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
"IBERICUS, who wandered hither bringing strange gifts and treasure.
Watch ye, for out of the wish it is created, and out of the myth will
come the solid truth. Mystery of Faith and of Matter! Out of a thought
all things were created, and out of a thought will old-time things
renew their being.
"ONE OF THE CONTROLLERS
OF THINGS THAT ARE.
A THOUGHT IN BEING."
Next followed more vague pencillings, and several lines of quite
undecipherable script, the only two words legible being CONSTANTINUS
and JUSTINIAN. The writing clears up towards the end of the page, and
proceeds thus:
"... who followed the Phoenician keels to far-off Isles of the Sea
whose treasure was great; whom Phaedrus took in his ship to seek for
safety and merchandise in one. Phaedrus gained much tin, and left
him on these shores, a Prince among them, marrying Yseuguilt their
Princess, and they the forebears of a royal line. (Of) the countries
of the Iberi and Kymri they sat upon the thrones, and gave the world
the Name that lives in all the nations.
"Who am I? One that sojourned with them from Capernaum through the
Isles of Greece and past the straits which Pharos lighted to stormy
seas and black rocks where the metals be.
"North, the settlement Tintagella; south, the river mouths, and inland
to the forest-lands and the marshes where the rising of the sun. There
builded he a Temple such as was of old in Judah, and there he reigned.
Thus was I, O man! my name Phocis the Mariner."
In tracing on a map of Cornwall the course indicated in the script,
east from the coast between Tintagel and Padstow, my finger lighted on
a village on the fringe of Bodmin moor, marked "Temple." Neither I nor
J.A. were conscious of the existence of this place-name, nor could we
recall our attention having been at any time directed to it.
As to the identity of the royal traveller, the script does not yield a
definite statement. If the name is there, it is to be feared that it is
irrecoverable owing to the hopelessly obscure nature of the writing in
the undeciphered portion. He came from Capernaum, and he came--or was
it Phædrus?--seeking for safety and merchandise in one. Can we identify
his Princess? Yseuguilt, or Yseult, is one perhaps of many, but it
may be that some record is yet extant of a Cornish Yseult who married
an Eastern prince or merchant. And what have the antiquaries to say
of Temple? Whence did this little place derive its interesting name?
Was it merely from a house of the fraternity of the Templars, or from
some far older and now half-mythical tradition, lost in the mists of
antiquity?
In a script dated 24 April, 1918, the following passage occurs:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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