflecting 
				the continuing presence of the Dragon Court in the family 
				since the time of Princess Milouziana of the Scythians.
 
 The contemporary Dragon Court is furthermore a 
				combination of what Aleister Crowley would term several "currents", 
				of which the major external one to the family proper was 
				bestowed via the Black Country Covenant of the Baphometic 
				Order of the Cubic Stone, who trace their origins back to 
				the Knights Templars. This was given in 
				recognition of my family’s hereditary involvement in Royal 
				Witchcraft and the historical Dragon tradition. 
				Other external currents derive from the Knighthood of the 
				Plantagenet Clan Donnachaid, Dragon cousins to the House of 
				Vere, and laterally from Dr. John Dee’s "School of 
				Night", of which Edward de Vere, the seventeenth earl 
				of Oxford, was a prominent member. Edward also performed the 
				rites of Dragon kingship in the family, specifically the rite of 
				the kingship of the Calle Daouine.
 
 Down the centuries the Royal Dragon Court is carried 
				continuously in the Vere Dragon Blood.
 
 It would be correct to say I inherited the Dragon Court 
				by virtue of being a senior blood descendant of the House 
				of Vere, and I am recognized as a Dragon sovereign by 
				the other senior members of the family. Academic sources and 
				references pertaining to these Dragon descents are found within
				The Dragon Legacy.
 
 TT: How can one become a member of the Dragon Court, and 
				once a member, what does one do? What is the current function of 
				the Dragon Court? www.thedragonsociety.com
 
 NDV: Today the Court consists of participating family 
				members here and in Ireland. In addition to these, we have 
				emeritus officers whose functions are invaluable to the running 
				of the Court.
 
 One of the current, "outer" functions of the Dragon Court 
				is as the custodian of the Dragon tradition within the 
				Vere family, which includes the continuing study of the history 
				and genealogy of its various branches, and the amendment of 
				records as fresh knowledge comes to light.
 
 Membership of the Dragon Court is given rarely. We 
				are not a joining club, nor do we operate for monetary 
				gain in any sense. As time passes, the Dragon Ethos 
				demands that the Dragon Court change and develop 
				according to expediency. In the future we may well expand the 
				membership of the Court to take in new Dragon members or to 
				expand the number of emeritus officers.
 
 However, for those who are interested in joining, we have 
				created the Dragon Society (Societas Draconis), 
				an auxiliary group that is open to qualified applicants 
				and requires less commitment than full membership in the 
				Dragon Court. It is available for those who wish to 
				study the history of the Dragons and associate with other 
				Dragons. Visit
				
				www.thedragonsociety.com to 
				learn more about it.
 
 TT: Many people have ascribed to you a radical political 
				agenda, and say that you are trying to use your genealogy as a 
				springboard for a bid for the throne of England, and other such 
				nonsense. What is your response to these claims?
 
 NDV: I cannot take such assertions seriously. The 
				educated reader will already know that the House of Vere 
				fielded over twenty prominent earls in an unbroken line over 561 
				years of British history. The House of Vere was credited 
				with being the senior bloodline of England, both by its 
				contemporaries and by later historians, and the Veres 
				acted for centuries as Great Chamberlains to the various 
				royal dynasties that came and went over time. As Great 
				Chamberlains, they were the closest advisors to the monarchs 
				and were therefore the major influence or power behind the 
				British throne. In all this time the family never considered it 
				expedient to stoop to pick up the Crown, as the House of 
				Vere was above such considerations. It is apparent, 
				given the family’s pre-eminently powerful and influential 
				historical position within British society, that the English 
				monarchy was a trivia beneath the dignity and ambition of the 
				House. I see no reason to change that opinion today, so as you 
				say, the notion that I would demean myself by making a bid for 
				the throne is utter nonsense. We have standards to maintain in 
				this family.
 
 In any event the monarchical system in Britain is, to the 
				greatest extent, impotent, and so if one wanted real political 
				power, the last place one would find it would be on the throne 
				of England. We have no need for thrones or crowns to remind us 
				of who we are.
 
 TT: Are you a monarchist?
 
 NDV: By definition Stalin was a "monarch", as were 
				all the presidents of the United States. By such a definition I 
				cannot be said to be a monarchist per sé. I am only a 
				royalist with the greatest of qualifications because not all who 
				contemporarily claim to be royal or those who have occupied the 
				positions of royalty in history have actually been of royal 
				blood.
 
 TT: How do you feel about the current British monarchy?
 
 NDV: I have no feelings about them one way or another. 
				They have a tendency to frighten the hell out of British 
				wildlife during the hunting season but in other respects they 
				seem harmless enough, so I see no real reason not to leave them 
				where they are. What would you replace them with anyway? 
				President Blair? What a scary thought.
 
 TT: There are a lot of wild theories being bandied about 
				on the internet regarding the agenda of the Dragon Court. 
				"New World Order: The Movie" (http://www.geocities.com/newworldorder_themovie/dragoncourt.html) 
				regards the Dragon Court as part of an 
				
				Illuminati conspiracy 
				involving Satanism and Nazism. "Heeding Bible Prophecy" (http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/watch-unto-prayer/prophecy.html) 
				seems to proclaim nothing less than that the scion of the Devil 
				- the Anti-Christ himself - will emerge from the 
				ranks of the Dragon Court. 
				
				David Icke and Arizona 
				Wilder (http://www.davidicke.com/icke/articles2/gardnershifts.html) 
				claim that your former co-author (and former Dragon Court 
				member), Laurence Gardner, shape-shifted into a 
				reptile and sacrificed babies in an underground 
				
				military base at Montauk, New York. How close 
				are these claims to the truth? What sinister activities are you 
				hiding, Mr. de Vere?
 
 NDV: People think that the Anti-Christ will emerge 
				from the ranks of the Dragon Court? How intuitive of 
				them. My views on Nazism are well known. Nazism was a peasant 
				movement populated by the worst in German peasant scum. Its "Aryan"
				philosophy and aspirations were a complete joke, and its 
				blind devotion to nationalistic jingoism was the height of 
				psychological blindness and wishful thinking. You can’t make 
				genetic Aryans - a race of kings - out of a nation of 
				genetic turnip-peasants.
 
 As for Satanism, if we mean adherence to Satan 
				as some externalized deity separate from the Dragon blood 
				and the object of religious devotion, such is an illogical 
				nonsense. Originally the Satans in Biblical 
				terms were nothing more than Circuit Prosecutors 
				within the Jewish Theocratic system. Who in their right mind 
				would worship lawyers? I wish people would study the facts. It 
				would save so much time and energy.
 
 David Icke, dear, oh dear, oh dear. David once 
				announced on his website that Laurence Gardner and his 
				cronies performed blood-drinking rituals at his "Columba 
				House." Before uttering this ridiculous libel David 
				should have contacted the Post Office and checked as to where "Columba 
				House" was actually situated. If he had done so, the Post 
				Office would quite happily have told him that "Columba House" 
				was in fact a six inch by twelve inch Post Office Box at the 
				local Post Office Branch in Tiverton, Devon. Exactly how many 
				shape-shifting reptilian vampires and their victims can you get 
				into a standard British Post Office Box?
 
 Having all shape-shifted into reptilian vampires, David Icke 
				would then have us believe that they all shrunk to the size of 
				Minnie Mouse and got a postal worker to put them in the box. If 
				the reader thinks this is possible or even probable, and I am 
				sure that some who stay glued to the Internet all day will, then 
				it is also entirely possible that the reader will believe that
				Laurence Gardner sacrificed babies at Montauk.
 
 David Icke is concocting all this out of his cynical, 
				fiscally motivated imagination and flogging it to a willing 
				audience who, frighteningly enough, actually swallow it whole.
 
 What sinister activities am I hiding? The internal activities of 
				the Court are confidential.
 
 TT: What are your personal beliefs regarding God,
				spirituality, and religion?
 
 NDV: "Beliefs" regarding God and 
				spirituality create religions, and religions create 
				division and fear, within the individual and consequently 
				within society as a whole. Religion is a crutch for the power 
				hungry, the lazy, the weak minded and the unregenerate. 
				Religions happen when people don’t get the point of the message 
				and blindly worship the message and the messenger, instead of 
				grasping the gnosis inherent within the words that the message 
				conveys.
 
 TT: Who do you think the Judeo-Christian god 
				Jehovah really was? Do you believe that there is any 
				historical basis behind the symbolic notion of Jehovah’s
				conflict with Satan?
 
 NDV: The Jews got the main tenets of their religion from 
				the Babylonians during the exile. Therefore one can say 
				that although the later Jehovah is a composite, 
				his main attributes can be traced back to the god Enlil, 
				and it was Enlil who started a war with his step-brother
				Enki concerning their individual number-ranking and 
				seniority of position within 
				
				the Anunnaki dynasty. 
				So in general terms we can say that the conflict between 
				Jehovah and Satan originated in a petty 
				family squabble.
 
 TT: What is your opinion of Christ and his 
				ministry?
 
 NDV: A pretty good one.
 
 TT: How do you feel about the Wiccan and New 
				Age movements?
 
 NDV: Again my views of the Wiccan and New Age 
				movements are also well known. Wicca, the 
				so-called "Old Religion" is no more than sixty years old 
				and the New Age movement is nothing more than a baseless, 
				cynical marketing ploy geared towards extracting money from the 
				gullible.
 
 TT: How do you feel about the sudden surge of interest in 
				the "Grail bloodline" following the publication of 
				The Da Vinci Code? Do you think that the popularization 
				of the idea is dangerous?
 
 NDV: Some people, the minority, will maintain their 
				interest and study the subject further, whilst the bulk of 
				readers will treat the book as a novel experience and pass on to 
				other subjects, once their curiosity has been satisfied. This 
				happens with every new publication. The only inherent danger 
				would be to the subject itself, once the money-vampires of the 
				New Age get hold of it and try opening weekend workshops in "How 
				to become a member of the Grail Bloodline." It would then 
				get promoted and marketed as a "lifestyle choice" open to all. 
				Once such familiarity has bred the inevitable public contempt, 
				the subject may well be rendered valueless to the new enquirer.
 
 TT: What is the one most important thing you want people 
				to take away after reading The Dragon Legacy?
 
 NDV: Firstly, one of the central themes of the 
				book is transcendent consciousness. I would like to feel that 
				the reader may derive some interest in this concept from reading
				The Dragon Legacy and will pursue the subject further.
 
 Secondly, the Dragon families have been with us for 
				millennia and, in the course of time, their innate and rightful 
				destiny will cause them to rise again.
 
   
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