Glastonburg's message from the past

18. 06. 2018
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This story of Glastonburg's message from the past it is interesting in that it took place over a period of ten years, and throughout that time its heroes were not only humans but also ghosts.

How it began

It all started in 1907, when the Anglican Church bought land with the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. The abbey has a very rich history and seven hundred years ago, thanks to streams of pilgrims heading for the tomb of King Arthur, it was at its peak.

By the time the abbey was acquired, however, no one knew where its most important sites were. Excavations had to be carried out, and the church commissioned Frederick Bligh Bond, a 43-year-old authority in the field of Gothic architecture.

His task was to find two chapels, the location of which was almost an unsolvable mystery at the time. Due to limited resources and excavations much slower than the archaeologist would have liked, Bond, who was also a follower of parapsychology, decided to make contact with the graveyard with the help of automatic typing.

Establishing contact with the graves

On the afternoon of October 7, 1907, Bond was in his Bristol office with his friend John Allan Bartlett, who had considerable experience in automatic typing, to try to come into contact with the long-dead for the first time.

Bartlett let the sharp tip of the pencil drop on the white sheet of paper, and Bond was touching his free hand. The pencil wandered for a moment aimlessly on the paper, then began to scratch out the contours in which Bond recognized the ground plan of the Glastonbury Abbey.

Then the pencil marked a rectangle in the eastern part of the monastery and after asking for details, the pencil (or the one who controlled it through Bartlett) confirmed that it was King Edgar's chapel built by Abbot Bere. Someone from the past spoke.

Then the pencil marked the second chapel, north of the main building of the Abbey.

Who passed the information from the past?

The question who gave the information was answered: "Johannes Bryant, a monk and a free stonemason"(Ie the Mason). After four days they managed to find out that Bryant died in 1533 and he was guardian of the chapel at the time when Henry VII ruled.

Frederick Bligh BondIn addition to Bryant, other monks of Glastonbury Abbey made contact with Bond and Bartlett. Each had his own handwriting, which Bartlett transferred to paper.

Over the course of several months of spiritual communication, the long-dead monks of the past provided the archaeologist and his friend with a number of very useful pieces of information regarding the construction of the abbey.

Eventually, in May 1909, Bond began the excavations, but before he began, he hesitated for some time whether to follow the instructions from the grave or simply rely on him to be lucky. And Bond opted for the first option.

The excavations started

At the appointed time, just where the pencil drew the first rectangle, the diggers dug a ditch and discovered a high wall of long 10 meters, the existence of which nobody had any idea. Other trenches revealed the constructional structure, which could be nothing more than King Edgar's Chapel.

The longer the excavations were, the more Bond persuaded the reliability of automatic writing. The ghosts told him that the roof of the chapel was golden and raspberry. Indeed, the workers found the arcades ornaments with traces of gold and raspberries.

Another example: The monks claimed that the windows of the chapel were filled with blue mosaic glass, and fragments corresponding to the description were found in the middle of the ruins. It was all the more odd that for the time of the construction of the chapel, it was characteristic of the use of only white or golden glass.

Bond was even more surprised by their claim that the door led directly out of the chapel and was located in the eastern part. Hard to believe just because most churches have no doors at all behind the altar. However, King Edgar's chapel proved to be an exception.

The ghosts of the abbey monks even told Bond the dimensions of the chapel. However, this information already exceeded all the archaeologist's expectations and took a rather skeptical attitude. But the monks were right in this case as well…

How Frederick Bond's career ended

For the last ten years, Bond has kept his source of knowledge and the origin of his extraordinary ability to "see the invisible".

And he hid it not because he was afraid of his colleagues' ridicule, the reason was somewhere completely different. The Church of England was deeply opposed to spiritualism.

When Bond published his book, "Gates to Memory," in 1918, describing in detail the story of his communication with "witnesses" of historical events, everything was lost, and Bond's career ended.

The financing of the excavations was immediately terminated and in 1922 the archaeologist was finally released from work on Glastonburg Abbey.

Frederick Bligh Bond spent the rest of his life in the United States, no longer studying archeology but spiritualism. He died in 1945 - in poverty, abandoned and bitter.

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