1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,720 The Michael Line, The Cabalard and The Terror, presented by Paul Weston. A vision... 2 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:16,879 along the St Michael Line, exploring divination, the greenstone and sacred site... 3 00:00:16,879 --> 00:00:23,160 by the psychic questing movement. Recorded live at Megalithomania Conference 2006. 4 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:38,079 Welcome to my lecture then, thanks for coming. This is The Michael Line, The... 5 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:48,000 Now I'm not here to engage in any archaeological considerations, this is an... 6 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:55,920 Glastonbury journey that we're going to be entering into here. My attitude to all of... 7 00:00:55,920 --> 00:01:02,240 is to simply take the Michael Line concept, the Michael Lay Line, as a... 8 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:10,000 geomythic reality and to feel that okay, if you play games with that, stuff happens. 9 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:18,159 Now I'm going to paraphrase ever so slightly the words of Alastair Crowley to sum up my... 10 00:01:18,799 --> 00:01:26,399 in this lecture. It's spoken of the Sephiroth and the paths of spheres, planes, many oth... 11 00:01:26,399 --> 00:01:34,719 which may or may not exist. It's immaterial whether they exist or not. By doing certain 12 00:01:34,719 --> 00:01:41,280 things, certain results follow. Be most earnestly warned against attributing... 13 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:53,280 philosophic validity to any of them. The whole thing really kicks off with 14 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,040 John Michele's book The View Over Atlantis that came out in 1969. 15 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:08,479 In this book he noted a relationship between 16 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:17,280 the ruined church of St Michael and the Burrow Mump. 17 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:23,280 This site, the ruined church of St Michael or the Burrow Bridge, generally known as Burr... 18 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:29,280 not all that far away from here, you can see that it bears a fairly obvious visual... 19 00:02:30,319 --> 00:02:36,240 to Glastonbury Tor and the two seem to be aligned together in some way, facing the s... 20 00:02:36,240 --> 00:03:02,719 a 21 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:32,020 little bit of a 22 00:03:36,719 --> 00:03:43,760 The churches dedicated to Michael are usually built over old pagan sites and it's... 23 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:48,560 that during the Middle Ages his feast day, or one of his feast days I should say, was Ma... 24 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:57,360 Now this man, Rudolf Stein, at one of the 20th century's great visionaries, believed... 25 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:03,840 mystically inclined Christians that we've entered into since the end of the 19th... 26 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:09,840 epoch of the Archangel Michael, which is part of the run into the whole conflagration of... 27 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:16,240 days etc. The thing that's interesting about Steiner, although he's generally known as an 28 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:24,240 esoteric Christian, is that he felt that the Archangel Michael was a form of the... 29 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:30,160 god Belmarduch and that doesn't really tend to endear him to fundamentalist Christians. 30 00:04:34,239 --> 00:04:40,719 Steiner's ideas are quite widespread and they've influenced people like Glastonbury... 31 00:04:40,719 --> 00:04:46,799 Walsy Tudor Pole and also the man known as the grandfather of the New Age movement,... 32 00:04:48,719 --> 00:04:51,039 Michael, that's not George Trevelyan by the way, believe me. 33 00:04:54,319 --> 00:04:59,359 Michael's also been linked with Apollo and most interestingly for the point of view of 34 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,800 British landscape mysteries. Batch of King Arthur, please. 35 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:13,759 With the Pendragon King, Arthur, and in fact people like Trevelyan will kind of see a... 36 00:05:13,759 --> 00:05:20,639 of command from Christ down through the Archangel Michael to Arthur and that kind ... 37 00:05:20,639 --> 00:05:27,199 the idea of what Pendragon is supposed to mean, the name attributed to Arthur. 38 00:05:27,439 --> 00:05:33,599 If you extend the Michael line in the other direction, we've been west down to Cormoran, 39 00:05:33,599 --> 00:05:38,639 if you start moving at east you'll find that it goes through these extraordinary places... 40 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:47,599 our greatest megalithic temple, Avebury, and that's been conceived of as something that... 41 00:05:47,599 --> 00:05:56,399 strong serpentine element to its design. This is the famous work of Steiner, 42 00:05:58,079 --> 00:06:03,279 he was around at a time before a lot of the stones got demolished and generally... 43 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:08,479 and he drew the whole thing with avenues that are not totally intact now and you can see... 44 00:06:08,479 --> 00:06:14,079 near it is to Silbury Hill. There's this idea that maybe there's something that you coul... 45 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:19,360 a Pendragon force in the ground, you know, terrestrial Kundalini. 46 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:29,520 All these ideas will move to another level of the game in 1989 with the publication of this 47 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:35,360 classic earth mysteries, Texas Sun and the Serpent, which is an account of a journey... 48 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:42,639 the Michael line by researcher Paul Broadhurst and Douser Hamish Miller. In a ... 49 00:06:42,639 --> 00:06:49,279 the whole length of the line Miller came to believe that the energies are a kind of... 50 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:58,159 that manifests in the form of a caduceus, one part of which could be considered very... 51 00:06:58,159 --> 00:07:03,199 and generally to be male and one to be female and there's some kind of alchemy of energi... 52 00:07:03,199 --> 00:07:12,000 works its way all the way along the line in this manner. The whole thing, that's only ... 53 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:17,519 of the major sites are upon it but you can see the broad relationship of the tour of... 54 00:07:17,519 --> 00:07:23,279 of the sites down to Cornwall and the fact that it goes all the way along up to Norfo... 55 00:07:23,279 --> 00:07:30,639 St Edmunds and beyond and according to the Sun and the Serpent the whole thing is... 56 00:07:30,639 --> 00:07:36,879 to what you could call the Beltane sunrise period, which is pretty much right now thi... 57 00:07:37,839 --> 00:07:43,920 It has been speculated that these sites lie along an earthquake fault line. Two of the... 58 00:07:44,719 --> 00:07:49,680 buildings along it, Blastonby Tour and some of the buildings on St Michael's Mount wer... 59 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:56,079 destroyed by the same earthquake I think in the 13th century, that's quite rare but... 60 00:07:56,079 --> 00:08:01,920 as my general kind of intro and overview of that subject is concerned. I just take all... 61 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:12,640 kind of thing as read as I said. In July 1990 I was very much involved in psychic questing 62 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:20,160 and in particular this saga of the seventh sword, Andrew Colling's great cult book, 63 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:28,720 a group of us at the time were basically living a life where we were willing to act... 64 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:35,519 inspirations, visions, dreams, portents, all this kind of thing. Go off and visit sacre... 65 00:08:35,519 --> 00:08:42,639 the slightest excuse and see what developed as a result of it. With that kind of gener... 66 00:08:43,279 --> 00:08:48,720 I came down to Glastonbury in July 1990 with one of the psychic questing group at the... 67 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:54,399 a guy called Alex Langstone, just for a bit of R and R, nothing overly mystical about ... 68 00:08:54,399 --> 00:09:01,519 the long journey from Essex down to Somerset we just started burbling away and talking... 69 00:09:01,519 --> 00:09:09,519 you do and we got onto the subject of the Michael line and we started talking someho... 70 00:09:09,519 --> 00:09:14,799 you get these things like the Lombard RAC car rally where you get these mud spattered cars 71 00:09:16,319 --> 00:09:22,000 careering along the road at a hectic pace, one guy's navigating, they're going along, 72 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,879 it's all very intense, a lot of fun and we thought, well why not have a Michael line... 73 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:32,799 Why not try and cover the whole length of the Michael line over the Maybank holiday, 74 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:39,440 go down to Cornwall, start off on Saturday morning and see if we could do the whole... 75 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:48,159 the end of the Monday. We realised if we could do this, this would be magic for the... 76 00:09:48,159 --> 00:09:53,759 we knew that the Knights Templars would never have been able to do this at 90 miles an hour 77 00:09:53,759 --> 00:09:59,199 listed to Osric tentacles, so it was obviously a kind of new form of urban... 78 00:09:59,199 --> 00:10:06,559 experimenting with. The idea would be we wouldn't just be sightseeing, every single... 79 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:14,079 visited we'd do something, some kind of visualisation, meditation, simple ritualis... 80 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:20,560 kind. So at that point the idea of the Michael line rally was born and we talked... 81 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:24,879 other members of the group at the time and they were up for it and we scheduled it fo... 82 00:10:24,879 --> 00:10:33,120 of 1991. Now when the spring came around I realised that I needed a theme for all this 83 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:42,400 and I looked at what is very much a period piece, Earth Mysteries, Classic of the 1970s, 84 00:10:42,399 --> 00:10:50,399 Quicksilver Heritage by Paul Screaton. Now a lot of these books to our way of thinking ... 85 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:55,360 seem a little bit naive and out of date but I've got a real affinity for these books a... 86 00:10:55,360 --> 00:11:00,480 like them and I think that even now in the present day there's a lot of inspiration t... 87 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:09,199 from the ideas of that time. Screaton talked for a few pages about landscape Kabbalah. ... 88 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,879 the major mystical system of the Western mystery tradition, 89 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:19,840 supposedly a map of how human consciousness and the universe hangs together. If there'... 90 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:24,080 in that then there ought to be something that you could get from it that will tell you a... 91 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:30,800 about the Earth Mysteries and the landscape and so on. In all of these pages he only... 92 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,800 one tangible example of what that would mean 93 00:11:34,799 --> 00:11:45,759 and that's our old mate the Kernabbers giant. Now this image, an Ithiphalic, 94 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:54,240 hopefully I haven't got Latin that went spouting a big stonking stiffy, Ithiphalic... 95 00:11:54,240 --> 00:12:00,879 figure, corresponds to the magical image that is associated with one of the spheres of t... 96 00:12:00,879 --> 00:12:06,639 Life that's called the Essard. Now that was as far as that exposition went but that's ... 97 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:12,480 mention in print that I can find anywhere of the concept of landscape Kabbalah 98 00:12:13,279 --> 00:12:19,120 but for me the whole thing was significantly vibed up by my knowledge of this. 99 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:27,039 The Green Stone Saga as initially written up by Graham Fitz and Martin Keatman and then... 100 00:12:27,599 --> 00:12:32,959 quite a lot of it and a lot more detail in Andes the seventh sword is really where th... 101 00:12:32,959 --> 00:12:39,360 phenomenon of psychic questing started and in my opinion the Green Stone Seventh Sword S... 102 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:46,000 greatest paranormal drama to be played out in this country in the 20th century, an absol... 103 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:53,679 of paranormal riches. The basic story in a nutshell is that the usual sequence of... 104 00:12:53,679 --> 00:13:00,079 strange experiences led a group of people in the late 70s to believe that there actuall... 105 00:13:00,079 --> 00:13:06,559 existed a green talismanic jewel embodying tremendous magical power that had been passed 106 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:11,519 down through a list of the usual suspects the Rosicrucians, Knights, Templars and so on 107 00:13:12,159 --> 00:13:22,879 back to the time of the heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and that this thing still existe... 108 00:13:22,879 --> 00:13:28,799 could be retrieved in the British landscape and in an amazing sequence of events actua... 109 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:36,720 A whole series of psychic visions and general intuitions created a kind of history for this 110 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:45,360 thing and the idea was that there had been contacts between the court of Akhenaten an... 111 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:51,279 refugees if you like for the megalithic culture of Britain. We're talking about a... 112 00:13:51,279 --> 00:13:57,279 that is kind of on the cusp of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, the era of places like... 113 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:02,959 and the building of has already passed. We're into the sort of classic time of stone eng... 114 00:14:02,959 --> 00:14:09,360 of thing and with that the whole vexed question of whether there is any contact... 115 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:15,759 culture and Egyptians. Now anyone that's interested in that, it's not a particularl... 116 00:14:15,759 --> 00:14:20,799 that's Kingdom of the Art by Lorraine Evans which is a Graham Phillips inspired book that 117 00:14:22,639 --> 00:14:30,720 is based on an investigation of the persistent medieval legends that Scotland... 118 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:37,919 was founded by a woman, a princess called Scota who was actually a daughter of an... 119 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:44,399 and Evans believes inspired by Graham Phillips that this was for real and that t... 120 00:14:44,399 --> 00:14:49,840 actually a daughter of Akhenaten. In the midst of all of this you've got the idea 121 00:14:52,159 --> 00:14:57,759 that there was a meeting of esoteric technology that a group of people came fro... 122 00:14:57,759 --> 00:15:03,439 to Egypt and Graham had a vision of this green talismanic jewel in the actual... 123 00:15:03,439 --> 00:15:08,720 pharaoh Akhenaten and then a bunch of guys, small bunch of people, no more than maybe... 124 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:16,480 people leave Egypt when everything goes badly wrong for Akhenaten and they come back to... 125 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:22,720 the technology for this stone originated which is Britain and the idea was with the... 126 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:31,040 retrieved in 1981 that Andy Collins and Graham Phillips went for a journey inspire... 127 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:38,480 of visions which would be retracing the steps of these Egyptian refugees and they left t... 128 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:44,879 of stored up magical power in some of these different places and sure enough were led... 129 00:15:44,879 --> 00:15:53,200 all of this and it later turned out that the sequence of sites that they visited, Graham 130 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:00,960 initially referred to it as the Beltane line but it was realised that all of these site... 131 00:16:01,600 --> 00:16:07,759 on the Michael line and that they seemed to resonate with the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. 132 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,240 Now the way I'm going to explain this, some of you may know the Kabbalah, that's great, 133 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:16,639 you may well get some interesting ideas as a result of this. If you don't know the... 134 00:16:17,759 --> 00:16:24,080 most of these different spheres I should say have got planetary attributions so if I ki... 135 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:29,039 mention some of these that will help some of these ideas to resonate. It's not that... 136 00:16:29,039 --> 00:16:35,120 if you don't really get a full grasp of this as I'm going through this. The source of t... 137 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:42,399 thing which for people who know the Kabbalah is Kethar is the Merry Maiden Stone Circle... 138 00:16:42,399 --> 00:16:49,120 although at that time was not in any way connected with the Michael line was later ... 139 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,879 Brawdust and Millard Douse that's being connected to it in some way. 140 00:16:55,120 --> 00:17:02,639 Dossmeree Pole and the Hurla Stone Circle and also Roche Rock were all in an area which we 141 00:17:02,639 --> 00:17:10,240 can call Saturnian which is the Kabbalistic sphere of Bena. The more obvious one, 142 00:17:13,039 --> 00:17:18,799 the Tor, the solar tifereth, the sun, that's a pretty obvious one and then that's a bit 143 00:17:18,799 --> 00:17:23,920 of a fanciful vision of Abraham, Silberil but you get the general idea that they're all... 144 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:32,000 of one zone. This is Venus and then the White Horse of Uffenton, Wayland Smithy, that's... 145 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:39,840 Which is Hod. So there's this kind of idea that there are sites on the Michael line t... 146 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:45,840 in some kind of coherent manner with the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. I'd got that in ... 147 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:51,520 already from my association with Andy none of this is actually written down in any of th... 148 00:17:51,520 --> 00:18:00,880 the Green Stone or the Seventh Sword. This is William Blake's famous image of the giant... 149 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:07,440 the personification of our island realm. Now when Jean Michel first came up with the id... 150 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:13,440 Michael line he painted a mural on the wall of a cafe in Glastonbury which was his... 151 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:19,280 giant albion stretched out along the Michael line so that Michael line could be conceiv... 152 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:26,240 kind of spinal column of the giant albion. Now there's a village up here and I think... 153 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:35,359 called I and that kind of made a difference as to what end this image was pointing up ... 154 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:42,319 head was up in Suffolk and like the feet are down in Cornwall and that's become a... 155 00:18:42,319 --> 00:18:46,720 part of the mythology. It's mentioned again in the Sun and the Serpent. Now I'm not... 156 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:53,519 dissing that I'm just now going to present a different angle on some ideas there which... 157 00:18:53,519 --> 00:19:02,160 in my experience proved to be quite fruitful. Now we know that Blake was in the Kabbalah... 158 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:08,799 guy read a lot more than maybe some people might imagine and in the Kabbalah we've got 159 00:19:10,879 --> 00:19:17,680 an idea of this cosmic human hermaphroditic in form called Adam Kadmon 160 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:24,560 and you can see where there's Hebrew letters above the head and the shoulders and so on... 161 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:31,680 where you would map out the Kabbalistic tree of life on the body of Adam Kadmon and it'... 162 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:39,200 like the subtle anatomy that we've become quite familiar to in the yogic chakra syst... 163 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:44,960 this kind of imagery has become very widespread through new age culture. So I... 164 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:52,000 okay I know about Albion. Albion is a possible Adam Kadmon. I've got this idea o... 165 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:57,600 and so on in the Michael line. It's a case of kind of how to go about using it in the... 166 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:10,400 So you can see there that I've got an image of Blake's Albion and we've got the sphere... 167 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:16,240 middle pillar of the tree of life. The Kabbalah, Kethar at the top moving down... 168 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:23,840 and down to Malkuth marked out on the body and anyone who knows the western mystery... 169 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:29,759 of the 20th century will know that it's considered that between the spheres of the... 170 00:20:29,759 --> 00:20:37,680 pathways that are mapped out by tarot trumps with the major arcana. You know this is ki... 171 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:42,400 well established people. There are some slight slight contention over what cards g... 172 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:48,720 most of the major systems like the golden dawn, the attributions that Dion Fortuny has 173 00:20:49,279 --> 00:20:55,440 accepted the golden dawn attributions, Crowley broadly the same with just one car... 174 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,880 that's based on a passage in the book of the law which some of you might know. 175 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:11,520 So I realised that there was room for creative magic by using another one of Gra... 176 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:16,080 very interesting ideas because as well as landscape Kabbalah along the Michael line, 177 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:23,200 Graham also talked about landscape tarot. So what do I mean by that? To give a quick... 178 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:30,559 to that idea here we've got an icon of Joseph of Arimathea, Glastonbury's most famous... 179 00:21:30,559 --> 00:21:39,120 visitor with his famous staff which he placed in the ground and which flowered and you c... 180 00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:44,960 white image of the Ace of Wands. Where did Joseph of Arimathea famously do this? 181 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:55,519 This is Wyril Hill, the holy thorn, one of the last surviving living medieval relics ... 182 00:21:55,519 --> 00:22:00,960 This version of it only went up in 1950 from an orichum cutting but that could be... 183 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:06,079 of as an Ace of Wands site. So that gives you a kind of little idea of how that sort of... 184 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,519 So I had taken that on board, I was going to use that idea, I was going to take the bal... 185 00:22:11,519 --> 00:22:16,079 with it. How was I going to do this with the middle pillar of the Michael line? Because I 186 00:22:16,079 --> 00:22:23,039 just wanted to emphasise the major sites there. The High Priestess card is the one... 187 00:22:23,039 --> 00:22:31,119 together the Crown in Tifereth, the Crown in Keithale, the Merry Maidens down to Tifereth, 188 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:38,000 Glastonbury. So where in Glastonbury could you do a visionary visualisation path work... 189 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:45,759 the High Priestess card? Well here we've got Glastonbury Abbey, one time major shrine o... 190 00:22:45,759 --> 00:22:54,640 Lady of Glastonbury. And down in the ruins is what's now known as the Mary Chapel. So wh... 191 00:22:54,640 --> 00:23:01,359 went off on this journey at the beginning of May 1991, we ended up gathering ourselves... 192 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:08,159 and where those flowers are on the altar, there used to be a cross, sat around in fr... 193 00:23:08,159 --> 00:23:15,759 and visualised as soon as it actually was in reality and then saw the cross begin to gl... 194 00:23:15,759 --> 00:23:23,519 and expand into an egg of light that just filled up the entire area. And then, inspi... 195 00:23:23,519 --> 00:23:30,000 the greatest of all the images of the High Priestess card, Crowley's version, a great... 196 00:23:30,079 --> 00:23:35,359 drawn between two pillars of the template either side and a figure appeared behind i... 197 00:23:36,079 --> 00:23:42,720 Virgin Mary, stroke Isis, Queen of Heaven. And that's very effective. Now I happen to... 198 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:48,960 when I was getting the ideas for this together, the mythic tarot. And what... 199 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:54,160 is not necessarily a deck that's loaded up with cavalistic magical associations at all, 200 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:59,920 but I really noted that image of the steps leading into that doorway into the landsca... 201 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:06,640 So I incorporated that into it and saw behind the High Priestess figure, down in the Mar... 202 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:11,839 a doorway into the landscape through which you could see the Mary maidens. And that s... 203 00:24:11,839 --> 00:24:15,759 starts to give you an idea of how that kind of thing would work in the landscape. 204 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,640 Now in the midst of all of this, all kinds of fun and games started to happen to me once I 205 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:28,560 said it in motion. I had a dream that I was flying over the White Alps of Uffington 206 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:35,280 and somewhere a little beyond that, looking down, I could see this area, 207 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:44,160 big fields, few trees and what looked like some kind of mounds of some kind. And I ju... 208 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:48,880 that's seven barrows. And when I woke up, I thought, well, what the hell was all that... 209 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:54,160 And I asked Alex Langstone about it. I said, is there a place called Seven Barrows not all 210 00:24:54,160 --> 00:25:00,720 that far away from the White Alps of Uffington? And he said, well, yeah, it is.... 211 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:07,520 there is some kind of significance for our journey there. This is another one of thos... 212 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:14,320 1970s texts that archaeologists and historians just pulled their hair out with... 213 00:25:14,319 --> 00:25:20,799 journey in which another great ley line is postulated across the English landscape. 214 00:25:23,519 --> 00:25:28,079 And that is, you can see it running north to south. It's known as the Bellinus line. 215 00:25:29,439 --> 00:25:36,000 From the point of view of any of the normal systems of verification that people tend t... 216 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:43,519 it's a complete nonsense. But we'd already had a few episodes and so I could question... 217 00:25:43,519 --> 00:25:47,839 at the end of 1990 that had led us to believe that there was something about it that was... 218 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:54,240 What was really strange about this was that Seven Barrows is as near as makes no... 219 00:25:54,240 --> 00:26:00,559 at the joining point of the Michael line and the Bellinus line. And Seven Barrows is no... 220 00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:06,160 in The Sun and the Serpent and it is not mentioned in Brigantia and I have never he... 221 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:12,240 So why on earth was I, when I thought the Bellinus line was in certain respects... 222 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:17,680 having a dream like that? Clearly we were going to visit it, which we did, wandered... 223 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:23,599 barrows, dung a few Tibetan bowls on top of them like dough and ultimately did the... 224 00:26:23,599 --> 00:26:29,440 was to visualise an enormous great cross of light extending across the landscape from... 225 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,720 up and down the Bellinus line and along the Michael line. 226 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:40,240 The next port of coal from the point of view of the Cabalistic Tarot attributions was near 227 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:47,519 Dulchester on Thames. And this is a place on the horizon you can see a place called 228 00:26:47,519 --> 00:26:53,839 Whitlam Clumps, there's the River Thames and the buildings are one of the locks, Day's... 229 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:07,599 That's Whitlam Clumps, used by the Romans, used in the Iron Age as a hill fort, 230 00:27:07,599 --> 00:27:11,439 it's been featured on Time Team, interesting kind of place. 231 00:27:13,679 --> 00:27:20,319 What I was looking at was the link between Tifereth Glastonbury and 232 00:27:21,279 --> 00:27:30,159 Yesod, Dulchester, and that's going to be the Temperance card. This is the classic... 233 00:27:30,159 --> 00:27:35,839 version of it, the Waite card. Now what you've got here is the place where the... 234 00:27:35,839 --> 00:27:46,399 and the Thames cross, so that's very interesting in itself. And I looked at the... 235 00:27:48,879 --> 00:27:53,839 this figure, Iris the Rainbow Goddess, and I remembered that in the cabal there's like a 236 00:27:53,839 --> 00:28:00,959 veil that crosses between Yesod on the way up to Tifereth, it's called Paraketh, 237 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:08,640 it's normally portrayed with a rainbow. So to give you a real sense of how this journey... 238 00:28:11,039 --> 00:28:17,519 it is my great pleasure to premiere today a work by Glastonbury artist, Yuri Leach, 239 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:26,000 especially commissioned for this event. This is the Ancient of Temperance, you can see... 240 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:31,759 foot on the land the Michael line, one foot in the water, the River Thames, you can se... 241 00:28:31,759 --> 00:28:39,279 clumps in the background. On either side to the left the White Horse of Uffington,... 242 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:46,880 to the right is Silbury Hill, it's part of the Silbury Hill, Avebury, Venus, Netsire... 243 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:53,599 Above that is the Tour de Soler Tifereth. Now picture the scene if you can, by this stag... 244 00:28:53,599 --> 00:29:00,799 the day we've come to Dorchester, it's twilight, it's an evening in early May, fi... 245 00:29:00,799 --> 00:29:07,039 be come out and been reflected on the water, we're sitting by the side of the river in ... 246 00:29:07,039 --> 00:29:12,799 around a lantern with a little candle in it and we imagine that light in that lantern... 247 00:29:12,799 --> 00:29:19,759 bigger until it becomes a great egg of light that encompasses us all and then through t... 248 00:29:20,319 --> 00:29:27,119 as if in wonderful sunshine our own version of this image and between the chalices, 249 00:29:27,119 --> 00:29:33,920 the golden silver chalice, the energies of the Michael line and the Thames go in eter... 250 00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:42,480 and equilibrium and equipoise. The way the image came together was so striking and ha... 251 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:49,519 of harmony and perfection about it that I really realised more than ever before how... 252 00:29:49,519 --> 00:29:55,279 wild adventures of Andy and Graham years before, 10 years prior to that with the id... 253 00:29:55,279 --> 00:30:04,079 line cabal still had a tremendous amount of scope to expand on a magical mystical leve... 254 00:30:04,079 --> 00:30:09,680 nothing else actually doing that path working there just felt absolutely and utterly... 255 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:17,680 you know, and that is really the bottom line. The world card links together, 256 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:27,039 Yesod and Malcooth, we were going to do this thing in Berryston Edmonds in the ruins of... 257 00:30:29,759 --> 00:30:36,000 and the visualisation I came up with was an image of the giant Albion standing, you know, 258 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:43,200 between two parts of the old ruins, once being an arch presumably, Archangel Michae... 259 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:49,759 Mary on either side of him, sun rising behind his head, as it rises behind his head it... 260 00:30:49,759 --> 00:30:56,640 a crown, they both put their hands on it and they crown him. While we were doing this... 261 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:02,240 stranger things were also going on which were a measure of the whole idea of psychic... 262 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:08,640 it worked in those days. One of the people that was with us, Debbie Benstead, was the... 263 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:14,800 psychic of the group at that time, she was a major visionary who was able to bring about 264 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:20,000 physical manifestations of things at the same time. While we were doing this visualisation 265 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:26,800 she saw going on around us some strange ceremony with these guys in robes and she... 266 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:35,600 were masons or something like that and it was all connected with Edward VII and Edward V... 267 00:31:35,599 --> 00:31:41,679 actually there and it was some kind of the king and the lander one masonic ceremony,... 268 00:31:41,679 --> 00:31:46,319 pumping all that kind of stuff up and while she was looking at this visionary scene it... 269 00:31:46,319 --> 00:31:53,919 one of the figures in it tangibly registered it, looks at her, holding something in his... 270 00:31:53,919 --> 00:31:58,559 it at her and it hits her in the side of the head and she feels like she's got this pie... 271 00:31:58,559 --> 00:32:05,439 in her head. Now that all seems pretty strange as indeed it is but we recognise t... 272 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:10,320 signs that possibly there was some kind of physical artefact out there that we were... 273 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:16,080 to connect up with as a way of anchoring the full manifestation of what we've been doing. 274 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:24,080 We later find out that Edward VII was actually at one point the top mason in the... 275 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:29,600 he was very very strong in all this and in fact he did visit Barry St Edmunds, we can... 276 00:32:29,599 --> 00:32:35,839 say that much. So we leave there on our way to the final part of our journey 277 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,599 and it's not a very good shot but it gives you a general idea that's the ruined church 278 00:32:41,599 --> 00:32:49,439 of St Margaret's at Hopton on sea, gutted by fire in the 19th century, never really... 279 00:32:51,039 --> 00:32:56,079 It's the place where the caduceus energies join according to Broadhurston Miller for ... 280 00:32:56,079 --> 00:33:02,079 before they kind of disappear off into the sea. Now in the middle of it all you can s... 281 00:33:02,079 --> 00:33:07,199 state of ruination, how overgrown it is, you might just about be able to make out that... 282 00:33:07,199 --> 00:33:14,079 cross standing there to signify that it's still considered to be hallowed ground. We... 283 00:33:14,079 --> 00:33:19,199 visualisation and Debbie started to say look this thing that's been thrown into my head... 284 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:25,920 it's actually physically here in this place right now and we can find it and she start... 285 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:31,519 of use a sort of hand dousing really just wondering about getting a general sense of... 286 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:42,480 That's not a very good picture but, go back from that, go back, back from that, not a... 287 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:50,160 picture but round about where the foot of that big tree was she settled upon a... 288 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:57,759 and said look it's in there and there was a lot of bits of brick and rubble and brambl... 289 00:33:57,759 --> 00:34:03,680 and stuff, the ground had not been disturbed there for a long time. Now early on in the... 290 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:08,320 far back as Cornwall when at periodic times through it especially when we passed throu... 291 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:13,840 she kept coming up with images of the line and the unicorn and that the line and the... 292 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:18,800 not just about the coat of arms of England and Scotland being joined together but the... 293 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:24,480 magical alchemical reality in them and that there was something in that imagery that a... 294 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:32,880 what was going on in the landscape of the Michael line. Start scrabbling away in the... 295 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:39,840 bottom of the tray, get down to the level where the earth is, something becomes visi... 296 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:47,119 the earth, it's uncovered and it's not a very clear image but it's pretty obvious that's... 297 00:34:47,119 --> 00:34:55,680 line of the unicorn. What we later discovered that was apparently is a royal fusiliers c... 298 00:34:55,679 --> 00:35:06,480 You can tell from if you look at it and I have actually got it with me and if you as... 299 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:14,480 It's clearly very old, you can tell from the lead paint on it, it may well date to a... 300 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:20,319 It's been there for a long time, what it was doing there and how we came to find it in... 301 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:27,360 is a complete and utter total mystery to me to this day but it proved to be the climax to 302 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:34,000 what was a journey through layers of English history, from the time of the megaliths... 303 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:39,760 to the early middle ages through to the occultism of the 19th century. All of this... 304 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:46,080 as I said a psychodeographical geometric reality along the Michael line if you're... 305 00:35:46,079 --> 00:35:49,679 approach it in a certain manner, if you are willing to approach it in a certain manner, 306 00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:55,360 a most excellent adventure awaits you and that's another bit of artwork from Uri Lea... 307 00:35:55,360 --> 00:36:00,400 did at the time to commemorate that journey showing the theme of the the line in the... 308 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:08,559 Michael's Mount and the ruined church at Hopton. Did the Michael line a couple of... 309 00:36:08,559 --> 00:36:15,920 early 90s and then moved to Glastonbury and when it came to 1997 and I knew that the... 310 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:20,720 was coming up on May Day and there was a fair chance there'd be a change of government I... 311 00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:26,720 thinking maybe it's time to do it again. Now at that time I was working in a dark satan... 312 00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:31,840 in Glastonbury performing robot repetitive tasks that did not need the full engagemen... 313 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:39,760 attention energy so while that was happening I was imagining myself a couple of hundred... 314 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:45,119 in the directly sort of standing through the roof of the building that I was in with al... 315 00:36:45,119 --> 00:36:51,599 of the cabal, you know majorly a light all down my body of light and reciting all the... 316 00:36:51,599 --> 00:36:57,359 that are appropriate to the different Sephiroth and then imagining the gigantic... 317 00:36:57,359 --> 00:37:03,119 mild high were coming at me from the four quarters and a huge download of cosmic lig... 318 00:37:03,119 --> 00:37:09,679 down from my head. That is the only way to keep staining in coplastics if anybody has... 319 00:37:09,679 --> 00:37:19,199 in there. While all that was going on I came into a massive download where basically I got 320 00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:26,399 detailed tarot imagery for every single one of the 22 trumps in as much detail as so t... 321 00:37:26,399 --> 00:37:31,759 temperance card which linked in all of the history all of the cabalistic attributions... 322 00:37:31,759 --> 00:37:38,239 and we set off on a pretty damn fine journey down the Michael line in 97 and when I got... 323 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:45,679 discovered this had manifested on the day that we set off on our journey. Now don't ... 324 00:37:45,679 --> 00:37:50,879 here it wouldn't be the biggest surprise in my life if I discovered that human agency was 325 00:37:50,879 --> 00:37:57,599 responsible for this thing but I think it stretches the meaning of the word hoax to... 326 00:37:57,599 --> 00:38:03,679 you know there are many people familiar with the crop circle phenomenon and have had... 327 00:38:03,679 --> 00:38:09,839 synchronicities and episodes with these things that even when they're considered t... 328 00:38:10,639 --> 00:38:17,279 you know man-made formations they seem absolutely perfectly set up as if for your... 329 00:38:17,279 --> 00:38:22,000 they are giving an affirmation to you and I think you could probably forgive me for... 330 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:28,239 you know after a decade or so of these crop formations appear in big time there was a lot 331 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:34,319 of time for a cabal to be put on the landscape it just happened to appear as we... 332 00:38:34,319 --> 00:38:40,079 and doing these extraordinary old visualization path workings using the caba... 333 00:38:40,079 --> 00:38:51,119 load of major sacred sites. So I kind of see that as go back to the last slide there 334 00:38:51,119 --> 00:38:59,039 I kind of see that as part of the can we go back to the final slide somebody 335 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:08,639 I kind of see that as just a general orientation around the final slide as oppo... 336 00:39:08,639 --> 00:39:17,119 slide yeah I kind of see that as a general orientation at the time of you know the 337 00:39:17,119 --> 00:39:22,480 arising of the aeon of the divine child and the general spiraling around that we're doing 338 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:30,400 as we align to galactic centre this kind of stuff becomes more and more possible and i... 339 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:34,799 that we've all got the option of interacting with we don't have to play by any strict... 340 00:39:34,799 --> 00:39:41,599 necessarily we can use other people's inspiration we don't necessarily have to... 341 00:39:41,599 --> 00:39:50,000 poetry you know there's creativity there's magic in these processes and in that we do... 342 00:39:50,799 --> 00:39:57,360 a connection to the landscape and to the way in which that landscape has shaped people's 343 00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:04,319 consciousness through the ages so I commend to you the virtues of a journey along the... 344 00:40:04,319 --> 00:40:09,839 line and it's one that I certainly hope I'm going to be making on many other occasions... 345 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,800 so thanks for coming and listening and I hope you've enjoyed it 346 00:40:19,519 --> 00:40:22,400 this has been a megalithomania audio production 347 00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:37,360 for more information visit megalithomania.co.uk