The Gate of Remembrance: The Story of the Psychological Experiment which Resulted in the Discovery of the Edgar Chapel at GlastonburyBond, Frederick Bligh
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The Gate of Remembrance: The Story of the Psychological Experiment which Resulted in the Discovery of the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury
Bond, Frederick Bligh
Glastonbury Abbey -- Miscellanea; Parapsychology and archaeology -- England -- Glastonbury -- Case studies; Spirit writings
(_Repeated._) "Quinquaginta[12] virgas et fenestrae transomatae."
[12] "Quinquaginta" is sheer nonsense, and moreover inconsistent with
the measure already given. The writing was getting weaker and the
difficulty increasing, and it seemed that the sitting had probably been
unduly lengthened, to the physical exhaustion of the sitters.
[Illustration:
FIG. 5.--SECOND PLAN OF THE EDGAR CHAPEL AS BUILT BY BEERE, SHOWING
ITS RELATIVE GREATNESS AS COMPARED WITH THE LITTLE CHAPELS OF THE
RETRO-QUIRE.
The line starts at the east, and again it is repeated for emphasis.
The chapel is shown at first, clear of the east wall, but there is a
subsequent loss of position which brings the little chapels beyond
their prescribed limit and makes the plan appear confused. Below is
written "Capella St. Edgar, Abbas Beere fecit hanc capellam" (Chapel
of Saint Edgar, Abbot Beere built this chapel).]
F.B.B. "_Please give length again._"
_A._ "30 virgas ... et fenestrae (cum) lapide horizontali quod vocatur
transome et vitrea azurea; et fecit altarium ornat(um) cum auro et
argento et ... et tumba ante altarium gloriosa aedificavit ad memoriam
Sanct ... Edgar...."
F.B.B. "_Which Abbot did this?_"
_A._ "Ricar(d)us Whitting.... Ego Johannes Bryant monachus et
lapidator."
This concluded the sitting.
SITTING II. 11th November, 1907, 1 p.m.
"The material influences were at fault when last ... I think active
influences were overpowering my will. Those monks were anxious to
communicate.... They want you to know about the Abbey. They say the
times are now ripe for the glory to return and the curse is departing.
I do not know about these things. They have been wishing to influence
you for a long time, and they have been (endeavouring to?) reproduce
things in your minds."
Here the influence changes.
"Benedicite. Go unto Glaston soon. Gloria reddenda antiqua. Laus Deo
in saecula seculorum. Nubes evaserunt ... memoria rerum manet et
red ... Ecclesia catholica extensit et comprehensit latera (_sic,?
latentia_) vera et res occultas sapientibus.
"JOHANNES."
SITTING III. 13th November, 1907.
Writing commenced without any direction by sitters.
"I think I am wrong in some things. Other influences cross my
own.... Those monks are trying to make themselves felt by you both.
Why do they want to talk Latin?... Why can't they talk English?...
Benedicite. Johannes.... It is difficult to talk in Latin tongue
(_repeated, being illegible_). Seems just as difficult to talk in
Latin language."
"Ye names of builded things are very hard in Latin tongue--transome,
fanne tracery, and the like. My son, thou canst not understande.
Wee wold speak in the Englyshe tongue. Wee saide that ye volte was
multipartite yt was fannes olde style in ye este ende of ye choire and
ye newe volt in Edgares chappel.... Glosterfannes (_repeated_). Fannes
... (_again_) yclept fanne ... Johannes lap ... mason."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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