The Deluxe Edition: this is the usual extravagant fare. It’s for good reason that many have said that AP produce the most exquisite deluxe editions of any publisher out there. The foiling is to be two coloured to front and rear cover with single gold foil block to spine onto leather. Marbled endpapers, book ribbon, gold leafed edge to book block. Then there is the solander box, a book in itself in terms of how it presents itself, marbling to front and back, with leather spine and gutters with gold foiling. Inside, Aperi Circulus Draco is cushioned in a bed of velvet with the blind embossed logo of Atramentous Press pressing and protecting the cover of the book.

Aperi Circulus Draco is a vital part of the Black Dragon’s initiatory process. Through the Black Dragon texts much time has been spent discussing and understanding the Proklosis Ring, the circle which is forever open. Aperi Circulus Draco contains essential meditative and procedural tenets that shall help the initiate to engage with the retinue of spirits for each point around the circle. As a familiar, the book acts as a companion for initiates who have begun to traverse the Proklosis Ring, as such the spirit of this text should be entreated as a familiar.  

While Vestigia Ater Draconis across various versions was aligned to each  totem of the sinistral horn, Aperi Circulus Draco intentionally binds initiates to the Proklosis Ring by heating each point by having them recite, imbibe and then contemplate this enchiridion. Embedding their flesh across cardinal and sub-cardinal points should eventually allow them to flense their impression of presence in such a way that they become absence and therefore open. Indeed, this is the point, to circumnavigate the Proklosis Ring, without and within the confines of what non-exists. As a result, Aperi Circulus Draco should be approached as both the liberator of form and the facilitator for their eventual initiation.