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1838-1918. American historian, born in Boston. Son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886). Secretary to his father in Washington (1860-61) and London (1861-68). Assistant professor of history at Harward, and editor of North American Review (1869-76). His main work is HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (9 Vols. 1889-91) and MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES (1904).
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Chris Barber has spent most of his life in south Wales where he has been able to pursue his fascination for exploring wild and remote places. Currently a local government officer with special responsibility for Gwent's Countryside Warden Service, he has also worked as an industrial technician and as an instructor at an outdoor activity centre. A skilled photographer, he also pursues an active interest in hill walking, caving and mountaineering. He has written several books on Wales, including EXPLORING THE BRECONS BEACONS NATIONAL PARK, GHOSTS OF WALES and MYSTERIOUS WALES and MORE MYSTERIOUS WALES.
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David Bellingham gained a special honours degree in Latin with Classical Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, and is currently working for his PhD on ancient Roman wall-painting. He lectures on Greek mythology at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, and on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture for the London University Extra-Mural Department. David also tutors for the Open University and leads tours abroad to classical sites. One of the recent works are AN INTRODUCTION TO CELTIC MYTHOLOGY (1990).
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His reputation as a scholar assured by the publication of his classic ROOD SCREENS AND ROOD LOFTS in 1909, written in conjunction with Dom Bede Camm O.S.B., and followed shortly by GEMATRIA and THE APOSTOLIC GNOSIS, this time with Dr T. Simcox Lea D.D., he was appointed Director of Excavations at Glastonbury in 1908 and Diocesian Architect in 1909. He quickly found that his views concerning an apsidal end to the Edgar Chapel, at the East end, which was essential requirements of the Canon, were not shared by the Abbey Trustees, even though supported by the 'Sale' plan (whose authenticity was accepted and in which the vital walls were indicated) and by the Somerset Archaeological Society in May 1910. Serious charges were brought by both sides, but despite Bond's urgent appeal to the highest ecclesiastical and antiquarian authorities for an enquiry, nothing was done. After a while his excavational evidence for the existence of the apse was removed and finally the present wall was built across the East end of the Abbey. His professional career ruined, Bond went to America, but later returned and settled in Wales, where he died in 1945.no one knew more about Glastonbury than Bond and he served the community in valuable ways. Neither Bond nor Mr John Alleyne, with whom he collaborated, where spiritualists in the generally accepted meaning of the word. On the contrary, they held that 'each personality embodied a part of a whole consciousness and, as such, possessed a door through which, when rightly approached, Reality might enter as idea. This in turn presumed a cosmic memory transcending time, space and personality which, from this higher level - the isolation of the self overcome - could surmount the time-walk to share true communion of spirit with those on earth.' It was against this background that the new edition of THE GATE OF REMEMBRANCE was published. Today in the changed climate of opinion regarding Extra Sensory Perception, the matter can be viewed more clearly, though the problem of the apsidal end is still open to enquiry. But 'out of evil comes good and out of the mire of Matter in which the earth is buried will grow the lilies of the Spirit beautiful, sweet and comforting.' Meanwhile, Bond stands at the bar of Time while final judgement rests with posterity.
Janette Jackson M.B.E., Co-Founder Research Into Lost Knowledge Organization
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Colin Bord was born in London in 1931 and has been a professional photographer since 1958, working in advertising and public relations as well as freelance. Janet Bord was born in Leicester in 1945 and has worked as a freelance publisher's editor, writer and photographer. The two met through their mutual interest in leys, standing stones and UFOs, and are presently engaged in running a picture library devoted to rural Britain, prehistoric sites and strange phenomena. They are the authors of MYSTERIOUS BRITAIN (1972) MORE MYSTERIOUS BRITAIN (1976), ALIEN ANIMALS (1980), EARTH RITES (1982) and THE BIGFOOT CASEBOOK (1982).
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Katharine Briggs was born in 1898, one of the three daughters of the water-colorist Ernest Briggs. She studied English at Oxford, earning her Ph.D. with a thesis on folklore in seventeenth century literature, and became a D.Litt., Oxon., in 1969. She was a president and an honorary life member of the English Folklore Society. She taught and lectured in American universities, and was an honorary member of the American Folklore Society. Her writings include THE PERSONNEL OF FAIRYLAND, THE ANATOMY OF PUCK, and THE FAIRIES IN TRADITION AND LITERATURE, and AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FAIRIES and BRITISH FOLKTALES, the last two published by Pantheon in 1976 and 1977. She died in 1980.
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Rachel Bromwich is Emeritus Reader in Celtic languages and literature, University of Cambridge, and is an Honorary Professor of Welsh, St David's University College, Lampeter. TRIOEDD YNYS PRYDEIN - THE WELSH TRIADS, the second edition, edited with introduction, translation and commentary was published in 1978 .
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Moyra Caldecott is the author of more than 16 books and novels set in prehistoric times, including GUARDIANS OF THE TALL STONES and CRYSTAL LEGENDS. She has devoted the major portion of her life to collecting and examining myths and legends across the world. WOMEN IN CELTIC MYTH shows how these tales form a code of universal symbolic importance in expressing the eternal journey of the human spirit. With degrees in both English literature and philosophy, Caldecott lectures on the subject of Celtic myths at sacred sites throughout Britain.
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Joseph Campbell was born in New York City, educated at Columbia University, and did post-graduate work at the Universities of Paris and Munich. In 1934 he joined the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College, where he is now Professor Emeritus. Campbell's books, among the classics in mythology and literature, include: THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES, THE MASKS OF GOD (4 vols.), THE MYTHIC IMAGE, THE FLIGHT OF THE WILD GANDER, THE WAY OF THE ANIMAL POWERS, and MYTHS TO LIVE BY. From the posthumous papers of Heinrich Zimmer, Campbell completed and edited MYTHS AND SYMBOLS IN INDIAN ART AND CIVILIZATION, THE KING AND THE CORPSE, PHILOSOPHIES OF INDIA, and THE ART OF INDIAN ASIA. He also edited THE PORTABLE JUNG, THE PORTABLE ARABIAN NIGHTS, and the multi-volume PAPERS FROM THE ERANOS NOTEBOOKS. With Henry Morton Robinson he authored A SKELETON KEY TO FINNEGANS WAKE. He has received the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Contribution to Creative Literature and the Hofstra Distinguished Scholar Award. Campbell is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for the Arts, Religion, and Contemporay Culture, as well as a member and former president of the American Society for the Study of Religion. He and his wife, Jean Erdman, a dancer and choreographer, make their home in Hawaii.
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Philip Carr-Gomm is Chief of the ORDER OF BARDS, OVATES AND DRUIDS, which celebrates the eight seasonal festivals, organizes workshops and publishes a correspondance course on Druidry. He has two sons and lives in Primrose Hill. He has a B.Sc. in Psychology from University College, London, and trained at the Institute of Psychosynthesis, and with the Children's Hours Trust. He now has a private practice in psychosynthesis psychotherapy for adults and play therapy for children. He wrote the book THE ELEMENTS OF THE DRUID TRADITION (1991) and supplied Ross Nichols work THE BOOK OF DRUIDRY with an informant foreword.
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Christopher Chippendal was born in 1951 and grew up in Yorkshire. After reading archaeology at university, he spent ten years in book publishing before returning to archaeology as a graduate student working on French rock art. Formerly Research Fellow in archaeology at Girton College, Cambridge, he is now Assistant Curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Antropology at Cambridge, and edits the international archaeological journal ANTIQUITY. He lives in Cambridge with his family and, apart from prehistoric art, he is particularly interested in the study of formal artefact-grammars and the history of archaeology. He is the author of the Winner of the British Archaeological Book Award: STONEHENGE COMPLETE (1983).
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Ronan Coghlan is an acknowledged authority on Celtic history and the Arthurian tradition. He is the author of the DICTIONARY OF IRISH MYTHS AND LEGENDS, IRISH CHRISTIAN NAMES, and THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ARTHURIAN LEGENDS. He lives in Co. Down, Ireland and work as a teacher.
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Professor Tom Peete Cross (1879-1951) an eminent Celticist who together with Professor Clark Harris Slover conceived the anthology ANCIENT IRISH TALES (1936), originally compiled specifically for the use of their students at the University of Chicago.
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Kevin Crossley-Holland is a wellknown poet, writer for children (his STORM was awarded the Library Association's Carnegie Medal for 1985), broadcaster and interpreter of the northern world.
Much of his work is infused with a knowledge and love of northwest European literature, myth and folklore and he is the author of new versions of THE NORSE MYTHS (1981) and BRITISH FOLK TALES (1987), and The Poetry of Legend: Classics of the Medieval World, BEOWULF, CHANSON DE ROLAND, SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT and EL CID. (His translations from Anglo-Saxon literature have been brought together in THE ANGLO-SAXON WORLD (1982). He is married, with two adult sons and two small daughters, and lives in Suffolk.
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Courtney Davis was born in South Wales in 1946, though most of his early life was spent living in London. His working life has been varied, he was a designer of wedding rings for one of the top jewellery companies, a signwriter, silkscreen printer and a furniture maker before embarking on his artistic career. It was on a trip to Wales that he became interested in the Celts and their art, and gradually this art-form crept into his drawings, eventually taking over entirely. It was the success of the book called MERLIN THE IMMORTAL in 1984 that made people aware of Courtney's talent, and it was followed a year later with THE CELTIC ART OF COURTNEY DAVIS. Various projects have followed, including his own THE CELTIC ART SOURCEBOOK in 1988, but the design and execution of THE CELTIC TAROT deck is his most ambitious project to date. The latter was made to the book written by Helena Paterson and published in 1990.
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Paul Devereux is a well-known author, leading researcher in geomancy, and long-standing Editor of THE LEY HUNTER, the UKbased earth mysteries periodical. In his latest book SYMBOLIC LANDSCAPES he brings his quarter of a century's experience and involvement with the subject into a unique and far-reaching focus in this ground-breaking work. He is the author of more than twelve books including THE LEY HUNTER'S COMPANION (with Ian Thomson), EARTH LIGHTS and SHAMANISM AND THE MYSTERY LINES.
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Dion Fortune (Violet Mary Firth, 1890-1946) was one of the most influential occultists of the twentieth century and a champion of the native Western mystery tradition. Amongst her many works are PSYCHIC SELF-DEFENCE (1930), THE MYSTICAL QABALAH (1935) and novels such as THE WINGED BULL (1935) and THE SEA PRIESTESS (1938). The Society of the Inner Light, which she founded, still continues.
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Jeffrey Gantz received a doctoral degree in Celtic Languages and Literatures from Howard University in 1972. He is engaged on several translations like THE MABINOGION (1976) and lives near New Hope in Pennsylvania.
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A tentative outline of the life of Geoffrey of Monmouth can be made from evidence in his text and from various other sources. He calls himself GAUFRIDUS MONEMUTENSIS, which suggests he was born and brought up in Monmouthshire, most likely not far from Caerleon-on-Usk, which he often mentions and which is only some twenty miles from Monmouth. From 1129 to 1151 he seems to have lived in Oxford and was probably a canon of the secular college of St George's. During this time he wrote his HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN, the 'PROPHECIES OF MERLIN', originally conceived as a separate volume, and the LIFE OF MERLIN. In 1151 Geoffrey became Bishop Elect of St Asaph, North Wales. He was ordained priest at Westminster in February 1152 and consecrated a week later at Lambeth by Archbishop Theobald. According to the Welsh chronicles he died in 1155.
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Gerald of Wales, one of the formidable Geraldines, a grandson of Gerald of Windsor and the Princess Nest, son of William de Barri of a Norman family and a princess of a Welsh royal family, was born c. 1145 in Manobier, Pembrokeshire. He died in obscurity in 1223, possibly in Lincoln. Three parts Norman and one part Welsh, he was one of the most dynamic and colourful churchmen of the twelfth century. His dream was that he might become Bishop of St David's, be consecrated without having to acknowledge the supremacy of Canterbury and then persuade the Pope to appoint him Archbishop of Wales. For this he fought with great courage and tenacity over the years, refusing four other bishoprics in Ireland and Wales, and preferring to remain Archdeacon of Brecon if he could not realize his grand design. He knew almost everyone worth knowing in his days, kings, popes, Welsh princes, prelates; he argued his case with most of them and he criticized them with some venom in his writings. He wrote seventeen books and planned a number of others, all in Latin. THE JOURNEY THROUGH WALES and THE DESCRIPTION OF WALES, obvious counterparts to each other, are among his more amiable works. The first is a travel-diary of a preaching-tour which Archbishop Baldwin and Gerald undertook in 1188 to gain support in Wales for the Third Crusade. The second is a description of the geography of Wales, and of social and economic conditions in that country, in the last years of Henry II. They are invaluable source-books for the history of the twelfth century.
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Professor Peter Vilhelm Glob (1911-1985) son of painter Johannes Glob, was the Director of the National Museum in Copenhagen and a distinguished archaelogist. P. V. Glob's famous book THE BOG PEOPLE, is mainly about the numerous Danish finds, in particular, the celebrated Tollund and Grauballe men. But also his THE MOUND PEOPLE is an admirable guide through these extraordinary corridors of the past.
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Poet and novelist (1895-1985), son of Alfred Perceval Graves, born in London, was educated at Charterhouse and gained an exhibition to St John's College, Oxford, but enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. In 1926, his graduation year, he accepted the professorship of English at Cairo University. Outstanding novels are, I, CLAUDIUS (1934), and its sequel, CLAUDIUS THE GOD, both of them 'tours de force' in imaginative reconstruction of the Roman way of life. Among his more recent works are THE WHITE GODDESS from 1960, which originally was called THE ROEBUCK IN THE THICKET, and where he in a postscript underlines that he is not a mystic: 'I avoid participation in witchcraft, spiritualism, yoga, fortune-telling, automatic writing, and the like. I live a simple, normal, rustic life with my family and a wide circle of sane and intelligent friends. I belong to no religious cult, no secret society, no philosophical sect; nor do I trust my historical intuition any further than it can be factually checked.'
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née Persse (1852-1932). Irish playwright, after her marriage to Sir William Henry Gregory (1817-92), governor of Ceylon (1872-77), in 1880 became an associate of W. B. Yeats in the foundation of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and the Irish Players. For these she wrote a number of short plays. She also wrote CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE and GODS AND FIGHTING MEN (1902). The books was a financial as well as a literary success. Within ten years four editions of CUCHULAIN OF MUIRTHEMNE were sold out, and even through the twenties, the book continued to make money. In 1926, for example, Lady Gregory received £50, and until her death in 1932 the yearly royalties averaged £30.
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Hank Harrison was born in Monterey, California. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and has lived and taught in Canada, England, Holland and Ireland. He is the author of six books, and over two hundred magazine and journal articles.
He holds a graduate degree from San Francisco State University and has done post-graduate work at Stanford, Trinity College Dublin and the Warburg Institute at the University of London. While at the Warburg he was privileged to study with the late Dame Frances Yates.
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(c. 1574-1641), English dramatist and poet, born in Lincolnshire, was educated at Cambridge, and was writing plays by 1596. In 1598 he was engaged by Philip Henslowe as an actor. He was also the author of an historical poem, TROJA BRITANNICA (1609) among others and in 1641 came THE LIFE OF AMBROSIUS MERLIN, which is reprinted in a facsimile edition (1812) and again in 1987 from Jones (Wales) Publishers.
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Janet Hoult is a graphic designer and illustrator now living in Burton on Trent. In 1978 Gothic Image published her small pamphlet entitled A SHORT HISTORY OF THE DRAGON, which was followed in 1987 by an entirely new production based on the original.
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Michael Howard is a freelance writer and researcher who has been studying Earth Mysteries, folklore, mythology, psychology and ancient religions for over twenty years. He edits and publishes his own private magazine on these subjects. Since 1970 he has been a regular contributor to various national magazines on a wide range of occult and paranormal subjects and is a book reviewer for PREDICTION. He has written seven books on the Anglo-Saxon runes, folk remedies, magical techniques, parapolitics and secret societies. Michael Howard currently lives in West Wales where he spends his spare time researching the prehistoric stone circles and ancient monuments of the area.
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Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) was born in Sydney, Australia, and lived for much of his life in New York. Editor of the journal FOLKLORE, he published several collections of folk tales from around the world and a scholarly history of the Jewish people. He selected and edited CELTIC FAIRY TALES (1892) and MORE CELTIC FAIRY TALES (1894), which both were reprinted in 1990 in a One Vol. edition.
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Prudence Jones read philosophy at Girton College, Cambridge. Her research into Classical logic and mathematics revealed the contemporary world of the Greek mystery religions, whose recognition of the feminine principle and whose respect for nonrational thought processes exposed by contrast the hidden lopsidedness of later Western culture. She subsequently came across modern esoteric Paganism, and later trained in humanistic psychotherapy as a means of reawakening the Pagan outlook constructively in the Judaeo-Christian West. Because of the as yet inadequate articulation of the feminine principle in Western culture, she believes, a resurgence of Goddess religion will be the next step forward for the West. She speaks for the native European tradition, disguised but not obliterated in folk custom, legend, and the pervasive eightfold symbolism of the agricultural year, believing that it has much to teach us about reintegration with the natural world. Her publications include EIGHT AND NINE, SUNDIAL AND COMPASS ROSE (1982), and TIME AND TIDE on north European calendration, plus many articles in Pagan, Earth Mysteries and astrological journals; and THE PATH TO THE CENTRE (1988) on Goddess mysticism and the symbol of the Holy Grail. She is a key organizer in the Pagan Federation, the co-ordinating body for British revived Paganism, and in 1985 founded, (with Nigel Pennick), the Pagan Anti-Defamation League. She works as an astrologer and therapist in Cambridge and London.
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Flemming Kaul has an M. A. in prehistoric archaeology and work as Assistant Curator at the National Museum in Copenhagen. He studies religion philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, and is the author of THE HJORTSPRING FIND (1988) and GUNDESTRUPKEDLEN (1991).
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Communications psychologist Keatman works as a freelance journalist and scriptwriter. He is also a trained diver currently involved in underwater archaeology. Together with Graham Phillips he has investigated unsolved mysteries for over ten years and are well known throughout the world for their discovery of lost historical artefacts. Their previous books include THE GREEN STONE and THE EYE OF THE FIRE, which document their discovery of the Meonia Stone, hidden after the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, and the Ranton Bell now in the hands of the Queen's cousin, Lord Lichfield. Keatman and Phillip's combined experience has enabled them to assemble vital new evidence relating to the Arthurian mystery. Together with the latest archaeological finds, unknown to earlier researchers, this has afforded them a unique perspective from which to discover the truth about the historical King Arthur, and which resulted in the book: KING ARTHUR - THE TRUE STORY (1992).
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Danish archaeologist (1918-80); Ph.D 1950 (Foreign Influences in Denmark's Early Iron Age). Professor at Århus University 1961; same year daily administrator for Prehistoric Museum, Århus. He made several works in English, as THE BRONZE CAULDRON FROM BRÅ (1953), DENMARK BEFORE THE VIKINGS (1957) and THE GUNDESTRUP CAULDRON (1961), A HISTORY OF SCANDINAVIAN ARCHAEOLOGY (1975), in addition to all his books published in Danish only.
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Gareth Knight is a well-known figure in contemporary occultism and has been actively interested in the Western magical tradition since the ends of the 1940s. He is the author of more than eight books including THE SECRET TRADITION IN ARTHURIAN LEGEND, A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO QABALISTIC SYMBOLISM, A HISTORY OF WHITE MAGIC and EXPERIENCE OF THE INNER WORLDS. He runs experiential workshops on the creative use of the Arthurian archetypes.
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Stephen Lawhead has established his name among the front ranks of contemporary fantasy authors. His novels bear the hallmarks of a master storyteller - compelling narrative, gripping suspence and awesome climax. His earlier books include THE DRAGON KING trilogy and the PENDRAGON CYCLE, also a trilogy. His latest trilogy is SONG OF ALBION (1991-93). Research for his Celtic-based novels led Lawhead, an American, to Oxford, where he now lives and works with his wife, writer Alice Slaikeu Lawhead, and their two sons, Ross and Drake.
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Roger Sherman Loomis (1887-1966), Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, wrote several books on the Arthurian tradition.
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Kathryn E. Maltwood (Fellow of Royal Society of Astronomers) was in 1929 a young artist, who was engaged at the time in illustrating an edition of THE HIGH HISTORY OF THE HOLY GRAIL, when she recognized the Glastonbury Zodiac, a product of nature, human efforts and the imagination combined. In her later writings on the Glastonbury Zodiac in THE ENCHANTMENT OF BRITAIN and GLASTONBURY'S TEMPLE OF THE STARS (1935), Kathryn Maltwood gave astronomical reasons for suggesting that the figures were formed about 5000 years ago, through artificial improvements to natural landscape shapes, by a people from the East, perhaps the Sumerians who might have given their name to Somerset. Around the zodiacal figures had accumulated the episodes in the Grail quest, and the complete circle was an image of the Round Table, an emblem of the Celtic mysteries.
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Pauline Matarasso read modern languages at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and gained First Class Honours in 1950. She was awarded a Doctorate de l'Université de Paris in 1958. Her thesis, RECHERCHES HISTORIQUES ET LITTÉRAIRES SUR 'RAOUL DE CAMBRAI' was published in 1962. She has translated AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE AND OTHER TALES, THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAIL and THE REDEMPTION OF CHIVALRY
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Caitlín Matthews is a writer, singer and harpist working within the multi-faceted Western Spiritual Tradition. She is the co-author, with John Matthews - her partner in the Arthurian and mythic fields - of the seminal two-volume study THE WESTERN WAY, as well as THE AQUARIAN GUIDE TO BRITISH AND IRISH MYTHOLOGY. Together they have designed and written THE AUTHURIAN TAROT and HALLOWQUEST (1990), which combine their knowledge of the Arthurian legend with traditional teachings on the Hallows of Britain. She is an authority in the field of the MABINOGION which deals with the gods, goddesses and traditional lore of this mythic cycle: MABON AND THE MYSTERIES OF BRITAIN, ARTHUR AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF BRITAIN. She is the co-editor with Rachel Pollack, of TAROT TALES, a collection of short stories. She is primarily interested in mining the deepest core of the ancient spiritual traditions and finding applicable and practical uses of these traditions within contemporary society.
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John Matthews is a writer who has made the Arthurian world his special province. He has written and/or edited more than twenty books and is recognized as an expert on the Grail legends, publishing three books on this subject, THE GRAIL - QUEST FOR THE ETERNAL, AT THE TABLE OF THE GRAIL and THE GRAIL SEEKER'S COMPANION (with Marian Green.) His WARRIORS OF ARTR, written with Bob Stewart, explored the earliest legends of King Arthur. His anthology THE ARTHURIAN READER shows his wide interest in the popular and scholarly fields of Arthurian studies. He has presently written GAWAIN, KNIGHT OF THE GODDESS, TALIESIN, and SONG OF TALIESIN. He retains a lively interest in both the primal and hermetic ends of the Western Mystery Tradition.
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John Michell lives in Notting Hill, London, and his present activities (1993) include further publications, inquiry into the authorship of Shakespeare, research into ancient number symbolism, anti-metrication campaigning, and editing the CEREOLOGIST, a magazine on the crop-circle phenomenon. Included in his many writings are: VIEW OVER ATLANTIS, DIMENSIONS ON PARADISE, MEGALITHOMANIA, AFTER THE HARVEST (an illustrated history of the crop-circles, with drawings by Merrily Harpur), TWELVE TRIBE NATIONS and NEW LIGHT ON THE ANCIENT MYSTERY OF GLASTONBURY. the latter shows his special interest in Glastonbury which he has been involved with since the 1960s.
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He was born in Norfolk on 28 June 1902. He completed his MA in history at Oxford in the 1920s, and began a career which allowed him to teach, publish both poetry and prose, paint and travel. He had always been a practising Christian, and worked for the Church in boys' clubs in the East End of London for many years. He was ordained a deacon of the Celtic Church by Bishop Tugdual of St Dolay, and was also an active Martinist (followers of St Martin c 316-400), being able to combine these interests with his Druid work. When he wrote THE BOOK OF DRUIDRY, Ross managed to combine three books in one: a history of Druidry, a guide to certain ancient sites, and an anthology of Druid wisdom. The book was written 1973, and it is important to the readers of this book to know that since that time a number of writers such as John and Caitlín Matthews, Bob Stewart, John Michell and Gareth Knight amongst others - have explored the areas of research covered by Ross in great detail from both a scholastic and a esoteric viewpoint, and a study of their work will add a depth and richness to the understanding gained from reading Ross' book. Having just completed the final pages of the book, he died unexpectedly in 1975.
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Meirion Pennar is a lecturer in Welsh at Saint David's University College, Lampeter. She wrote an introduction and translated THE BLACK BOOK OF CARMARTHEN (1989), which were produced with a so-called Diplomatic text, i.e., a printed letter-for-letter, word-for-word copy of the manuscript. Capital letters printed from type made from tracings of the originals.
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Nigel Pennick is a prolific pamphleteer in subjects related to the ancient arts of geomancy and the 'Old' religions of the British Isles. He is the author of THE MYSTERIES OF KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, TERRESTIAL ZODIACS IN BRITAIN, THE ANCIENT SCIENCE OF GEOMANCY, SACRED GEOMETRY, THE SUBTERRANEAN KINGDOM, HITLER'S SECRET SCIENCES, THE SECRET LORE OF RUNES AND OTHER ANCIENT ALPHABETS (1991), and LOST LANDS AND SUNKEN CITIES (1987).
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One-time magazine editor and programme presenter with the BBC, Phillips now lectures on media studies for blue-chip companies in Britain, America and the Far East. He has also lectured at Cambridge, Brunel and Warwick Universities. Together with Martin Keatman he has investigated unsolved mysteries for over ten years and are well known throughout the world for their discovery of lost historical artefacts. Their previous books include THE GREEN STONE and THE EYE OF THE FIRE, which document their discovery of the Meonia Stone, hidden after the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, and the Ranton Bell now in the hands of the Queen's cousin, Lord Lichfield. Phillips and Keatman's combined experience has enabled them to assemble vital new evidence relating to the Arthurian mystery. Together with the latest archaeological finds, unknown to earlier researchers, this has afforded them a unique perspective from which to discover the truth about the historical King Arthur, and which resulted in the book: KING ARTHUR - THE TRUE STORY (1992).
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One of the world's most distinguished archaeologists, Stuart Piggott was Abercromby Professor of Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh from 1946 until his retirement in 1977. His many books include ANCIENT EUROPE (1965), RUINS IN A LANDSCAPE (1976), THE EARLIEST WHEELED TRANSPORT (1983), WILLIAM STUKELEY (revised edition 1985), and THE DRUIDS (1968, revised edition 1975).
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Trevor Ravenscroft was born in England in 1921. He was educated at Repton and Sandhurst Military College before serving as a Commando officer in World War II. He was captured on a raid which attempted to assassinate Field Marshal Rommel in North Africa and was a POW in Germany from 1941 to 1945, escaping three times but each time being recaptured. After the war he studied at St Thomas' Hospital, later becoming a journalist on the Beaverbrook press. He studied history under Dr Walter Johannes Stein for twelve years and carried out intensive research for his books THE SPEAR OF DESTINY and THE MARK OF THE BEAST. Before his death in 1989, he also lectured on history in London and Edinburgh.
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(1857-1920) Irish journalist and writer; editor of TREASURY OF IRISH POETRY (with Stopford Brooke; 1900) author of SEA SPRAY (verse, 1909), MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE CELTIC RACE (1911), (the latter were reprinted in 1990).
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Dr Anne Ross has specialized in the culture of the ancient Celtic peoples and translates fluently from early Welsh, Irish, Scottish and French texts. She is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, England and is one of the leading authorities on the Celtic world. She is the author of many books and articles including PAGAN CELTIC BRITAIN and EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE PAGAN CELTS, DRUIDS, GODS & HEROES, and together with Don Robins THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A DRUID PRINCE.
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. Professor Clark Harris Slover (1892-1939) who together with Professor Tom Peete Cross conceived the anthology ANCIENT IRISH TALES (1936), originally compiled specifically for the use of their students at the University of Chicago.
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Lewis Spence is ranked as a leading authority on the mythology and customs of many ancient cultures. A member of the Royal Anthropological institute, editor and poet. Spence appreciated the enormity of his subject and was concerned as to the extent and variety of the literature with regard to the conflicting definitions to be found therein. His many works include: THE MINOR TRADITIONS OF BRITISH MYTHOLOGY (1948), HISTORY AND ORIGINS OF DRUIDISM (1971), THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE OCCULT (reprinted 1988), and THE MAGIC ARTS OF CELTIC BRITAIN (1993).
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Robert J. Stewart is a Scottish author and composer living in England. He has over 20 books in publication and translation world-wide and has written and recorded original music for feature films, television, radio, theatre and for concert tours and albums. In addition to writing on music and consciousness, magical arts, Celtic traditions and folklore, and mythology, he has made a special study of the figure of Merlin in medieval literature, including two books on the VITA MERLINI and the PROPHECIES OF MERLIN by Geoffrey of Monmouth. In 1988, working with artist Miranda Gray, he published the MERLIN TAROT, which draws upon imagery in the ancient Merlin texts and traditions and restates it for modern use in meditation, visualization, prevision and story-telling.
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Shirley Toulson, who lives in Somerset, was drawn into the spell of Celtic Christianity as she worked on her books dealing with the oldest roads and folklore of Britain and Ireland, and found herself following the routes taken on their journeys by the saints of the early church. Among her writings are: THE CELTIC ALTERNATIVE (1987) and THE CELTIC YEAR (1993).
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Charles Walker is a well-known art historian and authority on esoteric and occult ideas. He has had over fifty books published which include titles on art and natural history as well as Tarot, Palmistry, Astrology, Archaeology and the Occult. One of the recently published is: STRANGE BRITAIN from 1989
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Lady Wilde (1826-96). The wife of Sir William Wilde - famous for his advancement of aural and ophthalmic science and for his antiquarian knowledge - and the mother of Oscar Wilde. She was an ardent Irish nationalist and contributed, under the pseudonym of 'Speranza', many articles to the nationalist magazine THE NATION. As is not unusual, her patriotism led her to study the folklore of her nation, and she became a friend of W. B. Yeats. Her most notable contribution to fairy-lore is ANCIENT LEGENDS, MYSTIC CHARMS AND SUPERSTITIONS OF IRELAND (2 vols. 1857). It is notable for the many instances she gives of the confusion between the fairies and the dead which is a common ingredient in the Celtic beliefs on the origin of fairies in many parts of the British Isles.
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Iman Wilkens was born in the Netherlands in 1936, and educated at Amsterdam's Municipal University. His book WHERE TROY ONCE STOOD is filled with what one may classify as revolutionary new thinking on classical subjects. His research on Homer began in late adolescence, and has taken up most of his spare time ever since. He lives and works in Paris.
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Although renowned as one of the most famous poets of the 20th century, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was also a devoted exponent of the western mythical and magical traditions. Yeats met with students of the occult in Dublin in the 1880s and was later introduced by his friend Charles Johnson to the Theosophical Society. Yeats subsequently left the Theosophists and in 1890 was initiated as a ceremonial magician into the ISIS-URANIA temple of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn arguably the most influential esoteric order in the western magical tradition - and for a time became its leader. Yeats exercised a profoundly Celtic influence on his fellow occultists and his love of Irish folklore is reflected in the book: THE CELTIC TWILIGHT, which was first published in 1893. It brings together many of Yeats' most enchanting and mystical tales - a dazzling array of sorcerers, faeries, ghosts and nature spiritswhich draw their inspiration from the visionary heart of Irish folk-tradition.
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