The New Aeon
The mindset, concepts and ethos that underpin the Fellowship's activities today, and indeed our personal lifestyles, clearly derive in large part from some of the very early trends and thinking that shaped the original Circle of the Luna Light. One of those early concepts that became a cornerstone of many of our activities, or at the very least a motivaton for such activities, was that of the "New Aeon".
The various references that had cropped up in the period preceding the foundation of the original group to such things as "the New Aeon", "overthrowing the Old Aeon" etc had been bubbling away in the minds of those involved, particularly in the context of the chaos and panic said to be associated with the Enochian forces, and they'd begun to attempt a more precise definition of this in its application to concensus reality.
Events such as nuclear wars or some other cataclysm of equivalent
magnitude (see footnote)
were discussed, but the group was already beginning to split into
two schools of thought.
The other alternative put forward (that did not begin to find
general acceptance until a considerable time afterwards) was of
some sort of cataclysm on the scale of a global nuclear war, but
on the astral level rather than the physical, summed up
by the concept of a traumatic and total change in Mankind's
predominant state of consciousness.
Pete Dawe was the original proponent
of this idea and had researched the subject through the theories
first developed by Charles Stansfield Jones ("Frater Achad", the
"magical son" of Aleister Crowley).
But at that time (June 1980) the idea of a physical cataclysm
was still the front-runner and although Volume
One did not dwell on this aspect of the Fellowship's development
it was nevertheless a significant factor in their activities;
certainly to the extent where monitoring of the news and current
affairs was undertaken on a regular basis, and to the further
extent that contingency plans for the group's survival of a holocaust
were being explored.
It was strongly felt that, regardless of how such a cataclysm may manifest, the Fellowship had some sort of part to play in bringing it about, thus leading to speculation that this may have been why the group had been called into existence in the very beginning.
With hindsight its apparent that the Fellowship was unrealisingly
undergoing a shift in emphasis, inasmuch that whereas the initial
assumption was that the group had come into being as a result
of the founders "picking up" on some sort of current through their
workings with the Enochian System
and that subsequent events had been the result of conscious deliberations
on their part, it was now (some nine months or so later) felt
- indeed, almost unconsciously accepted - that the Current
had "taken charge" and had been manipulating events virtually
from the start... or even before!
This shift in emphasis began about the time that certain of the
founders stopped thinking in terms of some sort of "force" or
"energy" in an abstract sense, and began to think in terms of,
and accepted, the Goddess.
However, at no time - either then or since - did Participants in the Fellowship feel any sort of personal "divine mission"; rather, we were bemused by events, and the predominant question has always been: "Why us?"
Adapted from Volume 1 of the 'History
of the Fellowship of the Dragon'
Copyright © 1998, 2007 fotd-publishing.org.uk
Footnote:
With current (2007) concerns over the effects of climate change, and the possible repercussions this could have upon society as a whole in terms of the breakdown of the normal infrastructure as populations are seized by panic and the overwhelming urge to secure their own survival, this begins to take on a new signficance, but one that is not entirely removed from our original impulses.
