Book Review.
For those people who wish to know more about the
spiritual history of Scotland this is a book that will interest and enthrall you, with it's well researched theories. The authors have
worked on this material for a long time,so the book is full of superb
detail. So whether you believe in Dunfords theories or not, you have to
respect the sincerity of the work,and in saying this, there is much to
be learned from this very unique and original book.......Editor
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Vision of Albion: The Key to the
Holy Grail
Jesus, Mary Magdalene and the Christ Family in the Holy Land of Britain
Barry Dunford
The English
visionary poet and mystic, William Blake, believed that Albion, the
most ancient name for the British Isles, was the original and true Holy
Land of Christ. Barry Dunford's revealing and extensively documented
book
suggests there may be some substance to such an intriguing notion.
Drawing on a
wealth of reference source material the author proceeds to investigate
Blake's
mystical vision of Albion as the Holy Land of Christ, which is
inextricably
linked with the English poet's intuitive feeling expressed in his
famous lines
"And did those feet in ancient time, walk upon England's mountains
green? And
was the Holy Lamb of God, on England's pleasant pastures seen?"
As a result
of deciphering clues from gaelic placenames, together with well established
traditions and legends, Dunford's research supports the Blakean thesis of
Christ's presence in the British Isles. More than this, Dunford shows that other members of the Holy Family,
including the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea, may have
visited the British
Isles. If
this was the case, then what might have been the reason for their coming from
the Middle
East, as
far as the Blessed Isles of the West?
What
Dunford's research shows is that the Holy Family were very likely related to
the contemporary royal lineages of Britain, in particular the Silurian royal
household whose kingdom, at that time, appears to have stretched from present
day south Wales to as far north as the south west of Scotland. Furthermore,
there may have been a common gaelic ancestry between the old British royalty
and the Jesus family from Galilee in the Middle East.
Dunford
further records that the entire cycle of legends which has the Holy Grail for
its centre is concerned with Britain and Britain alone, and he asks: "Could it be
that Great Britain is the holy grail of future spiritual
revelation?" He also quotes sources which identify the Holy Grail corpus with
the tradition of the hidden Shambhala.
Incredibly,
perhaps, Dunford's investigations suggest that the famed Shambhala, the abode
of spiritual master beings said to be overseeing the evolution of the human
race, is not located in the region of the Asian Himalayas, as is traditionally
believed, but rather is located within the sacred Isles of Britain, William
Blake's Holy Land of the West. As far fetched as this may seem, Barry Dunford's
well researched overview tends to reinforce such a contention as a distinct
possibility. Interestingly, a Scottish journalist, Comyns Beaumont, has
remarked: "The ancient island of Britain is the key to world history in the
past and she will be in the future".
Publication
date: December 2008. Paperback: 148mm x 210mm, 464 pages, colour and
black
& white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. £15.00 plus
p&p. For further information contact: Sacred
Connections, Milton of Camserney, by Aberfeldy, Perthshire, PH15 2JF,
Scotland, e-mail: [email protected] website: www.sacredconnections.co.uk
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