- Continue Browsing
- Your Basket is Empty
Categories:
Ancient Civilizations,
Paganism,
Signs, Symbols & Sacred Geography
The Sun and the Serpent by Hamish Miller & Paul Broadhurst
£60.00
Antiquarian / Second Hand.
Published: Pendragon Press, Launceton 1990
Condition: A paperback in good condition. Binding is firm, spine only mildly creased. Pages clean and unmarked. SIGNED by both Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst.
Running right across Southern Britain, from the far west of Cornwall to a point on the east coast of Norfolk, the St Michael Line is a remarkable alignment of ancient sacred sites. This alignment, or ley line, connects legendary places such as St Michael's Mount, Glastonbury, Avebury, Bury St Edmunds and many others whose significance is half-forgotten. Marking special places along the line are a great number of churches, some important, others almost secret, which are often dedicated to St Michael and other dragon-slaying saints, or to St Mary, the Christianised earth goddess.
Even more intriguing are the megalithic monuments and prehistoric sites situated along it, the remnants of a science and philosophy that is obscure to us in the modern world. A further extraordinary property of the alignment is that it coincides with the direction of the rising sun on or near Mayday, one of the most significant days in the ancient calendar and annual solar cycle.
Behind the construction and continuity of this network was some mysterious principle which is elusive to current thinking. Certain authorities refer to an ancient science of subtle energies, harnessed for the good of the planet and its inhabitants, a knowledge of the benign use of natural forces from the earth and cosmos. Tradition alludes to currents of terrestrial force, the Spiritus Mundi or Earth Spirit, which was held to be sacred by both Christian and pre-Christian religions.
This book recounts an adventure as remarkable as the enigma of the St Michael Line itself. It has been known for some time that expert dowsers can detect and measure the invisible energies which interact with the countryside through which they pass. In recent times there has been a deeper understanding that in some way these energies are connected with the health and fertility of the land and those that inhabit it. They can be thought of as vital currents of the creative life force that lies behind the physical world.
Over a period of more than two years, dowser Hamish Miller and author Paul Broadhurst track the course of this enigmatic flow of natural energy for some 300 miles through some of the most notable monuments in Britain. The breathtaking magnificence of Avebury, once a powerful centre of prehistoric culture, and Glastonbury, the legendary 'Isle of Avalon' reveal secrets which are hidden in the landscape itself. Our view of ancient cultures and successive religions may well be influenced by these discoveries and their implications. Ancient hill forts, stone circles, holy wells, tumuli and earthworks are found at significant centres once used by those of earlier times for the benefits and revelations bestowed by Nature. Neglected shrines such as Royston Cave, a subterranean cavern covered in mysterious carvings, show that magical and religious rites were once performed to invoke the earth's vital energy. This force has the potential to transform human perceptions and during the quest the authors rediscover an awareness of natural energies which trigger intriguing coincidences of meetings and timing and subtle changes in themselves as the work progresses. At the very simplest level, it is hoped that, through this book, others can share in the deep peace which manifests when they are attuned to the whispering energies of the earth.
If you like this, you might also like:
The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain by Maria J. Pérez Cuervo (ed)
£20.99
Exploring castles, museums and manor houses, megaliths, moors, mountains and lakes, this lavishly illustrated travel guide covers the rich history of magic and the occult in Britain and Northern Ireland and its inextricable bond with the landscape.
Delve into a world of witchcraft, ancient rituals, and occult ceremonies.
From the ancient stone circles of the Cornish moors to the wealthy manor houses of Hampshire, from the windswept headlands of Northumbria to the golden streets of Oxford, from the turbulent Scottish borderlands to the rugged Causeway Coast, this guide ventures into hundreds of locations with magical links, exploring the works of authors and creators inspired by their strange, numinous beauty; the lives of the occultists, witches, and cunning folk who inhabited them; and the legends that persist.
Explore over 500 locations with magical links.
• The Scottish mansion where Aleister Crowley summoned the Lords of Hell
• The Cotswolds town that worshipped Pan
• The desolate moors that inspired Conan Doyle’s ghostly hound
• The library where Elizabethan magus John Dee conjured a demon
• The “evil oratory” where Sir Gawain met the Green Knight
• The gateway to Fairyland in Iona
• The spectral Yorkshire town that inspired Dracula
• The ancient forest where Gerald Gardner’s coven performed a ritual to prevent the German invasion
... and many more.
Includes film, TV, and literary locations of folk horror and occult classics.
Avalon Working by Mark Nemglan
£55.99
Avalon Working is equal parts grimoire and devotional, gazeteer and visionary journey. In a journey to the heart of Albion, the work passionately argues for Glastonbury as a centre of emergence and initiation, a latter-day Eleusis. The work invites readers to actively participate in the Holy Island’s unfolding destiny, in partnership with its guardians and powers, to co-create its mythopoeia and, in doing so, forge a new Avalonian covenant.
Glastonbury’s role and status in the tapestry of Britain’s magickal history is significant and undeniable, from Edward Kelley to Dion Fortune. Yet it has also come to embody the worst traits of the New Age, which commodifies and trivialises the sacred. In Avalon Working, Mark Nemglan restores the Holy Island’s reputation as a locus and fountainhead of extraordinary magickal power for a new generation of practitioners and seekers. Writing in a progressive occult idiom, Nemglan evokes the multiple threads of Celtic, Arthurian, Druidic and Faerie currents and braids these with alchemical, geomantic, witchcraft, Thelemic, Typhonian and Draconian traditions.
In doing so he has created a comprehensive ritual framework, a workable system of operative magick and a language for interfacing with the presiding powers of the Holy Island, its numina and geomythologies. He elucidates parallels between Glastonbury’s sorcerous topography and our wider mythic heritage. As such, the book is a potent key for those seeking to develop or deepen their work in whatever landscape they stand in or make pilgrimage to, and regardless of tradition.
Avalon is ‘a wellspring of deity, a nexus of power, a terrestrial otherworld, and a place of mythopoetic emergence.’ The Tor functions as the axis mundi of this ritual landscape, the land around it quartered by solstice sunrise and sunset, each quadrant ruled by a Queen. The Red and White Springs flowing forth from the base of the Tor are used to lustrate, consecrate and ensorcel, their polarising powers brought into alchemical unity by the practitioner who is sincere in their quest. An initiatory circuit is undertaken through the four realms of the Glastonbury landscape, the practitioner imbibing an elixir from four Graals, transforming his or her self into the four alchemical bodies. The practitioner returns from the initiatory circuit, including a visionary descent to Annwn, the underworld, and is transmuted by the trials undertaken into a lapis exilis or charged Graal.
Avalon Working situates the reader in the history and myths of the land, evokes with immersive photography, and details rituals which conform to the edict ’simple magic in powerful places.’ It offers a return to the haunted island of the ennead and the undertaking of the Great Quest which is coded in the ritual landscape and the coursing of the twin serpent currents that still animate the body of Albion.
The Cosmos in Stone : Sacred Geometry of a Master Mason by Tom Bree
£24.99
This beautiful and groundbreaking book examines the use of sacred geometry and cosmology in Gothic cathedral design. Renowned geometer and lecturer Tom Bree demonstrates how medieval Master Masons combined their knowledge of the practical building arts with ancient cosmological knowledge to endow their constructions with profound spiritual meaning. Wells Cathedral, the focus of this book, was England's first Gothic cathedral, and its design symbolises the soul's cosmic journey from Earth, through the underworld and up into the heavens.
Bree shows how the medieval Christian fascination with the knowledge of the ancient world laid the foundations for the more recent mythos involving the Templars, Freemasonry and Pyramidology. Packed with rare illustrations and original research unavailable anywhere else, this is a book to study and treasure.
© 2025 Watkins Books. WATKINS MEDIA LIMITED. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 9171151. COMPANY REGISTRATION ADDRESS: SHEPPERTON HOUSE UNIT 11, 89 SHEPPERTON ROAD, LONDON, ENGLAND, N1 3DF.
