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Hi Michael – thanks for this. It’s the perfect place to post such notices and I want to encourage more of this, as I can’t possibly keep on top of all the interesting events going on out there. Thanks again. Simon.
Back from Ireland and the Icon Chapel was as impressive as I remembered. The building work which had threatened to make it inacessible had receded sufficiently to allow our gang in and we spent some very special time in there. However it was not possible to do an extended meditation so that will have to wait for another, more appropriate, time.
I’d forgotten how powerful the stained glass windows are. They were created by modern artist James Scanlon and nominally depict the four beasts of the apocalypse as a set of four circular glass panes, backlit and set into the domed foof of the chapel. However, they are described more vividly by Br Patrick as follows: “The result [of James Scanlon's struggle to overcome the obstacles thrown at him] is expressed very powerfully in the stained glass windows: anti-icons of apocalyptic, archetypal beasts of the underground. One of these was a creature which James Scanlon was pursued by and thought he had escaped. However, it kept knocking him up and appearing in the glass as he worked, until eventually it fixed its blurred enigmatic terrifying face in the third disc opposite the icon of Christ the Healer.” This may sound over-dramatic but for pieces of coloured glass they are bloody scary!
Anyway we gave our thanks to the forces in the chapel and I said a prayer for a colleague’s wife who is gravely ill and then the children started crying to get out so we left.
I had been thinking of taking some photos but it didn’t seem appropriate and, as if to confirm this, I lost my camera as soon as I left the chapel (Friday afternoon) only finding it on Sunday morning. I took the hint and won’t try it again but someone may have some already so I’ll see what I can dig up. Instead here is a weird (and random) photo that I took of the waterfall in Muckross House (Kilarney) on Sunday afternoon:-
and here’s what it should have been like:-
.I think the Eostre/Hare/Fertility approach definitely makes sense (although it doesn’t explain the earlier occurences in China). To be graphic about it (sorry!) there is quite a marked similarity between the Tawton picture [url:2xw5203r]http://www.chrischapmanphotography.com/hares/pics/tstawton.jpg[/url] and your typical O-level biology diagram of the womb (e.g. here: [url:2xw5203r]http://www.cmht.nwest.nhs.uk/cancerinfo/gynaediag1.htm[/url]).
But there is something interesting going on with the triangle formed by three crooked lines as well. I’ve searched around a few places on the web but haven’t been able to get a good example of what I mean. I will try and mock up a basic diagram this evening and post so you can see what I’m on about. I’m sure that I’ve seen it somewhere before but can’t remember where. (Not the Isle of Mann/Britanny/triskelion exactly as the points in these go directly to the centre whereas with this one the arms “spoke” into a triangle.)
Nice one.
Simon
Hi Yuri,
Thanks for stirring this up. Maybe Alex Langstone could post something about his plans for the new Bega book and the reprint of the old one. Hopefully we will also get some further responses from the rest of the folk lurking out there.
I hope that you don’t mind my moving the topics into the new forum.
Cheers,
Simon
Off to Ireland tomorrow. Hoping to get into the icon chapel and might even be able to take some pictures of it (although I’m assuming that I won’t be able to photogrph the icons themselves). Will post if anything interesting transpires.
Hi Richard,
Don’t be shy about posting errors you come across to this forum or by email. I need the feedback to make this site as easy to use as possible.
If you let me know where the error happened I can try and track it down for you. There shouldn’t be any issues with you posting as a regular user (although there are some known – and highly irritating – issues if you post as an Admin, but that’s another week’s work).
I didn’t see the post 4 times – did you delete the extra ones?
Thanks for the feedback,
Simon
Here’s a nice piece of synchronicity. There is an excellent interview with Br Patrick Hederman which has just been posted on RTE’s website (RTE is the Irish equivalent of the BBC). In it he gives the full background to his Icon Quest and the new plan to build a “spiritual university” at Glenstal.
Again I warn you that, as a Catholic monk, there is a very definite Christian wrapping around what he says. But if you listen to what he’s saying rather than how he says it, I think there is no doubt that he is on a psychic quest and that much of what he describes will be instantly recognisable to other questers of all walks.
Here’s the link: [url:3m7vry0f]http://www.rte.ie/radio1/dialogue/rams/10september.smil[/url]
(The radio ads at the very end are fairly terrible!)
Well said, Yuri. To try and facilitate this, I’ve created a whole new forum for people to introduce themselves.
So c’mon folks – post a quick hello!
Hey Yuri,
The easy ones first. More as soon as I can…
Joa Bolendas (not her real name) was born in Zurich in 1917. It wasn’t until 1957 that she had her first visions. I believe that she is still alive although now living in a retirement home in Switzerland with frequent communications being beamed around the world. A lot of her material is too obviously “Christian” for my personal taste (although there are plenty of Gnostic touches) but I guess when you feel something is drawing you, you follow it regardless of aesthetics.
One thing that is interesting in her case is that because a few people have taken her very seriously, more of her stuff has been “concretised” that you would normally expect. So for instance Mark Patrick Hederman actually built a new chapel in a monastery – essentially on her orders. At least two of the songs she received in a vision have been recorded (by Noirin ni Riain who, in another aside, is working on a new theory and practice of “theosophony” or accessing the divine by sound). And two volumes of her visions have been published.
The icons that she felt to be very important and which now reside in the custom-built chapel in Glenstal Abbey are all old Russian icons. I guess oil paint on wood being the standard material. They range in age from the 15th to the 18th century. Apparently the icons wre taken out of Russia after the 1917 revolution and ended up in Paris where they were bought by an Irish diplomat, Sir Osmund Grattan Esmonde and brough back to Ireland in the 1920s. They were then donated to Glenstal in the 50s. Photos of them can be found in the Glenstal book of Icons although I found the accompanying dense theological discussion mystifying. Again not trying to plug anything (the monks are more than capable of doing that themselves!) but it’s just interesting how once more the info has been put into the public domain.
I’ll try and get to the other questions first thing tomorrow although the answers are much more my guit feeling and patterns than anything factual.
Cheers,
Simon
Hi Yuri and welcome to psychicQuesting.com. It’s great when someone introduces themselves like you have. Maybe I need a separate area to encourage more of this…but in the meantime this section will do nicely.
I’ve been to your site before (following a link on Alex Langstone’s website) but you seem to have added quite a bit recently and it’s looking good now – especially the artwork. I’ve added it to the “Web Links” section of this site.
Sadly the level of new material on this website has been low of late as I’ve just been on holidays for two weeks in the wilds of Donegal where internet cafes are unknown and then I was getting my own quest notes into some kind of order. However, I hope that I’ll be posting some new items later in the week.
Look forward to hearing more from you – please feel free to submit news/stories/essays as well as using the forums.
Cheers,
Simon
Hi Manolisa,
I’m lucky to know quite an expert in this area and she has come back with the following information:
“[With regards to the Nephilim] As biblical giants they are hard to accurately pinpoint on any art work but there are lots of images of generic battles between the Gods & the Giants, found particularly on 6th & 5th century temples (eg Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, Parthenon, E metopes and Siphnian Treasury N frieze (Delphi).
What you can’t say for sure is that any of these are specifically depicting the Nephilim.Not even Pausanias mentions them and he is usually first on the list for mentioning wondrous tales and myths and he is a good source for identifying characters of all nature!
There are also sometimes speculative attempts to tie in the Nephilim with the construction of some of the Bronze Age Palaces (particularly Mycenae & Tiryns) because of their use of Cyclopean masonry. HOWEVER, this is not something that is found in the ancient (or contemporary) Greek tradition, its a modern highly spurious idea and not something from Greek myth (certainly not the identification of Nephilim).
As far as I am aware, there is nothing which is identified specifically as the Nephilim marbles, although that is not to say that someone hasn’t suggested this….”
That being the case, then, do you have any further information on who mentioned these “nephilim marbles” and in what context? Perhaps then I could get some better feedback for you.
- Simon
Hi, I found this on a dodgy-looking website but you might be able to corroborate it elsewhere:
Then, in 1951 Wendell Phillips somehow convinced Yemen’s young Imam ibn-Yaha, who had recently come to power by beheading his regent and First Minister, to allow Americans to dig at Ma’rib. This was a highly unpopular move among the infidel-hating people of the ancient queen’s capital. In a little less than a year of nervous excavation, the Phillips expedition uncovered an exquisite 60 by 82-foot temple within a 250 by 330-foot royal or sacred enclosure bounded by a 30-foot wall. This was said to have been the queen’s royal apartment.
Hope this helps, Simon
Hi Sheena,
You’ve probably already come across this but one of the Lecturers in the History department of Keele University, one Robin Studd, appears to be something of a “templars in Staffs” expert. Two of his papers include:
“A Templar Colony in North Staffordshire: Keele before the Sneyds”, Essays on the History of Keele, ed. C.J.Harrison (1986), pp.5-21
and
“From Preceptor to Prisoner of the Church; Ralph Tanet of Keele and the Last of the Templars”, Staffordshire Studies 8 (1996), pp.36-49
Also I know this isn’t exactly on-topic but this link [url:dlygrrzz]http://www.pglstaffordshire.co.uk/history.asp[/url] mentions a history of Freemasonary in Staffs by F A Cotton which may give clues to previous Templar activities. Interestingly Dr Plot is mentioned here, forming a link to the other part of your question (the lunar standstill).
Cheers,
Simon
