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Some people have called England the true Holy Land, and I can well understand the depth of their feelings, for it is a land of verdant pastures, meandering rivers and deep magic. I first went there over twenty years ago, and have been back at least twenty times leading sacred tours to hidden places from the past. But on my very first visit to Stonehenge I experienced a time shift backwards into the past, where I saw the stones standing as they once had been before. I share this story in my first book Dialogues with the Angels, for it was an event that changed my life. Certainly Glastonbury is at the heart of these Mysteries, for it had been sacred to the Druids for thousands of years before Joseph Arimathea arrived to start the first Christian community. Apart from the damp, cold winters, and occasional showers, England is a place of rolling hills and overgrown heather trails, and a vibrant unspoken kind of power that is literally laid into the magnetic memory of the land. Among the Great White Brotherhood it is recorded that after Jesus graduated from Mt. Carmel, he traveled to Britain to study. He would have been about fifteen at the time, and British legends tell us that this is when he first began to study with the Druids. His voyage took him straight around the tip of the English coast along the Bristol Channel, into the area now known as Glastonbury. But in the days when Jesus first arrived in Britain, it was known as Ynnis-witryn or “the Isle of glass.” At that time, Glastonbury was an island still surrounded by the sea, w The Isle of Paradise "As late as the Middle Ages those who understood the magic science of invoking the spirit of revelation and ecstasy set up the naves, passages and cloisters to their great cathedrals… In this way the churches oriented upon the course of a ley preserved not only its line but also its character and atmosphere. Placed at an angle which allowed the heavenly rays to shine at a certain season down the nave through the windows east and west, the church transmitted the beneficial influences of the line on which it stood. It became a powerful instrument in the hands of those who knew its secret."
In these sacred places the dragon energy was so concentrated that it allowed healing and visions to take place because the veils were pulled aside between our dimension and the higher worlds. Thus these sites became focal points where the human rituals of song and dance and prayer interacted with the vitality of the Earth and enhanced the prosperity of the land, the plants, the animals and the people. And because of their unique construction, some of these places were used as initiation sites into the Mysteries of the heavenly worlds. “The dragon’s heart is to be found at a lonely knoll standing in a small plain or valley among the hills.” John Michell is speaking now of the Glastonbury Tor at Avalon where Jesus first settled. “From the central spot, the veins of the dragon current run over the surrounding ridges. Near the heart, its force, pent in by the hills, is strong and active. At this center, the dragon and the tiger, (the geomantic names for) the male and female currents, meet harmoniously.” Thus was this the true union of the male and female currents at the heart of Britain. The conscious knowledge of this important placement cannot be doubted, since the one symbol that Joseph of Arimathea used to mark the Chalice Well at Glastonbury Tor was the two overlapping circles of the Vesica Pises, revealing the Eye of Horus, the Christian mandorla, and the doorway into the Higher Worlds. The Sacred Spring The Holy House
In the western confines of Britain there is a certain royal island of large extent, surrounded by water, abounding in all the beauties of nature and necessaries of life. In it, the first enophites of the catholic law, God beforehand acquainted them, found a church constructed by no human art, but by the hand of Christ himself, for in the salvation of His people, the Almighty has made it manifest by many miracles and mysterious visitations that He continues to watch over it as sacred to Himself and to Mary, the Mother of God. While today, the historical records at the Glastonbury Abbey have vanished in the great fire of 1184, the White Brotherhood reports tell us that Jesus remained with the Druids in Britain for at least a year, and this agrees with the records from Galilee. What Jesus learned, and where he trained, we will return to shortly, but it is not without significance that it was in Avalon that Joseph of Arimathea returned in 37 C.E., shortly after the crucifixion, to set up the first Christian church. After Jesus’ death, this little hut became the center of Joseph’s new community, being surrounded by twelve other wattle huts, one for each of the twelve apostles. These circular homes were later known as anchorite huts, and became the tradition of early monastic Christians. But the basic template had come from the Celtic traditions of the Great White Brotherhood. Similar to both the Essenes and the Therapeutae, they based their communities around a central center like the Sun itself. As one disciple died, another disciple was appointed to take his place. This same geometric design with twelve circles around one large center, was rediscovered during the excavations of Glastonbury Abbey in the 20 th century, This Chapter Continues in...
Back to the Master Page of BOOKS, TAPES & CD'S Peter James and Nick Thorpe, Ancient Mysteries, (Ballantine Books),1990, pg. 293. I find no actual definition for this word, but through extraction one might assume it means early tenants or individuals. My editor has suggested that St. Augustine really meant neophytes, and transposed the letters. C.E. Street, Earthstar’s Visionary Landscape: London, City of Revelation ( Christopher E. Street), 2000, pg. 295. http://biblesearchers.com/hebrewchurch/primitive/primitive6.shtml#Magdalene John Michell, The New View Over Atlantis ( London: Thames and Hudson), 1969, pg. 174-175. John Michell, Twelve-Tribe Nations and the Science of Enchanting the Landscape, ( London: Thames and Hudson: Phanes), 1991, pg. 102-104. Lionel Smithett Lewis, Glastonbury, Mother of all Saints, Ibid. pg. 4. Saint Patrick arrived in Glastonbury from Ireland sometime in the mid 5 th century around 430 or 440 C.E. According to William of Malmesbury, he is buried somewhere on the property of Glastonbury Abbey. Yet Irish traditions state that he spent the last years of his life at Armagh, and died there at the age of 75, about the year 461. The place of his burial was kept secret in accordance with his wishes. The Book of Armagh dating around 800 C.E. says, "Where his bones are no one knows". REF: http://www.glastonburyshrine.co.uk/stpatric.htm Mitchell, New View Over Atlantis, pg. 53-54. John Michell, The New View Over Atlantis, (Thames and Hudson), 1983, pg. 69. |
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hich is now some seventeen miles away. 
The county of Somerset, where Avalon resides, was then called the Summerland, a place where the Shining Ones were said to have lived, even as late as the early centuries of the Christian era. St. Collen or St. Patrick closed the gates to these celestial visitors in the 5 th century,
But at the time when Jesus arrived, this land was surrounded by water rising from the inland sea in a chain of seven great hills, like the back of a huge undulating dragon. Paul Broadhurst and Hamish Miller, authors of The Sun and the Serpent, have spent over two decades charting the powerful serpentine energies that flow along these hills and that act as natural magnetic conductors. Today, these circuits are called ley lines, and evidence would suggest that these magnetic currents run throughout our entire planet, but are particularly strong at the places we call holy sites. Like the meridian lines of the human body, these ley lines are magnetic markers for the currents of life force that reside within the Earth, being linked to the movements of underground springs, and the electro-magnetic current found along hills, rivers and mountain ranges. While most of us are blithely unaware of this ancient science today, our ancestors knew and practiced these principles of engineering long ago, deliberately working with the flows of nature in their placement of temples, citadels, stone circles and holy sites. British geomantic expert John Mitchell tells us: 
Perhaps not surprisingly, these ley lines flow right through the heart of Glastonbury, itself, including the majestic Tor and the sacred spring called Chalice Well. They also extend through Salisbury Cathedral, Stonehenge, and Avebury, running all the way down to St. Michael’s Mount in Cornwall - all places that Jesus visited.
In later centuries, the keys to this sacred science were lost to us, and over the last two thousand years of Christian repression, we have all but forgotten the science behind it. Historian John Michell tells us: “The policy of the Christian Church was to destroy all documents relating to the former science and to suppress the practice of astronomy. As a result of their rejection of the mysteries and of traditional scholarship, Christian philosophers lost the ability to fully appreciate the system of names, numbers and symbols they had inherited.”
When Jesus first arrived in Avalon as a lad, the verdant isle of Avalon encompassed not only the mound of the majestic Tor, where the tower of St. Michael still stands today, but all the wide lands around it. Near the base of the hill was a holy spring that flowed in two distinct streams, one white, one red, representing the yin-yang currents of these dragon lines. The Vicar of Glastonbury tells us that this marvelous two-chambered well, so similar to an Egyptian one, was known as Chalice Well,
Near the base of the gently rising Tor, Jesus was said to have built a little wattle hut by the bubbling spring beside a large oak tree. In later centuries, this spring was associated with the myths and legends of King Arthur and the Holy Grail. But long before the Round Table ever existed, the spring had been dedicated to Isis, the goddess of love. Isis is forever linked with Horus, her son, as well as the wise god Thoth, a subject we shall return to shortly. While Caesar tells us that Thoth was one of the chief deities of the Druids,
According to legend, it was at Avalon that Jesus first lived at the tender age of fourteen or fifteen, and it was to this place that he returned in the years before he began his ministry in Palestine. The Celtic legends tell us that he built a little wattle house for himself by weaving the tall, pliable, pulpy reeds together, and fastening them into the ground with postholes. This was the common form of building in Britain at the time, and examples of this kind of construction can still be found in England today in the thatched roofs of older villages. This thatch and wattle hut was to become his sanctuary when he returned to Britain as a man before embarking on the events that would ultimately lead to his crucifixion.
It was, as they say, a house created “by no human hands,” meaning that it was Jesus who built it. In a letter written to Pope Gregory by the early Church father St. Augustine, who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in England in 599 C.E., we read:
with its pattern inscribed into the floor of Mary’s Chapel. This geometry links Jesus directly with the Solar Logos, the central core of our solar system. The fact, that the diameters of the huts were exactly 21.6 feet in width, reveals its link to the star wisdom of the Zodiac, for 21.6 is a scaled down version of the 2160-year cycle that marks the twelve astrological Ages of the heavens.