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This part of Wordlore and Wizardry moves forward from detailed word mapping to the extended meaning of WORD … PROPHECY. But first we must set the scene by explaining the historical and astrological context which is the ‘hidden’ framework.
“We know the civilisation – culture – society outside is dying. It’s a Virgilian Autumn, the dusk of a civilisation. There’s a power struggle going on over control of the human consciousness. Its not men’s minds that are at stake, but their consciousness, their awareness. This isn’t a struggle over a market area. This is a struggle over what’s to be judged valuable in our universe. Outside they value whatever can be measured, counted or tabulated. Here we go by different standards. Frank Herbert, ‘The Santaroga Barrier’
The coming of the New Age is profoundly significant to those people caught up in the midst of it – us! Quite obviously someone must address this matter and follow up all the leads … wherever they may go.
We’ve all been led up the garden path at one time or another. But what happens if we go the other way?
The Game of Make-Believe ... Do you remember the tale of the Emperor’s new clothes? Do you remember the small boy who saw through them? Have you ever wondered why children find this seemingly ridiculous story intriguing? Have you ever wondered what would have happened if the small boy had not been believed? How would he feel? Terrified at being alone?
Suppose, through an unexpected turn of events the scales were to suddenly fall from your eyes. You’d try to wake others, wouldn’t you?
How would you feel when you found that everyone else preferred the mysterious nightmare, that they couldn’t, wouldn’t be wakened? Terrified? To save your sanity you’d have to close your eyes again and rejoin the game of make-believe.
The story of the Emperor’s new clothes works well because it recognises – and shares with small children – a truth lost to sleepwalking adults.
Suppose, through congenital stubbornness, the scales were to fall from your eyes a second time …
It happened to me. But I was lucky, I had a headful of maps and I knew many stories.
They enabled me to verify The News From Conspiracy’s Edge
Hidden things
“I will utter hidden things, things from of old.” Psalm 78
The end of the old millennium and the beginning of the new is the end of one story and the beginning of another. We face – in plain speak – the end of history as we know it.
History is the one story we are all living in. Its structural secret [plot] is embedded in the language. For our language is the secret repository of forgotten truths.
In earlier times people were much more familiar with the embedded truths of the language. But, over the centuries, through laziness, confusion and deliberate subversion, the use of language has been progressively confounded.
Like a map with false overlays, original truths have become difficult to discern.
We have been taught to focus on the emperor’s new clothes – fashions – and we see ‘glamours’, false explanations of the world.
But, once in a while, we catch a glimpse of those original truths – a glint through a thicket of thorns, or a spark amidst all the smoke – and perhaps we shiver with unconscious recognition. We have made a connection!
And we call it coincidence since we can no longer read the maps.
But, just as there are ways to restore lost paintings, so there are ways to strip off the emperor’s new clothes. And there are ways to reveal the deceptions which have blinded us to our ancient heritage.
Consequences
Consequences ... The truth may well set us free. But it often comes as a shock, a trauma. It requires psychic stamina and a personal sense of responsibility which we might prefer not to shoulder
For, to fully comprehend the consequences of the truths we will uncover, requires a certain strength of spirit.
It also requires the courage to take a leap away from the once-cosy nonsenses of twentieth century materialism. It asks us to leap backward to a perception of reality which enthusiastically welcomes the sheer magic of existence.
It is a radical leap. And radical means: original, root. In other words stemming from the beginning. We need to return to the beginning, for, like a novel, the end of the story lies in the clues given in the beginning.
It is of paramount importance that we understand history, for it is about to reach the denouement [the undoing of the knot] ...
Looking backward
“The further backward you can look, the further forward you are likely to see.” Winston Churchill
“To see the future, you must look backward.” Isaiah
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.” Edmund Burke
In general the world is only semi-conscious of the fundamental changes now taking place. Yet nervousness is apparent and is reflected in the increasingly unstable society of today. For these dramatic changes are mainly outside the predictive abilities of science.
If, on the other hand, we can perceive the true story, we are forewarned and have no need of panic.
“The destiny of mankind is not decided by material computation. When great causes are on the move, we learn that we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.” Winston Churchill
Loss of freedom
“Society is continually pushing in on the individual. He has only a few areas in which he can be himself, free from external restraint or observations.”
“The forces allied against the individual have never been greater. Justice William O Douglas, United States Supreme Court
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there is no constitution, no law, no court, can save it.” Judge Learned Hand
There is a Conspiracy! There is a deliberate policy/secret agenda to obscure the truth.
But it is, for the most part, an unconscious one, kept in place largely through ignorance. Catching us young channeling our imagination and blinding our intuition, we are often snared for the rest of our lives. We are only stirred by coincidence, for it hints at a different order of things.
Story: short form of history
History is the story we are all living in. Like all stories it has a plot. Like all stories it has a beginning, a middle and an end. It is also full of events [incidents] and characters. For history has protagonists and antagonists – heroes and villains. The chief hero and the chief villain both know the plot.
The plot determines the hero’s success and the villain’s eventual downfall. Nonetheless the villain will cause as much damage as he can before the final outcome.
Given the chance he will confound the language. Where possible he will convince subsidiary characters – us – that there is no plot, no grand scheme of things.
Indeed he would have us believe that there is no story. And, if there is no story, there can be no end – or villain – or hero!
What happens when we lose the plot? What happens when we lose sight of the conspiracy? What happens when we lose the thread? Does history unravel? No, of course not. Having been written it continues on schedule.
If, individually, we lose the plot, we detach our personal story from history. We tangle our threads and our dreams become nightmares.
There is a conspiracy. There is a people within our people, who, to a man, if asked, would agree.
On the details and purposes of the conspiracy there would be much debate. But on the reality of conspiracy there is unanimous agreement. For these people have partially seen through the emperor’s new clothes.
History has a plot. History is not meaningless as science might lead us to believe.
We are people not numbers. It is people that matter, not things. And it is their stories – our stories – which count. For stories are satisfying and, when added up, sum history.
The ancient enemy – the villain of the plot – has subverted the very language itself. We’ve been taught to follow Humpty Dumpty’s lead. So, in the last days of history, few people indeed recognise the real story.
Deliberate confusion of the language has happened in the past. In the story of Babel, Nimrod the mighty hunter built a tower to assault heaven. The result was a confusion of the language. The story repeated in a new guise in 1963. But that’s another story.
We have lost the plot. We have forgotten who we are – and our key roles in the scheme of things. our language has been confounded.
What is history?
“Newton not only said the future already exists, but believed that it could be known in advance.” M Drosnin, The Bible Code
“In the poetic art time is suspended and details of future experiences often become incorporated in the poem, as they do in dreams. This explains why the first Muse of the Greek triad was called ‘Mnemosyne’ (memory): one can have a memory of the future as well as the past.” Robert Graves, The White Goddess
This means that all of history is somehow available to us! How can this be? It is because history is reckoned to be the written account of man’s sojourn on earth. The future part of history is recorded in advance in the written account as clues are given in stories. In a book of history – past, present and future, we call these clues ‘prophecies’.
The future part of history also occurs as the denouement – the undoing of the knot – when all is explained. A third of the bible is devoted to prophecy!
History: an account of an event: knowing – see wit
Story: history or narrative of incidents in their sequence:
the plot of a novel or drama. A tale.
Science fiction may give us utopian hopes, but, more importantly, it gives us dystopian warnings. Hence the new European Empire is emerging in a form anticipated by the authors of SF&F ... and the Conspiracy watchers … and the Eschatologists.
In this denouement of History, all the clues come together …
Probably the most crucial topics of the moment are the questions regarding both identity cards and the referendum on the european constitution.
The pressing question of Identity has again been raised recently by the urgent call for Identity Cards and, at a deeper level, by the claim that Multi-culturalism hasn’t worked and that it should be replaced, as a guiding principle, by a new identification with ‘Britishness’. At the same time, the promised Referendum on the proposed European Constitution focusses our attention in the the self-same direction: who are we?
‘Who are we going to be?’ Such questions go to the very root of our individual, family, clan or genealogical tribe, nation, and, dare we say it … race? Both topics are keyed to identity. This vital question is explored elsewhere in this first edition of Mazeway Tales.
As to the European Constition, I’m quite happy with the one we’ve got. And if you’ve never heard of it, you’ll find it embedded in the Coronation oath.
Neither topic is new, but both have been thrust into the forefront of media news. They both cause us to ask ourselves, who are we – really? Is the answer cultural, genetic, genealogical, racial, religious, tribal? What indeed are our origins, and how far back do we need to look? When 24 hour rolling news drums home fearful events like mantras, its hardly any wonder that our world is being rattled. So we look for a firm place to stand - and ask ourselves “who are we?”
To those familiar with science fiction and fantasy – henceforth, SF&F – the basic concepts behind the Boscombe Mazeway are variations on familiar themes. Details can be found on the inside cover pages.
Part One of Steamworld begins with Boscombe – one of them – invaded. The prologue to Seth and the Starpebble opens our second – whimsical - serialisation. In this first issue we have also included a pull-out Textmap for the coreword MAZE. It highlights some intriguing connotations.
We’ve also included some punchy lyrics and poems to chew over. Then there is the first in a series of articles on ‘Real Wizards’, beginning with John Dee. Plus a brief biography of one of the most well-loved SF writers of the last century, Eric Frank Russell. And we’ll see if we can find room to recommend a few SF&F books.
Who are we? 1
The challenge by proponents of Identity Cards is that opposition to the idea must come from those who have something to hide. Interesting logic. We all have something to hide. If all our crimes were known and all the laws on the statute books enforced, then our jailors would be babies
Oh what a tangled web the dissemblers spin. What the Eschatologists know full well, is that the biometric Identity Card is the precursor to the beastmark. This later is the 666 name/number without which no one can buy or sell. The mark is on forehead or hand.
The topic is complicated. But we must first recognise that it occurs in the last chapter of the book of history – the one story that we are all living in. In the denouement of any story all the clues are placed together like a completed jigsaw puzzle. But those self-same clues are the ones we have been collecting right from the very beginning of the story. And one of the first clues regarding the mark, is given in Genesis.
Mark i Cain, having murdered his brother, Abel, is cursed to be a restless wanderer. Fearing that he, too, might be murdered, he pleads mercy. “Then the lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.” The Hebrew word translated ‘mark’ is oth. It also means ‘sign’, ‘token’.
Mark ii “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it. … Slaughter … but do not touch anyone who has the mark.” The connection between the two is obvious. They are both signs of special protection. In the latter instance the Hebrew word is tav – the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet and fundamental thread throughout history.
Beastmark In the Book of Revelation, mark is translated from the Greek charagma. This has the meaning Impressed Mark, Engraving. This is much more relevant terminology in the light of Microchips. Already on Talk Radio shows they have been discussing the ‘chipping’ of young children as a means of safety [control] as the next step, having tried it on animals.
So we have protective marks and slave chips. The protective mark, in Christian terms, is an invisible and spiritual ‘seal’. The biometric beastmark is a product of the same devilish ingenuity which is first depicted in The Book of Enoch. Nonetheless, we all get to make the choice: free death or slave existence.
“He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no-one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.”
But we don’t know who ‘He’ is. However I have taken full warning. Interestingly in this context is that the money which will presumably be made redundant, also originally came with a warning. [see Wordlore & Wizardry, part II, for details and contextmap].
Perhaps we can console ourselves. Identity Cards, like mobile phones, are instantly disposable.
Who are we? 2
According to interpreters, Nostradamus was aware of the tradition that Francus – a surviving Trojan – was the first king of France. Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his History of the Kings of Britain, recalls a similar legend where it is Brutus – a surviving Trojan – who gives his name to Britain. The Trojans were children of King Priam, reckoned a descendent of Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah. The Cruithne – the people we know as Picts – claim their ancestry also goes back to Japheth.
However Yair Davidy, author of The Tribes, has this to say: “The names ALBA and ALBION imply a relationship with Albania of the Caucasus from which area part of the Picts traditionally came. The Picts were in this part of Scotland and derived from the Agathyrsi, as did the Khazars.” He also says: “The Picts were first reported after 280 ce. They were believed [like the Ibero-Scots] to have arrived from southern Scythia where they were known as the Agathyrsi or Akatziri whose remnants later formed the nucleus of the Khazar nation in southern Russia. The khazars were descended from Simeon and Menasseh as well as containing representatives of other tribes such as Naphtali and Asher.”
Simeon, Menasseh, Naphtali and Asher were all sons of Jacob, who was a descendent of Shem. Consequently, for the Picts/Cruinthe to begin with, we have two conflicting claims.
Shem, Ham and Japheth were the three sons of Noah. Yair Davidy, reflecting the views of the British Israelite tradition, argues that the Picts/Cruithne are descendents of Shem. Folk tradition argues for Japheth. Does it matter?
If we consider the divergent inheritances promised to Shem and Japheth, perhaps it does.
A clash of semites
A Radio 4 reporter recently claimed that the terrorist group Hamas was anti-Semitic. Since the majority of Arabs are themselves Semites – descendants of Shem – the statement was completely wrong. For the Jews and the Arabs are cousins and their conflict goes back, as many commentators have pointed out, to the original rift bewteen the brothers Isaac and Ishmael.
So what does it mean for us? Shem was one of the three sons of Noah. His descendants include Ismael, father of the Arab races and Isaac, grandfather of the twelve tribes of Israel. (Jacob, Isaac’s son was renamed Israel.) One and only one of the twelve tribes is Jewish – children of Judah. Ten of the tribes were taken into captivity very early in history, and forgot their identities.
Identity
The Sons of Noah
sons of Ismael Arabs
sons of Isaac Jews + Lost Tribes
Africa
Priam of Troy
Francus of France
Brutus of Britain
Cruithne of Picts
“According to conventional history, the British Isles, Gaul [France and Belgium], and the northwest European coastline, in ancient times, were settled by peoples of Celtic culture.
A predominant element amongst the Celts were the Galatians to whom belonged the Cymbri in Denmark, the Cymry and Caledonians in Britain, and the Galli in Gaul. The Galatians were ascribed Cimmerian origin by Classical writers [Plutarch on Marius] which is substantiated by archaeological evidence and other sources. The Cimmerians had first appeared on the fringes of the Assyrian Empire shortly after the majority of Northern Israelites had been exiled, and all areas of their early appearance were those to which Israelites had been transported.” The Tribes, Yair Davidy
British, pertaining to Britain – the language of the ancient Britons: the Welsh.
[O.E. Brettisc – Bret, a Briton, Welshman][interestingly the Welsh know themselves as Cymry]
Briton, one of the Brythonic inhabitants of Britain before the coming of the English.
Brython, a Celt of the group to which Welsh, Cornish and Breton belong – distinguished from Goidel
From Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain we find …
Britain, named after Brutus, a refugee from Troy, and thereby a descendant of Japheth
From Yair Davidy’s ‘The Tribes’ a third alternative …
Brith, meaning covenant - the Hebrew Bible’s original words for ‘Covenant of the People’ are Brit-am.
From Henri Hubert’s The History of the Celtic People, something different ..
Prettanika, is derived from the Picts [Pretanni, Prydain]
However, according to supporters of the British Israelite theory, including the Jewish researcher Yair Davidy (in his book The Tribes), some of the lost tribes are our forefathers. On the other hand, some may decidely be descendants of Japheth as the geneaological inset demonstrates.
The Hebrew Japheth becomes Iapetus in Greek.
According to legend, the father of Prometheus and Inachus, ruler of Argos. Io, the daughter of Inachus supposedly died at a spot which later became the site of Antioch. The Greeks, then, claim descent from Japheth.
The dictionary, curiously, gives no source meaning of the word, British, only its application. Geoffrey of Monmouth calls on folk tradition and, indirectly, points to an ancestral Japheth, one of the sons of Noah. Yair Davidy, to the contrary, would argue that the British are descendants of Japheth’s brother Shem. Who is correct – and, does it matter?Who are Japheth and Shem?
According to tradition, Noah had three sons who fathered the nations after the flood. They were named Shem, Ham and Japheth.
Supporters of the British Israelite theory, including the Jewish researcher Yair Davidy in The Tribes, argue some of the lost tribes are our forefathers, and thereby descendants of Shem. In other words, some of us are Semetic!
On the other hand, some seem to be descendants of Japheth.
John F Walvoord, in his Major Bible Prophecies, says “The modern word Greece or Grecia does not appear in the Hebrew Bible. Instead, the word Yawan [English: Javan] is mentioned in Genesis 10.2 and the name is assigned to one of the sons of Japheth … it is commonly believed that Javan was the father of the Greek race …”
The ancient northern people who the Romans called Picts, called themselves Cruithne after their forefather. They claimed Cruinthe was a descendant of Japheth.
Ancient folk tradition, which is reflected in Nostradamus, claims that Francus, another Trojan and descendant of Japheth, was the first king of France.
If Welsh, Pictish and early French lore all argue for descent from Japheth, who are we to argue? As others have put forth counter-claims, we must perforce consider the matter. Proponents of the idea that many of the ten Lost tribes of Israel made their way to northern europe offer a different geneaology.
Davidy, along with British Israelites before him, also claim the Welsh, French and others are descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
So, we have two sets of contradictory claims. The folklore of the people in question claiming descent from Japheth, and the historical and etymological researchers opting for Shem.
The question, as asked earlier, is, does it matter? Considering the promises bestowed on Shem and Japheth and … the Mystery of Britain, the answer must be yes.
In that year the party mentioned was exposed to the sea in a vessel without sails or oars. The vessel drifted finally to Marseilles and they were saved. From Marseilles Joseph and his company passed into Britain and after preaching the Gospel there, died.’ Cardinal Baronius, [Curator of Vatican library], ‘Ecclesiastical Annals’
‘The word Christian was spoken for the first time in Britain, by those who first received The Word, from the disciples of Christ. Christianity was privately confessed elsewhere, but the first nation that proclaimed it as their religion and called it Christian, after the name of Christ, was Britain.’ Sabellius, A.D. 250
‘The pure Culdees were Alby’s earliest priests of God, ere yet an island of her seas by foot of Saxon monk was trod.’ Campbell, ‘Reullura’
‘In 1931 Pope Pius XI received at the Vatican the visiting English Roman Catholic Mayors of Bath, Colchester and Dorchester, along with a hundred and fifty members of The Friends of Italy Society. In his address to them the Pope said that St Paul, not Pope Gregory, first introduced Christianity into Britain.’ London Morning Post March 27th 1931.
‘Three times the antiquity of the British Church was affirmed in Ecclesiastical Councila. 1. The Council of Pisa, A.D. 1417; 2. Council of Constance, A.D. 1419; 3. Council of Sienna, A.D. 1423. It was stated that the British Church took precedence of all other churches, being founded by Joseph of Arimathea, immediately after the Passion of Christ.’ Theodore Martin of Lovan, ‘Disputoilis super Dignitatem Anglis it Gallioe in Councilio Constantiano’, A.D. 1517.
‘The British National Church was founded A.D. 36, 160 years before heathen Rome confessed Christianity.’ Bishop Ussher, ‘ Brittannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates’
‘Britain officially proclaimed Christian by King Lucius, at National Council at Winchester, 156 A.D. Augusticinio Mission, A.D. 597
‘The Apostles passed beyond the ocean to the Isles called the Brittanic Isles.’ Eusebius of Caesarea, ‘Demonstratio Evangelica’
‘The Christian Church extended to all the boundaries of Gaul and parts of Britain inaccessible to the Romans but subject to Christ.’ Tertullian of Carthage, A.D. 208
‘The power of our Lord is with those who in Britain are separated from our coasts.’ Origen, 3rd Century A.D.
‘From India to Britain all nations resound with the death and resurrection of Christ.’ St Jerome, A.D. 378
‘So swiftly runs the Word of God that within the space of a few years His Word is concealed neither from the Indians in the East, nor from the Britons in the West.’ Arnobius, A.D. 400
‘The British Isles which are beyond the sea, and which lie in the ocean, have received virtue of the Word. Churches are there found, and altars erected.’ Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople, A.D. 402
‘Britain partly through Joseph of Arimathea, partly through Fugatus and Damianus, was of all kingdoms the first to receive the Gospel.’ Polydore Vergil, 16th Century A.D.
‘The Christian religion began in Britain.’ Rev. Robert Parsons, ‘The Three Conversions of England’
‘We have abundant evidence that this Britain of ours received the faith, and that from the disciples of Christ Himself, soon after the Cricifixion.’ Sir Henry Spelman, ‘Concilia.’
‘Christ, the word from the beginning, was from the first our teacher, and we never lost His teachings. Christianity was a new thing in Asia, but there never was a time when the Druids of Britain held not its doctrines.’ Taliesin, A.D. 500-540
‘We certainly know that Christ, the True Son, afforded His Light, the knowledge of His precepts to our Island. Joseph introduced Christianity into Britain in the last year of Tiberius Caesar.’ Gildas, A.D. 520
‘Joseph converted this King Arviragus by his prechying to know ye laws divine And baptized him as write hath Nennius the chronicler in Brytain tongue full fyne And to Christian laws made hym inclyne. And gave him then a shield of silver white A crosse and long, and overthwart full perfete. These arms were used throughout all Brytain, for a common syne, each man to know his nacion And thus his armes by Joseph Creacion full longafore Saint George was generate Were worshipt here of mykell date.’ British Chronicles
‘The First Christian Church above ground in Rome, was the Palace of the British. The First Christian Bishop was a Briton, Linus, son of a Royal King, personally appointed by St Paul, A.D. 58 St Peter
‘The first ground of God, the first ground of the saints in Britain, the rise and foundation of all religion in Britain, and the burial place of the saints.’ Brass plaque from Glastonbury Abbey
‘The Domus Dei, in the great monastery of Glastonbury, called The Secret of Our Lord.’ Domesday Book, A.D. 1086
A few miles from the site of the world-famous Glastonbury Pop Festival lies the market town of Shepton Mallet1. It nests in a valley close to the ancient Roman road called the Fosse Way. In 1990, before the arrival of a supermarket, a major Roman site was discovered. Archaeologists from Birmingham University under Peter Leach, were given a brief opportunity to explore some of the site before it was buried once more.
In that same year they uncovered a unique find – what has come to be known as the ‘Chi Rho Amulet’. It is a small silver-alloy artefact: a central disc with three short and one long arm (the lower one). The upper arm is so designed to take a cord or thong. Thus far we have what is, in this context, an amulet or talisman.
On the face of the disc can be seen a series of punctures (punched in) which take an unusual form: envision an equal-armed block cross outlined only by dots; superpose upon the right upper vertical a semi-circle also of dots. This is the ‘Chi Rho’ It symbolises a progressed form of the greek letter ‘chi’ (X) and ‘rho’ (P) which were themselves originally superposed:
Some attribute the original use of this sign to Emperor Constantine, who ancient history claims was resident in the British Isles before becoming the emperor who brought Christianity to Rome.
The significance – the uniqueness – of this amulet lies in its dating. The archaeologists concluded that it predated St Augustine’s mission to these islands by some two hundred years or so. They concluded that it was the earliest evidence of Christianity in the British Isles.
Hence it was regarded as priceless – so valuable that it could not be kept safe in its home town of Shepton Mallet until such time as a museum, meeting very strict criteria, materialised.
The silver alloy of the amulet is however a puzzle. Its formulation does not match what is known of ancient metalurgy – neither does it match modern metalurgy!
Sometime after the discovery an enlarged copy was made and presented to the then Bishop of Bath and Wells diocese under whose spiritual aegis Shepton Mallet now lies. The bishop was later promoted to Archbishop of Canterbury – head of the Anglican Church.
So there, for a number of years, the story rested. No one questioned the evaluation publicly, even though carbon-dating could not be applied – and even though it had generated enough reaction for a call for the history books to be revised.
It wasn’t contentious … then.
[A few decades earlier the town centre had been rebuilt with help from the local company which achieved world fame for its ‘Babycham’ product. The principle part of this fortresslike structure was then simply named ‘The Centre’. It seemed to have a dire fate from the beginning. A catalogue of financial woes followed. In an attempt to revive it the fortress was renamed: ‘The Amulet Centre’ … and then, later simply ‘The Amulet’. Which of course it wasn’t. The building fails to this day. It has only succeeded in blurring the issue: imagine Sheptonians talking about ‘the amulet’ – which one do they mean?]
In 1992 Shepton Mallet re-opened its museum. The amulet was not returned. In January 1997, out of the blue, the museum issued a press release ‘asserting its moral right to house the amulet’ which was, at that time, stored in the County Museum at Taunton. The result was a temporary visit – in March – of the amulet under guard, in time for the new season’s official re-opening.
The local press and TV picked the story up and it ran, on and off some two months or more. About this time the Royal Mail issued stamps depicting St Augustine’s Christian mission to the British Isles. The stamps were designed by a Roman Catholic monk from Downside Abbey – which sits on the doorstep of Shepton Mallet.
Then, once more, all went quiet.
In late May the amulet broke into the news again. Someone (nameless) was calling for the dating to be re-examined and there were suggestions that the artefact was a ‘Hoax on the scale of the Piltdown Man’. The story gained national coverage (‘The Times’).
All the publicity the museum had generated had seriously rattled someone’s cage!
WHY? Did someone really believe so strongly that Christianity couldn’t have reached the islands before Augustine? Is the matter that important?
You bet your life it is!
WHY? Because Augustine represents Rome and the Roman Faith. And anything pre-Augustine would threaten Rome’s claims for primacy. The museum was fully aware of this fact. Its only journal, issued for the re-opening, had pointed down a strange trail …
For the amulet spoke of a Christianity which was neither Roman Catholic nor Anglican. It spoke of something earlier … something ‘other’.
The Glastonbury Festival is actually held some miles east of Avalon near the village of Pilton, where you can pick up legends of Joseph of Arimathea’s landing … in AD 47? … AD 36?
And so we move into an area of lost magic – a magic both the Anglicans and Roman Catholics would do their utmost to convince us never existed. They each have different motives.
The Anglicans cannot admit that their protestant ancestors threw out the baby with the bathwater when they rejected the idolatry and ritualism of the Roman Catholics. Thus the Anglicans are unable to understand magic (miracles) any longer.
The Roman Catholics cannot stand their false primacy threatened any more than they can allow a rival magic of ancient lineage to resurface.
Thus we are in the middle of a magic war – a propaganda battle.
But the story is far from complete. There are others seeking to suppress such matters.
In the heart of Glastonbury itself (9 miles from Shepton Mallet, 5 from Pilton) a foreign-run organisation has established a ‘foundation’. It promotes a myriad shards of counterfeit cosmic nonsense at seminar prices.
This group has an interesting history. It appears to have first infiltrated Avalon through the premises of the now comatose ‘Real Israel Press’2. Probably in the late ‘70s, at the time when the terminology favoured such labels as ‘light centres’ one such established itself in half of the building.
It then used the contents of the Real Israel Press’s library to establish a base in Glastonbury centre … and proceeded from there to disseminate its mischief.
Beside conspiracy plotting which would connect this new element with an earlier one, but which would take a great deal of material to illustrate, there is one other more direct link that can be made.
One of the monks of Downside Abbey, mentioned earlier, in their own 'Downside Review’, wrote an article on the enigmatic prophecy of Melkin/Maelgwyn. (Circa 540 AD – the time attributed to King Arthur’s death).
This prophecy describes the Isle of Avalon (Glastonbury) as being more avid (eager) than anywhere else in the world for the death of pagans … pagans who have only appeared on the scene since the hippy era. The prophecy also proclaims the reappear-ance of the sarcophagus of Joseph of Arimathea, buried there according to legend. Anglicans, Roman Catholics and Pagans would have these legends kept well buried .
These stories are dangerous to the status quo. For they open up what to some would be a real threat: the reappearance of a powerful magical faith. Someone is scared.
1the Key To Shepton Mallet
“In 658, when the West Saxons captured Glastonbury, the British monks were neither killed nor expelled. An inter-racial community was allowed to take shape; here, in a sense, the United Kingdom was born.”
Geoffrey Ashe, Camelot and the Vision of Albion.
Any location on the map takes its character from the local geography, its peoples and the key events which make up its history … its ancient heritage.
In 705 King Ina chartered the land encompassing Shepton Mallet from Doulting to Croscombe, to Abbot Berwald. Thus Shepton Mallet was under the aegis of Pilton. Ina’s charter carries both a blessing and a curse. These ‘bindings’ invoke the power of God Almighty. As close to Wells as Croscombe may take us, Shepton’s natural allegiance is to Pilton and Glastonbury – traditional rivals of Wells. And, between Shepton and Avalon lies Pilton. But it is the Pilton of St John the Baptist, not the unworthy (!) broken and reversed CND cross, which is our pilgrim link to the heart of the magical Islands.
Just outside Shepton, on the Mayday sunrise/St Michael’s line which leads to Glastonbury and St Michael’s Mount off Penzance in Cornwall, lies Beacon Hill. Thus in a number of local minds, Shepton is the ‘Gateway to Avalon’. Such a gateway carries guardianship responsibilities, a password and a key. This is its heritage.
Through Shepton runs the River Sheppy, once known as Doulting Waters. The source of the Sheppy at Doulting was Christianised by St Aldhelm’s followers. Aldhelm was Ina’s nephew.
In 1085 the conquering Normans honoured Ina’s charter. When the Malet family gave their name to the town, they brought their family motto with them: “My strength comes from above.” This, then, is the password.
So, over a period of nearly 1300 years the key events for Shepton have been bound up with a common theme. Whether we like it or not, the key theme was the continued faith of our ancestors. If we turn our backs on this truth, which was the backbone of our forefathers for nigh on two millenia, do we not deserve to invoke the curse of Ina?
In 1990 the famous Chi Rho Amulet was unearthed near Shepton Mallet. It is the key to local history insofar as it gives the lie to Rome’s spurious claim for primacy. It continues the theme begun by the British, continued by the Saxon, Ina, and thereafter by the Norman Malet family.
The ‘Real Israel Press’ published small booklets on the legends of Glastonbury, including material on the lost tribes and the Stone of Destiny – recently returned to Scotland. (The Scots can now ‘make a king’ if they so decide – and already rumours to that end are being voiced). If the stone is reversing its original journey, can we expect it to return to Ireland … and then to Israel? And is there any reason to link it with the stone that Arthur pulled his first sword from? or was that a prophecy rather than an original fact?
“The true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.” Leonard Schapiro, political scientist and philosopher
The European View
“Now that the Community is turning into a Union, a third set of rights and duties is coming into being, creating a European citizenship separate and distinct from national citizenship; not taking its place but supplementing it.” A Citizen’s Europe, Pascal Fontaine, EC Publications Unit
“What is at stake here is the future of European unity, so the European Community must play its full part in the reorganisation of the media. We now advocate a European television channel operating to the design of the European Broadcasting Union.” The European People’s Party
“The Franco-German axis must continue to fulfil its federating function … The single current project is the principal and … only European federating project … the powerfully federalist character of this project has yet to be appreciated.” Hervé de Charette, French foreign minister
“The future will belong to the Germans … when we build the house of Europe … In the next two years we will make the process of European integration irreversible. This is a really big battle, but it is worth the fight.” Chancellor Helmut Kohl
“Never again must there be a destabilizing vacuum of power in central Europe. If European integration were not to progress, Germany might be called upon, or tempted by its own security constraints, to try to effect the stabilization on its own, and in the traditional way.”
German Christian Democratic Party document
“Now we do possess a European symbol which belongs to all nations equally. This is the Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, which embodies the tradition of Charlemagne, the ruler of a united occident … the Crown represents not merely the sovereignty of the monarch, but also the ties between authority and the people. True, it is the monarch who is crowned, but in this sacred act he appears as the representative of the whole people. It should therefore be considered whether the European head of state, as the protector of European law and justice, should not also become the guardian of a symbol which, more than any other, represents the sovereignty of the European community.” Otto von Hapsburg
The Catholic Dimension
“We will be joined to a Europe in which the Catholic religion will be the dominant faith, and in which the application of the Catholic Social Doctrine will be a major factor in everyday political and economic life.” Baroness Shirley Williams
“Catholics tend to be vertical, hierarchical and centralised … in other words, they tend to be corrupt, autocratic, with more susceptibility to the Mafia and maximum bureaucracy.” Marc Luyckx, EU official.
“What captures the unwavering attention of the secular leaders of the world in this remarkable network of the Roman Catholic Church is precisely the fact that it places at the personal disposal of the Pope a supra-national, supra-continental, supra-trade-bloc structure that is so built and oriented that if tomorrow or next week, by a sudden miracle, a one-world government were established, the Roman Church would not have to undergo any essential change in order to retain its dominant position to further its global aims.” Malachi Martin, ‘The Keys of this Blood’, 1990
“He is calmly preparing to assume the mantle which he solemnly believes to be his Divine Right – that of new Holy Roman Emperor, reigning from the Urals to the Atlantic.” The Sunday Telegraph, 1991, on the Pope’s plans.
The British Viewpoint
“Deceit in high places has brought us to our present plight, and it is vital that a united endeavour to get out of the iron grip of European politicians should now be made.” Lord Tonypandy of Rhondda, formerly George Thomas MP Speaker of the House of Commons 1976-1983
“There is no plot by the European Parliament to usurp powers from the House of Commons. The Commons has never had power over European laws. When ministers go to Brussels, they leave their democratic shackles behind them.” Bill Newton Dunn MEP
As a matter of law, the Courts of England recognise Parliament as being omnipotent in all save the power to destroy its omnipotence.” Lord Justice Megarry
“One reason that we do not have many riots in Britain is that people can have a say. Over many years I have said, “Do not riot; vote. You can defeat the government in that way and you will achieve what you want by peaceful means.” People do not realise that democracy hangs on a very slender, delicate thread. If the line is broken and people realise that no matter for whom they vote in an election, decisions will be taken by the European Union, I do not say they will riot, but we could not argue against action taken directly by them because there was no democratic route for the solution to their problem.” Tony Benn
“I am leaving because I can no longer support the Government’s policy on European Union … I have dealt with the European Union at first hand. I have supported a policy of attempting to reform it and building a relationship which protects British interests and prevents unwarranted interference in our affairs. This policy is not working. The drive to political union in Europe is relentless and has already gone beyond what most people regard as acceptable.” David Heathcote-Amory
“I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a Council Chamber in Europe.” Kenneth Clarke
“It is time for plain speaking on Europe. The fact is that Britain, in spite of its opt-out on monetary union and in spite of its increasing vocal Euro-sceptics, is today sleepwalking into a European superstate from which there will be no escape short of civil war, bloodier even than the Yugoslav fracas. The train of events leading to this momentous result is already in motion. There is still just time for Britain to jump off, but it is virtually now or never.” William Kenway, European Journal, April 1996
“The European legislation of 1972, 1986 and 1993 – swept through the British Parliament on a tide of ignorance and intimidation of MPs – was based on two unprecedented constitutional proceedures: firstly, the use of international treaties to negotiate the internal constitution of the United Kingdom; secondly, the general transfer by our Parliament of powers to the European Community which then legislates specifically within the United Kingdom by directive and regulation, which the British Parliament is powerless to resist. The transfer of general powers to the State to act without the sanction of Parliament is precisely how Adolf Hitler gained such absolute power through his emergency laws.” Rodney Atkinson, International
Currency Review
“A single currency will oblige Britain to become a member of the European Central Bank, the executive of which will be appointed for eight years. No matter what damage they inflict on us, no-one will be able to remove them … People will still have the right to vote, but that vote will be a gesture – a charade – because the parties and governments for whom they vote will no longer have the powers to rectify the wrongs inflicted on them.” Llew Smith Labour MP
“The European Commission … is not a programmatically hostile and aggressive force, as was Nazi Germany. But it is not benign. And the reason for its ill-disposition toward Britain … is of the same nature as felt by Napoleon, by Kaiser Wilhelm, and by Adolf Hitler.” Former defence minister Alan Clark
“A currency has meaning because it expresses national monetary sovereignty. The circumstances that might make a country want to give up its national monetary sovereignty irrevocably can never have anything rationally to do with economics – though the connection is often falsely made. A reason can be found only in politics or, more accurately, in the desire of certain groups to create, extend or buttress power for themselves at the expense of the electorates they are supposed to serve.” Bernard Connolly, The Rotten Heart of Europe, Faber & Faber, 1995
“On 9th November 1991, the Irish, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek foreign ministers had left a secret meeting with Jacques Delors in which he had promised fabulous amounts (6 billion Ecus to Ireland) of other people’s money if they pledged to support his federalist, corporatist ambitions in the final Maastricht negotiations. The Irish government had sold the country’s soul to Delors.” Bernard Connolly
“The British are, by nature and historically, bloody-minded and un-European. They stand in the way of “progress”. They cannot be bought, as have the Greeks and the Irish; nor can they be intimidated as were the Danes after voting “No” in their first referendum. The option of humiliating them by force of arms is not (at present) realistic. So the technique for their subjection has to be gradual: to first isolate and then erode those various indicators of British national identity and self-confidence – in particular, the pillars of their constitution and the powers and status of the elected Parliament, untikl the point is reached when (there being so little remaining) “resistance” can be dismissed simply as nothing more than nostalgia or eccentricity.” Alan Clark
“We’ll negotiate a withdrawal from the EEC, which has drained our natural resources and destroyed jobs.” Tony Blair, 1983
“We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not combined. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.” Winston Churchill
“If I were an MP I’d be Euro-sceptic too. How can you let a country with a great history, sovereign for 20 generations, disappear as a province of a bureaucractic Euro-state run by Helmut Kohl.” US Republican Pat Buchanan
“Japanese investors would actually prefer Britain to stay outside the single currency, so that their production bases here continue to enjoy the benefits of a competitive exchange rate. In fact, the interests of Japanese investors are identical to those of British exporters.” The Japanese deputy chairman of Nikko Securities
“The Union shall provide itself with the means necessary to attain its objectives and carry through its policies.” The Maastricht Treaty … “This clause, which could have come straight out of Hitler’s Enabling Act, completely nullifies the subsidiarity principle.” Dr Alan Sked
The quotations given here are extracted from Adrian Hilton’s The Principality and Power of Europe, Dorchester House Publications, Box 67, Rickmansworth, Herts WD3 5SJ
Hitler and Himmler were greatly influenced by the Jesuits, as was Mussolini, whose Father Confessor was a Jesuit. Dr J H Lehmann points out in his book Behind the Dictators that the Jesuit Father Staempfle wrote Mein Kampf for Hitler. The ‘ghost-wrting’ of Staempfle argues in Mein Kampf in favour of the indisputability of Catholic dogmas and of the intolerant attitude of Catholic education, as well as the necessity of blind faith and of the personal infallibility of the Pope. [J H Lehmann: Behind the Dictators, Agrora Publishing Company, New York, 1942].
Edmond Paris relates in The Vatican Against Europe that Hitler’s associate Hermann Rauschning recalls Hitler as saying that he learned most of all from the Jesuit order; ‘So far there has been nothing more imposing on earth than the hierarchical organisation of the Roman Catholic Church. A good part of that organisation I have transported to my own party … I will tell you a secret. I am founding an order.’ [Hitler m’a dit: H Rauschning, Editions Co-operation, 1939]1
Hitler was also quoted as saying of Heinrich Himmler; ‘In Himmler I see our Ignatius de Loyola.’ [Libres Propos, Flammarion, Paris 1952]. Walter Schellenberg [like Joseph Goebbels, Jesuit-educated], who led the SD or Sicherheitsdienst, the Security Service of the SS, and was sentenced to death at Nuremberg for crimes against humanity, stated that ‘The SS Organisation has been constituted by Himmler according to the principles of the Jesuit Order. Their regulations and the Spiritual Exercises prescribed by Ignatius of Loyola were the model Himmler tried to copy exactly.’ [The Vatican Against Europe: Edmond Paris, Wycliffe Press, London, 1961]
Himmler, whose uncle, ‘the Jesuit Father Himmler was the very eye and arm of Halke von Ledochowski, General of his order’, according to author Edmond Paris, ‘belonged to a family that was entirely devoted to the Church. His position as supreme chief of the SS was to be the equivalent of the “Jesuit’s General”, and the whole structure was a close imitation of the Catholic Church’s hierarchical order.’
The Nazi Party was brought to power through the acquiescence of the Catholic Central Party in Germany and the higher strategy of the Vatican. Instrumental in this strategy were Reich Chancellor Franz Von Papen and Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII. Von Papen, owner of the Central Party’s official paper Germania, played a leading part in obtaining Hitler his two thirds majority, signed the law which made Hitler Head of State and also was responsible for the enormously important Concordat with the Pope in 1933. The Concordat was his most remarkable acievement and the culmination of his close working with Pacelli and the Vatican. Von Papen declared; ‘The Third Reich is the first power in the world, not only to recognize, but to put into practice, the lofty principles of the Papacy.’
Pacelli, As Pius XII, became notorious for his silence with regard to Nazi atrocities and Von Papen, for his success in avoiding responsibility for them. Pius XII is high up on the present Pope’s short list for canonisation and Von Papen, who incredibly was acquitted at Nuremberg, was later appointed Papal Chamberlain to Pope John XXIII.
1 ’For two years he (Hitler) attended classes at the Benedictine monastery at Lambach … There he sang in the choir …’ [p.24 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L Shirer: Pan Books]
Extract taken from All Roads Lead To Rome? By Michael de Semlyen, Dorchester House Publications, 1993
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