The Stosic Family Arms

''H Nikh Einai Alhqeia Kai H Alhqeia Einai Nikh''

("Victory is Truth, Truth is Victory")

'The Order of the Dragon'

Towards the end of the fourteenth century in Zagreb (Agram), now the capital of Croatia, was written the ‘The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage’ by a converted Jew versed in angeology and demonology. This is a book of Judeo-Christian Theurgy.

This volume was given to Lamech, son of Abraham, son of Simon in 1458.

The translation is at the ‘Bibliothèque de l´Arsenal’ in Paris under the title of ‘La Magie Sacrée ou Livre d´Abramelin le Mage’.It was made accessible to the general public by Robert Amblain.

The original manuscript was written in Hebrew by Eleazar, student of Abra-Melin who himself obtained the teachings in Egypt from a secret sect.

Eleazar arrived from Egypt to Venice. There he has written the original document and founded a school of occult teachings together with the ‘Order of the Inverted Dragon’.

Eleazar left Venice and his students who moved to the Laguna island. The same island on which was said to strive the Water Dragon.

Eleazar traveled to the Court of Sigismound of Hungary where he became the king’s counselor. Eleazar instructed and initiated the king in the Order of the Inverted Dragon, an order based on the 3^rd book and the 13th capter of the Abra-Melin . This Order was presided by the 4 angels/demons : Oriens - Paymon - Ariton - Amaymon.

The English version of the book was rendered by S.L. Mac Gregor-Mathers, author of the Kabbalah Unveiled, the Key of Salomon, the Tarot and other books.

Mathers was also the founder of the Golden Dawn where Alister Crowley was initiated and later expelled. Crowley created a new order of the Golden Dawn and probably used the Abra-Melin book for his rituals in Sicily, place where tragic events occurred. Just before the second World War, Crowley collaborated in the creation of the secret Nazi rituals. A man of low moral and a certain amount of occult knowledge, Crowley became known as one of the most famous modern Theurgists, but actually all was just a mocking of the high British Society and Crowley never ever had any of the powers that he pretended to have.

Calling himself the Beast, he lived and died like one.

The Lore of Vampirism established itself to the highest degree in central Europe. Its roots are to be searched in India where the goddess Kali is one of its transmitters. Its origin has something divine and the Angels of the Book of Enoch have a great deal to teach us about it.

Osiris, the King of the Underworld, is the first religious aspect of the art of immortality and vampire lore.

Eleazar’s students were instructed in the Osirian myth and the Masquerade originates from the Venetian Carnival.

The vampire could be said to be an angelic being and its ritual of blood helped to establish the Christian religion that is an accomplishment of the Jewish religion whose bloodthirsty Yahve later became the Christ.

The Angel who fought with Jacob had to leave before the dawn... While the Black Virgin of the South of France is none else than Sara, the embodiment of the goddess Kali.

The Kingdom of Serbia being the one and only nation that fought constantly against Islam through all its history has received the patronage of the cradle of vampirism and the word vampir is a Serbian word. Selene located North of Belgrade is a fictional vampire city (Paul Féral, 1875, ‘La Ville vampire’). Not to forget the very near excavation of the Vinca civilization, the oldest known civilization with an alphabet (8000 BC).

The vampire is of Orthodox origin and is not baptized (Dracula was converted to the Catholic religion in order to be able to marry the daughter of the Hungarian king Mattias Corvinus and thus abandoned the Orthodox religion, to which he later probably returned.).

On Sunday night on the 14^th of June 1389 (according to ancient calendar and 27^th according to the Gregorian calendar), the prince (Tzar) Lazar of Serbia had a sacrament and secret dinner with his most valorous knights when God asked him : ‘Lazar, would you be a king on Earth or in Heaven ?’. Lazar decided for the Heaven.

Milos Obilic, the most courageous noble and strongest of the knights (the equivalent of the Arthurian Lancelot) had previously created the secret order of the Dragon of St.-George. His shield represented the sun with twelve rays and there were 12 knights, himself included, belonging to this order. As a distinctive sign, they wore a dragon on their helmet. The aim of the order was the death of the Sultan Murat. Since 100 years no sultan ever died on the battlefield. So the knights made a deal with the Sultan settling that during the battle, they would betray their prince and would join the Turkish side.

On the 15^th of June (28^th according to the Gregorian calendar) at the strongest of the battle, the knights left their ranks and galloped towards the Turkish forces, to the tent of Murat. The Janicers who protected the tent moved aside allowing Milos to penetrate the heart of the Turkish camp. Milos was riding his horse, then dismounted and entered the tent of the Sultan. Murat was sitting. Milos knelt in front of him to pay him homage. Then from his boot he pulled out a ‘kama’, a curved knife made from a broken sword and gutted with it the Sultan from the pelvis all the way to the throat.

During his escape, the Janicers presented their lances on which Milos’ horse impaled itself and Milos was killed. Only one of the twelve knights of the Dragon survived.Milos died like a Dacian hero on his way to meet Zalmoxis.

One of the son of Murat, Bajazit, as soon as he heard about the death of his father ordered the immediate strangling of his own brother with a silk thread and thus became the new Sultan.

The Tzar Lazar was badly wounded during this famous battle of Kosovo and was captured, then beheaded. His head was thrown in a well where it stayed 40 days before to be recovered and returned to his body.

The Sultan Bajazit took Lazar’s daughter as wife to his harem as a security. The son of Lazar, Stefan Lazarevic, became a vassal of the Turks and fought from then on on their side. That is how Serbia was invaded by the Turks.

Later Lazarevic became on of the first members of the Order of the Inverted Dragon at the Hungarian court. Others followed such as Vlad Dracul, father of the well known Dracula, and Vlad Tepes Dracula himself.

The wars with the Turks continued. Dracula’ s Valachian knights and the Serbs made wars with the dominant Ottoman Empire until 1803 when Karageorges (Georges the Black, George Petrovic) the Serbian Vodj with his most favored Duke (Vojvod) Ilija Stosic made battle to the Turks and defeated these in 1805.