Session 15 August 1998

In actuality, “mind” and “body” are mere arbitrary terms that we apply to made-up divisions of one single entity. When properly applied, the kamae reflects the ninja’s heart. This means that our physical nature conforms to our intentions, and there is no division between our interior and exterior aspects. This state of integrated mind and body action is totally natural, and can be observed readily in the movements of the movements of animals as they interact with their environment.
A few years ago, when exploring "life energies," I stumbled upon this fascinating documentary featuring a master harnessing qi ("chee"). It can perhaps give us an idea of how energies flow when they are not obstructed!

Chi Kung Master Burns Paper With His Hand - John Chang
Qigong (/ˈtʃiːˈɡɒŋ/),[1] qi gong, chi kung, chi 'ung, or chi gung (simplified Chinese: 气功; traditional Chinese: 氣功; pinyin: qìgōng; Wade–Giles: ch‘i kung; lit. 'life-energy cultivation') is a system of coordinated body-posture and movement, breathing, and meditation[2] used for the purposes of health, spirituality, and martial-arts training. With roots in Chinese medicine, philosophy, and martial arts, qigong is traditionally viewed by the Chinese and throughout Asia as a practice to cultivate and balance qi (pronounced approximately as "chee"), translated as "life energy".

Qigong practice typically involves moving meditation, coordinating slow-flowing movement, deep rhythmic breathing, and a calm meditative state of mind. People practice qigong throughout China and worldwide for recreation, exercise, relaxation, preventive medicine, self-healing, alternative medicine, meditation, self-cultivation, and training for martial arts.
 
In light of the more recent underground sessions and the 36 million, step by step indeed.
A: These bases have naturalized the inhabitants. Anomalies occur as much because of where the bases are chosen to be located as any other factor. Magnetic faults and their inherent portals, you know!

Q: (L) This guy thinks that there is a rather limited number of aliens, and that people ought to get together and resist this threat because our numbers are greater. Is that, in fact, correct?

A: Not point. The question of the hour is: what is the motive?

Q: (L) Okay, what is the motive?

A: Build a house step by step, and when it is finished, you can move into the neighborhood and out of the motel.

Q: (L) Oh jeez. So, these are a bunch of aliens hanging out in 'motels' waiting for their house to be built. That does not sound good.

A: Many of you have recently become "bedazzled" by the "information superhighway," and its accompanying computer hardware. Gee, we wonder why?

Q: (L) Well, you told us to network. We have been networking like crazy, digging up information, reading and comparing. Yes, there is a ton of garbage out there, but if we don't ask, how will we know?

A: Point was: who is manipulating thee? Not so much you specifically, but the others? So many kids and kids-at- heart are thunderstruck by techno-sensory toys. Those cellular phones, those pagers and the Christmas toy computers... They are like, so cool!

Q: (L) So what are you implying about these techno toys?

A: Ponder.

Q: (L) Give me a clue. A word, something to point me in the right direction.

A: Fuzzy jello-brained kids.

This might have been perceived as an exaggeration in 1998 but today, "fuzzy jello-brained kids" is the best descriptor of what became undeniably obvious to all.

Last part, yeah, is it any wonder what is going on now with all sorts of issues, gender, all of it. Not only the kids then, those kids are adults today.
 
Thank you for the session.


So gravity is derivative?
Derivative of consciousness maybe ;) ? If consciousness of a being is "bigger", curvature of space surrounded this being is "smaller" - trivially speaking "is less gravity". The level of the being's consciousness is, in some way, related to its ability to "sense" the number of dimensions of Space. Imagine multidimensional (flat) space (infinite, number of dimensions) and put there primitive consciousness - subatomic particle - proton maybe ? Its primitive consciousness distorts space in extreme way because it can't "perceive" space in all infinite number of dimensions. All space dimensions (infinite number) surrounded proton curls up like the fourth dimension in Kaluza-Klein theory - so we have a "quantum world". The farther from the proton, the dimensions of space unfold - if you are a 3D being (human) and You are observing this, then 3 out of infinitely many unfold to You (rather You unfolds 3 of them to yourself ;). Space is indivisible therefore, the dimensions of space curl up ("tight loops") to hide from the primitive consciousness that is unable to "understand" space in so many dimensions. One could say that consciousness shapes space by adapting it in its surroundings to "its level of consciousness". And now imagine a big amount of matter like for example a planet (many many particles - so many primitive consciousness) - now You know why gravity (understood as curvature/distortion of space) of a planet is so strong ;) This is my "intuition of gravity" and I like it :D
 
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Q: (L) You said that you were in regular contact with the Kantekkians on Kantek before they were airlifted to Earth 80 thousand years ago or thereabouts. Now, was the destruction of this planet a result of Orion Manipulations of the people such as is taking place on our planet at the present time?

A: Maybe somewhat, but not all.
I was pondering this one too. How did the Lizzies allow that planet get destroyed? For easier management purposes? I mean Kantekkians were really power hungry and psychic. Even stronger souled Terrans have been reported difficult to control. Imagine a Lizzie control attempt on a juiced up, super-psychic Kantekkian getting power from his/her favorite crystal-station.
Were Kantekkians too much for The Matrix to handle? Like a super-obstinate, expensive stallion, which doesn't let anyone sit on his back, doesn't follow commands and its finally let back to the nature reserve. (Ref: TV Show Yellowstone season 4 or 5).

Were the Lizzies counting on getting Kantekkians more broken-in after losing their planet? Then as Atlanteans going through several cataclysms so they finally got softened up on a smaller, hotter, muddy prison planet Earth. Thus did the Lizzies foresee, they will break down Kantekkians in 80 thousand years to become slaves like the rest?

Q: (L) I have tried to imagine a planet full of people of pure Aryan types, or purified Celtics, and it is difficult to imagine what such a culture would be like. Is there anything that we can look at, literary or otherwise, that would give me a concept of what this culture or society could have been like?

A: Search Japan and the Bahamas.
Imagine Dark Ages 5th-15th century Japan mirrored back in time on Kantek: Tragic, extremely stupid and rigid caste system to solidify the nobility and the upper ten thousand, then the equivalent of US middle class (samurai clans), all poisoned with strife, climbing on each others backs to higher positions. Assassinations commissioned through Ninja clans, which were the equivalent of the most dangerous mafias in Europe and mafias in the US in the 20th century.

Warring States situation - Sengoku Period -, (and mass-murders before) hell-bent on hunger for power, hyper-Egos dominating in leadership, killing for the sake of slaughter.
Among the best there was an excellently done Japanese historic movie titled When the Last Sword Is Drawn. In there a higher position (well paid clan member) samurai psychopath admits via a monologue that he feels unwell and ailing, because he hasn't killed in almost a month. (Meaning he had no opportunity to slaughter someone with a sword. Thus his bad mood and depression..)

But the Ark was created on Kantek by STO aligned intelligence group, so all was not black and crazy.

More like a planet with true Extremities in Excess. The horse symbol in The Work gone super-strong and very mad. Thus my "crazy stallion" story above.
 
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I was pondering this one too. How did the Lizzies allow that planet get destroyed? For easier management purposes? I mean Kantekkians were really power hungry and psychic.
Rescuing them from Kantek probably allowed the "savior" agenda to play out, effectively "taming" Kantekkians and gaining their trust.
Also, maybe Earth was a bigger planet compared to Kantek, which allowed more breeding ground for the planned takeover that we are witnessing today.
 
Q: (L) I have tried to imagine a planet full of people of pure Aryan types, or purified Celtics, and it is difficult to imagine what such a culture would be like. Is there anything that we can look at, literary or otherwise, that would give me a concept of what this culture or society could have been like?

A: Search Japan and the Bahamas.

: (L) I have tried to imagine a planet full of people of pure Aryan types, or purified Celtics, and it is difficult to imagine what such a culture would be like. Is there anything that we can look at, literary or otherwise, that would give me a concept of what this culture or society could have been like?

A: Search Japan and the Bahamas.

Q: (L) What?! What do Japan and the Bahamas have in common?

A: See for yourself. Remember, learning is fun and energizes. Spoonfeeding sessions do little for you.


Apparently, Japan has standing stones/stone circles:
Secrets of the Stone Circles

The Caribbean too:
Caguana
 
Apparently, Japan has standing stones/stone circles:
Secrets of the Stone Circles

The Caribbean too:
Caguana
This is an amazing connection since you do not readily associate the Caribbean and Japan with stone circles. They seem to be much smaller affairs compared to the large stone circles that you find in the British Isles, the Iberian Peninsula, Malta and Göbekli Tepe in Turkey for example. Indeed, they remind me somewhat of some stone circles that have recently been discovered in Saudi Arabia - see: MSN

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"Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of ancient standing stone circles in Saudi Arabia, some of which are around 7,000 years old.

Knewz.com has learned that the discovery was made at the archaeological site in the volcanic field of Harrat al-Uwairidh, located in Northwestern Saudi Arabia.


The team of archaeologists discovered a total of 345 of these stone structures via aerial surveys, of which they have singled out eight structures that experts believe could have originated in the Neolithic era.

These stone circles are around 13 to 26 feet in diameter and have at least one standing stone at the centre."


However, rather than being sacred sites or observatories, the archaeologists think that these stone circles were in fact dwelling places:

"The team of archaeologists working on the site wrote in a paper published in the journal Levant under the section 'The Journal of the Council for British Research' that these standing stone circles were "individual dwellings, constructed in concentrations of varying numbers with associated domestic installations, such as hearths."

These ancient stone circles served as the foundation for stone walls and at least one doorway."


Could this have been true of some of the Japanese stone circles too? Apparently not according to Japanese archaeologists:

"Stone circles are often located at a site usually a mountain location from which the sunset or stars such as Polaris could be viewed at the time of the equinox or solstice. Some scholars think that some of the stone circles were designed and used for social and religious rites marked by or coordinated by some kind of astronomical calendar.

Some of the stone circles in Japan have alignments that are useful for calendrical reckonings, and are noted to be similar to that found at the Stonehenge in England but that the stones are usually shorter. For example, it has been observed that the place of the sunrise over Mount Tsukuba on the morning of the winter solstice was marked by extending a line from the central marker of the stone circle at the Terano Higashi Site of Totigi."


Laura drew a distinction early on between the 'circle builders' and the 'pyramid builders' who seemed to represent two opposing philosophies, perhaps that of the 'Sons of Belial' and the 'Sons of the Law of One' who both operated in ancient Atlantis according to the American seer Edgar Cayce. Pyramid structures are found all over the world, as are stone circles, but they are mainly associated in most people's minds with Egypt, Mesopotamia and Central and South America. The Caribbean Islands sit opposite Central America (including Mexico) to the west, where groups like the Maya, the descendants of Atlantean survivors, constructed numerous large pyramids that were used for ritual purposes. Hence, to find stone circles in the Caribbean seems to go against the grain. However, does it suggest there could be a connection between the circle builders of the Bahamas and the circle builders of Japan? Could they have been two different groups of Aryans/Celts who survived the Deluge that saw their former homeland of Atlantis sink beneath the waves (or disappear into another dimension per a recent answer from the C's)?

In the case of the Bahamas, we should note here that they fall within the infamous Bermuda Triangle in which the C's tell us there is a sunken 5,000 ft tall Atlantean crystal pyramid located some 380 miles off the coast of Florida that has been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of planes and aircraft over a period of many years. Could some Atlantean Aryans have survived the destruction of Atlantis by taking refuge in the nearby Bahamas? This is not so far fetched when you consider what the C's said about the "Armonan sect" here:
Q: (L) Who constructed the great serpent mound in Adams County, Ohio?

A: Armonan sect.

Q: (T) Who are the Armonans?

A: Atlantean descendants.

Q: (T) So, this was a long time ago?

A: (L) Is there anything about them we would be advised to know or learn?

A: "Puzzle pieces."

Q: (L) What period of time did they live in this area, from when to when?

A: See answers to Sumerian question.

Q: (L) Well, my opinion to this whole thing is that the Sumerians and the Armonans were Atlanteans who set up shop in their respective places when Atlantis went under.

A: Good, now go with that.

Q: (L) I would say that the same answer holds for the White Horse at Uffington, in England?

A: Yup.


And they would appear to have not been the only group of Aryan Atlanteans to have set up shop in North America post the Deluge given what the C's said about Isle Royale, an ancient North American copper mining centre:

Session 20 August 2001:

Q: What group mined the copper in northern Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, like in Isle Royale?
A: Aryans.


The mention of Michigan also makes me think of the small stone circle discovered in Lake Michigan, which according to archaeologists may be as much as 10,000 years old:

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You will note that it bears comparison to some of the stone circles found in Japan with a large upright stone located in the middle. One feature that indicates the site's great age is an engraving of a mastodon on a boulder, a creature that has long been extinct:
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If this is a genuine petroglyph, it could be as much as 10,000 years old, which is coincident with the post-Ice Age presence of both humans and mastodons in the upper mid-west of America. Apparently, the underwater stone circle is not the only neolithic site in this particular area for the article claims that stone circles and other petroglyph sites are also located within the same area. As to the possible petroglyph, I note that many of the rocks in the stone circle discovered in the Caribbean bore engravings of figures including one of a really scary looking dude:
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For more on the Like Michigan stone circle see: 9,000-Year-Old Stonehenge-Like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan

There is also an accompanying YouTube video with the article:

Although some stone circles in North America can certainly be attributed to Native American peoples who were descended from Atlantean survivors (think of the impressive stone circles and buildings at Chaco Canyon for example), the C's have indicated that there were Aryan groups operating in North America long before the Vikings and Christopher Columbus who could have built stone circles like the one now buried under water in Lake Michigan. Hence, it would not be stretching things to propose that there could have been an Aryan group of Atlantean survivors/descendants present in the Bahamas in antiquity who like the Armonan sect (a term suggestive of a breakaway group), could have been fellow "puzzle pieces" too.

However, the C's linked the Bahamas with Japan where the pure Aryans/Celts were concerned, so is there any evidence for an Aryan presence in Japan in antiquity? Well there may be.

I mentioned above the giant Atlantean crystal pyramid off the coast of Florida not far from the Bahamas, which the C's have said causes a transdimensional window to be blasted open when it sporadically comes back into operation, but they also mentioned that there was another crystal located off the coast of Japan too:

Q: (L) Besides the crystal in the Bermuda Triangle, are any of the others still active?

A: Yes.

Q: (T) Does the government know about them?

A: Semi.

Q: (L) Where are the others located?

A: Off Japan; in Brazil; in Ural mountains of Russia; North and South Poles.


Assuming this crystal is also Atlantean, does it mean that an Aryan group of Atlanteans were operating it there long before Japan was inhabited by Orientals or Asiatics (N.B. who the C's have said were the descendants of the Lemurians and thus not Atlanteans)?

The people who inhabit the islands of Japan today and are known as the Japanese are Asiatics who crossed over to Japan from mainland East and Southeast Asia via the Korean Peninsula. Known as the Yamato people they account today for 98% of the Japanese population. However, they were not the first to inhabit Japan as a people known as the Jōmon had already been living on the Japanese archipelago for thousands of years prior to the arrival of the Yamato. It is important to bear in mind here that Japanese archaeologists have attributed the stone circles found all over Japan to the Jomon people.

The Jōmon people is the generic name of the indigenous hunter-gatherer population that lived in the Japanese archipelago during the Jōmon period (c. 14,000 to 300 BC). They were united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism (meaning they stayed in one location for a long period of time) and cultural complexity. They have been described as "distinct from neighbouring populations from the continent because of a strong genetic link with a deeply branching Eastern Eurasian lineage not well represented by any present-day population".

Beyond their genetic affinity with other Eastern Asian lineages, the Jōmon also display a weak yet marginally significant genetic affinity with the Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site specimen, associated with Ancient North Eurasians (or Ancient North Siberians), which may point to geneflow between both groups prior to their isolation from other East Eurasian populations. The fact that the Jomon have a genetic affinity to Eurasians, suggests that they had some European or Aryan ancestry from interbreeding but when did this admixing first take place and where? Noting that the Jōmon period dates from as far back as 14,000 BC, a date which preceded the date of the final destruction of Atlantis in 10,800 BC, could there have been an Aryan presence in Japan, perhaps connected to the construction and operation of the Atlantean crystal, which according to the C's is now located underwater off the coast of Japan?

However, besides the Jomon, there is another distinct ethnic minority group in present day Japan who are known as the Ainu, an ethnic group who reside in northern Japan, including Hokkaido and Northeast Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk. Official estimates place the total Ainu population in Japan at 25,000. Unofficial estimates place the total population at 200,000 or higher, as the near-total assimilation of the Ainu into Japanese society has resulted in many individuals of Ainu descent having no knowledge of their ancestry. The ancestors of the Ainu, who were referred to as Emishi came under Japanese subjugation starting in the 9th century AD and were pushed to the northern islands. The Ainu are regarded though as having descended from the indigenous Japanese hunter-gatherers who, as we saw above, were known collectively as the Jomon. One of their Yukar Upopo, or legends, tells that "[T]he Ainu lived in this place a hundred thousand years before the Children of the Sun came". This may, of course, be a great exaggeration but it does suggest that the Ainu/Jomon people had occupied the Japanese archipelago long before the arrival of the Yamato.

Interestingly, the craniofacial features of the Jōmon people were significantly retained by the Ainu and Okinawans/Ryukyuans. The former have 2 genes "associated with facial structure in Europeans" but still possessed hair and teeth morphology found in East Asians. The latter have a "well-defined and less flat upper face", which is characterised by a prominent glabella and nasal root.

Although not definitive, the photograph below of a forensic reconstruction from a Jomon skull does indicate a person who is clearly more Eurasian in appearance than present day Japanese people are.

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Thus, could the original Jomon inhabitants of Japan have been fully Aryan before any interbreeding with mainland Asians and/or Eurasians occurred? If so, could this and the presence of stone circles both in the Caribbean and Japan bear out the link the C's made between the Bahamas and Japan and the presence of pure Aryans/Celts in both of these places in antiquity?​
 
I had not appreciated that Laura had posted the formerly missing transcripts from the Year 1998 in August last year. Hence, I am only catching up with them now. In the thread for the session dated 27 April 2024, I posted what might be a possible explanation for the Sorcerer's Coven mentioned in this session. In the interests of research, I am therefore posting it on this thread so that others who read the thread may mull it over. I readily acknowledge that I could be wrong but it is a theory that I think is worth testing. Here is the relevant extract from the transcript:
Q: (L) Okay, now: I would like to know if there was a real historic person behind the legend of King Arthur?

A: Close. Sorcerer's Coven. Secret pact of coven is covenant.

Q: (L) Was this the Nordic Covenant behind the legend of King Arthur?

A: Not really.

Q: (L) I think that implies that there might be a connection?

A: Maybe there is something more like an offshoot.

Q: (L) The Nordic Covenant is an offshoot of the Arthurian Covenant or vice versa?

A: King Arthur story based on an offshoot of Nordic Covenant Root.

Q: (L) Okay, now you say that the Nordic Covenant can be positive or negative. Would the Arthurian Cycle be of the Positive Offshoot?

A: Both.

Q: (L) What period of time did this Sorcerer's Coven...

A: During the "Dark Ages.

Q: (L) Can you get me closer to a year, or period of years?

A: We will let you do that.

Q: (L) The chief thing I noticed about this period of the Dark Ages is that from the time of the 'birth of Christ,' for about 1300 years, there is an incredible lack of documentation. Now, there were some manuscripts written by Monks, such as Gregory of Tours and so forth, but in general, the only things that have survived from this period are things put out by Monks under the control of the church. It is as though the whole world became illiterate. Is this, in fact, the case? Was it that nobody was writing anything down during this period?

A: Close.

Q: (L) Was any part of this because of the control of the Catholic Church over writing and education, and that they opposed everything that did not support their views?

A: Close.

Q: (L) So, what we have to work with is what we have to work with. And, I guess that's as close as we can get. It isn't a whole heck of a lot. How many people were in this Covenant?

A: Look for answers, trees will lead you to it.


For me the key to this is the C's last statement that "trees will lead you to it" that holds the key here. In a subsequent session (29th August 1998), Laura discussed with the C's a book of fiction she had read, which was set during the Dark Ages:​

Q: Well, before, when I asked a question, you said that I would get my answer from the ‘trees.’ This book is all about ‘trees,’ in one way or another - ancient Druids and so forth. Was that clue given so that I would notice these things in this particular book even though it is fiction?

A: Certainly.


This indicates that the Druids might be part of the answer to the Sorcerer's Coven. The theory I am proposing rests on the genesis of the Arthurian legends, which were inherited by the Grail story writers of Medieval France, having occurred in Dark Age Wales after the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the early 5th century AD. The two historic figures around which my theory hinges are Vortigern and Aurelius Ambrosius Aurelianus. This requires a bit of ancient British history to explain. Quoting from my article The Scythe of Zeus where I have highlighted names and key sections in bold:
The Cloister of Ambrius

The Cloister of Ambrius as described by the English historian Geoffrey of Monmouth in his book Historia Regum Britanniae was supposedly a monastery of 300 monks on Mount Ambrius close to Salisbury in which the Saxon chieftain Hengist and his followers betrayed and slaughtered the British leaders. Bishop Eldadus subsequently buried the bodies in a cemetery there. Later, Uther Pendragon (King Arthur’s father) and Merlin bring the stones of the Giant's Dance from Ireland and set them up as a monument to the slain. The cloister had supposedly been founded by someone called Ambrius many years earlier. Geoffrey intended his stone monument on Mount Ambrius to correspond to Stonehenge and the cloister of Ambrius on Mount Ambrius to correspond to a religious site in Amesbury, but Stonehenge is about 3.2 kilometres (2.0 miles) west of Amesbury and is located on a rise of ground which is much less than anything one would normally call a hill, and nothing like a mountain. Amesbury by way of contrast is in a shallow valley of the river Avon. In the ninth century AD, the town was apparently known as Ambresbyrig, i.e., "the burgh [borough] of Ambrosius". So where does the name Ambrius derive from?

Geoffrey of Monmouth’s story explaining the construction of Stonehenge is obviously errant nonsense, which draws in Arthurian characters such as Uther Pendragon and the legendary wizard Merlin presumably to give it a bit more colour. But could Ambrius have been based on a real-life person? If so, some scholars think that person may have been Aurelius Ambrosius Aurelianus (Emrys Wledig in Welsh), who was the son of Ambrosius the Elder (Aurelius Ambrosius). Ambrius is evidently a Latin sounding name and the name Ambrosius is certainly a close fit with it. It was not uncommon for Romano-British leaders to have Latin names in the 5th Century AD. Ambrosius’ date of birth is unknown, but most sources indicate that he was active in the British counter-offensive against the pagan Saxons in the 460's AD. Thus, he could hardly have been born earlier than 420 AD and was most likely born after 430 AD.

According to the British historian Gildas, Ambrosius' parents "had been slain in these same broils" dating the likely death of Aurelius Ambrosius to circa 441-445. If Geoffrey of Monmouth can be trusted (a very big if) to have drawn upon some authentic traditions regarding Aurelius Ambrosius, the comet that appeared at the time of his death was most likely seen in the winter of 442/43. A celestial sign such as this occurring at the time of death of an important notable, is exactly the type of material the old chronologers would have recorded and/or passed on as folk legend. According to one researcher, Michael Veprauskas, Ambrosius would be the same as the "Merlin Ambrosius" of the History of the Kings of Britain, by Geoffrey of Monmouth. He was evidently in his youth at the time, presumably in hiding after the death of his father, and sought out by the chief British warlord Vortigern.

Many believe that Vortigern was the "superbus tyrannus" said to have invited the Saxon warlords Hengist and Horsa to aid him in fighting the Picts and the Scots who had invaded what is now northern England, whereupon these Saxon leaders revolted, killing his son in the process and forming the Kingdom of Kent. Vortigern has come to be viewed as a traitor to the British people. For example, Gildas writing in the following century would denigrate Vortigern for his misjudgement in inviting the Saxons into Britain and blamed him directly for the loss of Britain. It is said that Vortigern took refuge in North Wales and that his grave was located in Dyfed or the Llŷn Peninsula.

Author and researcher Andrew Collins mentions in his book The Seventh Sword that because of his treachery and treason, Vortigern incurred the wrath of the Britons under the command of Aurelius Ambrosius, causing the beleaguered Vortigern to retreat to a valley stronghold on the Lleyn Peninsula, near the Caernarvon coast in West Wales. There under a triple peak known today as the Rivals, his wooden stronghold was besieged and Vortigern burned to death in AD 464

However, this was not Vortigern’s only Welsh stronghold since Collins also refers to the hillfort of Dinas Emrys, i.e., the Fort of Emrys or Ambrosius who was also known as Merlin Ambrosius, which is near today to the village of Beddgelert. Interestingly, the site is also known as the fort of Merlin. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, as a boy Merlin had been brought before Vortigern and his Druid advisors to be sacrificed as part of the Dinas Emrys’s foundation ceremony [
MJF: For a fuller account of this story, including the legend of the two fighting dragons, see: Cylch Blodeuwedd » Blog Archive » Where the dragons slept – Dinas Emrys]. However, his psychic powers and wise counselling had so impressed them that he had become a magical advisor first to Vortigern and then to Aurelius Ambrosius. To support this association between Vortigern and Dinas Emrys, the land around the hillfort has yielded up dozens of swords and relics from the time of Vortigern. Moreover, a burial ground has also been discovered nearby, where the stone-lined graves of several Druids were unearthed.
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Dinas Emrys​

See: Dinas Emrys - Wikipedia

When the Romans first occupied Britain in AD 43 one of their main goals was to wipe out the Druid priesthood in Britain since they not only feared the Druids but saw them as a source of unity where the Britons were concerned. Although the Druids would survive in non-Roman Scotland – the Romans largely eradicated them in the rest of mainland Britain with the last Druid bastion being that based on the Welsh island of Anglesey, which was the most important Druidic stronghold in the British Isles and the main Druid seminary. The Romans would conquer the island by means of two military campaigns in AD 59 and AD 79 respectively. Whilst some of the surviving Druids managed to escape to Ireland others would take refuge in remote places. By the time the Roman legions pulled out of Britain at the beginning of the 5th century AD, Christian missionaries had converted much of the Romano-British population and Celtic Christian priests would oppose the influence of the few remaining Druids. The 5th century AD might therefore be viewed as the last hurrah of the British Druids whose varied roles in British society as spiritual leaders, teachers and healers would gradually be taken over by Christian monks. Hence, it would not be beyond the bounds of reasonable belief that a British chieftain or king like Vortigern might still have had a group of learned Druids to advise him as late as the mid-5th century AD.

However, another key role of the Druid priests had been to order the execution of weak or enfeebled Celtic kings and replace them with more energetic, robust and powerful successors. It is therefore a reasonable speculation on my part to wonder whether a small group of Druid priests may have entered into some sort of pact or covenant which advocated the deposing of Vortigern for his perceived treason against the British people that had led to the ruination of the country. It may be a stretch but if there is anything to this theory, might such a Druidic pact be the basis for the ‘Sorcerer's Coven’ which the C’s spoke of in the session dated 15 August 1998 [
MJF: See above], especially as Ambrosius (a deeply Christian figure), who was also known as Merlin Ambrosius, was certainly an Arthurian type leader figure around whom the British people would rally against the invading Angles, Saxons and Jutes (see more below on this).

Another name for sorcerers is, of course, magicians. This is something the Druids were certainly viewed as being through their practice of magic incantations or use of enchantments. Is there any evidence though for a small group of Druid magicians or sorcerers to have been associated with Vortigern? In fact, there is. As I mentioned above, near Dinas Emrys, Vortigern’s stronghold where Geoffrey of Monmouth claimed a young Merlin was almost sacrificed by Druid priests, archaeologists discovered towards the end of the 20th century a burial ground, where the stone-lined graves of several Celtic Druids were unearthed. Andrew Collins named this site as Cell-y-Dewiniaid – the ‘Grove of the Magicians’ – which was once a sacred shrine of oaks below the heights of Dinas Emrys. It was here that Vortigern’s Druids had met to discuss the great issues of the day. At the end of the field where the graves were found, a white thorn tree and a stone had been used to mark the spot where each Druid had been laid to rest. Although the oak trees were cut down long ago, four old, gnarled thorn trees still mark the spot.

So, did the Druids, as the magicians or sorcerers, of Dinas Emrys enter into a pact or covenant to depose the hapless Vortigern as king and replace him first with his son and then, after his death, with Aurelius Ambrosius Aurelianus (Merlin Ambrosius)?

Ambrosius the Warrior King

According to the Welsh monk and historian Nennius, Ambrosius whilst he was a young lad was found by Vortigern's men in the "field of Aelecti in the district of Glevesing" playing with some friends. This localises the incident to the area between the Usk and Rumney in Monmouthshire, Wales. After the young Ambrosius boldly proclaimed his true origins to Vortigern, the latter apparently had a change of heart or feared retaliation, and Ambrosius was not harmed [MJF: Shades of the Merlin story here - see above. Were the two figures conflated together? If so, could this explain why Ambrosius was also known as Merlin Ambrosius?]. About 455-60 AD, Ambrosius became part of the British counter offensive against the Saxons, and soon, one of its leading lights. This was the man of whom Gildas says:

"Their leader was Ambrosius Aurelianus, a gentleman who perhaps alone of the Romans, had survived the shock of this notable storm".

Concerning Ambrosius' role in events that followed the death of Vortimer, Vortigern's eldest son, the English historian William of Malmesbury says:

"When he (Vortimer) died the strength of the Britons diminished and all hope left them. They would soon have been altogether destroyed if Ambrosius, the sole survivor of the Romans who became king after Vortigern, had not defeated the presumptuous barbarians with the powerful aid of the warlike Arthur."

For more see:
EBK: Generations of Ambrosius Part 3 (earlybritishkingdoms.com)

You will recall that the C's told Laura that "trees will lead you to it". It so happens that when Andrew Collins and his friends went looking for the Grove of the Magicians they found it in a field used for grazing sheep. The only thing that gave the location away was the four old, gnarled thorn trees that marked the spot where archaeologists had uncovered the stone-lined graves of several Celtic Druids. Hence, one can truly say that where Andrew Collins was concerned the trees really did lead him to the Grove of the Magicians located below the hillfort of Dinas Emrys. Was this spot the final resting place of the Sorcerer's Coven that inspired the legend of King Arthur?

As a postscript, it may have been the real historical figure of Aurelius Ambrosius Aurelianus who inspired the 2004 movie King Arthur starring Clive Owen who plays the half-British Roman commander Artorius Castus, otherwise known as "Arthur". See: King Arthur (2004 film) - Wikipedia. I also attach a video of the trailer to the movie.


The movie is certainly entertaining. However, I am also attaching a link to a video critiquing the movie for its historical inaccuracy, although it does actually mention that Aurelius Ambrosius Aurelianus could have been the model for King Arthur since he was certainly operative at the time the movie story is supposed to be set, i.e., 467 AD. It also mentions the role of Sarmatian cavalry (Roman foreign levies), a large group of which did move from Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland to Northern Wales where they settled with their British wives. Indeed, it was they who introduced the image of the dragon, which was subsequently adopted by the Welsh and is still to be seen on the national flag of Wales today.

 

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