Tuesday, 20 September 2016

How to do research into the spirit of the nation - from Tolkien's Notion Club Papers

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Edited f rom The Notion Club Papers , by JRR Tolkien - Volume 9 of the History of Middle Earth - pages 266-8 (re-paragraphed): 'Well,...
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Monday, 19 September 2016

The mystical materialism of Christianity in Albion - excerpted from GK Chesterton's A Short History of England (1917)

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After that blessed crime, as the wit of mystics called it, which was for these men hardly second to the creation of the world, St. Joseph of...
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Sunday, 18 September 2016

The Light in Britain

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Continuing in the same vein as my previous post on this blog I would like to draw readers' attention to another channelled message about...

Problems in Christianising Albion - Christianity lacks spontaneous intuitive appeal for the non-religious

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Christians are prone to suppose that the appeal of Christianity is obvious - but this is an error. Re-Christianising Albion is therefore goi...
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Saturday, 17 September 2016

The Old Magic (from Alan Garner's Moon of Gomrath)

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The Moon of Gomrath by Alan Garner is one of the great fantasy novels - and what raises it so far above the earlier Weirdstone of Brisingam...
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Friday, 16 September 2016

The good in mass media depictions of Arthur, Merlin, 'Logres' &c

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I, like most Britons, have long been fascinated with the story of Arthur, in its many versions. As a teen I was much influenced, for good an...
Wednesday, 14 September 2016

The Character of Merlin - roots in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini

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For me, the character of Merlin is of much greater interest than King Arthur - since I can identify much more closely with Merlin. And Merli...
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