This being communicated its desire to raise up 
all things to an even more rarefied level of 
consciousness, and explained that it had used 
this band as an experiment. It said that it 
planned to use some of the same techniques on 
humanity as well. | asked the band-mind what 
had happened to this giant, but it did not know, 
having fled shortly afterwards. 


| asked then why, if it has such human-like or 
even superhuman-like faculty it has chosen to 
live in the wild like a simple band of apes. It 
replied that it has in that millennium seen the 
works of men, the rise and fall of kingdoms, war 
after war, the over-logging of its forest, the 
world's endless parade of self-inflicted suffering 
and that it could not see the point. | allowed that 
it was probably wiser than we are. 

— Sean Wexford, In the Secret Kingdom of Dido 


| don't know if this is related, but | was a 
consultant for the Pilferers9 in the late 80s. They 
found something1911 in a desert in Spain, back 
in 88. | only got a look at some of it, but what | 
saw was the arm of a giant, with a complex 
prosthetic hand grafted onto it. The thing was 
just oozing power, we did aetheric imaging and 
aura Studies, and both the arm and the 
prosthetic radiated EVE, the prosthetic more 


than the flesh, but both were pretty active. | was 
NDA-geased of course, but | guess those guys 
never banked on going under, and the contract 
ensorcelment lapsed when they closed up shop. 
— Bill Pastor, Choronzon Consulting 


So it was, that |, Rashid Keeper of the Lion 
Gates!213 was approached by Maria de 
Guzman about the Lord of Endowments. She 
had found the place of His last coming, and 
there a disciple had built a house. In that house 
the disciple had children, and so forth, for all the 
long generations, all secretly in service to the 
Uplifter of Men. She had approached the disciple 
dwelling there now, Ahmed, and he was willing 
to let her come there. She asked me to assist 
her in calling Him into a vessel again, that He 
might give us His gifts and improve us. | had 
since acquired a familiar, a rat, bred from those 
that the Pilferers had crossed with the flesh of 
the Lord. So we gathered there to call upon Him. 


We had some little warning, by way of 
cartomancy, and we expected trouble, but not 
with the fury that descended upon us. They tore 
through our guards as a storm through an 
untroubled sky. | retreated to deep within the 
house and sought to divine what it was that 
attacked us. | saw, four warriors, moving with a 
brutal swiftness, their wounds closing as swiftly 
as they formed. | felt my familiar's divinely 
derived blood calling to them, like to like. They 
were the flesh of the Uplifter Himself! These 
immortal constructs feared not pain or death, for 
| saw that from death they would return again in 
new flesh. 


Someone has, like Shelley's Frankenstein, 
unbound Prometheus" and created a new 
Adam. That these new beings serve either the 


Bookburners or the Jailors is obvious, but | 
sensed that they are as yet not what they are to 
be. Perhaps they can lead us, like the herald of 
old that they resemble, into apotheosis! 


Are they aware that they are using the flesh of 
the Lord of Endowments to hunt Him? Or were 
they bound to us, to my familiar, by the law of 
sympathy, and drawn to our encounter by 
destiny? 


When they came for me, | left the Grinder of 
Limbs to greet them and | fled into the Library, 
where | have now penned my account. 

— Rashid Keeper of the Lion Gates 


Transcripts of Maria de Guzman's channeling 
sessions can be found in The Teachings of 
Israfill by Juan Carlos de Guzman. 


sclall yw! (or 15( cscladl gs yb is purported to 
be a 11th century grimoire describing rituals for 
invoking the Lord of Endowments or a manual 
for self-actualized apotheosis or both. No known 
copies exist. 


Doubt 


Since almost all of what we know is froma 
single source, and that by an alleged 
channeling, there is good reason to be skeptical 
of it. Does the Lord of Endowments even exist? 
If it did exist and was active as recently as the 
10th century, why is nearly nothing of it 
remembered, (even the Library only has vague 
hints and fragmentary whispers) '!6? Does it truly 
seek human apotheosis? Is apotheosis a 


worthwhile goal, especially if means abandoning 
our humanity in the process? 


If this thing is real, and that's a big if, it wants to 
take us apart and borg us into "gods", which is 
like some low-fi version of the Devout's WAN, 
but whatever. Anyway, if this thing is real, and it 
wants to turn us into posthuman magic cyborg 
ubermenschen, and be all Beyond Good and 
Evil about it, then it's basically Nyarlathotep, isn't 
it? How exactly is summoning this thing a good 
idea? 

— S.R. 


Maybe we don't even need Azazel anymore. 
Isn't it true that the fire is ours now? Why can't 
we lead ourselves to Ascension? Azazel never 
wanted to be a god, but | think we made him one 
anyway. Perhaps we always needed to do it 
ourselves. 


If godhood was gifted to us, then wouldn't we be 
always inferior to the giver? | think we learned 
the wrong lesson. He first taught us by stealing 
the fire, yet we have been begging for him to 
give it to us. Wrong! We should have stolen it 
from him. 


| think Prometheus Labs lived up to their name. 
They were bold while we were timid. They 
snatched the fire and ran. All while we were still 
kneeling. 


We need to find these Prometheans, these 
transhuman warriors that so struck Rashid. We 
need to free them from bondage so that they can 
strike the chains from us all. 

— Ulyana the Witch 


This is all so much bullshit. | talk with Coyote all 
the time and he says he was the one who stole 


the fire. 
— Crow Far-Walker 


1. If they occurred at all. 

2. Al Hakim II was Caliph of Cordoba from 961-976 CE. 
3. Know, oh believer, that this ghost of an apostate lies! 
The Godsmaker having made himself mortal was dying, 
and in dying was desperate to remake us into gods. It 
was in this desperation that so many of us were slain. 

4. A claim that is widely disputed, especially by those 
who believe in a literal trickster god or culture hero 
credited with the feat (e.g. Matarisvan, Maui or 
Prometheus). 

5. Bermudo Ill (r. 1028-1037) 

6. 1094 CE; The White Monk established the Way that 
still connects the university library with the Upper Wing of 
The Hall of the Toad. 

7. | have checked the Library's volume against the folio in 
the Vatican's Black Archive and this passage is not 
present in the Vatican's copy. — L.H.R 

8.Macaca sylvanus, believed to be extinct in Tunsia since 
around 1900. 

9. Prometheus Labs, so called because they fetishize the 
theft of divine fire by their titanic namesake, and because 
they loot our traditions with little respect for them in their 
blind pursuit of progress. 

10. How were these faithless jackals able to succeed 
where we had failed? 

11. Aman encountered his neighbor, the Mullah 
Nasrudin, in the street searching the ground intently. 
"Peace be upon you, Mullah" said the neighbor, "What 
have you lost?"The Mullah replied that he had lost his 
purse. So the neighbor helped the Mullah search for a 
good while and then asked, "Are you sure you dropped it 
here?"The Mullah said, "No, | think | left it in my 
house."Frustrated the neighbor exclaimed, "But why then 
are you looking in the street?"The Mullah said sagely, 
"For the light is better out here."! think the Pilferers found 
it just because, unlike you, Rashid, they were willing to 


look in the dark. 

12. You keep saying this, Rash, but that doesn't make it 
true. 

13. It is the doom of men that we should squabble over 
scraps, when the banaquet is nearly in reach. You will 
doubt Rashid no longer when he leads us all to 
Ascension. 

14. Just because you and Mary G are in love with this 
metaphor doesn't make your so-called "Lord" Actual- 
Prometheus. 

15.The Ascending Path 

16. It wanted to be forgotten. That last attempt to 
"improve" us was an embarrassing failure. 


« Operation AZURE PEREGRINE | The Lord of Endowments | Samsara» 


been classified as a matter of national security. All 
individuals agreed to sign nondisclosure agreements and 
were subsequently administered Class A amnestics and 
implanted with false memories; research assistants were 
paid stipends as compensation. SCP-712-1 was 
removed and transported to Site-19. 


+ Personal Notes of Dr. 
Research notes of Dr. 


09-August-2008 

I've run the calculations a dozen times, but | still can't 
figure out where got these variables. Bypass the 
safety on the magnets and the beams cancel each other 
at the emitting lens. Rotate the lens to the wrong position 
and you get a blur. If the lenses don't The magnet is 
epoxied in place and | can't remove it without damaging 
it irreparably. As close as | can approximate, the field it 
generates is [REDACTED] oscillating cleanly from 
positive to negative at [REDACTED]. Everything should 
be well within the visible spectrum, but | can't figure out 
how the magnet does what he says it does or exactly 
how that lens focuses light at [REDACTED]. I'm 
submitting a request for human testing. 


13-August-2008 

I've made no progress on the math and neither have any 
of the Foundation's other physicists. The emitting lens 
seems to have a refractive index that varies significantly 
across the visible spectrum and the plot definitely isn't 
linear, it's almost asymptotic at certain points. | have a 
hunch, but | don't have the equipment at this site to test it 
and I'm going to have to wait at least a few days. 
Hopefully I'll be able to test it soon. It sounds crazy, but 
I'm inclined to trust Dr. 's research; [REDACTED] 


14-August-2008 
We carried out the first test today. [DATA EXPUNGED] 


[The remainder of this log is awaiting declassification] 


Artificial Dragons Gate 


Artificial Dragon's Gate 


A Dragon Creation Ritual, Carp Transformation, jump 
the waterfall already you wet puppy. 


Conspectus 


A carp can transform into a dragon by 
successfully climbing up a Dragon's Gate 
waterfall. However, for people who aren't able to 
go to one of those waterfalls, or for someone 
who wants to transform a specific carp into a 
dragon, this is the way to go.! 


Illustration 


This is Sharkie,2 an example of the shape and 
size of a typical adult female koi.3 


Knowledge 


Traits: This ritual must be performed outdoors 
or in an open-air environment, and with a body 


of water and waterfall which are not completely 
sterile+ except for the carp, or it will not work. An 
adult5 carp® must be used in this ritual, or the 
best-case scenario is that it will not work’. A 
sizable waterfall is necessary, but don't worry, it 
doesn't have to be nearly as big as the one at 
Henan. Simply create or find a waterfall large 
enough to be a challenge® to the carp, and it will 
work. 


Nature: This ritual is basically an emulation 
ritual for harnessing the natural transformative 
magic of the wild Dragon's Gate ritual and 
placing it in a smaller, more accessible scale. 
The reason it works is by convincing reality that 
this is an acceptable substitute for the real deal. 
It's certainly not the only way to turn a fish into a 
dragon, but it's the least risky? way to do it as 
long as you follow all the rules. 


History & Associated Parties: This ritual has 
been practically unchanged since it was 
discovered in China, at least according to 
whoever wrote the English language translation | 
use. Now if only they weren't allergic to providing 
names and dates... 


Generally, it was used more politically than 
anything else. Create a dragon for a certain 
ruler's reign as a sign of heavenly approval or 
just a general good omen, and hope said ruler 
doesn't screw up enough to be eaten by said 
dragon. That being said, it's always been 
important to remember that these are made from 
carp, which can and will eat anything that fits in 
their mouth. Poking at a new dragon was and 
still is a good way to become the first meal of 
ascension.19 Most of the time, rituals were 
performed away from anyone important who 
could get eaten.11 


Approach: As stated before, you're going to 
need a body of water, a waterfall, a suitable 
adult carp, and a lot of patience. Place two 
imbued carp effigies!2:13.14 at the base of the 
waterfall, and two imbued dragons at the top of 
the waterfall. This tells reality that this is a 
Dragon's Gate waterfall, despite being smaller 
than most of the natural ones. These will also 
have patterns carved in to redirect the backlash 
from the working into something manageable. 
Once you've made all of the preparations, the 
only thing you can do is wait for the carp to jump 
the falls on its own time. You can use prior 
training to try and convince it to jump, but 
otherwise interfering with the ritual is a bad 
idea.15 


Other Detail: A general feature of the 
"permitted" carp to go through this ritual is that 
they are all very heavy-bodied, and very hungry. 
Goldfish and koi work best for this ritual because 
you can train them to jump the waterfall in return 
for a reward, while other carp may simply ignore 
the waterfall in favor of eating whatever they can 
find in the main body of water. 


Observations & Stories 
The Threshold of the Dragon's Gate 


"Beneath the serene quiet of the water lilies 

a young carp senses a calling ... swelling up in 
her heart 

like the swirling waters at the base of a great 
waterfall, 

Somehow summoned to go beyond the barrier 
of crashing water and veiled mist 


The churning waters of the waterfall’s bottom 
matches that of the young carp’s desires 


Finally with a burst of enthusiasm the carp has 
launched herself 

up the wall of rushing water 

cresting the first falls with a surge of effort 

only to be met with relentless rushing water. 
Persevering from one cataract to the next 

the carp makes it to the summit’s last falls. 
Regrouping her energies in a pocket of scouring 
effervescence 

every essence of strength, courage, and spirit is 
consumed 

in the launching over the fall’s summit. 


And the dragon’s gate accepts her efforts a 
transforming gate of fire 

Revealing the birth of a new Dragon 

born of the seed of desire planted in the heart of 
a small carp 

that once hid in the shallows." 

- Howard Schroeder, Threshold of the Dragon's 
Gate 


"Redfin Carp pledged a solemn vow. "I shall 
swim beyond the Dragon Gates. | shall brave the 
perilous bolts of fire and lightening. | shall 
transcend the estate of ordinary fish and achieve 
a place among the order of sacred dragons. | 
shall rid myself forever of the terrible suffering to 
which my race is heir, expunge every trace of 
our shame and humiliation." 


Waiting until the third day of the third month, 
when the peach blossoms are in flower and the 
river is full, he made his way to the entrance of 
the YU Barrier. Then, with a flick of his tail, 
Redfin Carp swam forth. 


You men have never laid eyes on the awesome 


torrent of water that rolls through the Dragon 
Gates. It falls all the way from the summits of the 
far-off Kunlun Range with tremendous force. 
There are wild, thousand foot waves that rush 
down through gorges towering to dizzying 
heights on either side, carrying away whole 
hillsides as they go. Angry bolts of thunder beat 
down with a deafening roar. Moaning whirlwinds 
whip up poisonous mists and funnels of noisome 
vapor spitting flashing forks of lightening. The 
mountain spirits are stunned into senselessness; 
the river spirits turn limp with fright. Just a drop 
of this water will shatter the carapace of the 
giant tortoise, it will break the bones of the giant 
whale.