Hyperborean
Warrior
Adepts
Warrior Work in the World Today
Abode of the Lion
About
These
Pages
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These pages are designed to be a resource for the
Spiritual Warrior working in the world today, and those who wish to be.
Although there is plenty of instructive material, it is not specifically
constructed as a training manual or warriorship course. The material is
certainly not organized in a step by step fashion. Rather, material is
presented as blocks of information. It is up to the reader to integrate
these various strands into their own cohesive whole. It is up to the
reader to decide what is useful to them and what is not.
Not everything is fully
explained. Some things are left for the reader to figure out.
There is no better way to learn than by trying to figure things out. You
may not get it - but you will get something better - ideas and techniques of
your own. And these will be more powerful than anything that is handed
to you.
There is no right or wrong
way to be a Spiritual Warrior. We are all individuals - warriors
particularly so. It is a path that comes from the heart. However
you apply yourself to your Path, make sure your Path is a Path with Heart.
Simply take what is useful to you from these pages. Follow your heart.
Note: Much of the
Abode of the Lion
website material - the Hero's Journey in particular - is geared toward the
male warrior. This is because Ardane Steward only writes about what he
has experienced first-hand. Ardane leaves it to the woman warriors to
provide guidance in the area of the female warrior-psyche and to know best in
this area.
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The following is a brief
synopsis of what we do and why we do it. I hope that these pages will
inspire others to similar actions, as well being a resource to existing
Spiritual Warriors.
Hyperborean
Warrior
Adepts
Abode of the
Lion
Abode of the
Lion is a
Warrior House of the Hyperborean Tradition. It is a society of
Warrior-Monks dedicated to self-improvement and fighting prowess. We
believe in Ethics, Integrity, and Justice as the path to spiritual
regeneration. Our Tradition is a "magical" one in that we wield the
potent Spirit-Medicine called
VRIL.
Vril is a volatile and explosive spiritual force, and many years are required
to prove ones integrity before it fully bestows itself upon a Hyperborean Warrior-Adept.
Indeed, it is the Vril itself that ultimately initiates the Warrior-Adept as
an Adept.
The Hyperborean Tradition is
an energy-tradition of the far North - the land of the glittering Northern
Stars and the mysterious Northern Lights. Hyperborean "magic" is the
mysterious Vrilya current that flows from the deep North through the soul and
spirit of the Warrior-Adept. Inner Monk-work and Warrior Saredwa are all
within the Vrilya current of the North. The Hyperborean
Warrior-Adept wields the Vril in all his deeds. It becomes like the
breath he breaths.
The outer mission
of the Abode of the Lion Warrior House involves the Warrior-Work of fighting
darkness through spiritual (astral) combat. Our inner mission is the
Monk-Work of spiritual regeneration through self-awareness and
self-improvement.
Hyperborean
Warrior
Spirit
All Warrior-Adepts
have a powerful Medicine-Spirit. That is how (and why) they are chosen
for special Vril training. Somewhere deep inside they have decided to
fight back against the dark forces that are having their way with humanity
like they were slaves or cattle. Somewhere inside a flame has been
kindled. Somewhere inside they have decided to fight back on their own
behalf - and on the behalf of humanity.
A Warrior-Adept
believes that there is nothing stronger than the awakened Spirit of all living
things - be it a bear, a person, or a mouse. We believe - and have proved
time and time again - that the Medicine-Spirit of even the least of the Great
Spirit's creatures is stronger than any dark force.
Warriors, however, do not
believe in "power" as a goal - in itself it is a dishonorable objective.
Warrior-Adepts believe solely in the virtue of their Medicine-Spirit, and that even the smallest of
Spirits is greater than the mightiest foe darkness can conjure up. There is
nothing darkness fears more than the awakened Spirit, no matter how small.
We follow the ever-unfolding
Sacred Way, the mysterious
Awderas
that flows between the warp and weft, the vor and vril, of this our world.
We draw life from life itself.
Hyperborean
Warrior
Practices
Hyperborean Warrior-Adepts
build personal Vril-Power through special exercises that resemble something of
a cross between Qi Gong and Sword Kata. We call each special Sword
exercise a Saredwa.
Some Saredwa build power, some increase vitality, and others open the doors to
deep trance states.
Hyperborean Warrior-Adepts are trained to leave
their physical bodies and travel as spirits in what we call the Luminous Body.
In this form we are beings of almost pure Vril, and capable of powerful action
against any dark entity.
Hyperborean
Warrior
Foes
There are many dark forces
in the world today. The Brotherhood of the Snake is the worst of the
lot, and all Hyperborean Warriors are vowed to fight it wherever it is found.
(There is actually no specific group called "Brotherhood of the Snake" - we
simply use the term to refer collectively to those dark entities that seek to
harm mankind physically and spiritually.)
There are many
unseen entities that seek to live off the life-force and vitality of
humankind. They are often referred to by Astral Warriors as ghouls or
litches. These beings - some of which were once people - live off the
life-force of living people, sucking them dry. Their activities kill
children and they weaken adults, stealing their happiness and natural life-joy.
In so doing they leave nothing but depression, sickness, and suicide in their
wake. An outbreak of asthma among children in a neighborhood is often a
sign of their activity in an area.
Sadly, there are some
adults that have given themselves over to these beings in hopes of being
rewarded with power. It is a fools choice, and it will destroy them in
the end.
Hyperborean
Warrior-Adepts
in Astral
Combat
Hyperborean Warriors
are dedicated to combating ghouls and litches - and those fallen souls that would
side with them - wherever they are found. Using our deep-trance
teachings, a Hyperborean Warrior enters the astral realms in the Luminous Body, and
tracks down the litch or ghoul and confronts it in combat. Astral combat
is swift and deadly. Either the Warrior-Adept fragments the ghoul's
coherence (thus destroying it), or is slammed out of the astral in a wounded
condition. At the very least, a combat gone awry can result in being
laid up in a state of debilitating exhaustion for quite some time.
A Hyperborean Warrior-Adept typically uses a sword or crystal weapon, but the virtue is not in the
astral-replica of the object, but in the Spirit and Vril-Power that the Warrior-Adept brings to bear upon the coherence of the enemy.
It is like voltage and batteries. The warrior in the astral is like an
energy battery. The higher the voltage and the larger the amount stored,
the greater impact the warrior has in battle. Often the contest goes to
the combatant with the greatest voltage and energy reserves. That is why
Vril generating Sword Saredwa exercises are so vital to the Warrior-Adept. The warrior with the biggest energy wins.
Hyperborean
Warrior
Wisdom
.
Hyperborean Warriors
are not just Warriors, but Warrior-Monks.
We seek wisdom through inner contemplation and self-discipline. We each
follow the unique unfolding of the Sacred Way in our lives - in its own way
and in its own time. To understand the Sacred Way is to understand the
Tao.
Warriors generally consider
that there is indeed a Great Goodness at the center of the universe, a
goodness that radiates out throughout all the dimensions and realms of
creation. This Goodness does not seek us out. It is for us to find
it and align our deepest selves with its nature. It is both everywhere
and nowhere at the same time. It is everywhere and in all things when we
chose to see it. It is nowhere when we have closed our natures to it.
It is the Awderas that breathes
Ahvouha
into the world - and into all things in the world. It is the breath, and
it is life, and the gate is in the heart.
There is,
however,
no
formalized wisdom belief within Abode of the Lion. All Warrior-Adepts
are expected to seek their own wisdom in their own way.
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