Tag Archives: Templars

A Thousand Miles of History XXXV: The Templars and the Lawless Church…

Our hotel the previous night had been just off the main highway across Bodmin Moor… a perfectly good modern road that would take us where we wanted to be by a fast and direct route. We were never going to … Continue reading

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Riddles of the Night: The Temple of Hewn Stone II

Continuing the story of a Silent Eye workshop in Derbyshire, in December 2017. Parts One, Two, Three, Four, Five and Six can be found by clicking the highlighted links. Traditional initiation ceremonies tend to follow a roughly similar outline. The … Continue reading

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Riddles of the Night: The Temple of Hewn Stone

Continuing the story of a Silent Eye workshop in Derbyshire, in December 2017. Parts One, Two, Three, Four and Five can be found by clicking the highlighted links. Just behind the Druid Inn and across the narrow lane from Thomas … Continue reading

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Riddles of the Night: Family fortunes?

Continuing the story of a Silent Eye workshop in Derbyshire, in December 2017. Parts One, Two, Three and Four can be found by clicking the highlighted links. Where silver trees have bent their bough O’er sleepy village streets, we go … Continue reading

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Riddles of the Night: Connections

Continuing the story of a Silent Eye workshop in Derbyshire, in December 2017. Parts One , Two  and Three can be found by clicking the highlighted link. We toured the church in Bakewell with our companions, stopping at each of … Continue reading

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Riddles of the Night: Knights, saints and ley lines…

Continuing the story of a Silent Eye workshop in Derbyshire, in December 2017. Parts One and Two can be found by clicking the highlighted link. Walking through the town towards the church in Bakewell, I couldn’t help thinking that it … Continue reading

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The Mysterious Řeznovice Church of St. Peter and St. Paul ~ G. Michael Vasey

Reblogged from The Magical World of G. Michael Vasey: This weekend, I was able to visit several sites around Brno. The first was the church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Řeznovice that I had noticed passing by on … Continue reading

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Looking for Templars by Brno ~ G. Michael Vasey

Reblogged from The Magical World of G. Michael Vasey: Another term I had never entered into Google along with my location was ‘Templar’. Imagine my surprise and delight to find yet again that the Templars had been located very close … Continue reading

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Something in the air? And three books by Alan Richardson

It was a surprise, said author Alan Richardson, to see her pop up on my Facebook page. He had just released a book about her… and we had just spent a weekend delving into the story of Gilgamesh, a ruler … Continue reading

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The Templar Church

Earlier this year, on a research mission, we took a trip to London, visiting the British Museum to learn more about the ancient Sumerian civilisation that will form the backdrop to the 2019 Silent Eye’s Annual Workshop, Lord of the … Continue reading

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