In the Dark Ages, after the death of King Arthur, a monk known as Melkin, left for posterity a riddle or prophecy which exposed the burial site of Joseph of Arimathea. This location, known as the Island of Avalon, has long been thought to exist near Glastonbury abbey. Glastonbury is also thought to have been the place where King Arthur's tomb was found. However, in this exposé, we will show the location of the yet unearthed tomb of King Arthur. Arthur's resting place is also on the same island where Joseph of Arimathea's sepulchre still lies undiscovered.
The Island of Avalon has been associated with the tor at Glastonbury because the monks at the medieval abbey exaggerated the previous association with Joseph of Arimathea to attract pilgrims. The myth that Glastonbury tor is somehow connected or even synonymous with the Island of Avalon is probably down to a man called Henry Blois, better known as Master Blihis, who was an abbot at Glastonbury abbey.
The author has deciphered the meaning behind the riddle known as Melkin's prophecy, upon which the mythical status of Glastonbury is founded. It is due to the fragment of Melkin's prophecy that Glastonbury polemicists, recognizing its antiquity, desperately contrived an association with Joseph of Arimathea's burial site and that of King Arthur.
This was possible due to everyone's ignorance in the middle ages of the location of Avalon. The subtle translocation of the isle of Avalon can be witnessed in the evolving interpolation of the prophecy by Glastonbury chroniclers keen to promote the connection with the uncle of Jesus. The 'Vaus d'Avaron' of French Grail literature is described in the story line in some Grail romances as pertaining to a region of valleys south of Dartmoor and the island of Avalon fits the description of Burgh Island. The genuine historical Avalon had beaches; it was tidal and had ships that visited it...... unlike Glastonbury or its environs.
The monks riddle which he left for posterity, when deciphered, clearly indicates with pinpoint geometrical accuracy, the whereabouts of the resting place of King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathea in the Island of Avalon. This is evidently not at Glastonbury.
The strange thing is that the geometric puzzle left by Melkin describes directions that are derived from the Saint Michael line of churches which runs across southern England.
For the skeptic, the fact that a 'bifurcated line' mentioned in Melkin's prophecy (Joseph lies on a bifurcated line), is the Saint Michael line..... causes many to assume there could be no link between the two. Most researchers have assumed the directions are local and relative to the old church at Glastonbury Abbey. This is all part of the interpolation purposely propagated by the Glastonbury establishment's chroniclers, in an attempt to be accounted the resting place of such an illustrious person.
The churches and chapels, built upon an ancient line of earthworks that demarcate the St. Michael line has been put there by design. When interlinked with other St. Michael churches (not on the Michael line), these Michaeline chapels act as markers on a map, leading to the lost island of Avalon. They clearly show that the chapels have be built as a devise to coincide with the precise instructional data provided by the prophecy of Melkin.
This site will show how this huge display of geometrical precision across the British landscape was understood and known to exist as late as late the 1300’s.
The accuracy of the geometry confirms that in antiquity, the presence of the St. Michael line was known about by Melkin in the sixth century..... long before the churches and chapels dedicated to the prince of the heavenly host were built. The array of churches dedicated to the archangel were built upon this ancient line of earthworks to point out to posterity the location of the tomb of Jesus by the ‘illuminati’ of the Templar order with the dual intent...... to mark the spot where they buried their treasure.
This hitherto hidden location is called the Island of Avalon and Melkin visited this island nowadays is known as Burgh Island. It becomes apparent that Melkin was present at the death of Britain’s famous King Arthur and he states who and what he saw in the Tomb.
In the tomb, Melkin found arcane information from the Temple in Jerusalem which had been brought to England by Joseph of Arimathea. This information, with an account of the Holy Family's arrival with Mary Magdalene, was written in a book composed by Melkin. This book gave account of the time from the arrival of these early Christians through a bloodline of 'Grail Keepers'...... up until the time of King Arthur.
The book became known as 'The Grail book', which found its way to France, Evidence points to Melkin who may well have established an early hermitage on Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy.
'The book of the Grail', through the troubadour family of the counts of Pitou and Aquitaine, gave rise to the wide array of Grail stories propagated through the medieval courts of France. A close family connection to Eleanor of Aquitaine in the person of Henry Blois (or as many knew him 'Monseigneur Blois'), became the 'Master Blohis' who was Abbot of Glastonbury. He was the first to expound from the French Grail literature by compiling the 'Perlesvaus', but he also was aware of the English traditions of the prophecy of Melkin which existed at Glastonbury and was aware of other manuscripts written by Melkin that became the source of Welsh Arthurian literature.
Henry of Blois however never knew the location of Avalon, but it was him who left the clue regarding Joseph of Arimathea being 'carefully hidden' at Montacute. This essential confirmational clue, not mentioned in the original prophecy, eventually came into the possession of Father William Good. It confirms Melkin's directions to the Island of Avalon and also endorses the proposition that the Michaeline chapels were constructed upon an older network of prominent earth mounds.
Unfortunately many researchers have denied the existence of alignment in the design of these ancient earthworks which became known as Ley lines. The mention of a Ley line for the majority of researchers has led to the refusal to accept the obvious parallels with the Michaeline structures and the denial of any association with the precision of Melkin's geometry. In fact some professed archaeologists refuse the existence of the ancient alignment of Avebury, Glastonbury tor, Burrow Mump and the Hurlers (to give but a few), simply because it is called a 'Ley line' and they don't understand the reasons behind the alignment.
‘And did those feet’, a book by Michael Goldsworthy, clearly shows that the body of Jesus is in fact buried with Joseph of Arimathea within this newly determined Avalon island in Devon. The Island used to be known as the fabled Island of Ictis by classical Greek and Latin chroniclers. However the Island contains within it an ancient tin vault. This hewn out tin storage deposit, which was used by the 'emporium' tin trading island of Ictis..... became the tomb for Jesus, Joseph and a collection of British nobles from antiquity . It had originally been used to store tin ingots when the Island of Ictis monopolised the trade of tin through the Phoenicians to the ancient world.
The confirmation of the whereabouts of this tomb is given by precise geometrical instructions upon the British landscape. These directions left in the obtuse Latin puzzle by the monk Melkin, (once deciphered), lead us to the grave site. The islands position is verified by the clue given to the Jesuit priest, Father Good, who lived in the sixteenth century. He deposited this vital corroborative clue concerning the sepulchre of Joseph of Arimathea in the English college in Rome.
Father Good however, was unaware of the significance of the clue he was given concerning how Joseph of Arimathea was 'Carefully hidden' in Montacute. However, someone else knew of the island's location and how its location was determined by these St. Michael dedicated sites. Since the time that the Templars visited the island with three treasure ships, to bury their treasure some one or some organisation has tried to hide the evidence that was rigourously guarded and passed to posterity by William Good. The reason for this seems to be that should we not have decoded Melkin's instructions..... the island might have been discovered sooner by the geometry which pertains to the Michaeline structures alone i.e both Burgh Island and Montecute both being prominent hill top features like the other St. Michael sites.
The three copies of 'Maihew's Trophea' have all had this information concerning Montacute removed. Were it not for a copy that existed in a private collection..... the chapel that existed atop St. Michael's hill would not have been known to act as a corroborative marker within the array of Michaeline chapels. These act as geometric points, that, when joined up in straight lines, confirm the angle and measurement that points to the Island and the tomb indicated by Melkin as the burial Island of Joseph of Arimathea.
The Templars in the middle ages were aware of the location of this tomb and deposited their treasure in the same sepulchre on Christmas day 1307. They were also aware of the instructional data within Melkin's prophecy. Thus the Templars were responsible for re-defining the line that Melkin had referred to by the re-dedication of church sites.
The line of St. Michael churches built upon an ancient alignment that includes Glastonbury was probably instigated by the Megalithic builders of Avebury. What function this line had is at the moment unanswered, but the fact that St. Michael's hill at Montacute is similar to both the prominent hilltop sites of Glastonbury and Burrow Mump would indicate by its subsequent dedication to St.Michael that it, (before Melkin's geometry was known), could have been part of this alignment from the early Megalith culture of Britain.
However, the Templars removed one item from the old hewn out vault within the island, which, because science has been unable to explain its formation..... has been classed as a fake. This artifact mentioned in the Gospels and throughout Grail literature has now become known as the Turin Shroud.
The Turin Shroud is described perfectly in Melkin's Latin puzzle once the solution is unravelled.
'Habet enim secum Ioseph in sarcophago duo fassula alba & argentea, cruore prophete Jhesu & sudore perimpleta': Joseph has with him in the sarcophagus a doubled white swaddling cloth covered with the blood and sweat of the prophet Jesus that was folded around him.
It must not be forgotten by the pedant that Melkin had purposely constructed an obtuse riddle which needed to be unraveled. It is for this reason the Glastonbury establishment found it easy to convince the gullible that the old church at the abbey and some superfluous line (that was supposedly indicated by a bronze plaque on a pillar), was relevant to the resting place of Joseph.
This fairly precise description of the shroud was given six hundred years before the shroud supposedly first appeared at Lirey in France. This was just fifty years after the Templar's visit to Burgh Island....... so how could it be a fake?!!! This artifact, described to exist in the tomb with Joseph can be derived from Melkin’s description as 'duo fassula.' This was due to misinterpretation encouraged at Glastonbury and so the arbitrary understanding of two jugs, later became synonymous with the Holy Grail.
This misconception occurred mostly by ignorance of the intended meaning of the puzzle. Thus the two vessels which were misunderstood to contain the blood and sweat of Jesus, became synonymous with the object of the Holy Grail. This misleading interpretation has transpired by the subtle twists of the prophecy's interpretation at Glastonbury by polemicists and of course the intended subtlety of Melkin...... designing his prophecy as a riddle to be decoded.
The reader will learn on this site, that the Holy Grail is in fact something inestimably more valuable and these pages set out to explain what the Grail is and how the Grail stories came about.
The body of Jesus, around which the Turin Shroud was once wrapped, remained in the tin vault, steeped in Cedar oil. It is by being submerged in the oil that the image on the Turin Shroud was formed over a period of six hundred years. The image formation was caused by the interaction of Aneorobic detritus and Brownian motion within the oil as the shroud enveloped the body of Jesus.
Judging by Melkin’s description of the shroud and the fact that the whole cloth is covered with a yellow varnish like encrustation, left over from the evaporated oil, the shroud was most probably removed from the body around 5- 600AD by Melkin. The dried out cloth which had managed to transfer the faintest facial imprint to the back side image as it dried….. was then later removed from the Isle of Avalon by the Templars.
The Turin Shroud was essentially formed within what became known as the Grail Arc which is the tin lined coffin of Jesus. This is the box Joseph of Arimathea used to transport the body of Jesus to England that was filled with embalming fluid and from which it is said the ancient British kings were anointed. Both the shroud and the coffin are mentioned in the Grail Stories in numerous subliminal references with many references to the sweet smelling Cedar oil. This Grail ark or coffin brought to England by Joseph was not (for obvious reasons) mentioned specifically in the Grail romances, but is subliminally indicated as the tomb of an unidentified person. Eventually Joseph was laid to rest within the same Sepulchre.
The reason this Island which used to be called Ictis was chosen to house what is the holiest relic of all..... is because it was not widely known about in the ancient world and its location was kept secret from the Romans. It was rumoured to exist through a report by one of the first Greek explorers to Britain named Pytheas.
Devon and Cornwall have a history in the tin industry and it was from this island that tin was traded with Joseph of Arimathea.... who, Cornish tradition has always maintained, was a tin merchant and was accompanied on his trading missions by Jesus.
Diodorus Siculus gives us a clear description of this same island which Pytheas had named Ictis or 'Fish Island' due to the vast quantities of pilchards caught off the Island. Through Pytheas’ account of what he encountered at the tin trading island, Diodorus relates that ‘large quantities of tin’ were taken over to the island in carts across the sand bar at low tide.
The proposition that Joseph of Arimathea owned this island as 'Ictis' came under pressure from Roman hegemony, becomes plausible when we consider he was sometimes known as the Fisher king and could have recieved this name as owner of the island called Fish Island. Also when we consider the discrepancies of the Gospel accounts of a hewn out tomb owned by Joseph in which no one had been previously laid....... the Grail stories may in fact be giving a more precise rendition of accounts of a voyage related by Rabanus. The four Gospel writers are seen to be rationalising a virgin birth with a father called Joseph who disappears from the gopel accounts while at the same time relating that Joseph (of Arimathea) has taken possesion of the body of Jesus. The proposition that after the crucifixion a rumour started, that Jesus was to be buried in a hewed out tomb owned by Joseph might explain each gospel writers conflicting evidence. Nowhere in the Gospels is a singular event given account of with such variance by the four Gospel writers. the main conflicting points are about the discovery of the body. Our proposition is that it was brought back to England to an unused tin storage vault by Joseph of Arimathea (his real father).
These pages uncover an ancient Biblical link to the Devon and Cornish peninsula through a bloodline from the first born of Judah, one of the twelve sons of Israel, called Zarah. It is from Judah’s heritage a line of Kings emanated in the South West of England known as the kings of Sarras which culminated with the famous King Arthur.
This does seem fantastic, but when the reader views the evidence related on this web site, one will find that King Arthur, Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea are waiting to be unearthed on the Island today called Burgh Island. If this is not enough for the conspiracy theorist or the skeptic...... there is also the Templar treasure secreted in the tomb.
'And Did those feet, ' a book which answers Blake’s question posited in his famous anthem 'Jerusalem', traces these events. The book pulls together a wide source of detail, linking the most powerful people in Europe such as Eleanor of Aquitaine, the earliest traceable owner of the ‘Book of the Grail’, written by Melkin.
Furthermore, which seems to stretch credulity even further, a sound position may be maintained that Leonardo Da Vinci visited this island in the last three years of his life. He left clues within four paintings, which show the geographical and geological features of the Island. He also let the world know by his picture puzzle (rebus) in the Windsor Library, that he was showing us a great mystery.
Da Vinci even went as far as to say he would show where it is, in his two paintings of the Yarnwinder. The two Yarnwinder paintings known to have been by Leonardo’s hand, when merged together, show the Island of Avalon at the mouth of the river Avon below Dartmoor in geographical perspective.
Finally if the Grail quester is in any doubt as to whether a tomb exists on this island, we can see compelling evidence in the story of the Perlesvaus.
The Perlesvaux is a compilation of an early oral tradition and is derived from some of the earliest troubadours. It is from these men that the romances emanated. We can still hear the topographical detail attached to the storylines in this Grail literature that show that the Island of Avalon is synonymous with Burgh Island and the Isle of Avalon is not located at Glastonbury.
The implication and ramifications of the unearthing of this tomb will have consequences across the world. In fact this is why this ancient extract known as Melkin's prophecy which is found replicated in John of Glastonbury’s Cronica is thought to be a prophecy. Not only does Melkin leave geometrical datum which leads us to the tomb, but he unequivocally and specifically states that the discovery of the tomb will have worldwide ramifications.
This King Arthur website is not specifically about King Arthur, but includes the role of the fraudulent unearthing at Glastonbury of King Arthur’s remains. This one act has played a significant role in distorting the historical truths related by the Grail literature and our understanding of these events. This faked dis-interment of King Arthur has warped the understanding of how these events originally transpired so that the Grail stories are considered to relate no historical fact. These pages that follow uncover the relationship between the unveiling of Arthur's tomb at Glastonbury and how it has prevented the discovery of the bodies of Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea.
It is also a very strange irony that while the world looked on at the Olympic ceremony, the Island of Avalon ( as modern perception has understood) was imitated as Glastonbury tor. At the same time Blake's Anthem entitled 'Jerusalem’ was brought into popular consciousness as it was sung at the opening ceremony and seen by millions across the Globe. The Irony being that even today the question is still asked 'Did the feet of Jesus walk upon England's green and pleasant land'.
The reason the information on this site and the conclusions drawn, concerning the discovery of this tomb, have yet to be uncovered, are twofold. The first is that the proprietors of the hotel on the Island known as Burgh Island have refused any permission to uncover the entrance after many requests from various people. The conspiracy theorist would think back to the disappearance of the pages in Maihew’s Trophea and ponder....... that if someone in the sixteenth century was actively intent upon obscuring the unveiling of the tomb site…….. are there still those today who wish to prevent the tomb’s opening. However, sadly, the answer is probably a lot more mundane.
The second reason and more importantly is that scholars, researchers and archaeologists have all assumed Melkin and his prophecy to be a thirteenth century fraud and are unwilling to retract pronouncements made not only about Melkin, but a whole swathe of literature falsely rationalised upon propaganda initiated at Glastonbury in the Middle ages.
However, the prophecy, which specifically speaks of Joseph of Arimathea finding his rest in the Island of Avalon….. would have to be a very well thought out fraud which shoots in the foot the supposed promulgator who designed it to benefit Glastonbury. Especially since the instructions within it, accurately located an Island so well described in the Grail Stories at which the Fisher king (otherwise known as Joseph of Arimathea) was said to be buried.
It is these Romances that actually tell the story of Joseph of Arimathea’s arrival in Britain and were written by the same man who concerns himself with the same island and personages (Jesus and Joseph) in his British prophecy . One must then have to ask...... if the prophecy were invented for use to convince pilgrims of the presence of the gravesite of Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury...... why then does every pertinent instructional detail, geometrically pin point an Island in Devon. Surely even the skeptics or the sedentary academic would see this as a coincidence too far especially when not one of the 104 knights or 144,000 saints have been unearthed to date.
Melkins directions are so clear once the riddle is decoded. The subject of Melkin’s puzzle is the Island of Avalon....... the object is the whereabouts of Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb and the consequences of it being found.
There are so few instructional directions within this short prophecy that if it were a thirteenth century invention it would be extraordinary that every one of the clues lend additional information which geometrically locates Burgh Island. Previously, not one commentator has given a valid reason for the essential clues: ‘bifurcated line’,’ 104 miles’, ‘13 degrees,’ and ‘sperula’ for Avebury.
If these numerical and objective clues such as a 'spherical' Avebury stone circle (circular) and 'line' (made up of St. Michael churches) did not match the 104 mile distance and the angle of 'bifurcation' was not 13 degrees...... we might be able to go along with convention and assume the Grail stories were misguided in their description of the location of Avalon. This of course would make little sense, as we have explained the reasons for Glastonbury usurping the name Avalon.
Melkin hints that we look for a line to bifurcate. The most obvious line is the Michael Line in southern England. He also intones, (once the riddle is understood as Melkin intended it), when the line is found…within a circle (sperula), which is Avebury......... one needs to measure 104 Nautical miles at 13 degrees to the (Michael) line and one has located Avalon.
This is where he indicates we will find Joseph and the Holy Grail and is the sole purpose of his riddle.
Many have pondered as to why or how Melkin is able to give distances in nautical miles, but he does refer to them as miles 'milibus'. The fact that he could understand this nautical mile measurement has prevented many researchers accepting the 104 as a precise measurement,(even since the riddle has been decoded) and have maintained that the number must be relevant only in the context of a 13th century fraud. How does this number of 104 or the number13 mentioned in the prophecy help a supposed fraudulent monk. Surely if the prophecy were indeed a fraud, he would have stated 'saints' not milibus. However, Melkin who was real and transferring a message to decode in the future says in a subtle way 13 degrees.
Melkin has set out his code and if the reader is not able to decode this part of the riddle, one is not going to obtain the direction of 13 degrees from the St. Michael Ley line through Montacute to Burgh Island along the Joseph line. Melkin plays on the original use of the word ‘sperulis’, from which we derived sphere, which at the beginning of the prophecy related to the stone circle of Avebury. Melkin then refers back to ‘sperulis’ by using the word “aforementioned” (the normal meaning of 'supradictis') trying to convince the reader that the two words ‘sperulis’ and ‘sperulatis’ have one and the same meaning. However his use of the word for the second time has not the same sense as in circle or sphere, but rather in its composition, being comprised of degrees. Melkin surely meant ‘sperulatis’ as a diminutive form and of the symbol for degrees i.e. 13°……. the symbol being a small circle °. Funnily enough the word supradictis is meant to be split in 'supra ad ictis' which confirms the tomb is 'up high in Ictis'
Many assume the ancients were ignorant of basic mapping and Navigational skills but this is obviously inaccurate and is attested to by the Phoenician voyages to Britain. Even Pytheas in 350 BC knew of the necessary breakdown of 60 nautical miles into 1 degree as an immutable and unchangeable law calibrated by the confines of the circumference of the globe.
This conclusion that the ancients recognised 60 nautical miles as 1 degree is easily drawn if we split the globe into the four quadrants of 90 degrees giving the 360 degrees encompassed in a circular line of Latitude or Longitude. By what other means could Pytheas measure the declination of the sun. Don’t forget there are chroniclers that attest that Melkin was not only a geometer, but an astronomer also, who was interested in Comets.
Island of Avalon, coveting the pagans in death, above all others (places) in the world for their entombment there, it is before the circle(sperula) that predicts prophesy (Avebury) and in the future will be adorned by those that give praise to the highest. The father’s pearl, (Jesus) virtuous through the new wine, the noblest of pagans, sleeps 104 miles from it (Avebury), by whom he received interment by the sea from Joseph named from Arimathea, and has taken his eternal rest there, and he lies on a line that is two forked between that and a meridian, in an angle on a coastal Tor, in a crater, that was already prepared and above is where one prays which one can go at the extremity of the verge, high up in Ictis is the place they abide to the south at thirteen degrees.
Insula auallonis auida funere paganorum, pre ceteris in orbe ad sepulturam eorum omnium sperulis propheciae vaticinantibus decorata, & in futurum ornata erit altissimum laudantibus. Abbadare, potens in Saphat, paganorum nobilissimus, cum centum et quatuor milibus domiicionem ibi accepit. Inter quos ioseph de marmore, ab Armathia nomine, cepit sompnum perpetuum; Et iacet in linea bifurcata iuxta meridianum angulum oratori, cratibus praeparatis, super potentem adorandam virginem, supradictis sperulatis locum habitantibus tredecim. Habet enim secum Ioseph in sarcophago duo fassula alba & argentea, cruore prophete Jhesu & sudore perimpleta. Cum reperietur ejus sarcofagum, integrum illibatum in futuris videbitur, & erit apertum toto orbi terrarium. Ex tunc aqua, nec ros coeli insulam nobilissimam habitantibus poterit deficere. Per multum tempus ante diem Judioialem in iosaphat erunt aperta haec, & viventibus declarata.
How the prophecy has been variously translated in the past completely misunderstanding the geometric references
‘The Isle of Avalon, greedy for the death of pagans, more than all others in the world, for their entombment, decorated beyond all others by portentous spheres of prophecy, and in the future, adorned shall it be, by them that praise the most high. Abbadare, mighty in judgement, noblest of pagans, has fallen asleep there with 104,000 others (or 104 knights), among these, Joseph of Arimathea has found perpetual sleep in a marble tomb, and he lies on a two forked line, next to the southern angle of an oratory, where the wattle is prepared above the mighty maiden and in the place of the 13 spheres.
For Joseph has with him in his sarcophagus two white and silver vessels, filled with the blood and sweat of the prophet Jesus and when his sarcophagus is uncovered, it will be seen whole and undisturbed, and will be opened to the whole world.
Thenceforth those who dwell in that noble isle, will lack neither water nor the dew of heaven. For a long while before the day of judgment (ludioialem) in Josaphat, open shall these things be and declared to the living’.
If you do not wish to commit to reading the whole exposé you will find the breakdown of the instructional part of Melkin’s prophecy enlightening.......... confirming the geometry shown above.
To understand where the Grave site of Joseph of Arimathea is situated go to
In ancient times around 350 bc a Greek navigator who visited Britain wrote a journal and in it he
described an island where tin was produced and he called it fish island or in Greek
Ichthys, Ichthus and Ikhthus i.e
the island of Ictis. This Island was surrounded by Pilchards at certain times
of the year hence its name. The tin
trade which had existed since the 1000bc
through Phoenician traders was Later commented upon by a Latin chronicler
named Diodorus and his comments on the British
were that.
The inhabitants who dwell near the promontory
of Britain, known as Belerium, mine tin
and when they have melted it into tin ingots, they carry it to a certain
island, which lies off Britain, and is called Ictis. For at the ebbing’s of the
tide, the space between this island and the mainland is left dry and then they can convey the tin in large quantities over to the
island on their wagons.
This is the island of Burgh
Island in S.Devon with its sand causeway that dries out a low tide upon which
the carts of tin mentioned by Pytheas were brought down from southern Dartmoor
through Loddiswell upon an ancient cart track. The only ‘linch pin’ from one of
these wagons found in Devon and Cornwall from pytheas’ era was found on this
same track from Dartmoor to Ictis. They travelled along a tidal road in Aveton
Gifford to reach the Island of Ictis
As many are aware there is a legend in Cornwall that Joseph of Arimathea,
the uncle of Jesus, was a Tin merchant and that he came to the coast of
Southern England coast to pick up tin with Jesus when he was still a boy. The
Island he came to was Ictis which is now established as Burgh Island. It was
described by Diodorus as havind a stretch of sand that dried out at low tide
that connected it to the mainland. No one was quite sure why Ictis was called
an Emporium which means market place, but it is now known that within this
island is an old tin vault originally
used for storing tin by the old miners. Diodorus
says that tin in large quantities was taken over to thr island by cart. Less
than a mile and a half away on the old tin route down fron southern Dartmoor a
prehistoric linch pin was found from the same age, the only one found in Devon.
A round the time the Romans invaded Britain the location of the Island
of Ictis became increasingly difficult to keep secret. It is the proposition of
a book called And did those feet by Michael Goldsworthy that Joseph bought this
island with the huge tin vault within it. Here according to the Grail stories
Joseph laid his nephew to rest and was subsequently buried there himself. The
bodies of Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea and King Arthur are yet to be discovered
within the Island. It is for this sequence of events that the gospels relate
three pertinent facts, the tomb belonged to Joseph, it was a hewed out tomb
that no other man had lain in before and there was witness to a white cloth. The
most amazing fact is that the Prophet Melkin who is the sole cause of the
rumours of Joseph being buried at Glastonbury says that in this tin vault was a
white cloth. This is what the gospels concur upon but they do not let on that
the tomb site is in England.
Figure
56 showing the Bifurcation point or the two forked line of Melkin’s prophecy
which bisects inside the Avebury stone circle. The line which Melkin has sent
us to find is 104 nautical miles away from Avebury and runs right through St.
Michael’s hill just as Father William Good had instructed us as to where Joseph
of Arimathea was ‘carefully hidden’. The angle at which the bifurcation toward
mons-acutus or Montacute bisects the Saint Michael ley line is 13 degrees as
Melkin had let us know.
In fact Strabo another chronicler
states that a Captain ran his boat on the rocks rather than give away the
islands position to the Romans and it just so happens that next to this island
we have the only two maritime wrecks from the ancient tin industry. This is
where the biggest cache of tin ingots was found just a couple of miles from
ictis.
Melkin, a prophet and monk who lived in about 450 to 650AD wrote a very strange prophecy in Latin, which up until now has remained an obscure
piece of literature which gives directions to the burial place of Joseph of Arimathea.
Joseph is supposed to have with him what is thought to be the Holy grail with
him where he is buried in the island of Avalon but it turns out that the Duo
Fassula that he refers to is infact the Turin Shroud.
For many years Grail hunters have assumed that the Grail and Joseph lie
at Glastonbury but the prophecy was given in the form of a puzzle
and recently this riddle has been unlocked and is now revealed in a book called
‘And Did Those Feet’.
The book ‘And
Did Those Feet’ is named after the poem written by William Blake which as most
Britons know is the anthem of Jerusalem , which speaks of New Jerusalem
existing in Britain and asks the
question ‘did Jesus’ feet walk upon England’s pleasant pastures green. Well now we have the answer because Jesus is
buried within this Island beside Joseph of Arimathea.
The prophet melkin visited the gravesite after king
Arthur was buried there and left these directions for posterity that we might
uncover his grave site and calls the
island the island of Avalon.
Island of Avalon, coveting the pagans in death, above all others
(places) in the world because they have their entombment there and it is
honoured by a circle that portends of a prophesy (and this circle is the stone
circle of Avebury). It then goes on to
say that in the future the island will be adorned by those that give praise to
the highest and ‘Abbadare’ (which translated means The father’s pearl, who is
of course Jesus) mighty in judgement the noblest of those foreigners sleeps 104
nautical miles from Avebury, and by whom he recieved interment by the sea from
Joseph who is named after Arimathea, and he has also taken his eternal rest
there, and they lie on the southern fork of a ‘bifurcated meridional’ line in
an angle on a coastal Tor, in a crater, above which one can go at the
extremity of the verge as it was already prepared high up in Ictis. this tomb is now their dwelling and is located 13 degrees from the st. Michael
ley line.
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This is what
melkin tells us and it is laid out word for word so that the prophecy can be
fully understood in the book And did those feet . Click on the link above.
The Templars built an array of churches all dedicated to St Michael
which comprise the St Michael ley line and like St Michael’s mount in Cornwall
this small island had a St Michael church on it but it is father Good a
fifteenth century Jesuit monk who confirms this position who tells us that
Joseph of Arimathea is ‘carefully hidden’ in Montacute and you can see that the
line passes through St.Michaels hill where there once also stood a church
dedicated to him EXACTLY 104 MILES ON A LINE THAT IS BIFURCATED AT THIRTEEN DEGREES AND RUNS THROUGH
MONTECUTE.
Many scholars
and historians that have dealt with the Glastonbury material say the Melkin was
an invention of the twelvth or thirteenth century. This is simply not true and
this position is only arrived at because no one has been able to decipher Melkin’s Prophecy before the current era. Ask
yourself ,why would someone make a puzzle that no one could understand yet all
the details in it are so precise and lead to the very island named in the
prophecy.
Not only did
Melkin write the original of the Grail book which establishes the location of
this Island, but Leonardo Da vinci was aware of where this island was and also
told us that in his paintings of the Madonna and the yarnwinder he would show us
where this island is. He painted two
Yarnwinder paintings which show exactly where the geographical location is . We
can see if we merge the two paintings that we know to be painted by him, he
gives every geographical detail that locates the island of Avalon as the present
day Burgh island in Devon which we can also see this same perspective on google
earth.
This is a complicated story but it is revealed in this new and
enlightening book that gives evidence of how this island became known as the
island of Sarras in the Grail stories and how the Turin shroud is in fact the
real grave cloth of jesus seen by Melkin and that he referred to it as the ‘Duo Fassula’.
In fact you can see Melkin’s latin description matches the shroud
completely if we understand that his riddle of the Duo Fassula is really a
Duplico fasciola or doubled over grave cloth because it says that….
Habet enim
secum Ioseph in sarcophago duo fassula alba & argentea, cruore prophete
Jhesu & sudore perimpleta:
Joseph has with him in the sarcophagus a doubled white swaddling cloth
covered with the blood and sweat of the prophet Jesus that was folded around
him.
The Templars who built the St.Michael churches to mark this grave site
buried their treasure on this island on Christmas day in 1307 after arriving in
three treasure ships. As they unloaded the treasure and before they closed up
the tomb for the last time one of them, (probably Geoffrey de Charney) removed
the Shroud of Jesus from the tomb that is presently on exibit in Turin.
King Arthur’s body was also buried within this island and it is here
that he came to look for a miracle to cure his fatal wounds after the battle
for his kingdom as he knew that Jesus was buried within it. Goeffrey of
Monmouth also recounts that Arthur is buried in the island of Avalon but it is
Melkin who confirms we have the right location by saying the word Supradictis
meaning up high in Ictis
And Did Those feet by Michael Goldsworthy, is a revealing book with all
the maps and evidence that explains how it is that, what was known as the Grail
ark in the Grail romances contains Jesus body and confirms how the image on the
Turin shroud was formulated in cedar oil. The mystery is now uncovered but what
will the world learn from this unveiling of the tomb on this sacred island and
what will be the effect of the discovery of this tomb and its contents on all
the major religions today.
This is an exciting book released on ebook or in paperback and is full
of excellent photographs and diagrams that provide evidences.
The following is an extract from a book tiltled 'And Did Those Feet' which shows with geometric precision the whereabouts of the tomb of Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea. The book which is available on Kindle indicates by maps and photos the precise pin point location of the ancient island of Ictis which Joseph of Arimathea used to visit as a tin merchant as the Cornish legend goes. 'And did those feet' shows that the legends of King Arthur and the Holy Grail are not made up stories but were based on fact and were originally written by a monk called Melkin. He left instructions in his famous prophecy where to find the Island of Avallon. His Instructions from an old latin puzzle are deciphered and indicate the exact location of the Sepulchre of Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea. The book also explains how the Templars built an array of churches in southern England all dedicated to Saint Michael to indicate the Island of Avalon from Glastonbury legend but more importantly indicate the Island of Sarras spoken of in the Grail literature. It is here we now know the Grail is Stored.
Showing the St.Michael Ley line from St. Michael's mount in Cornwall going through St. Michael's at Brent Knoll to the St. Michael church at Harn hill. St. Michael's rock or Burgh Island running through Glastonbury tor to Harnhill. Both of these lines indicated by inscriptions on the ancient pyramids that used to exist within the grounds of Glastonbury abbey where the church of Joseph of Arimathea was understood to be buried. Melkin's prophecy shows that he is buried not at Glastonbury but on Burgh Island the previously unlocated Isle of Avalon.
The Island of Avallon with a view from Bantham beach toward Burgh Island opposite the seaside village of Bigbury on sea. This is the same Island that was Known as the Isle of Ictis in the Greek world.
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The Island of Avalon in the Grail stories pointed out by the Joseph line that was pointed out in the geometrical puzzle written by Melkin
The Island of Avalon in the Grail stories pointed out by the Joseph line that was pointed out in the geometrical puzzle written by Melkin
This is an
Extract from a book which deciphers Melkin’s Prophecy and confirms that the
Island of Ictis is one and the same as The Isle of Avalon. This is the same
Island described in the Grail romances as the Island of Sarras where the Grail
ark resides along with the Templar treasure. It was the Templars that removed the Turin Shroud from the vault where the prophet Melkin said we would find it. Here he said we would find the bodies of Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea.
Habet enim secum
Ioseph in sarcophago duo fassula(duplico Fasciola) alba & argentea,(covering) cruore prophete Jhesu & sudore perim pleta: Joseph has with him in the sarcophagus a
doubled white swaddling cloth covered with the blood and sweat of the prophet
Jesus that was folded around him.
Many have thought that the grail and Joseph of Arimathea are in the Abbey grounds at Glastonbury but they are mistaken. They are on the Island of Avalon pointed out by Melkin once the puport of his latin puzzle is understood.
The continued rumour of Joseph of
Arimathea arriving in Britain has persisted for two thousand years. The only
way of proving his arrival was to solve Melkin’s puzzle which he left in the
form of a Prophecy which gives directions to his Tomb. The fact that the Author’s house was recently
discovered to be on the Ley line which just happens to be the line that leads
us to Joseph's tomb is a remarkable coincidence. Especially since the bifurcated line that Melkin bifurcates the saint Michael ley line at Avebury at pricisely at 13 degrees and the Island of Avalon is found 104 nautical miles away exactly as the Prophecy stated.
It is this set of events that drove
the author to write this book and indicates that unknown forces were at work.
It is almost as if the people in the book were waiting for the real account of
events to be told and certain facets of information would guide the author to
another avenue of research that needed to be elucidated. The real inspiration for the book
was the need to explain the meaning of the British national hymn written by
William Blake entitled Jerusalem. It is from this hymn that the Title of the
book is derived because the question it asks has now been answered. Did Jesus
come to Britain.
The Grail stories that proliferated from France declare that Jesus was brought to the south
coast of England and laid to rest in what became known as the Grail Ark. This
box or Coffin was filled with Cedar oil and was used to Transport the body of
Jesus from Jerusalem to and Island that was then known as Ictis by Joseph of Arimathea or the Island
of Sarras by the French Grail romance writers. It is here that Jesus was buried in an old tin storage vault in the
Island of Avalon by his uncle Joseph. Joseph of Arimathea and King Arthur were also entombed in the same location.
This entire set of circumstances is explained in the book
called And did those feet by Michael Goldsworthy.
To find out the entire story click on the link below
In the Dark
Ages a monk called Melkin left a riddle that purported to expose the burial
site of Joseph of Arimathea. This Location has long been thought to exist
within the Glastonbury grounds but the author has meticulously studied some of
the oldest Latin texts from Glastonbury Abbey and has uncovered not only
deliberate obfuscation of the facts surrounding King Arthur and Joseph of
Arimathea but has solved the monks riddle which spells out with pinpoint
accuracy the whereabouts of the resting place of these illustrious men in the
Island of Avalon. The geometric puzzle describes directions that are derived
from the Ley line system built by Neolithic man and the book describes how this
huge display of geometrical precision across the British landscape was
understood and known to exist as late as late the 1300’s. An array of churches
was built upon this ancient system to point out to posterity the location of
the tomb.
This secret location is called the Island of
Avalon and the same monk visited this island at the death of Britain’s famous
King Arthur. Here he found arcane information from the Temple in Jerusalem that
was brought to England by Joseph of Arimathea. This information with an account
of the first Christians arrival with Mary Magdalene was written in a book called
The Grail that found its way to France and gave rise to the wide array of Grail
stories.
‘And did
those feet’ proves that the body of Jesus is in fact buried with Joseph of
Arimathea and the whereabouts of this island is in Devon. It used to be known
as the ancient Island of Ictis and contains within it an ancient tin vault that
became their tomb which had originally been used to store tin ingots. The
confirmation of the whereabouts of this tomb is given by precise geometry upon
the British landscape left in the complex Latin puzzle by the monk Melkin but
its position is also verified by a Jesuit priest who lived in the sixteenth
century who was unaware of the significance of the clue he was given.
The Templars in the middle ages were aware of
the location of this tomb and deposited their treasure in the same tomb on
Christmas day 1307. However they removed one item from the sepulchre within the
island. This was what has now become known as the Turin Shroud. The Turin
Shroud in the monk’s Latin puzzle has the same description once the Latin
puzzle is deciphered. This artefact due to Melkin’s description, later became
known as the Holy Grail by an inordinate amount of misunderstanding and direct
obfuscation, but the Holy Grail is in fact something inestimably more valuable
and this book sets out and explains what the Grail is and how the Grail stories
came about. The body of Jesus, around which the Turin Shroud was once wrapped,
is still within the tomb, steeped in Cedar oil and this is what formed the image
on the Shroud over a period of six hundred years as it was formed within what
became known as the Grail Arc.
The reason this Island was chosen to house
what is the holiest relic of all, is because it was not widely known in the
ancient world except through a report by one of the first Greek explorers to
Britain. Devon and Cornwall have a history in the tin industry and it was from
this island that tin was traded with Joseph of Arimathea who, Cornish tradition
has always maintained, was a tin merchant and was accompanied on his trading
missions by Jesus. The book uncovers an ancient Biblical link to the Devon and
Cornish peninsula through a bloodline from the first born of Judah one of the
twelve sons of Israel, called Zerah. It is from his heritage a Line of Kings
was born in the South west of England known as the kings of Sarras which
culminated with the famous King Arthur.
King Arthur, Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea are
known to be buried on the Island today called Burgh Island but there is also
with them the Arc of the Covenant and the Templar treasure. The book traces
these events pulling together a wide source of detail linking the most powerful
people in Europe like Eleanor of Aquitaine and kings with these events.
Leonardo Da Vinci visited this Island
in the last three years of his life and left clues within four paintings, that
show the geographical features of the Island and he let the world know by his
picture puzzle (rebus) in the Windsor Library, that he was showing us a great
mystery and went as far as saying he would show where it is, in his two
paintings of the Yarnwinder.
The amazing coincidences that have brought
this knowledge into the modern era can only be viewed as having been determined
by supernatural forces as this whole drama is played out to specific times that
are spoken of by the biblical prophets. The implication and ramifications of
the discovery of this tomb will have ramifications across the world as the book
uncovers the relationship between this tomb’s unveiling and how it was
predicted by the Prophets.
The connection between the Pyramid on the British
landscape and the Grail stories.
We will now return
to the geometrical pyramidal shape that has been central to our investigation
so far. In southern England, Neolithic man had much the same aim as the Pyramid
builders in Egypt. When we consider the amount of man-hours employed to build
just one feature such as Silbury Hill, this design or device made up of nodal
points and Ley lines, like the purpose of the pyramids, must have been thought
by their constructors to carry out a specific function. The Egyptian pyramids seem, to have been
built ostensibly as funerary monuments and current opinion for their existence
varies widely. One can assert that there was a gradual
technological advancement in the construction methods of pyramids, because of
past failures, collapses and mistakes on angles during construction,
culminating in projects such as the six and a half million tons of limestone
being used in making up the Cheops Pyramid.
The modern theory, without any other viable explanation, is that the pyramids were built purely for the satisfaction of the Pharaoh. This theory is based upon man’s supposed urge attested to in Genesis 11:4. ‘Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach up to heaven; and let us make a name’. If they were used for funerary monuments in Egypt, why was it that in Mexico they were used for human sacrifice and yet the Mayans used their pyramid structures for both purposes? Why were the Mayans and the Aztecs building structures the same shape as the ancient Egyptians were building 3000 years earlier? The Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan has exactly the same base area as the great pyramid of Cheops yet uses only two and a half million tons of rock due to its lesser angle and step construction, yet this too is astrologically aligned like Cheops, so one must ask, how are these similar constructions related? Why are the bases of the two pyramids so similar? How did the Egyptians achieve such accuracy with the ratio of height to circumference in the Great pyramid, which represents the squaring of the circle 1/ 2π? Did the Aztecs and Mayans lack the technological know-how, not having had the previous construction trials? Basically, the Egyptians built pyramids according to simple gradients of 3:1 and 4:1, the 3:1 gradient giving 43.5 degrees and the 4:1 giving the 51°.52’. The latter is very close to the pyramid on the British landscape. This is very nearly the same height ratio between the two 18 and 26 foot pyramids that existed at Glastonbury. The Egyptians could have used a simple method of measuring long horizontal distances by counting the revolutions of a cylinder with the same unit as diameter. Creating the British pyramid in this fashion would have been a real achievement. Just how is it possible to roll a cylinder across the landscape and how did Melkin know with such precision that it is 104 miles from Avebury to Burgh Island and how did he know of an angle of 13° between two invisible lines?
Across the
millennia a similar shape has re-occurred in the shape of the pyramid, so what
do they have in common, and why are they constructed?
1) The pyramid displays certain
mathematical truths.
2) These constructions are
astrologically aligned.
3) Huge amounts of Labour have been
spent in their construction.
The essence
of a pyramid reflects, for its builders the harmonies of mathematics which
surround mankind daily within a four dimensional understanding. This is
represented by its four sides rising from Mother Earth under the daily
influence of the planets, being reflected by the alignments in its construction.
The community of builders in a specific locale is representative as a microcosm
of mankind’s empirical quest that rises and aspires to the analogous ‘pyramidion’
of full consciousness through the spirit, which started with Adam 6,000 years
ago.
From the
earliest dawn, when man's aspirations were thwarted in building the tower of
Babel, so that he ‘might be as high as God’, there has been left on his psyche
(collective spiritual understanding) an indelible residue of this experience.
Even if this story is allegorical, in essence it portrays a ‘truth in
conceptual understanding’ that without man’s acceptance of God, no structure
will be achieved and the construct of the pyramid is subliminally
representative of that growth to full consciousness.
It is this
sub-conscious imprint underlying in the psyche of the various communities that has
attempted by means of construction, to satiate this desire or subliminal
potential. It would seem that for this
reason we have been left these various earthworks today. The likeness of huge spiritual endeavours, are
built to honour their King or Pharaoh, yet to enshrine their mortality.
The pyramid
builders likened their construction to the life of a man and mankind,
influenced by the heavens while on earth (bound by time in four dimensions),
yet urged by the indelible imprint to leave behind him a replica of his
spiritual endeavour. The Pharaoh in death
left behind him physical evidence in structure of this innate struggle that the
Pharaoh’s had against what was a pre-set plan of God. These pyramid forms
became subliminally representative of the overall spiritual endeavour of
mankind. The modern mind cannot grasp the fact that at God’s intervention in Adam’s
awareness, disobedience occurred in mankind in not wanting to hear God’s voice
and this is borne out in Biblical stories of the Pharaoh’s lack of obedience.
This form of disobedience came more from lack of awareness as a receptor until
of course the Law was established. It is this initial spark of Consciousness,
implanted in Mankind that has seen his meteoric rise over the last six thousand
years.
The pyramidal
structure is an icon or testimony to man's four dimensional interrelatedness
with the rest of the universe, that bears witness to his empirical upward
growth and progression to the high point of his achievement. Each man's life is
insignificant, yet part of the empirical structure of humankind's eventual
spiritual achievement. As we shall cover shortly the Empires in this empirical
pyramidal structure and their leaders such as Pharaoh, Darius and Alexander the
Great, it becomes clearer that they are part of this construct of Time and as
such are referenced by the prophets.
It is for this reason, that in the biblical
scriptures, we hear subliminal references to this structure, in ‘the stone that
the builders rejected’, referring to the pyramidion that rests upon the
empirical structure and Jesus as a simile for the pyramidion, the ‘head of the
cornerstone’. Those who don't accept
Jesus as part of a definitive Divine Plan, are the builders who reject that
there is a God. The Pyramid builders form, on one level of understanding, is
representative of an individual’s work toward Gnosis in Biblical Time. On another
level of understanding the pyramidal structure is a representation in form of Man's
full development in consciousness and this consciousness, being based on form
and structure (empirically built). This development is being built empirically
over time by God according to a plan in this world, in a pre-set time structure
and this work has only one aim, the elevation of Consciousness. It stands to reason that if there was no plan
or structure, how could there be prophecy?
Prophecy, by its very nature is the proof of structure, predicting in
time the verifiable outcome of that planned structure in a different time, the understanding
only being cognisant of these proofs through spiritual elevation.
Alternatively one could posit that prophecy is
guesswork and reliant upon interpretation, but if this is the case, why is it
that the three Abrahamic religions, are all based and believe in the biblical
prophets? Presently not understanding yet perceiving the truths of the
Prophets. How is it possible that such contrary bodies of dogma that have been
contrived by the Abrahamic faiths all agree or sub-consciously recognise the
profound revelations and truths contained within the prophets? They believe in the prophets because they
recognised the truth of what they said on an unconscious level, but did not
have confirmation of the truth of what they prophesied; because they did not
understand the nature of time. Yet it is
these very proofs that are about to be unveiled and as Melkin foresaw, at a
specific point in time.
The prophets not only spoke historically, of
God’s plan concerning the Jews and Jerusalem but across time to all of mankind.
Again we will delay this topic as we have already diverged too far from our present
enquiry on the pyramidal structure.
Nearly all
depictions of cross sections of the great Pyramid of Cheops today are drawn
from a perspective of the artist standing on the eastern side of the
pyramid. Taking note of the similarity
of position of the St. Michael Ley Line and the Joseph line which are now part
of the British pyramid construct, and which exit the pyramid on the right hand
side one can see that there is a similarity to the air shafts on the Great
Pyramid. If we place an overlay of a
technical drawing of the Great Pyramid of Cheops on top of our pyramid, we can
then see if there are any similarities.
It seems
pertinent that this British Pyramid being in the West should be viewed from a
Western perspective. One can observe
from the overlay of the Great Pyramid, (viewed from the West), on top of our
constructed Pyramid upon the British landscape, some astonishing similarities
between them in figure 27. However,
there are some limitations to this overlay and in attempting a similar
exercise, we should be aware that it is impossible to bend a pane of glass
around a spherical object. There is some
distortion at the corners of the overlay in that, they appear upturned against
a curved earth.
Showing the Great pyramid of Cheops overlaid on the British landscape with the alignment to Cheops from the air shaft.
The reader
will notice that in figure 27, those which are commonly referred to as the
airshafts to the king and Queen's Chambers within the overlaid pyramid of
Cheops, exactly align to the points on which the St. Michael Ley Line and the Joseph
Line exit the pyramid on the right hand side. This could of course be coincidence,
so let us extend southwards the air shafts, from what has now become the
left-hand side of the flipped pyramid image. Another remarkable coincidence
seems to occur, which shows the airshaft from the Kings chamber running
straight through Avebury and landing precisely on the top of the Great Pyramid
of Cheops, 1,950 miles away (figure 28).
This would seem more than just a coincidence. when one considers the
fact that we have just overlaid the drawing of the Great Pyramid onto a pyramidal
shape originally started by Megalithic man, but which may have been
architecturally designed and finished by British Neolithic man this seems
farfetched. But these people may in turn have been descendants of Judah coming
from Egypt. Don’t forget it was Melkin who informed us that Scotland was named
after Scota, Pharaoh’s daughter.
Showing how accurate the Geometry of the Templars was that was Indicated by Churches dedicated to St Michael.
This design, embodying physical features on
the British landscape, appears to have existed since the Neolithic age but in
the early fourteen hundreds, it becomes apparent that another rebuilding or
renovation of the design took place with the appearance of the St. Michael
churches. The accuracy of this design
seems to correlate with other ancient man-made features on the globe.
It should be
noted that, if the angle of the line had been off by 1° over the distance of
1,950 miles; this line drawn within the top air shaft, running through the
centre of Avebury across Europe into Africa, would have passed 35 miles distant
from the Great Pyramid. It, in fact runs
exactly to the centre of where the pyramidion of the Great pyramid would have
been.
It is also
interesting to note at this point, the relationship between Avebury and the
Great pyramid of Cheops.
Geographically,
the line drawn between Avebury and the Great Pyramid, constitutes the ‘Great
circle route’ between the two points, and at these points, subtends at an angle
with the horizontal line of latitude. At
Avebury, the Great circle route creates an angle of 30° with the horizontal
latitude line at 51° north. At Cheops
however, conversely, an angle of 51° is created with the horizontal latitude line
at 30° north as seen in figure 28.
Another extraordinary coincidence is the fact that the base angles of
the pyramid on the British landscape of 51°. 25, are precisely the latitude of
the centre of Avebury which is 51° 25’N.
If one was to
carry out the same procedure with the lower air passage that connects with the
Queen's chamber on the left of the pyramid and to follow its progress across the
English Channel into France, one would find that it falls exactly on the Old
Temple site of the Knights Templar in Paris, just north of Notre Dame
Cathedral, right in the heart of the ancient city of Paris.
Notre Dame
Cathedral, as well as Chartres Cathedral were built by the same guild of Masons
who possessed the arcane and occult knowledge that was embodied and became infused
into the Templar organisation. This occult architectural knowledge was handed
down through the centuries. The Templars in effect, pooled arcane and
scientific knowledge which existed across Europe from the aristocratic estates
and places of learning including of course material trophies from foreign lands.
It was the Templars, or the residue of the disbanded organisation, as we shall
discover shortly, who were responsible for the construction of all the St.
Michael churches that have acted as markers on the British pyramidal design. The
other coincidence is that, if we look for more alignments involving the
Archangel’s name, it appears to coincide with the overlaid Cheops pyramid. At
the bottom left-hand corner of figure 29, the upper red line running parallel
to the passage leading to the underground chamber beneath the pyramid of Cheops
runs, directly to the hermitage island of Skellig Michael from Michael’s Rock,
now called Burgh Island. Skellig Michael
translates from Irish as ‘Michael’s Rock’ and from there, we can see another
alignment that runs also from Skellig Michael through St. Michael's Mount in
Marazion and onto Mont St. Michel in France, but we shall return to investigate
these alignments further on.
It is also a
coincidence that the ‘Joseph line’ runs directly through Dragon Hill where the
Uffington horse is found. Dragon hill is the supposed site of where St. George
killed the Dragon while the Archangel Michael performed the same deed in the
Book of Revelation.
Herodotus
records a legend which refers to an island in the vaults of the Great Pyramid
of Cheops, which is said to be surrounded by water brought from the Nile by
underground canals. It is known today that there never were any such canals,
but it is another remarkable coincidence that, in our overlay, the legendary
island of Ictis (Burgh Island, fig 30) is located in the subterranean passage
that leads to the vault beneath the pyramid.
This
quiet little island known as Burgh Island today, has featured at different
points in history with different names but is best known as the Island of
Avalon where we now know that Joseph of Arimathea’s and Jesus’s bodies were
laid to rest.
Could the island
of Ictis also be the island of Sarras that features in the Grail stories? The
Lancelot-Grail places Sarras in association with Egypt. Is this pyramid over Great Britain built upon
that same island of Sarras at the very point that the underground passage
passes through the island? Sarras is a mystical island to which the Holy
Grail is transported in some of the Grail romances. In the Lancelot-Grail cycle,
Joseph of Arimathea and his group visit the island on their way to Britain. As a first port of call, why would they not
be using the same island as Joseph of Arimathea used as a tin merchant? The Romance story goes that, while there
Joseph's son Josephes, is invested as a bishop and shown the mysteries of the
Grail by Christ himself. The group wins many converts, and moves on to Britain
where they establish a great line of kings.
As we
have covered, allegory plays a big part in the Grail romances, the Lancelot
Grail story making reference, from the ancient Grail book written by Melkin to
the line of kings as being kings of Sarras. This island in the Grail stories
most probably deriving its name by long association with the Zarah line not
forgetting it was Sarragosa in Spain where Zerah’s youngest was last documented.
This seems to agree with Melkin's
genealogy of a royal hereditary lineage involving Joseph and possibly as we
shall see Jesus. The Egyptian connection to Sarras however can be understood to
be arrived at from two possible interpretations. One for the misunderstanding
of ‘Spiritual Egypt’ as expressed by the meaning of the Grail, or the other
from the Island of Sarras allegorically existing within the confines of the
base of the British pyramid.
The British connection of Sarras with Egypt
would only have been made if the earliest Grail authors (the original
translator/s from Latin to a French version) had seen, Melkin’s Book of the
Grail, that supplied the congruity to each of the Grail stories. This is the book from which, each of early
French Grail writers allegorised the substance. The connection between Sarras
could be from a direct link to Zerah from information derived from the original
Grail book while the association with Egypt could only be a muddled interpretation
of passing ‘out of Egypt’ as part of the ‘degrees’ to spiritual enlightenment.
Mr
W. D. Nash a commentor on the" Seynt Graal," states that the story is
not of British origin, as it relates to the Graal. From the Seynt Graal text we can recognise little of Melkin’s
understanding of what the Graal as a religious rite, originally meant to
him. Mr Nash confirms the date 717 AD as given by Helinand,
as the time when the story was ‘first revealed to a certain hermit’. He then goes on to say that ‘an astonishing
assertion is elsewhere made (referring to Helinands text) that the Latin book,
the true original, was written by no mortal hand’. He then continues ‘I forbear
to quote the blasphemy further but we may acquit Walter Map, I hope, of daring
to originate such a lie himself’.
So
it would seem that because Walter Map (an early Grail writer) confirms this
date, there indeed was discussion about whether he was the inventor of this
story. There are few other Grail romance
commentators who believe this extract from Helinand to be from such an early
date but the fact that a hermit (monk) wrote it in Latin, first witnessed in 707AD,
about events that transpired in England but appearing in France, would seem to
concur with Melkin being the Author and the book travelling abroad.
It is possible
that ‘Lancelot’ is an allegorical name, given personality from the same
material. As we saw, Camelot became a city from an allegory of a Jewish practise
that is part precognition of the quest of the Graal. So too might Jesus be
referred to as, ‘the one hidden from the east’, in ‘l’unceloc, from ‘celare’,
meaning ‘to hide or conceal’, or from
‘cella’ as an underground room in which he rests and this might even be the
cause of the lake appearing in grail literature as in Lancelot du Lac instead of l’oc meaning ‘from the occident’.
After they achieve the Grail the knights
Galahad, Percival, and Bors return the Grail to Sarras aboard Solomon's
ship. As Joseph of Arimathea was known to be
Jewish, probably from Jerusalem, and especially if he came from the Davidic
line, why would he not be using, what came to be recorded locally as, Solomon’s
ship in allegory. The Grail stories are all allegorically interlaced
with historical events and truths, where Joseph’s offspring are interchangeable
with Joseph, and events occur in an
anachronistic manner.
The Welsh term for Avalon is Affalach, but it
is also the name of the Celtic Goddess and Modron’s father, who was said to
rule an otherworldly island. William of Malmesbury puts Modron’s father’s
residence at Avalon. It is no coincidence that his name sounds like Evalach,
king of Sarras, since the islands of Avalon and Sarras are one and the same.
Once the connection has been made between the island we associate with Joseph
of Arimathea and the Egyptian pyramid, the interchange of names in the Grail
stories becomes less confusing.
Now it becomes a little clearer why
Joseph of Arimathea found king Affalach, king of Britain's Otherworld, in
Egypt, since the British Pyramid became the Kings temporal Castle. In the Grail
romances, the Fisher King came from Corbenic. The Grail king, known as the
fisher king, (Jesus being the fisher of men and king of the Jews) or Roi
pesheor lay with dolourous wounds in his grail castle corbenic. The references
in the Grail stories to the corner stone, Eygypt and Babylon as we will cover
are scriptural allegories which will become apparent as we progress.
The stone
which the builders rejected (the head of the corner stone) is in effect Jesus
being synonymous with the pyramidion from where it is missing on our landscape
pyramid 3.2 miles below Whitelow cairn, that point on the overlay pyramid where
it would sit and cross the axis, we find the radius scribing through the Island
of Sarras where the body of Jesus is located as seen in figure 18. The Fisher
King's dolorous wound is most probably a metaphorical reference to
Jesus’ spear wounds, or perhaps a misconstrued reference to Arthur, after he
was taken to the Isle of Avalon to recover from his wounds following his final
battle in Cornwall.
It would not
be by coincidence that, if one was to change one letter from, ‘Roi pescheor’,
the Fisher King becomes the king of the sinners as ‘Roi Peshor’. The allegory
is so powerfully mixed in, that the Grail castle is somehow in Egypt, yet at
the same time found in the island of Sarras which exists on another plane and
is never found by looking for it. It
should be remembered that the main hall of the castle where the Grail manifests
itself is square, this seemingly correlating with the base of the pyramid
passing through Burgh Island but only in one plane. The Fisher King ‘warms himself from the fire’,
which is located in the middle of the hall.
Is the middle of the hall Harnhill, the very point at which a circle may
be drawn that is tangential to all three sides of the Grail Castle which is
Corbenic or the scriptural pyramid of which Jesus is the head of the
corner-stone?
Again it
might appear coincidental, that this metaphor in language of ‘fire in the
midst’ or pyr-amides in the Grail castle seems to correlate with the objective
in the construction of the main Pyramid at Giza, which was to send that Pharaoh
into the afterlife. What were the
physical properties of pyramids and what power do they have to affect our physical
world? The pyramidal form is said to preserve food, sharpen razor blades, improve
health and the ancient Egyptians may have thought they were sending their Pharaohs
in a physical way into the afterlife.
A most interesting proposition is that a pyramid
is some sort of ‘thought form’ incubator, thus shedding light on Melkin’s
referral to Avebury’s ability to prophesy within the British pyramid. The
Fisher King's Castle, being called “Corbenic” translates perfectly without any
change in pronunciation in the French to cors-benit meaning “sacred corner” and
the pyramidal structure being the ultimate corner stone.
A
‘pyramidion’ is the uppermost piece or capstone of an Egyptian
pyramid. They were
called benbenet in the Ancient Egyptian language, which associated the pyramid as a
whole with the sacred ‘Benben Stone’, in Egypt's old
kingdom. The Benben stone in the pyramid texts was the
original mountain that rose out from the primordial waters Nu and on which the
God Atum settled. Does this hark back to the beginnings of self-awareness, Man’s
past and potential being, subconsciously reflected in the form, creating the
need to form or construct. Atum himself
occasionally is referred to as the actual mound in these texts; so is the mound
rising out of primordial waters, the dawning of the structure of consciousness
which would also correlate with the story of mankind’s spiritual elevation as
God’s work as related in the Bible?
The Benben stone
was a sacred stone in the Solar Temple of Heliopolis in ancient Egypt. It was the precursor of Capstones and Obelisks. To an Egyptian mind the Benben stone sat on
top of all pyramidal structures in Egypt.
The Phoenix was also known as the Bennu bird which lives on the Benben
stone. Jesus the resurrected one, like a
Phoenix is also referred to as the “head of the corner”, thus synonymous with
the capstone of the cornerstone. Did
this Pyramidion ever exist atop the great Pyramid or was it the example and
primordial stone that the builders rejected?
The pyramid is
metaphorical of the upward empirical growth of each soul in every lifetime, the
ultimate goal of which would be illuminated atop, by a Golden Pyramidion. To put it another way, the pyramid is
indicative of spiritual growth in the four dimensional world, the point of
which is the empirical construct beneath, holding aloft the head of the
cornerstone, i.e. spiritual attainment. To follow this through metaphorically,
the Phoenix is the bird which burns by fire and is afterwards resurrected. Pyr-amides being another way of saying fire in
the midst; fire being substituted or transliterated biblically as judgment, the
bird being a metaphor for the spirit; which
finally renders the consolidated subliminal message; “the spirit is resurrected
by God’s judgement”.
On a
subjective level, the ancient Egyptians objective in making these pyramids was
to purify their Pharaoh’s souls by fire in the afterlife. (The spirit if it is
not killed or ’deadened’ during life while in the flesh, fuses with the soul
during our lifetime, thus carrying the soul “alive” into the afterlife. It is theologically posited that those who
have not kept their spirit alive during their lifetime; will have their soul
permeate down to Sheol, to await rebirth in the flesh. This cycle continues until flesh and soul are
fused during a lifetime(Gnosis), to gain entrance to what we can only assume as
heaven.
As the gospel writers bear witness through the
words of Jesus and most religions attest, this ‘Heaven’ exists on different
planes. The pyramidal structure being
emblematic of the four dimensional world, empirically constructed and
understood, as synonymous with a personal lifetime or likewise as the overall
travail to Gnosis of Mankind. The sole aim, metaphorically speaking, is to be
capped with a Pyramidion, the ‘all seeing eye’, or knowledge of God's creation (self-awareness),
becoming the completed construct spiritually; the essence of life itself and
objective of our sojourn in Time.
So returning
to the other pyramids in question, why is it that on the marked one, an ancient
pyramid in Glastonbury, were there the names of Brent Knoll and Montacute? From Burgh Island (St. Michael’s rock) one
line defines the Joseph line through Montacute to Avebury. However from the
same island on the base of our pyramid we can draw a line through Glastonbury
to Harnhill as it crosses the St. Michael ley line seen in figure 21a. The other
line from the other island of St. Michael’s Mount also on the Lyonesse line
through Brent Knoll, define a point where they intersect on our pyramid’s axis
again at Harnhill. It is from this same
point from which we drew a circle tangential to all sides of the pyramid at
Harnhill, if we were to increase the radius to the plateau where the pyramidion
supposedly stood on Cheops, that same circumference comes right back through
Burgh Island as seen in figure 18. It would
be coincidence except, the line derived from Avebury through Montacute, the other named place on
the pyramid at Glastonbury, is where Father Good also sent us to find the
Joseph line and this stops dead on the ‘Huers hut’ precicely 104 miles from
Avebury and lying in an angle of 13 degrees as Melkin directed.
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Figure 24
Showing the Joseph line tangentially touching St. Michael’s hill Montacute. The
Joseph line forming the acute angle of 13° at
Avebury, between the St. Michael line and Mons Acutus (Montacute).
A short synopsis of the book 'And Did Those
Feet' named after william Blake's anthem called Jerusalem follows but it is
neccessary to get a clearer picture from the complete expose presented with the
book
In the Dark Ages a monk called Melkin left a riddle or Prophecy that
purported to expose the burial site of Joseph of Arimathea and the Holy Grail.
This Location has long been thought to exist within the Glastonbury grounds but
the author of a recent book entitled 'And Did Those Feet' has minutely studied
some of the oldest Latin texts from Glastonbury Abbey and has uncovered not
only deliberate obfuscation of the facts surrounding King Arthur's burial at
Glastonbury Abbey but also the burial place of Joseph of Arimathea. The Book
has the solution to the monks riddle which spells out with pinpoint accuracy
the whereabouts of the resting place of these illustrious men in the Island of
Avalon which is the Same as the Island of Sarras from the Grail legend Stories.
The geometric puzzle across the southern English landscape describes
directions that are derived from the Ley line system known as the Saint Michael
ley line, built by Neolithic man. Churches were erected along this prehistoric
Ley line and elsewhere on Islands to mark out where the tomb was Located but
also to pin point the area where the Templar Treasure is buried. The book
describes how this huge display of geometrical precision across the English
countryside was understood and known to exist as late as late the 1300’s even
though the St. Michael Ley line has only recently been found by John Michell.
An array of churches was built upon this ancient system to point out to
posterity the location of the tomb which contains King Arthur, Jesus and the Uncle
of Jesus who is known in the Gospels as Joseph of Arimathea.
This secret location is called the Island of Avalon after Melkin's latin
prophecy which mentions Insula Avallonis and the same monk visited this island
at the death of Britain’s famous King Arthur. This Island is Burgh Island in
Devon which also happens to be synonymous with the Island of Sarras in
Arthurian Grail literature and the place where the Holy grail is to be found.
It was at this ancient Island of Ictis where Melkin who knew the Island had
been called Ictis (by his reference to 'supra ad Ictis', meaning 'up high in
Ictis') That Melkin witnessed the Duo Fassula which was the Turin Shroud. He
knew that Joseph of Arimathea carried on his business in the Tin Trade at this
island and when Melkin came to bury Arthur in Avalon also he found arcane
information from the Temple in Jerusalem that was brought to England by Joseph
of Arimathea. This occult information with an account of the first Christians
arrival with Mary Magdalene was written in a book called The Grail that found
its way to France and gave rise to the wide array of Grail romances the
constitute the various forms of Arthurian cycles of literature..
‘And did those feet’ proves that the body of Jesus is in fact buried
with Joseph of Arimathea submerged in cedar oil the same oil that anointed all
the kings of britain up to the death of Arthur. They had used the cedar oil
from the Grail Ark but it was Melkin by his prophecy that enequivocally gives
precise directions of the whereabouts of this island of Avallon in Devon. It
used to be known as the ancient Island of Ictis described by Pytheas a Greek
explorer and contains within it an ancient tin vault that became their tomb
which had originally been used to store tin ingots or Astralagi. The
confirmation of the whereabouts of this tomb is given by precise geometry upon
the British landscape left in the complex Latin puzzle by the monk Melkin but
its position is also verified by a Jesuit priest who lived in the sixteenth
century who was unaware of the significance of the clue he was given in that
Joseph of Arimathea was said to be carefully hidden in Montacute. However
Montacute was just a point that verifies that we have located the proper Isle
of Avalon and the Isle of Sarras described by the Grail romance literature .
The Templars in the middle ages were aware of the location of this tomb
and deposited their treasure in the same tomb on Christmas day 1307. However
they removed one item from the sepulchre within the island. This was what has
now become known as the Turin Shroud and strangely enough the shroud is
revealed by the Grand daughter of one of the main Templars who died burned at
the stake with Jack De Molay. The Turin Shroud in the monk’s Latin puzzle has
the same description as the Turin Shroud, once the Latin puzzle is deciphered.
Habet enim secum Ioseph in sarcophago duo fassula alba & argentea,
cruore prophete Jhesu & sudore perimpleta: Joseph
has with him in the tomb a doubled white swaddling cloth covered with the blood
and sweat of the prophet Jesus that was folded around him.
This artefact due to Melkin’s description, later became known as the
Holy Grail by an inordinate amount of misunderstanding and direct obfuscation,
deliberately peddled by all the ancient Glastonbury acolytes and historians.
The Duo fassula became two vessels that in effect became the British Grail but
this is a complete fallacy and the Holy Grail is in fact something inestimably
more valuable and this book' And did those feet' by Michael Goldsworthy sets
out and explains what the Grail is and how the Grail Arthurian literature
arrived from France. This Source of Grail literature came into the popular
culture of the thirteenth century and nowadays is accepted as pure fiction but
the two source one French one British, had been written by Melkin the same
person who spoke of the Island of Avalon and Joseph of Arimathea in both
traditions.
Arthurian Grail romances are based upon historical events but these
events have long been misunderstood to have a connection with Glastonbury. The
body of Jesus that remains in a cedar oil soaked coffin known as the Grail ark
used to have the white cloth spoken of in the Gospels wrapped around it and
that is how it got its faint negative imprint. The body of Jesus around which
the Shroud of Turin was once wrapped is still to be unveiled, it is still
within the tomb, steeped in Cedar oil and this is what formed the faint image
on the Shroud before it was removed by De Charney. The Shroud of Turin was
formed by Brownian motion of Aneorobic bacteria over a period of six hundred
years as it was formed within what became known as the Grail Arc.
The reason this Island was chosen to house what is the holiest relic of
all and contained the Shroud is witnessed to in the Gospels where the only
evidence that the Gospel writers can agree upon about the Tomb of Jesus is that
there was a white cloth in it. It was said that no man had been laid in it
before, it belonged to Joseph and it was hewed out. The ancient Island of Ictis
is where, after the murder of Jesus, Joseph of Arimathea chose to place the
body in an old tin storage cavern after transporting it to Ictis, an old Island
he used to do business with and may have even owned.
It was not widely known in the ancient world except through a report by
one of the first Greek explorers to Britain. Devon and Cornwall have a history
in the tin industry and it was from this island that tin was traded with Joseph
of Arimathea who, Cornish tradition has always maintained, was a tin merchant and
was accompanied on his trading missions by Jesus. The book uncovers an ancient
Biblical link to the Devon and Cornish peninsula through a bloodline from the
first born of Judah by Tamar, one of the twelve sons of Israel, called Zerah.
It is from his heritage a Line of Kings was born in the South west of England
known as the kings of Sarras which culminated with the famous King Arthur.
King Arthur, Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea are known to be buried on the
Island today called Burgh Island but there is also with them the Arc of the
Covenant and the Templar treasure. The book traces these events pulling
together a wide source of detail linking the most powerful people in Europe
like Eleanor of Aquitaine and British kings with these events.
Leonardo Da Vinci visited this Island in the last three years of his
life and left clues within four paintings, that show the geographical features
of the Island and he let the world know by his picture puzzle (rebus) in the
Windsor Library, that he was 'showing us' a great mystery and went as far as
saying he would show where it is, in his two paintings of the Yarnwinder.
The amazing coincidences that have brought this knowledge into the
modern era can only be viewed as having been determined by supernatural forces
as this whole drama is played out to specific times that are spoken of by the
biblical prophets. The implication and ramifications of the discovery of this
tomb will have reverberations across the world as the book uncovers the
relationship between this tomb’s unveiling and how it was predicted by the
Prophets.
Figure 25b Showing the St. Michael Ley line the Joseph line relative to Ictis and the Wreck sites better known as the Island of Avalon.
The reader
must now be aware of the impact that Melkin has played in British history, so
let us now turn our attention to what it was that he intended to convey to us
specifically in his English prophecy. Melkin has surely set out to manifest the
whereabouts of Joseph of Arimathea's entombment, leaving specific and precise
instructions within that prophecy. For
the last 600 years researchers have tried to interpret, disentangle or make
sense of this riddle from the obtuse Latin phraseology. They have tried to
translate it into something coherent so that the phrases link together and
provide meaning to the reader. There is
no doubt that Melkin wanted us to understand this riddle, the clues in it are
extraordinarily accurate.
The Latin is archaic and grammatically
incorrect, so, not only is it necessary to establish the geometry that lies
beneath the riddle and the meaning of individual words on different planes, but
we need to try and unravel Melkin’s
intended purpose, while also attempting to understand the mind of the man who
wrote it. Melkin’s puzzle is literary genius conveying information on different
levels and one can only wonder what his thoughts were as he constructed this
riddle.
Let us
briefly recap the current situation; Ictis had a huge vault within the Island
and Joseph of Arimathea was to be buried with ‘duo fassula’ containing the
blood and sweat of Jesus. Joseph is said to have brought with him what has
since become known as the ‘Holy Grail’ to Britain in around AD 37. Since the advent of the Romances, the ‘duo fassula’ and
the Grail have become one and the same.
Joseph came to proselytise the British. In part probably owing to his
previous links, for he introduced Jesus as a young man to Devon and Cornwall, a
kingdom known as Belerion by Pytheas. The Island that Pytheas describes, where
Joseph and King Arthur are now buried, is the Isle of Avalon, but it seems
others are there also as we assume this
was attested to by Melkin.
Many
commentators have assumed that Joseph was buried near the Old Church, in the
grounds of Glastonbury Abbey and for many years the institution at Glastonbury
Abbey has proactively encouraged such a position. It seems, that Melkin has required
us to solve a riddle for which he may have intended us to keep searching at
Glastonbury until now. If this was the case, how could he be sure that Joseph
would be found eventually? The answer and his confidence lay in the fact that
he was cognisant that the Grail was a ‘Grade or Stage’ in ‘Time’ that would inevitably
come as part of a divine plan?
It was Melkin who wrote the ‘Book of the Grail’
which contained this Hebraic occult knowledge that the Romance writers could
not comprehend and thus allegorised, building and elaborating on the substance therein,
using metaphor and imagination. It seems that Melkin's prophecy, which cannot
be traced back earlier than John of Glastonbury's ‘Cronica’ is based upon a
body of information concerning Devon and Cornwall (Belerion). This historical
sequence of events concerned Jesus, who as a single person, has changed the
world as part of a divine plan set in ‘Biblical Time’. This historical source
information was partly used by the French Grail writers who were not aware of
Jesus’s body in Avalon, but knew something to do with him was brought from the
Holy land to England. In the true prophetic tradition, Melkin prognosticates on
what will take place when Joseph's tomb is found indicating that if not wholly,
then in part, he was divinely inspired.
The Neolithic
and Medieval renovated Ley system within which Joseph is buried has been
accurately planned out and surveyed. Melkin has knowledge of the Ley system and
the distances and angles within it. It appears that Melkin, is the source for
all original Arthurian information that has come down to us today. He wrote his
prophecy and therefore he is solely responsible for renaming Ictis as Avalon.
Avalon connects Arthur and Joseph both being buried there and Melkin’s genealogy
in the ‘Estoire’ and recorded in John’s Cronica, connects them in a bloodline. Joseph is a blood relative of Jesus who is
inextricably linked to the Grail, while the Grail, as the modern world
understands its substance, is buried with Joseph and Arthur in Avalon and this
entire tradition has stemmed directly from Melkin.
How is it that a Monk knows so much, as to
understand the essence of the Grail back in the sixth century and know that
Jesus is buried in Avalon and also have insight into occult knowledge
concerning God’s divine plan and a grasp of Biblical Time? Were Jesus’s remains
witnessed by Melkin at the burial of King Arthur?
So let us
look at the small fragment of his understanding that has come down to us, for
as we further our enquiry, we will see that it is very probable that the Grail
book is about to surface as the book of the Law did, when the Jews returned
from captivity.
Hec scriptura
inuenitur in libro melkini, qui fuit ante merlinum,
This scripture is found in the book
of Melkini, who had been before Merlinum,
Insula
auallonis auida funere paganorum, pre ceteris in orbe ad sepulturam eorum
omnium sperulis propheciae vaticinantibus decorata, & in futurum ornata
erit altissimum laudantibus. Abbadare, potens in Saphat, paganorum
nobilissimus, cum centum et quatuor milibus domiicionem ibi accepit. Inter quos
ioseph de marmore, ab Armathia nomine, cepit sompnum perpetuum; Et iacet in
linea bifurcata iuxta meridianum angulum oratori, cratibus praeparatis, super
potentem adorandam virginem, supradictis
sperulatis locum habitantibus tredecim. Habet enim secum Ioseph in
sarcophago duo fassula alba & argentea, cruore prophete Jhesu & sudore
perimpleta. Cum reperietur ejus sarcofagum, integrum illibatum in futuris
videbitur, & erit apertum toto orbi terrarium.
Ex tunc aqua, nec ros coeli insulam nobilissimam habitantibus poterit
deficere. Per multum tempus ante diem Judioialem in iosaphat erunt aperta haec, & viventibus
declarata.
Hucusque melkinus.
‘The Isle of Avalon, greedy for the
death of pagans, more than all others in the world, for their entombment, decorated
beyond all others by portentous spheres of prophecy, and in the future, adorned
shall it be, by them that praise the most high. Abbadare, mighty in judgement,
noblest of pagans, has fallen asleep there with 104,000 others (or 104
knights), among these, Joseph of Arimathea has found perpetual sleep in a
marble tomb, and he lies on a two forked line, next to the southern angle of an
oratory, where the wattle is prepared above the mighty maiden and in the place
of the 13 spheres.
For Joseph has with him in his sarcophagus two white and silver vessels, filled with the blood and sweat of the prophet Jesus and when his sarcophagus is uncovered, it will be seen whole and undisturbed, and will be opened to the whole world.
Thenceforth those who dwell in that noble isle, will lack neither water nor the dew of heaven. For a long while before the day of judgment (ludioialem) in Josaphat, open shall these things be and declared to the living’, thus far Melkin.
For Joseph has with him in his sarcophagus two white and silver vessels, filled with the blood and sweat of the prophet Jesus and when his sarcophagus is uncovered, it will be seen whole and undisturbed, and will be opened to the whole world.
Thenceforth those who dwell in that noble isle, will lack neither water nor the dew of heaven. For a long while before the day of judgment (ludioialem) in Josaphat, open shall these things be and declared to the living’, thus far Melkin.
There are
many variations on how this can be translated, but this seems to be an
alternative generally accepted gist, that makes some sense also;
The Isle of Avalon, with greed for the death of pagans, before all
others in the world, for the entombment of them all. Decorated beyond all
others by the chanting spheres of prophecy and for all time to come, adorned
shall it be by them that praise the Most High.
Abbadare mighty in saphat, noblest of pagans, has fallen on sleep with 104 other knights
Among these Joseph of Arimathea has found perpetual sleep in a marble tomb and he lies on two forked line next to the southern angle of an oratory, where the wattle is prepared above the mighty maiden and where the aforesaid 13 spheres rest. For Joseph has with him in his sarcophagus two vessels white and silver, filled with the blood and sweat of the prophet Jesus. When his sarcophagus is discovered, it will be seen whole and untouched, And will be opened to the whole world. Thenceforth those who dwell in that noble Isle will lack neither water nor the dew of heaven for a long time before the day of judgment in Josaphat and
open shall these things be and declared to the living.
Abbadare mighty in saphat, noblest of pagans, has fallen on sleep with 104 other knights
Among these Joseph of Arimathea has found perpetual sleep in a marble tomb and he lies on two forked line next to the southern angle of an oratory, where the wattle is prepared above the mighty maiden and where the aforesaid 13 spheres rest. For Joseph has with him in his sarcophagus two vessels white and silver, filled with the blood and sweat of the prophet Jesus. When his sarcophagus is discovered, it will be seen whole and untouched, And will be opened to the whole world. Thenceforth those who dwell in that noble Isle will lack neither water nor the dew of heaven for a long time before the day of judgment in Josaphat and
open shall these things be and declared to the living.
Rendered below
is probably a more accurate translation (Melkin’s intended meaning), with
reference to an abridgment of Ainsworth's English and Latin dictionary, by
Robert Ainsworth, Thomas Morell and John Carey and the Glossarium Mediae et
Infimae Latinitatis by Domino Du Cange.
The first
part of the prophecy we shall cover as a whole so the sense is not lost before
we dissect each phrase. This first half of the prophecy is the instructional
part, where pertinent facts are relayed as to the confirmation of the tombs
location and entrance. The second half of the prophecy is assuredly divinely
inspired as it speaks in Time with biblical metaphorical language and will be
elucidated in the following commentary when we disentangle the various layers
of meaning.
Island of
Avalon, coveting the pagans in death, above all others (places) in the world
for their entombment there, it is honoured by the circle of portentous prophesy
(Avebury) and in the future will be adorned by those that give praise to the highest.
The father’s pearl, (Jesus) mighty in judgement (or virtuous through new wine),
the noblest of pagans, sleeps 104 miles from it (Avebury), by whom he recieved interment
by the sea from Joseph named from Arimathea, and has taken his eternal rest
there, and he lies on a line that is two forked between that and a meridian, in
an angle on a coastal Tor, in a crater, that
was already prepared, (with powers from
on high, as from an adorable maiden, up high in Ictis is the tomb and those
dwelling there are at 13 degrees.) above which one can go at the extremity
of the verge, high up in Ictis to the place they abide to the south at thirteen
degrees.
Any
commentator on this passage will find it impossible to transliterate, simply
because Melkin is concealing information sub textually, word clues rendering
the passage as a whole incapable of fluid translation. The puns and double
meanings are carefully thought out, but obtuse by deflection. The only way to
understand the difficulty he must have had, conveying his message in layers of
meaning and grasp what he has achieved, is to evaluate his choice of words.
What follows is some of the hidden sub text in meanings he was trying to
convey. It is almost as if he was appealing through the layers to different
ways of understanding. The task of elucidating becomes less muddled if we take
each word separately or if inseparable from another, using the combination.
Adjectives, adverbs, verbs and nouns seem to
be intermingled without respect to tense, conjugation, case or declention and
one may be lacking other scribal clues such as capitals or punctuation which
are now missing. There is evidence also
within the text that words are split, which leads one to consider that these
splits, may be interchangeable with other root words and thus a cipher could be
disentangled if an original copy was extant.
So that we
might discover the mind-set of Melkin, let us briefly transliterate what he was
trying to convey in his riddle and manifest at the same time how his mind
worked. Melkin formulates his prophecy in a combination of blurred Latin incorporating
Teutonic and low Latin, purposely entangled double entendres, sometimes leaving
little to be comprehended from the text that has survived. If one adds to this
muddle any scribal changes made at Glastonbury, we are left with a collection
of meaningless ‘word strings’, in effect rendering Melkin’s intended riddle as mute
through the ages as it has remained.
The most
powerful thing about this prophecy now we have understood, is the latent truth
that it holds, and its ability to have survived down through the centuries
while muted, to convey its intended message, a message of mystery and
expectation that has entered the psyche of the British people and will be
responsible for changing the outward expression of religion throughout the
world.
Insula
Aualonis avida funere paganorum:
· island
of Avalon,
where both Arthur and Joseph are said to be buried, coveting (guarding
preciously) pagans in death.
· Avide; an adverb or avidus, an adjective-Greedy, Hungry or Covetous. The sense that
Melkin portrays by use of this word is essentially, ‘not relinquishing’, nor
‘releasing’ (until the appointed time); The Island as a custodial guardian.
· Funere;
from funero, funera,
etc, giving funeral, to bury or of a dead body.
· Paganorum;
from paganus, a man of
the country or peasant. ‘pagan,’
in classical Latin "villager, rustic, civilian, but in the medieval
religious sense not Christian-of the old religion. The word Pagan has many
connotations and could mean, not of Britain.
Overall a very difficult sentence to cobble together, possibly rendering
the sense of a pagan island, rather than the bodies of pagans buried
there. The pagan island scenario would
concur in conjunction with Ley Lines, and would indicate that Melkin was aware
of the existence of the Ley Line system and the island's inter-relation with
Avebury , Montacute and the Lyonesse
line. This word string also could give a
sense of pagan island that is guardian over those buried, and the ‘pre ceteris’
refers to their pre-eminence in all the world or alternatively it could be referring
to the island, being covetous of the bodies in front of the rest of the world.
Island of Avalon – hungering after (looking after, happy to be taking care of),
being covetous of the buried occupants that are not from this island of
Britain, before the entire world, (until the world is ready). As the reader will understand shortly, Melkin’s
use of the word ‘sperulatis or sperulis’, twice in this prophecy, is rendered
with two completely different meanings, even though Melkin ostensibly refers
back to its first meaning as being the same as its second use, by employing the
word ‘supradictis’ (aforesaid). So it is
with the word ‘paganorum’ in the sense that it is used here as possibly being a
pagan island (part of the old religion), yet the second use of the word after Abbadare,
has a completely different sense. Remember that Melkin is directing our
thoughts toward an Island in the true sense of the word (unlike Glastonbury)
and this island is at the river Avon. Presumably this was the rivers name when
Melkin was alive but the etymology of Avon is ‘river’, thus the explanation of
so many ‘River Avons’ in Britain. Another ruse
that could have been employed by Melkin using the word paganorum, is in direct
reference to the Pyramids at Glastonbury. These were step pyramids with writing
on each step which most probably were of ancient antiquity but had been
recently covered since the Saxon invasion and through centuries with the names
of Saxons, as an attempt to denigrate a much older temple. Much like the
British, the Saxons were hardly pyramid builders themselves and this could have
been one of many misleading hints supplied by Melkin that Avalon was where the
pagan pyramids were.
pre
ceteris in orbe ad sepulturam eorum omnium:
·
pre ceteris; gives the sense, before others or before the
rest,
·
in orbe ; in the globe, planet or world,
giving the sense of pre-eminence.
·
ad sepulturam ; from sepultura, giving a
burial site or sepulchre.
·
eorum ; of them, or their.
·
omnium ; of all.
The
sentence has generally been translated as: ‘at the burial of them all will be
decorated (from decorata), beyond the others in the world’, which of course
makes difficult reading. The most likely
sentence would be, ‘ their burial site is honoured above all others in the
world’, as one is honoured in receipt of a decoration. This in fact, is
confirming what later directions indicate,
that the sepulchre is on the island and is accounted above all
others (places) in the world or there is no greater tomb (of importance). Melkin refers to the
sepulchre twice in conjunction with the word ‘orbe or orbi terrarum’ (around
the world), thus indicating, what we expect to be a global event, having global
ramifications on the tombs unveiling.
sperulis
prophecie uaticinantibus decorate:
Sperulis: Firstly let us look at the etymology of the
word ‘pearl’. The Arabic language called
it a ‘dar’, a term which was then translated by the Greeks as "Pinna's
stone", thus identifying its origin from the Mediterranean pearl
mollusks. The pearl is also referred to
as "pirula" or "perula" in Latin texts, probably because of
its spherical (sphaerula, pronounced "sperula") or pear-like shape.
Also ‘perla’ is formed from ‘perula’ for ‘sperula’ the diminutive of sphaera. A
more probable origin is that the word is formed from the Latin pirum as
suggested by Diez in allusion to the pear shaped form of the pearl. Du Cange in
volume five says that the extremity of the nose was called ‘pirula nasi’ from
its resemblance to the form of a pearl. But ‘pirus’ which surely was not
unknown by Melkin was used to denote a “boundary stone made in a pyramidal
shape”. Du Cange says also, this seems
to have been the origin of the singular expression ‘pirula nasi’ as being
something at the extremity and probably Melkin’s allusion to Avalon acting as a
marker in our Pyramidal shape. From Du
Cange ‘sperula’ is given as; ‘parva rotunditas volubilis, sicut solet, in
sphæræ modum,’-- round compass, of a small volume, as is usually the manner of
a sphere. The word is used twice, once as ‘sperulis’ as in this instance and
once as ‘sperulatis’ secondarily, both of them having different meanings. The
meaning here though is in direct reference to Avebury stone circle.
· Prophecie; that which is foretold in the future by a
prophet.
· Vaticinantibus;
giving prediction,
soothsaying, prophecy or portent from vaticinari from ‘vates’ meaning a prophet + canere to foretell. However this
could be Melkin’s way of saying what is located in this sepulchre will be
against the Vatican i.e. anti-Vatican.
It should not be forgotten that Jesus knew exactly what his mission
entailed and the suffering (proved by the Shroud) that he was about to endure
and was not about to be dissuaded from it by Peter, and said to him "Get
behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the
things of God, but the things of men." The Roman Church is built upon
Peter and in no way is peter at fault but Jesus knew that the Popes would usurp
his legacy for this world and not the heaven that Jesus spoke of . The Grail
keepers would certainly have precedence before Papal pretensions passing from
Josephes to Brons and could be considered another line of succession or Branch
other than the self-proclaiming imposter of Jesus’ inheritance. The Roman
Pontiff the first Bishop of Christendom deriving his claim by hypothesis from
St. Peter, who only by Roman self-profession was ‘episcopus primus et Pontifex
primordialis’. Melkin knew of what lay in this tomb and therefore was aware of
the inaccuracies peddled by the Roman Church. Melkin understood the Divine plan and of the
true meaning of Jesus’ reference to the Temple being rebuilt upon the third day
(or within three days) and hence the story of Peter’s denial of Jesus three
times being equatable with the three Grades to enlightenement. These three days
are the grades of the Grail but we will come to this in ‘Time’. Are the words
of Jesus ‘And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my
church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it,’ similar to the promise
given to David from which the Church and Gentiles inherited. Is Christendom and Islam along with the Jewish faith now to
become like the Davidic line, to be the precursor of a global inheritance set
forth in a Divine Plan by the God of Israel? What is certain is that, without the Roman
church most of the Globe would not be aware of the God of Israel.
· Decorate from ‘decorates’ translating as, set forth
or adorned.
This sentence is generally translated as
‘soothsaying spheres of prophecy or portentous circles of prophecy’. It is
essential to remember that Melkin is actually directing us on this quest from a
starting place that is a stone circle namely Avebury. His description of the circles or spheres
having been ‘set forth or adorned’, might indicate that Melkin is referring
directly to a stone circle. Stone circles were important to the ancients who
were preoccupied with discerning the future. Melkin refers to stone circles as
if they have a connection with man’s ability to predict or as if it is the circles
themselves that have some impact on leading us to the tomb of Joseph through
Ley lines. The irony of disentangling Melkin’s prophecy through our initial
investigation into the ‘Perpetual Choirs’ and scribing circles on the
landscape, gives rise to even more perplexity. Could Melkin’s sense be that, Avebury
adorning the British landscape, from which Ley line's interconnect or thread
through the tomb of Joseph, have some attribute or function in the foretelling of
its discovery. The reader should not be too sceptical here as the two words
following ‘sperulatis’ both impart a sense of future knowledge presently
unknown. We must not dismiss the fact that Melkin has knowledge of the St.
Michael Ley line; so is he imparting to us through this statement that these
stone circles have some effect on, or direct our thoughts for the future
collective benefit. No one today has an idea of the stone circles proper
function, but recognising that Melkin probably understood the use of stone
circles; is he implying some sort of telepathic system ordering the thoughts of
the collective? Melkin knew of the
existence of the St. Michael Ley line, yet we have only recently rediscovered
it. We should not ignore the use of two words which essentially mean ‘looking
into the future’. So are the circles physical attributes on the landscape for channelling
thought from individual communities or interlinking them in some way as their
prevalence and conformity of shape seems to indicate relative functionality?
et
in futurum ornate erit altissimum laudantibus:
·
in futurum; although being an obvious reference to the
future, it is also a reference to ‘Biblical Time’ and is reiterated as a
reference to the same time as ‘ex tunc’ in the penultimate sentence of the
prophecy, which is indicating the thousand years of time from the discovery of
Joseph's tomb, the day of Jehosaphat.
This is a sure indication that Melkin has understood ‘Biblical Time’ i.e.
time, Times and Half of that time (or the Times Halved). We shall explain this
concept in a later chapter as it appears
in Daniel 7:12 , 12:7 and Revelation
12:14
· Ornate;
adorned, arrayed,
crowned with or decreed, in reference to the island of Avalon.
· altissimum
laudantibus, rendering
praise to the most high. The sentence
giving the impression that when Joseph's tomb is discovered, the Island of
Avalon will be arrayed by the mass of new converts, giving praise to God. This sense does concur with the final part of
the prophecy that indicates that Joseph's sepulchre will be opened to the whole
world, giving an impression that the island will become a pilgrimage and a new
religious re-awakening will occur globally on the discovery of Jesus’s body. There will be a new cognitive view of the
world order and an elevated understanding amongst spiritual Jews that the
living and the dead are bound by a Divine plan. Those pilgrims visiting the
Island of Avalon, giving praise to the most high. This could also be a
reference to Britain rather than Avalon specifically as the last sentence of
the prophecy infers.
Abbadare, potens in Saphat, paganorum nobilissimus:
· Abbadare, has given rise to much speculation about the word’s provenance and meaning, but it would seem to be a reference to Jesus, meaning “The father's pearl”, (Abba- father, Dar- pearl from the Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew). As is intonated in the Grail romances, added to Joseph's connection with the importation of the Holy Grail, this reference would seem to indicate the presence also of Jesus's body within the island of Avalon. Joseph leaves Jerusalem, and arrives at Sarras, taking with him the Holy Graal, which is carried inside an ark or box. This refers metaphorically to Jesus, specifically with reference to a pearl being formed by the flesh just as it is grown in an oysters shell. It is formed in our body and its beautiful and precious substance remains long after the flesh that made it, has died. This is a profound reference to the spirit being a precious object born by something organic, yet remaining after the flesh has died. Not a metal, nor a gem but ‘a pearl of great price,’-a spiritual soul created through God’s divine plan as in Mathew 13:46. As the reader will be aware the word ‘Abbadare’ would have been used by Melkin to avoid direct reference to Jesus's body to avoid adverse reaction from fundamentalist sensibilities. The Holy Grail, having a direct connection with Jesus, but in no way a substitute for his body; the references to the Grail in the romances being of a different order involving a spiritual quest, the likes of which cannot be found by searching or by hastening its occurrence in a lifetime. The Holy Grail is a derivative of the Latin ‘gradus’ meaning by degree', 'by stages', applied to a dish from a transliteration by Helinand. This dish was brought to the table in different stages or services during a meal in the Chrétien de Troyes poem. Essentially the pearl of great price is Jesus through whom by the will of his Father spiritual enlightenement is attained, hence ‘the Father’s pearl’
· Potens;
powerful, mighty, of
great virtue.
·
Saphat; by most commentators is translated as ‘judgement’ derived from its
reference to Jehosaphat in the last sentence of the prophecy rendering, ‘Mighty
in judgement’ from Jehosaphat’s meaning as ‘judgement day’ or God’s judgement.
Shaphat in Hebrew translating as judge or judgement . Melkin could possibly be
giving us a double entendre in ‘Sapa’, translating as ’New wine’. ’potens in
saphat’ could then give the sense of “virtuous through new wine”, deriving its
sense from having been made perfect through the Holy Spirit. The most obvious translation is from ‘potens’
meaning also ‘pre-eminent’ or as Du Cange has it, ‘having pre-eminence’
rendering ‘having pre-eminence in the new wine’ which of course would be a
precise description of Jesus as the pre-cursor to the New wine as in Mark 2:22;
‘no one pours new
wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both
the wine and the wineskins will be ruined’.
No, Jesus pours new wine into new wineskins and thus the passage through
the Grades. (Also in Mathew 9:17 & Luke 5:37). Most
attempts at translation have rendered this word string as, ’Abbadare, mighty in
judgement, most noble of the pagans’. One possible sense would be, if we can
assume that Melkin is aware of the Zerah connection and his reference to
‘paganorum’ is the old religion or even Jewish; ‘Jesus preeminent in the new
wine, the noblest of the Jews’. The most poignant transliteration of ‘potentem
in Saphat’ should be understood as ‘he who’s might is in spiritual awakening’
which we shall see in connection with Jehosaphat.
cum centum et quatuor milibus domiicionem ibi
accepit:
·
cum centum et quatuor; translating as ‘with one hundred and
four’.
·
Milibus; confusing
most translators into thinking its meaning is derived from ‘Mille’, a thousand;
but Melkin’s real intention is ‘mille passuum' which gives a thousand paces
which equals one mile or miles even though he is referring to Nautical miles. The
reader will remember the unit of nautical miles is used so that a unit of
measurement correlates to a sixtieth of a degree; this same unit having been
employed by the ancients. The nautical
knot only came into use in 1630 AD, but the ancients had sub divided the globe
into degrees of a circle as was evident by Pytheas’s calculations. Melkin was aware (being a geometer and
astrologer) of this unit and probably named it after the Roman or statutory
unit. The term was not commonly used but the Ancient Roman mile was 1,000
double paces, one-step with each foot, for about 4,860 feet, and there were
many local variants, a modern statute mile measuring about 400 feet longer.
Most translations have used the word ‘Knight’s’
from the Latin word ‘Militus’ with the assumption that it refers to ‘the others’
that are said to be buried in Avalon. Other translators have opted for the word
“saints” assuming a scribal error for 104. Some commentators, while not
replacing the number, have assumed that a mistake has been made and that Melkin
is referring to the 144 thousand saints that fall down, to give praise to God
in Heaven in the Book of Revelation 7:4,14:1 & 14:3. This misrepresentation has been highlighted
by later interpolators as in the case of Capgraves ‘Nova Legenda Angliae’,
which renders the sense of Melkin’s words to ‘milia dormientium accepit’ which
has 104,000 sleeping with him, while some translators have added the word ‘Saints’. In place of the common translation error
rendering 104 thousand, Melkin is telling us that it is 104 nautical miles from
Avebury to the Island of Avalon. This measurement is precisely 104 miles from a
point just right of centre within the Avebury circle, to the ‘Huer’s hut’ on
Burgh Island as seen in figure 25. The Joseph line drawn from Avebury to the resting place of Joseph, confirmed
by Father William Good as it passes directly over St. Michael’s Montacute.
·
domiicionem ibi accepit; conveying the sense ‘took his sleep there or
received his rest there’. This sentence
is usually translated as ‘Abbadare’, powerful in judgement, the most noble of
the pagans took his sleep there with 104,000’. Obviously Melkin deliberately
sets out his sentence to obfuscate, inserting the word ‘cum’ meaning ‘with’, so
that ‘Abbadare’ is appearing to be taking his rest with 104,000 others,
especially when the first words of the next sentence are ‘inter quos’ which
translates as ‘among whom’. The real information
which Melkin is trying to convey here is that Joseph and Jesus are taking their
rest there; 104 miles from the circle of prophecy, which is Avebury as seen in figure
25.
Inter quos ioseph de marmore, ab Armathia
nomine, cepit sompnum perpetuum:
·
Inter quos; The usual translation of the sentence is:
’among these Joseph of Arimathea received eternal slumber in a marble tomb. In the previous word string Melkin used ‘domiicionem ibi accepit’ and here he is using
‘cepit sompnum perpetuum’ immediately afterwards. Aware of Melkin’s cleverness
and the fact that he is confounding normal thought processes, it would appear, as
if he is clearly speaking of two different people. ‘Jesus received his rest
there’ and ‘Joseph named from Arimathea took his perpetual sleep there’. The word ‘Inter’ by most commentators is
translated as ’among’ but Melkin has his derivative from ‘interrare’ "put in
the earth, bury” or interr
·
amentum giving ‘to inter’. ‘Inter quos’ most researchers have as ‘among whom’ but here
Melkin is using a play on words and his meaning is ‘Interred’ or ‘Interred with
whom’ also inferring two people. The
implication of this is; that it now establishes Abbadare as another separate
subject and the translation becomes,’ interred with whom is Joseph, named from
Arimathea taking his eternal slumber by the sea.
·
marmore ‘Marmor’ translates as a marble stone or as ’the sea’;
its derivative being the similarity of small wave motion in a calm water,
giving the expression ‘a marbled sea’ and is also found in Ainsworth’s
dictionary. It was said that King Arthur, when he was fictitiously found, was
‘not in a marble tomb’ to distinguish and confirm the monks find as ‘the other
important body’ to be buried within the
Glastonbury grounds.
·
cepit sompnum
perpetuum: The repetition of ‘dormicionem’ as referring
to Abbadare, then immediately followed by ‘sopnum perpetuum’, referring
directly to Joseph of Arimathea, does clearly indicate that Abbadare and Joseph
are two different entities especially since the mighty in Judgement is
referring to Jesus. This example of Melkin’s direct obfuscation
gives us an idea into the mind-set of the man.
He has set out to misdirect his readers with this pun on ‘inter’ while
sub textually informing us that Jesus has received his rest there. This he has done by not offending Christian
sensibilities during the intervening years until the present, while at the same
time in the same sentence, preparing his readers for the appointed time. It is
strange to contemplate that Joseph has buried Jesus twice in a ‘hewn tomb’ that
is owned by Joseph himself. Once with a ‘fasciola’ as related by the Gospel
accounts and the second time with a ‘doubled fasciola’ which of course fits
with the description of the Shroud of Turin which as we shall see shortly
suddenly appeared on the world stage just after the Templars had visited the
Isle of Avalon. As we have uncovered already, Melkin wrote the book of the
Grail. The original source for Melkin’s book of the Grail was obviously Joseph.
Joseph brought the Grail to Britain and so affirms that he was responsible for
depositing Jesus’ relics in Avalon before being buried there himself.
Et iacet in linea bifurcata iuxta meridianum
angulum oratorii:
·
Et iacet in linea
this is the sentence most frequently quoted in reference to Melkin’s
prophecy, the usual translation being, ‘and he lies on a two forked line next
to the southern corner of the oratory’. Et iacet in linea; renders ‘and he (or
they) lie(s) in a line’. As all
commentators have previously suspected correctly, the line thus referred to is
an indicator to where the tomb is located and the root cause of all
misdirection has been the word ‘oratorii’.
·
Bifurcata; to bifurcate
literally means ‘to divide into two branches or forks’. Melkin becomes
remarkably un-obtuse when he gets to his specific instructions about the
bifurcated line. All translators agree that ‘he lies on a bifurcated line’ but
Melkin obviously felt confident that this information would be hard to unlock. Without
a St. Michael ley line and a point at which the two lines cross inside Avebury,
the information given quite clearly, would be irrelevant. Melkin also could be
assured that Joseph would not be associated with Neolithic stone circles or Ley
lines.
·
Juxta; translates as
nearby, next to, close to, bordering upon or beside.
·
meridianum
angulum; A ‘meridian’ is half of a great circle that
passes through the centre of the earth at the North and South poles; as if half
a vertical plane on the globe, giving constant longitude. It could also be described as an imaginary
line of half of a great circle route from pole to pole. Melkin is clearly
trying to show the reader that the Joseph line is ‘Imaginary’ or conceptual much
like a true meridian line only becomes real when plotted. It is interesting to note that Capgrave,
Leland and Hardyng say that Melkin was an astrologer but it is John Bale that
tells us that Melkin, wrote the book called ‘De Arturii mensa rotunda’ while at
the same time informing us that he was a geometer also. It would seem then that
the mention by Bale of these two topics (the book, then the observation about
geometry) would indicate Bale saw either Grail table geometry or landscape
geometry in the book he was referring to. It seems probable that at some stage this book,
copy or fragment, existed at Glastonbury. The information about Montacute as a
geometrical marker for the Joseph line could only have reached Father Good by
two sources; Henry of Blois as already discussed or out of this possible
geometrical source that Bale refers to.
Melkin
was well aware of what a ‘meridian’ was but was possibly hinting to the
Lyonesse line as a Horizontal Meridian, like a line of latitude. Most probably
though the reference is giving the clue to look for a line that is similar to
those found on a Map. Although lines of longitude (the truest definition of a
Meridian) were not easy to calculate on a map at this stage and were largely
responsible for their distortion, it clearly shows Melkin’s great grasp of
technical issues such as these, through his precise surveying Data. ‘Meridianus’,
in Ainsworth, is described as ‘pertaining to noon or noontide’, referring to
the Sun’s change in longitude at its daily zenith. Ainsworth also has another
translation which gives ‘Southern Meridional’ which would only be an accurate
description if viewed from the northern hemisphere, so it is technically not a
definitive translation. This somewhat oblique definition would be derived from
the declination of the sun to the horizon viewed and defined by observers north
of the equator. However, it is from this
translation that most commentators have derived ‘Southern angle’ from Melkin's
text. It is also worth noting that ‘meridianum
anglum’ could be translated as an ‘English Meridian’; surely a pun not unobserved
by Melkin. It would seem, however, that Melkin
is referring to the angle created at Burgh Island between the Lyonesse line and
the Joseph line that runs from Burgh Island to Avebury as shown in figure 25. Essentially
the word ‘meridianum’ is conveying the sense to us, of an imaginary line and
this was surely Melkin’s intent. It could however be a word that he used to
substitute for another descriptive word, known in his day, which would convey a
sense of a Ley Line. The recent nomenclature of ‘Ley or Ley line’ must have had
an earlier appellation before the knowledge of the system was lost and it is
apparent that Melkin knew of its existence.
Again
this brings us back to the question; was Melkin aware of the functions of the
Ley line system, or did he just construct the riddle from geometric information
given in another text that he sourced; that may have been old Judaic, from
Zerah’s descendents and the Hebraic supplied by Joseph. This presents a confusing set of
circumstances where a Megalithic site is referenced by a Monk who lived
anywhere from the fifth to the eighth century AD, that draws on Kabbalistic
material; who writes a Grail book about the steps or grades to the temple ,thereby
manifesting his understanding of a divine plan. Not only does he have knowledge
of historical fact relating to Jesus and Joseph, four to seven Hundred years
after they were buried in Avalon but also is aware that Avalon exists within a
network of Leys, part of which was built before Zerah’s offspring came to
England and was built by early Megalithic Man. Did Melkin really have an angel
deliver this information as Helinand says, if so, was it Michael the Archangel?
We
arrive back at the same circuitous dilemma of whether Melkin was the actual
surveyor and the reader will only be able to make his own judgement at the
penultimate sentence of the prophecy, where Melkin is giving directions within
the local vicinity of the island. From this it becomes clear that he visited
the Island upon which probably stood a small monastic building (rumoured to
have existed by locals) built before the St. Michael Chapel referred to by
Camden (circa 1610). By 1680 there is no mention of a chapel and by 1752 it was
recorded as a ruin and brings us back to the point that it appears to have been
purposely dismantled. This leads to another puzzle, who did the dissembling of
the St. Michael churches and who tried their hardest to hide Father Good’s
message from Rome by eradicating Maihews reference and is this group, society
or order still actively suppressing through the ages? The most intriguing
puzzle (second only to Melkin and his riddle) is the Megalithic usage of sites
and Ley’s and the surveying of such a construct being conveyed to Melkin. Was
this knowledge through Neolithic Zerah down to Joseph then passed on to Melkin
over a period of two thousand years or even longer? If the Saxons had not
invaded Britain would this information about Ley lines and stone circles be widely
known today.
·
Oratori; from ‘oratorium’
in late Latin meaning a small or private chapel of prayer which would fit the
description of the wattle church or the later wooden clad building in
Glastonbury. The question of whether
Melkin’s prophecy has had scribal changes will seem to be an unanswerable
question. Melkin has most emphatically set us a riddle but did he write the
word ‘oratori’, or was this a later interpolation. The reason we should ask
such a question is because if he wanted to keep our attentions at Glastonbury
why did he write about the Isle of Avalon and how could he be assured in the
seventh century that the Monks would eventually change Glastonbury into
Avalon. Although his manuscripts were
read by several chroniclers at Glastonbury, we do not know if he was a
Glastonbury acolyte and therefore would have wished to concentrate the gaze of
the quester toward the grounds of Glastonbury, but it seems logically highly
unlikely. However when dealing with Melkin logic is the last attribute to use,
to peel back the layers on every level of understanding. We do not know if he set out deliberately to
misdirect enquirers from locating the island of Avalon by confining their
search to Glastonbury, but the convoluted
arguments involved to elucidate such an answer cannot be followed through with
logic, as we take into account such concepts associated with the Grail as
‘Appointed time’. It would seem that
following the word ‘oratori’ with ‘cratibus’, which all commentators have
translated as ‘wattled’, as in the construction of the first church; is too
much of a coincidence, for it not to have been part of Melkin’s original text
however if we start on this investigation we will be none the wiser. Cratibus
fits descriptive clues in the local vicinity of Burgh Island and so does ‘ora
tor’. It is as if Melkin would have us
blindfolded and pointed in the wrong direction and begs the question; just how
difficult should a riddle be, to be solvable? However Melkin’s original text could have read
‘orari’ from Orarius –giving ‘sea shore’ and an addition of the letters ‘t’ and
‘o’ to the middle of the word by a Glastonbury scribe would have rendered the
word ‘oratori’. This is a possibility
having already seen the interpolations and fabrications that Glastonbury perpetrated,
to locate Joseph's burial place within the Abbey grounds. The best solution would be that the Latin word
‘ora’ and ‘tor’ from ‘torus’ were split. ‘Ora’ translates as ‘the border or coast of a
country; particularly the sea coast or maritime district’, while the Latin word
‘oralis’ translates as ‘mouth, entrance or mouth of the River’. The word
‘tor’
from the Latin ‘torus’ meaning ‘a knoll or high mound of earth’, or from Old English torr; a ‘tor’ being ‘a high rock, lofty hill
or tower’, possibly from Celtic, or Old Welsh, meaning a hill or a craggy outcrop of rock on the summit of a hill. If Melkin set out to combine these words
which gives the real sense of where Joseph's body lay i.e. ‘a Tor by the coast’;
then the word string ‘oratorii cratibus preparatis’ has rendered the sense of a
‘hill at the mouth of the river’ or ‘Tor by the sea’ which has been pre-readied
(this could either refer to the tomb which used to be the tin depository or the
island within the ley line network), and which is interwoven (Ley Lines
tangentially passing nodal points) in the Ley Line system. If Melkin’s intention was to give us the sense
of a tower (dedicated to the Virgin Mary) by the sea, this would admit to a
previous building (maybe part of a monastic building) before the other St.
Michael chapel was constructed that
existed prior to 1307. ‘Oratorii cratibus preparatis’ does lead the inquirer to
conclude it relates to the wattled oratory in Glastonbury yet the ‘prepared’ in
that sense has little relevance. As an ‘oratori’
is a religious hymn and an oratorium is a place of prayer, there appears an
obvious association with choir, thus an association with the Perpetual Choirs,
of which, as we have seen Glastonbury is undisputed. The translations that have written ‘chanting
spheres of prophecy’, when ‘vaticinantibus’ has little to do with chanting; is
realistically just a case of the mind associating ‘oratori’ (religious hymn)
with church (wattled) where monks chant; giving rise to an association with
‘Perpetual Choirs’ singing an ‘oratori’ (religious hymn). However it was this association of spheres,
chanting and perpetual choirs that initiated our geometric structure. The association of a geometric design, namely
a sphere, coupled with religious hymns that would be sung in an oratory, has
led many researchers to associate the Glastonbury choir with ‘Perpetual Choirs’
of the Triads. This all combining and
adding credibility as to Joseph’s burial site being within the grounds of the Abbey
and subsequently enforced by geometric information supplied on the bronze
plaque. This plaque as we have covered was purportedly to save for posterity’s
sake, directions to where the Choir of “Yeald Chirche” was once located, before
it succumbed to fire. These directions
were made to seem relevant to the shapes that were inscribed on the floor in
lead that were now lost. This again as we have seen, was a gambit by Monkish
acolytes to establish a proximity to a holy relic that had never existed on the
site but we must not forget it was William of Malmesbury who first mentions the
business of wattle. What is the relationship of this man’s ‘ut ferunt’ in
reference to Joseph on the one hand, then Joseph’s wattled church being
described by him on the other and the
corruptions of association we have seen so much of in the intervening years
between when Melkin wrote and the obvious associations made from Melkin’s
prophecy regarding ‘cratibus’ and Joseph. ‘Oratorii cratibus preparatis’
would seem to be best translated as ‘a tor on the coast with a prepared
crater’
Cratibus preparatis,
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Cratibus: ‘crates’ from which we derive the
modern word ‘crate’ (originally from a wicker basket for transporting) gives
the Latin form ‘cratibus’, which translates as ‘a bundle of rods wattled
together’ literally, wicker-work or hurdle, wattled or interwoven. ‘Cratibus’
as an adjective, literally means wicker, but ‘cratitius’ translated means
wattle and daubed’. It would translate as ‘Wicker,’ as in woven strands of
straight poles giving ‘hurdle’. This could be a play on words from ‘Crater’, a
cup or bowl, goblet … a platter for meat, with an obvious association to the Grail
stories and the Grail's association with Joseph, both rumoured to be buried in
the Isle of Avalon. ‘Cratis’ gives us a ‘grill’ as in rods or wood interwoven.
The monks of Glastonbury could have been trying to perpetuate an association
with ‘wattle’ just to tie in with Melkin’s prophecy or indeed this was the
construction method and a small scribal change establishing a direct link to
Glastonbury. Melkin on one level could be referring to the wicker like way that
ley lines have been interwoven throughout the countryside, ‘serpentinely’
weaving and tangentially touching the nodal markers on the landscape. Because
of the words proximity to ‘Supradictis’ it would look as if Melkin could on one
plane, be using the word in the sense of Crater which of course is a major
feature on the Island. The author is unable to elaborate further as this gives
direct instruction as to the tunnel entrance.
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Preparatis from ‘parate’, set purpose, by design, giving
‘pre parate’ predesigned or Paratum ‘a thing made ready’ The literal
interpretation on one level could refer to the power that has been interwoven
and prepared ‘aforetime’ from on high (by God).This could have been Melkin’s understanding
of the old Neolithic networks supernatural power in as much as we are still
ignorant today of its effect; yet at least he knew of the existence of Ley
lines and may have had complete or partial understanding of their function. Melkin
could also be using the term ‘Crater’ to describe a cave or cavern that was pre
prepared that refers to the Ictis Vault. In the Glastonbury scenario the
‘preparatis’ is hard to rationalise but assuredly the cave was pre-readied
because without the cave Ictis’ function of an Emporium would be redundant and
the Island would not be specifically pointed to as the place where the tin was
taken to. Now we know that Melkin’s puzzle works on many planes and if we use
the word ‘potenter’ as meaning ‘effectually or Judiciously’ from the next line
in conjunction with cratibus preparatis and super potentem adorandam uirginem, we could contrive the meaning ‘The Tor
by the sea with a pre-prepared crater over which effectually is the Adorable
Virgin’. There is a long standing tradition on the Island that a monastery once
existed, so when Melkin wrote his riddle, did he know of a previous building
dedicated to the Virgin Mary, situated over the Crater before the dedication of
a chapel to St. Michael after 1307 AD. One
could even get the sense of ’a crate containing a preparation’ from ‘praeparatio’
and from ‘crateris’ a receptacle or
trough with a preparation, referring to the embalming fluid contained within.
This will become clear when we investigate the cedar embalming fluid
surrounding Jesus’ body .There is however on another level a completely
different meaning that can be extricated specifically relevant to the tunnels
entrance. This seems to be the real clue
to the Tombs entrance with specific localised instructions assuming in Melkins
day there was a monastery on Burgh Island which becomes clear in a later
chapter.
super potentem adorandam uirginem
supradictis:
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super, rendering
above, upward or on high,
·
potentem, translates
as mighty, powerful or being able ,having power or being capable, but it also
has the sense of potential i.e
reaching or attaining
·
adorandam , meaning adorable or venerable. ‘ad’
by itself translating as; on, at, to or
towards is directional. If we look at splitting the word into ad orandam we
could be looking at the word orandam, giving ‘to pray to’ or be pleaded with,
and also means to pray as in this usage ‘ad orandum
vero et communicandum’ which translates
as ‘to communicate truth and to pray’.
Is Melkin sending us toward where
one prays ? ‘Ora’ as we have seen translates as ‘by the sea coast’, but
also has another sense giving ‘extremity, brim or edge’, so with ‘virge’ is
this Melkin’s meaning ‘extremity of the verge’.
·
Virginem derived from
‘Virga’ giving virginalis with an obvious reference to the Virgin Mary. ‘adorandam
virginem’ means “The adorable virgin or maiden”. This sentence essentially is intonating
precise local instructions to the entrance of the vault, giving its relation in
the local vicinity to the crater and where an old church used to be situated. Perhaps on another level altogether and in
reference to Ley lines, Melkin has knowledge or might be suggesting that,
whatever the ‘praeparatis, super potentem’, the ‘pre-pared power from on high’ consists
of; it is either entrapped or emanates from Avebury the A and the V subliminally
indicating Avebury but this is dependant upon Avebury having that appellation
in the 600’s. Diodorus Siculus who leads us to Ictis in the
preceding chapters, bears witness that: “Opposite to the coast of Celtic
Gaul there is an island in the ocean, (Britain) not smaller than Sicily, lying
to the north… tradition says that Latona was born there and for this reason,
the inhabitants venerate Apollo (the Sun God) more than any other god. They
are, in a manor, his priests (Druids), for they daily celebrate him with
continual song (Perpetual Choirs) and pay him abundant honours… In this island,
there is a magnificent grove of Apollo (St Michael Ley line), and a remarkable
temple of the spherical form (Avebury), adorned with many consecrated gifts” (Ley
lines). Latona had to give birth to Apollo
and Artemis the twins of Zeus on an Island not accounted as land and not
attached to the sea floor; Procopius’s ‘Otherworld’ which existed in Britain.
However, it would seem as if Melkin is giving direct
instructions as to where the entrance to the sepulchre is. If we split
‘adorandam’ into ‘ad orandam’ it renders ‘in prayer’ if we use the root ‘oran’
it gives again the coast or brim or extremity or edge as before. ‘Vergere’
gives slope or incline which is a multi-levelled instruction. The English word ‘verge’ has the same
derivative root of virga which gives virgin or verga. If we attempt this word string ‘super potentem adorandam uirginem
supradictis’ as a whole whilst splitting ‘supradictis’ into
‘supra ad ictis’, we get the sense ’upwards one is able at the edge of the
verge up high in Ictis’.
supradictis : Normally
translates as ‘aforementioned’. Melkin is clever here with the word ‘supradictis’
to make it look like he is relating to the ‘sperulatis’, as if ‘supradictis’ is
referring to the ‘aforementioned sperulis’ in the early part of the prophecy. ‘supradictis’
translates as ‘spoken of, said before, mentioned above or aforesaid’, as most
translators have it, and could even be word play on supra-dictis and could be
rendered as “foretold from above”. As the reader will be aware, Melkin is not
only naming the fabled island of Ictis, the very same island the prophecy is
about; but ‘supra-ad-ictis’; informing us that Joseph and Jesus are ‘high up in
Ictis’. ‘Supra’ rendering,above ,aloft or on high. This may be an indicator of Melkin’s
confidence at having entangled the enquirer sufficiently or could even be a
creeping anxiety that the intended purport of his message may never reach posterity
with all its subtlety. However he was cognisant of the fact that Ictis was
Avalon and is responsible for changing the name as well as obscuring both. We
will investigate further in relation to Leonardo Da Vinci, the subliminal
effects and the way that words are used to allude to concealed meanings. The
most striking revelation about this obvious reference to Ictis is; how does Melkin
know it was called Ictis? Had Melkin indeed read the Greek and Roman accounts
of Ictis and deduced himself, that the place is synonymous with Joseph’s burial
place or was the history explained in a manuscript that expressly gave an
account of Joseph’s connection with Ictis. The latter seems most probable as
even in Melkin’s era Ictis’ whereabouts was lost to classical chroniclers. Even if Melkin did witness Arthur’s burial
and saw Jesus’s remains, there would have to be some form of writing that
related the islands historical name six hundred years after Joseph’s burial. It
is this body of writing that would appear to be part of the source for Melkin’s
Book of the Grail. It would also seem that the Templars that built the St.
Michael church design returned the Book of the Grail to the sarcophagus;
otherwise this information would have come to light. Melkin’s Book of the Grail
was deposited in the sepulchre when the Turin Shroud was removed and shortly
thereafter made public. The treasure and the Ark were also deposited at the
same time which we will understand shortly.
However now we get precise
instructions as to the entrance of the old tin vault if we take the meaning of
‘cratibus praeparatis’ having a dual meaning in that it applies to the external
crater dug by the original operators of Ictis so that they could get their cart
to the tunnel entrance leading to the storage vault: ‘cratibus praeparatis,
super potentem adorandam virginem, supradictis’
meaning’ in a prepared crater at reaching the verge toward where one
prays up high in Ictis.
sperulatis
locum habitantibus tredecim:
·
sperulatis: Most translators have rendered this word
string ‘where the aforesaid 13 spheres rest’ but with the word ‘sperulatis’, Melkin has set out to baffle the
reader. If the enquirer is unable to resolve this last clause of the
directional part of the riddle, one is not going to obtain the direction of 13
degrees from the St. Michael Ley line through Montacute to Burgh Island along
the Joseph line. Melkin plays on the original use of the word ‘sperulis’, from
which we derived sphere, which at the beginning of the prophecy related to the
stone circle of Avebury. Melkin then
refers back to ‘sperulis’ by using the word “aforementioned” trying to convince
the reader that the two words ‘sperulis’ and ‘sperulatis’ have one and the same
meaning. However his use of the word for the second time has not the same sense
as in circle or sphere, but rather in its composition, being comprised of
degrees. Melkin surely meant ‘sperulatis’ as a diminutive form and of the
symbol for degrees i.e. 13°; the symbol
being a small circle. By the association with a sphere or circle being
comprised of degrees and the fact we are dealing with geometric instructions,
it is possible Melkin imagined that one would associate the word with its
composition or definition and derive from it the enumerated angle. It might
appear that Melkin has used a play on words assuming that the reader would know
that ‘speraulus’ means ‘to be looked for’.
·
The word locum
is rendered as ‘where’ by most commentators but this same word also translates
as ‘tomb or sepulchre’ in Ainsworth. Locum generally understood by translators as
locus, refers to a place such as the location or place being discussed.
·
The word habitantibus
rendering to ‘dwell’ or ‘abide’, seems very out of place in this sentence and
it would be no surprise if ‘habit’ and ‘antibus’ were split to give the sense
of ‘dwelling opposite’ at 13 degrees or some such contortion. We could arrive
at ‘antiboreus’ which translates as ‘looking towards the north’ or from ‘anticus’
translating as the fore part or southward. It is only because habitantibus is unusual especially
in this section of the directional part of the prophecy that it would seem that
the word needs to be split; so we could have the ‘locum’ as a sepulchre abiding
in the fore part or southward of the 13 degrees, or those that dwell in the
tomb are looking toward the north to the 13 degree angle. The reader can see
how accurate Melkin has been by carrying out a simple trigonometric example by
drawing a line at right angles down from the point at which the Ley lines cross
each side of Glastonbury tor and this gives the precise angle of 12.838568
degrees, which is only 9 ‘seconds’ out and considering the fact that Melkin is
trying to conceal that he is referring to degrees, can be accounted as a
rounded up 13 degrees.
·
Tredecim: translating
as thirteen. Sperulatis may give the translation ‘degree’ by its relationship
with a sphere. A sphere is made up of 360°, so Melkin is giving a visual pun of the small circle that is the degree
symbol because ‘Sperulatis’ is the diminutive form of Sperula. This is a novel
yet apt description that the word conveys as long as the sense is understood, i.e.
a tiny sphere or circle as the symbol used for degrees. However the angle of 13° between the Joseph
and St. Michael Ley Line is so precise that it could have no other meaning, but
the 13 degrees as shown in figure 25. Without Google Earth this investigation
into Melkin’s directions would be difficult in the extreme but it is oddly
quaint that a crop circle nestles comfortably in the opposite angle to that
indicating the 13 degrees just to the right of the Avebury circle as shown in
figure 25.
Figure 25 Showing the 13° formed
between the St. Michael Ley line and the Joseph line that ‘Bifurcate’ at
Avebury.
Habet enim secum Ioseph in sarcophago duo
fassula alba & argentea, cruore prophete Jhesu & sudore perimpleta:
·
Habet enim
secum, literally translates as ‘for he has with him’,
‘secus’ giving ‘nigh to’ or ‘with’. This sentence usually translates as ‘Joseph has with him in the
sarcophagus two vessels, white and silver, filled with the blood and sweat of
the Prophet Jesus’. Melkin in this second-half of the prophecy seems to get
less obtuse but his use of words indicates he is still supplying occult
information. One assumes these days that the ‘duo fassula’ is synonymous with
the Holy Grail, as indicated on the heraldic shield of Glastonbury. But what was rendered as a singular ‘graal’
originally in the Grail stories was corrupted into two beer jug like vessels on
the Glastonbury Arms.
·
Ioseph in
sarcophago: in the sarcophagus or sepulchre or tomb,
Joseph…. has with him.
·
Duo Fassula: two ‘fassula’,
before the Grail stories were written, must have confused the monks when the
singular Grail appeared around 1150AD. At least this might have prevented a
falsified find of Joseph’s remains, being totally unable to produce something
so sacred as the blood and sweat of their Lord.
It is not clear if there is an exact translation of ‘fassula’ and it
seems a direct obfuscation. Commentators have assumed that the Grail is a
receptacle and it would seem that even Helinand is trying to rationalise three
threads; 1) two vessels that he must have heard about. 2) The degrees, steps or
grades that the word Graal suggested with his Latin derivatives. 3) The
processional taking place in the Grail story while sitting at meat. Thus he came
up with the etymology of a platter as a serving dish for meat.
In the Glastonbury case, we are led
to believe that it holds two liquids, blood and sweat. So from the Latin ‘vas’,
a vase, commentators have assumed ‘vassula. This sounds like ‘vascula’ which,
as the reader will know is a vessel and therefore would seem the obvious
deduction. As Melkin has proved to be
accurate up to this point in the information that he is providing us, probably
from a much older text, it would seem that the duality of the Grail as an
object within the sarcophagus is more likely than the singularity of the Grail
in the romances as the sense of Graal. In
the Romances as we have covered, it has been largely misunderstood. As we have discussed, Melkin was the
consolidator of that tradition in the Book of the Grail and, as a religious
rite will have referred to it in the singular.
This will be elucidated later, when we will see that the Graal from
Gradatim are the degrees or stages of spiritual enlightenment in ‘Biblical Time’,
rather than the physical object or receptacles containing the blood and sweat.
A ‘fasciola’ however, is a bandage and a ‘fasceola’ is a swaddling cloth or a
cloth swathe.
·
alba translates as
the word ‘Pearl’ in Latin but also has
its translation as the word ‘white’ by most translators. In fact it directly
refers to a ‘white garment’. This of course would confirm the assumption of the
white grave cloth otherwise known as the Turin Shroud.
·
argentea from ‘argenteus’
meaning ‘of silver’ also translating as ‘clear or bright’ but usually to do
with silver, a mass of bullion, coin or money. It also has another meaning of
plated or ‘overlaid’. ‘Argentatus’ giving silvered, over plated or again ‘overlaid’.
Is this the heart of Melkin’s message that really shows who it is that Joseph
brought to England and the proof?
·
cruore from ‘Cruor’,
translating as blood from a wound or gore. ‘Cruentatus’ giving made bloody or died with blood. The
Glastonbury cruets as vessels or as Father Good referred to them as golden
ampullae, are purely derived from word association from that Latin word for
blood, ‘cruore’ then led to ‘cruet’ and
from blood to vessel. Many researchers have chosen to translate as ‘two cruets’,
leaving out ‘fassula’ as the vessel and converting the blood supposedly
contained in the vessel into the vessel itself, holding the blood. Thus we have
the vessel holding the blood turning into a vessel that sounds like what the
vessel is purported to contain.
·
Sudore, ‘sudor’
giving sweat, labour, travail or pains. Melkin has given us here the answer to
this problem of the ‘duo fassula’ in that ‘fascla’ a swathe or breast cloth and ‘fasciola’ swathing
cloth, is meant as a ‘doubled’ white cloth covered in sweat and blood from
Jesus, (overlaid, from ‘argentea’, as one would overlay an image with
silver i.e. following the outline of the
image) . If Geoffrey
de Charney who
was the first to exhibit the Turin Shroud, had removed it from the tomb it
would explain its sudden appearance in the 1350’s.
Perimpleta; has always
provided the word for ‘full’, in the context of ‘filled with the blood and
sweat’ by nearly every commentator on the prophecy. Perimpleta is not a word in its own right that has meaning
but this is common with Melkin. It
can be made up from ‘per – impleta’, coming from the verb 'impleo' which means
'I fill up/satiate'. The 'per-' on the front is a common latin prefix for
emphasis i.e. 'completely full/satiated'.
'pleta' comes from 'pleo' which simply means 'I fill'. In the form 'pleta' it is acting as an adjective meaning 'filled'. This is obviously Melkin’s misdirectional intention.
'pleta' comes from 'pleo' which simply means 'I fill'. In the form 'pleta' it is acting as an adjective meaning 'filled'. This is obviously Melkin’s misdirectional intention.
However there is no evidence of the word
existing as written here so one can conclude it must be part of the riddle to
be solved. 'peri'
is a Greek word meaning 'around' and is usual as a prefix meaning
"about, enclosing," as in the word ‘perimeter’ -- a "line or outline
around a figure or surface”. ‘Pleta’,
literally giving, ‘I plait’ in English, meaning to fold or as the definition
gives, "to bend cloth back over itself”.
This seems to show that Melkin has a message to convey that Jesus is in
an ‘enclosed fold’ or ‘enclosed in a fold’. It appears to confirm and describe the Turin
Shroud as the article that Melkin is describing; that is the white cloth that
covered Jesus while he was in Joseph’s tomb in Jerusalem. The different accounts
regarding the cloth after the tomb was found empty, can largely be regarded as
stuffing for justification of a first-hand account, also adding credibility to
the gospel account of the resurrection. There is no doubt that Melkin is
letting the world know that a ‘doubled grave cloth, covered with blood (from
wounds) and sweat from the prophet Jesus, who was enclosed in this folded cloth
just as it is shown on the Turin Shroud. The explanation of how the outline was
formed and when the shroud left the sepulcher will be elucidated shortly.
·
The
prophete Jhesu is a poignant
appellation, many researchers linking this expression with an eastern origin,
as the Koran refers to Jesus in this way. Melkin as we shall see is fully aware
that not only did the Prophets predict Jesus’s coming forth but also that he
was the fulfilment on one level of understanding, of what they had predicted
and thus, was one of their Genre and part of the Divine plan. We now have
Melkin’s intended meaning of; ‘Joseph
has with him in the tomb a doubled white folded grave cloth that was laid over
the prophet Jesus and outlined by his sweat and blood’.
Cum reperietur eius sarchofagum integrum
illibatum, in futuris videbitur et erit apertum toto orbi terranum:
·
Cum
reperietur eius sarchofagu; translates as ‘with the discovery of his sarcophagus’
.
·
Integrum; from ‘integrates’ translating as ‘entire or whole’.
This is in reference to the body of Jesus being preserved by cedar oil in the
Grail Ark.
·
Illibatum; giving
‘untouched, pure or undefiled’, from
libatum ‘defiled’ as in ‘virginitas libata’
·
in futuris
videbitur; translating
As ‘in the future, it will be seen’.
·
et erit
apertum toto orbi terranum; gives ‘and will be opened to all, around the
world’.
The translations of this sentence
appear for the most part as; ‘once
his sarcophagus is discovered, it will be seen whole and untouched and then
open to the whole world’ or similarly, ‘with the discovery of his tomb, which will
be whole and undefiled, from thenceforth it will be viewed and open to the
entire world’. As in the beginning part of the prophecy,
where Melkin speaks of the future referring to a period when Joseph's body is
uncovered, as a time when pilgrims would give praise to God at the island; so
is this sentence referring to that same point in the future. This does infer a religious change at the
discovery of the tomb and Melkin twice, in this short prophecy, mentions the ‘whole
world’ or ‘all around the world’, indicating that it will be a change in the
religious system with global ramifications.
‘Open to the whole world’; indicating, not a Christian world, but an
all-inclusive world of Muslims and Jews of the Abrahamic traditions, but also
including all faiths that are understanding the proofs of Divine intervention
by prediction, convinced by that which is revealed, upon the opening of the
tomb.
Melkin starts the sentence with ‘cum’
and with its various forms of transliteration, by inference, is indicating a
point in time i.e. ‘with the unveiling of the sarcophagus’. This is the commencement of a 1000 year
period spoken of in Revelation 26:6 ‘Blessed and holy
are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no
power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign
with him for a thousand years’. Melkin’s
understanding of ‘Time’ is what most qualifies him as a prophet and why such
great importance should be attached to this prophecy because he is speaking in ‘The
Times’ i.e. from the birth of Jesus to the uncovering of the tomb and speaking about
the commencement of a new age, the 1000 years which are to follow . A fuller
explanation of ‘time, times and half of time’ will come shortly.
Ex tunc nec aqua nec ros celi insulam
nobilissimam habitantibus poterit deficere.
Ex tunc; gives, ‘from thenceforth’. This whole
sentence is most commonly translated
as, ‘from then on, those who dwell in that noble island will lack neither water
nor the dew of heaven’. Melkin starts
the sentence ‘ex tunc’ or literally ‘from that time’, indicating again the
expectation of change at the point of time when the tomb is unveiled.What
Melkin understands is that religion in general with its multitudinous dead
practices across the world (starting in Britain) will now accept the God of
Israel as the only truth, in amongst the myriad of other gods by which men
contrive their ‘modus operandi’
nec aqua nec ros celi; this is again confirming God-given
blessings from that time forward. Rain
and dew are metaphorical for spiritual blessings sent from heaven and from
thenceforth, never failing those who are converted in that island. However, Melkin is imparting occult
information here on one level, in that, he is using the word ‘nekros’ from the
Greek, which gives us ‘dead, dead body, corpse’ or ‘nekrosis’ "a becoming dead,
state of death. This is, Melkin’s reference to the ‘spiritually
dead’ and shows that he is fully aware of the ‘degrees’ of spiritual progress
of Man set within the finite parameters of ‘Biblical Time’. This expression ‘Spiritually
dead’ is encapsulated throughout the prophets as those who come out of ‘spiritual
Egypt’ and do not obey the Law engraved within them i.e. the denial of the
testimony of Jesus. Those that do this are accounted ‘spiritually dead’ but
those that accept his testimony are accounted as alive-or living. This is
overcoming the first death spoken of in Revelation. However those that accept
the testimony of Jesus by coming out of Egypt yet afterward with the pressures
of life, and the innate qualities of corruptness that are the lot of the human
condition, fall away into ‘non-compliance with conscience’ or disobedience to
that engraved upon their heart. These
then undergo and experience the likened Fall of Jerusalem. This is referred to
throughout the prophets and of course is followed by the seven years of
compliance (known spiritually as ‘the
captivity’), a period to put away sin and of purification and acknowledgement
that there is a God (The whole point of the divine plan to self-realisation or
Gnosis). After the acknowledgement and
compliance, spiritual peace is found, and this is the overcoming of the second
death also mentioned in Revelation. Failure to comply in the ‘spiritual
captivity’ period, results in the second death i.e. spiritual death. The three periods or degrees of Gnosis; firstly the coming out of Egypt, secondly the
return from the Captivity (in the Spiritual sense) and thirdly the heavenly
state of spiritual peace, are synonymous with the three days that Jesus speaks
of, when he refers to the rebuilding of the Temple. These three days are also synonymous
as, the three periods of time i.e. Time, the Times and Half Time. ‘And when he
cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are
for death to death; and such as are
for captivity to captivity; and such as
are for the sword to the sword’.
Jeremiah 43:10.
What Melkin
is referring to here are those persons that in the seven years of captivity
after the fall of spiritual Jerusalem, who do not acknowledge that there is a
God; from that time forward there will be no more water from heaven. ‘Seven times will
pass by for you, until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the
kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes.’ Daniel 4:32. Daniel 4:25.
The evidences for
Melkin’s double meaning here rely on elucidation in a later chapter as a digression
here is not opportune and the explanation involves the issue of ‘Biblical Time’.
It is here however
that it becomes evident that one scribal change has been made for reasons to
accord or marry with the word ‘insula’ the first word of the prophecy and the
Island of Avalon we have been trying to locate. This scribal alteration was most probably
innocently changed before or by John of Glastonbury when transcribing Melkin’s
prophecy. Melkin wrote originally the word ‘insalem’ as a pun because with this
word the purport of his occult meaning is passed to the initiated but also the
mundane sense is conveyed. Melkin’s
original would have read; ‘Ex tunc nec
aqua nec ros celi insalem
nobilissimam habitantibus poterit deficere. If one were to split ’insalem’ as
intended by Melkin to, ‘in salem’, then the sentence reads ‘from that time
there is no water for the dead but those that live in (heavenly) peace, will
not lack drink’. This is the peace of which comes to those who have come out of
Egypt initially and then subsequently purified themselves during the seven year
Captivity after the spiritual fall of Jerusalem. ‘In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to reclaim
the remnant that is left of his people. Isaiah 11:11.
insulam nobilissimam; ostensibly translating as ‘noble Island’ in
the one sense as Melkin intended but as we have seen, this originally would have been written as the
non existant Latin word ‘insalem’, which when split gives ‘in peace’ the very
objective of Gnosis and the understanding behind the essence of the Grail.
‘Mental rest’ in the landscape of the mind,
which allegorically has its similitude in the Holy land, is the key to
the understanding of the vast body of knowledge incorporated in the prophets. A
difficult concept to allow but the ‘rest and peace’, that the prophets speak of
is spiritual and not historical. However like so many words in Melkin’s prophecy,
the outward word suggests a mis-spelt meaning, yet when uncovered, the occult
sense is revealed just as in Usher’s version giving Judioialem instead of the modern corrected or
assumed form of ‘Judicialem’ to conform
with Saphat. ‘Judioialem’
was probably a corruption or conscious scribal correction and almost certainly
the original word that Melkin would have written was ‘Judiosalem’. The reason
that this assumption can be posited is because it is a certainty that Melkin
understood the message of the Biblical prophets. This can be assumed by his
understanding of Biblical time which can only be gleaned from the prophets of
Israel.
habitantibus poterit deficere
·
habitantibus from a root
of ‘habitatio’ , ‘habitator’ , ‘habitatus’
or ‘habito’ giving ‘to dwell, live in,
or abide. Melkin’s choice of words is exact and precise to convey the sense of
a spiritual place where one lives at peace, much as today the modern expression
of describing someone as being ‘in a good place’ in reference to their state of
mind or mental wellbeing. This concept of a spiritual location is vital to the
understanding of the prophets, as what was essentially a landscape in
historical time (set in Biblical time) by mental transformation, as Melkin comprehends,
is a mental landscape of peace within which one can potentially live. This
essentially is the Kingdom of Heaven that is referred to by Jesus as an earthly
attainable state; of which he proclaimed to be at hand or attainable. Unfortunately the opposite state being
equally attainable. The subject requires an elucidation that is grounded in the
prophets and the subject analysis is too broad to be dealt with within these
pages excepting the subject of Biblical Time which we will cover only to show
that Melkin was certain that what he prophesied would take place at a point in
that time.
·
Poterit; from a root
describing ‘drink or drinking’ which again has biblical connotations. Drinking is synonymous with acceptance of the
divine plan or God’s word and of what is revealed by the prophets of Israel.
The real sense of spiritual drinking can by association be equated with the
satiation of spiritual thirst as in Jeremiah 49:12
‘This is what the LORD says: "If those who do not deserve to drink the cup; must drink
it, why should you go unpunished? ... You must drink this cup of judgment!’. Or again in Obadiah 4:16 ‘Just as you drank on my holy hill, so all the nations
will drink continually; they will drink and drink and be as if they had never
been!’ Here again in Mark 10:38 ‘Can you drink the cup? But Jesus said to them,
"You don't know what you are asking! Are you able to drink from the bitter cup of suffering
I am about to drink from.
·
Deficere from ‘deficio’
meaning, to leave or fail one’ giving the word ‘lack’ as most translators have
it.
Per multum tempus ante diem
Judioialem in iosaphat erunt aperta haec, &
viventibus declarata: Most
translations of this passage differ only slightly; ‘for a long time before the day of
judgement in Josaphat, these things will be openly declared to the living’.
·
Per multum tempus ante; translates as ‘a long time
before’ and relates as we have already seen to the 1000 year period from the time the tomb is
unveiled before the day of Judgement i.e from the time that Joseph’s and Jesus’ tomb is
unveiled. This is the last period of the seven day period of 7,000 years that
constitute the framework of ‘Biblical Time’.
·
diem Judioialem from Usher’s text, rather than the assumed
or corrupted ‘diem Judicialem’ of the later transcriptions. The scribal change and word association has
come from the original which would have been ‘Judiosalem’ through Judioalem to
the assumed ‘diem Judicialem’ which is purely
conforming to the notion of its connection to judgement day. This has been due
to its connection with Jehosaphat which the Abrahamic faiths believe refers to
judgement day. Melkin again can only be understood with a grasp of the Prophets
prophesying in time, as biblical spans of time are often misunderstood being
dependant upon how the prophet is referencing the subject, this determining the
unit time measure expressed.
Melkin here wrote ‘Judiosalem’ which obviously is word
play on Jerusalem as well as being a subliminal joining of Judah and Salem,
rendering exactly what Melkin intented; ‘The day of Judah’s peace’ or ‘peace of
the Jews’ referring to the spiritual peace of those coming out of spiritual
Babylon which takes place on the day of Jehosaphat, as long as the thousand year period is
understood as a day being the seventh day of the one week of Biblical time. Melkin is using the word ‘Salem’ from which Jerusalem is derived from Urušalimum , ‘Foundation of Shalem’; Salem coming from the word shalem,
shalom, shalim or salam meaning peace; the city of Jerusalem which dates back to the
early bronze age, where Abraham
and Melchizedek met. ‘Judah’s peace’ is
the goal of the Divine plan if one accepts that a ‘Jew’ is a spiritual Jew i.e.
a person having come out of Egypt and returned from the Babylonian captivity, (Babylon
the Great in the spiritual sense) and then found peace through adherence to the
Law and acknowledgement of the existence of God. This view of the prophets
being not only historical seems newly contrived but is the essential perception
although not intellectually or theologically comprehended,that unites and is
perceived by the Abrahamic faiths. Not
to complicate matters but just to show how many ways one can interpret Melkin, ‘salum’
also translates as near a coast or to the sea so if we take judiosalum as a
word we get the sense ‘along time before
those days when the Jews near the coast (in the period of Iosahat) are opened
up and declared to the living.
·
in iosaphat: Melkin has steered the reader into assuming
a place, by prefixing ’Josaphat’ with ‘in’, when he is quite aware of Jehosaphat’s
meaning as a period of biblical time (which is the 1000 years of ‘The Times’
halved) and accounted as a degree of spiritual awakening being the third day of
the three time periods, time times, and halftime as these were referred to by
Jesus as days. The reader will remember that ‘saphat’ was rendered as judgement
in the earlier part of the prophecy. ‘Judiosalem’,
became Judioalem and was then changed to ‘Judicialem’ because
of its association with Jehosaphat being commonly associated with the last
Judgement. The rendering of ‘Saphat’ as ‘judgement’ in the previous passage is
incorrect, when ‘potens in Saphat’, should be understood as ‘he who’s might is
in spiritual awakening’ in direct reference to spiritual Jews.
The Valley of Josaphat or Valley of Jehoshaphat is mentioned in only one
passage of the Bible, in Joel 3.2 : "I will gather together all nations,
and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with
them there for my people, and for my inheritance Israel, whom they have
scattered among the nations". It is
from this passage that Christians derive Jehosaphat as the ‘last judgement’,
which is exactly what Melkin is alluding to. Due to its attachment to a valley,
theologians have assumed it has a geographical location, but like ‘mountain’ in
biblical texts; it rarely, especially in prophetical literature, has the sense
of geographical location. When the reader of prophetical literature becomes
aware of the concept of a historical location( i.e the Holy land and its tribes)
set in ‘Biblical Time’ that has become a blueprint for a spiritual landscape,
this transliterable approach to the comprehension of the Prophets words becomes
clearer. The prophets speak of the nations and their attributes dualistically
applying to real time historical prophecy but also understandable within an
individual mental landscape. Josaphat
incidentally is the name given to the forth king of Judah. The essence of Jehosaphat’s meaning is
captured with the passage in Matthew. 25, and bears witness that the voice of
Jesus can be heard by everyone that spiritually came out of Egypt i.e. heard
the Law; but then subsequently most of those who were initially blessed with
this miraculous correcting toward gnosis, chose to ignore their conscience, eventually
being sent to captivity in Spiritual Babylon at the destruction of Spiritual
Jerusalem. This does sound
oversimplified and contrived but we will come to this when discussing ‘Biblical
time’ but the point is that Jesus did not only come for the Gentiles but all
the children of Israel. Evidence of the
Divine plan can be witnessed in Mathew 25 showing the relationship of choice
with deed which as we have stated, takes place within the seven year period
which is the defining time of purification through compliance or as it is
Biblically known ‘the troublous times’ :
31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and
all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32
And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one
from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, ‘Come, ye blessed of my
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35
For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me
drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: 36 Naked, and ye clothed
me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me’. 37
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, ‘when did we see you hungry,
and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? 38 When saw we thee a
stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? 39 Or when
saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?’ 40 And the King
shall answer and say unto them, ‘Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have
done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me’. 41
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, depart from me, ye cursed,
into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; 42 For
I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no
drink; 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye
clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not . 44 Then shall they also answer
him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or
naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? 45 Then shall he answer them,
saying, ‘Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least
of these, ye did it not to me’. 46 And these shall go away into everlasting
punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
erunt aperta haec, & viventibus declarata; usually
translated as ’openly shall these things be declared to the living’ but another
interpretation could be that ‘these things will be openly accepted or made
apparent by those having reached spiritual awareness’. ‘Viventibus’, the living or alive, has the
same connotation as in prophetical literature, as those not spiritually dead.
Throughout the prophets this notion is held that man can be alive, not in the
sense that humans are either dead or alive but spiritually alive, as opposed to
those in whom their conscience no longer councils to do good but instead, acts
conversely as a ‘fearful looking for of judgement’. It is from this
understanding that we might grasp God not being a ‘respector of persons’ but
only of those who are spiritually alive.
Melkin
specifically points to a period in time and this point in time is the
uncovering of Jesus’ body. The reason for this is obvious in the proofs it will
provide for the future not only of the veracity of his prophecy but
substantiating the words of the Prophets of Israel and these confirmations and
the realisation of a Divine plan will cause a paradigm shift in consciousness.
Jesus and the Archangel Michael
mentioned in Revelation and Daniel seem to be both part of the raising
of Human consciousness and are accounted as witnesses to the Divine Plan.
Figure 25a Edward Burne Jones’s Tapestry of ‘The Failure of Sir Gawaine & Sir Uwaine at the Ruined Chapel’ showing St. Michael the Archangel as the one entering into the Grail chamber to ask the fabled Question; Who does the Grail serve?
Although the Angel connected with the Grail is often named as Gabriel, this is a later interpolation as we do not find the name Gabriel in the early French verses, only that an of an angel on whose forehead was written ‘Je sui apieles forche del très haut signour’, ‘I am called the strength of the Most High God’; and as related in Revelation the leader of God’s heavenly host. It is common to all the Abrahamic faiths that Michael is the one to unite the nations, but is also seen as the second witness in Biblical time as Daniel speaks of his arrival at the end time of what he instructed as being encapsulated within the perameters of Biblical time. It would seem by the Templars dedication of all the St. Michael churches within our design, this angel was either named in the book of the Grail or assumed from prophetical prediction as connected with the Grail.
In
Fragments of the Prince Melchizedek document found in the Dead Sea Scrolls,
Melchizedek and the Archangel Michael are one and the same and there is
undoubtedly an understanding of Michael being inextricably linked to the Grail,
since all these churches that have led us to this Island of Avallon, have been
named after him specifically. It is through the Archangel that the Dragon is
killed and the Archangel being inextricably linked to accounts in Revelation
and the Prophets, showing Biblical inter-relation with the spiritual quest of
the Grail romances, all integrally linked to Jesus the Archetypal son of the
God of Israel. It is ‘HE’ who spoke through the Prophets, who mankind calls God,
whose plan it is, to elevate the Consciousness of Man, and this ascension of
the steps by degrees to the Temple.
It
is God that carries out his Divine Plan in Time but the Archangel Michael who
seems to have lived throughout time is inescapably linked to all aspects of our
investigation. His name is linked with the Island, with the Grail and as the
protector of God’s people as seen here in the The
Apocolypse of Paul or Visio Pauli
Hear What Michael says! I am he who stands in
the sight of God every hour. As the lord lives, in whose sight I stand, I do
not stop one day or night praying incessantly for the human race, and I indeed
pray for those who are on the Earth, but they do not cease committing iniquity
and fornications; and they do not do any good while they are placed on earth
and you have consumed in vanity the time in which you ought to have repented.
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In 1191 the bones of King Arthur were unearthed
supposedly at Glastonbury Abbey. It was rumoured that a cross was found with
him which convieniently stated that King Arthur i.e the bones just unearthed,
were found in Avalon confirming to those that needed to be persuaded that
Avalon was in fact Glastonbury. The reason the monks at Glastonbury committed
fraud such as this was because of the Grail legends that emanated from France which
associated King Arthur with Joseph of Arimathea were now prevalent. Also
because of Melkin’s prophecy, Joseph had always been associated with
Glastonbury because of his Church.
Nobody was too
sure where the island of Avalon was but everybody knew that King Arthur and
Joseph of Arimathea, were buried in Avalon. Neither William of Malmesbury nor
Geoffrey of Monmouth associated Glastonbury with the Island of Avalon at the
time they wrote. This was later corruption by monks and the sole purpose of producing
the cross was to establish Glastonbury as Avalon. If Glastonbury could only be established as Avalon by the
unearthing of King Arthur, then it must follow the Joseph of Arimathea was also
buried within the Abbey grounds. To unearth Joseph of Arimathea, however, would
prove difficult as it was known that he was buried with the holy Grail. Since
the monks were not apprised of what the holy Grail consisted of, it was easier
to fabricate the unearthing of King Arthur with a cross attesting to the fact
that where he was unearthed was indeed Glastonbury and therefore it must be the
island of Avalon. The reason Joseph of Arimathea needed to be associated with
Glastonbury is because the monks needed funding to rebuild their Abbey after
the fire.
Prior to the fire of 1184, there existed a prophecy
written by a monk called Melkin. In this prophecy, once it is decoded, Melkin
supplies very pertinent information in a geometric instructions that gives
precise directions to an island in Devon. This island is Burgh island in Devon.
Melkin states that the body of Joseph of Arimathea lies in the southern angle
of a bifurcated line. Once Melkin's code is deciphered, it clearly portrays
that Avebury is the point on the St. Michael’s lay line which in his puzzle he
refers to as a ‘sperula’ or sphere meaning a stone circle. This is the point
within the Avebury stone circle complex which, at 13°, if one scribe's a line through Montacute to Burgh island (which
Melkin calls the island of Avalon), it is exactly one hundred and Four nautical
miles, the exact number that Melkin gives.
The location of Avalon has always been thought
to exist at Glastonbury but with a recent study of some of the oldest text and
the uncovering of the fraud concerning King Arthur carried out by the monks at
Glastonbury, it is evident that Avalon is in Devon . The references that Melkin
gives are part of a geometric riddle that once solved, points straight to the
island in Devon which is obviously fits Diodorus’s description as Ictis.
This is in fact named in the Grail
stories as the island of Sarra named after Judah’s eldest son Zarah, who broke
the womb first. His name has the same pronunciation as Sarra in French and his
descendants came to the south-west and were the primordial miners of tin on
southern Dartmoor who brought their tin to this island to be sold. This is the
reason that in the Grail stories the island is called Sarras and to which the
holy Grail was brought. It is to this island that after the crucifixion of
Jesus, when his body was taken down from the cross by his uncle Joseph of
Arimathea, it was then conveyed to a box filled with Cedar oil so that it might
preserve his corpse. This box or coffin known as the Grail Ark was then
conveyed with Joseph and several others from Jerusalem to the island of Sarras,
which Joseph knew well, having visited many times previously on his mercantile
trips with Jesus. This island had been known about in the Greek Chronicles
because Pytheas a Greek explorer had visited the island on his expedition. The
island was kept secret over many years since Pytheas’ visit, until Joseph of
Arimathea visited the island with Jesus on one of his trips abroad gathering
metals.
It was here that he chose to convey the Grail place
Jesus in an old tin vault that had been shut down or made redundant due to the
Roman invasion. For about 1000 years, the island called Burgh island been the
place on the coast where all the tin miners up on southern Dartmoor had brought
their tin to be stored in the vault. This transpired so that visiting traders
could take away tin at any time and the island acted as a trading post. It is
for this reason Diodorous refers to it as an ‘emporium’. It becomes clear now
the reason that Joseph of Arimathea knew the island very well.
The gospels relate that Jesus was
laid to rest in a hewed out tomb belonging to Joseph of Arimathea and the
rumours still persisted as eyewitnesses had seen the doubled over white shroud
that covered his body. One wonders if the Gospel accounts of the burial of
Jesus are just the echoes of the truth of eyewitness accounts existed in
Jerusalem just after the resurrection. In a book called ‘And did those feet’, a
new theory as to how the Grail stories, the Arthurian legend at Glastonbury and
the gospels interlink and provide evidence of the whereabouts of the body of
Jesus.
Melkin, who actually wrote the
original book of the Grail, which ended up over in France and gave rise to the
many Arthurian Grail romances now interlinks with the same man who provided the
rumours of Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury. So now we have a tomb containing
King Arthur, Joseph of Arimathea and Jesus that was last shut when Melkin moved
to France in around 600 sometime after the Saxon invasion. Towever the Templars
once they have been disbanded in the Middle Ages were also privy to this island
location and they knew what was buried within. It was here on Christmas Day in
1307 that they decided after King Philip and the Pope had disbanded their
organisation, to bury the treasure that they had managed to recuperate in three
treasure ship that left La Rochelle on 13Tth October 1307.
While depositing their treasure in
the tomb they removed the shroud of Jesus that had been submerged in the Cedar oil
for 600 years while covering his body. It is here that the image of Jesus on
the Turin Shroud was formed while draped over the body of Jesus in Cedar oil.
The evaporated Cedar oil has left a caramel like substance all over the Turin
Shroud, but the image itself was formed by the detritus left behind by
anaerobic bacteria.
Only 50 years later, one of the Templars that
died with Jack de Molay near Notre Dame in Paris, had a granddaughter that
produced the Turin Shroud. This is not coincidence and answers the many questions
of why there is no provenance for the Shroud of Turin prior to 1354. The Shroud
had existed within the tin vault until the Templars arrive and remove it. The
song or Christmas Carol ‘I saw three ships come sailing in on Christmas Day in
the morning’ is really the Echo of the Templars bringing their treasure to the
island of Avalon in Devon. However, this song had always been associated in
Cornish tradition to the visit of Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea. It was the
Templars, however, that marked out all the churches dedicated to St Michael
that lie along the St Michael Ley line. Oddly enough, it is the other St.
Michael churches that we used as markers, that confirm that the island of
Avalon is indeed Burgh island in Devon
It is this line that Melkin refers to, which,
when bifurcated within the Avebury stones and at 13° and a line is scribed for
104 nautical miles it lands on this same island. Unequivocably Melkin
understands the connection between the island of Ictis used by Joseph of
Arimathea and clearly calls it the island of Avalon. Firstly, it is known by the Greeks as Ictis, secondly,
by the island of Sarras by the French Grail writers and thirdly, by the island
of Avalon named as such by Melkin. It is
even referred to as the island of Avaron by some of the Grail writers.
The unofficial anthem written by William Blake
called Jerusalem starts with the line ‘And did those feet’. This is the title
of the book written by Michael
Goldsworthy , which conveys the same story that Jesus visited England
while accompanying his father, Joseph of Arimathea to Britain. The book called
‘And did those feet’ clearly deciphers Melkin’s prophecy, so that it becomes
apparent that Melkin knew where the island of Avalon was and what existed
within it. To fully understand this extraordinary set of events, go to the
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