Honey Malone

From wedding veil to the thin veil of the spirit

world...modern day sorcery and messages from
the other side ...part two

dedicated to my family
especially my children Brendan, Emily
and Patrick
 Mary Queen of Scots and psychic questing...
"En ma Fin gît mon Commencement..."
"In my End is my Beginning..."

This is the saying which Mary embroidered on her cloth of estate whilst in prison in England
and is the theme running through her life. It symbolizes the eternity of life after death and
also represents her religious beliefs.

Her emblem became the pheonix, a Graeco-Egyptian symbol of death and rebirth. In ancient
mythological tradition it was said to return to its burning nest at the end of each age to be
consumed within the flames. From the ashes of its funeral pyre the phoenix would then rise
anew, its flight signalling the commencement of a new age for mankind..

From the day she was born, Mary Queen of Scots lived a very turbulent, but colourful
life.

She was only 6 days old when she became Queen of Scotland. Being the
great-granddaughter of Henry VII, meant she was also next in line to the English throne,
after Henry VIII's children.

At 7 months old, she came to live at Sterling Castle, where she was crowned in the
Chapel Royal on 9 September 1543. Built at the top of a great ramp of volcanic rock,
the enchanted castle is situated at the junction of several principal routes across
Scotland - at the very heart of the country. According to Scottish tradition, it had been
the domain of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. I am sure she would
have loved stories of his quests and had a very romantic view of life.

I can imagine the very young Queen Mary playing just like my own children do. She is
said to have spoke or read in six languages, sang well and played various musical
instruments.

Apparently, she also loved football. An aged ball, said to be 'Queen Mary's football',
now takes pride of place in Stirling's Smith Art Gallery and Museum. Of
sixteenth-century origins, the ball was discovered in the rafters of the palace's ceiling
during renovations in the 1980s.

Henry VIII arranged for her to marry his son, the future Edward VI, but after opposition
from the Catholics, he was outraged and ordered a series of raids on Scotland, known
as "The Rough Wooing".
Instead it was decided that the very young Queen Mary was to marry the heir to the
French throne. At the age of 5, she moved to France, to the chateau of
Saint-Germain-en-Lye, west of Paris. Here she met her future husband, the Dolphin
Francis, then aged 4.

He had many ailments which many blamed on the bizarre potions that his mother,
Catherine de'Medici, had consumed in her desperation to become pregnant. Queen
Catherine, who was said to have possessed extra-sensory perception, spent much of
her time with astrolabes and magic mirrors, not daring to 'put one foot ahead of the
other' until she had consulted her astrologer, Nostradamus.

The soothsayer, Nostradamus, relayed a prophecy to Catherine that the French King,
Henry II would die wounded. He had been having a recurring dream in which a young
lion fought with an older one and gouged his eye out.

The king was a keen jouster and sports man. On 30 June 1559, during a double
wedding celebration, Henry challenged several partners, one being the Count of
Montgomery, a young man from Normandy of Scottish descent - both men's
escutcheon were engraved with a lion. When Henry, who was showing signs of fatigue,
challenged him a second time, Montgomery and Catherine both begged that he be
excused. Henry would have none of it and ordered Montgomery to joust again. And so
the premonition came true ... Montgomery accidentally struck the King's helmet and a
splinter entered his eye. Henry fell to the ground, blood pouring from his wound. He was
taken to the Hôtel des Tournelles where he died ten days later.

Nostradamus became a royal councillor and the King's physician, whose duties
included charting the horoscopes of the royal children. The young queen Mary would
therefore have become interested in astrology from an early age.

Mary became Queen of France at the age of 16 and was widowed at just 18, after
Francis II died from an ear infection. His brother, King Charles IX then became king,
while Mary decided to return to Scotland.

In 1565 she married her first cousin Henry, Lord Darnley and gave birth to a son -
James - the following year. Two years later, however, he was murdered and it was
believed that her third husband, James Hepburn (Earl of Bothwell) was the murderer.
Mary was also accused of plotting his death, which she always denied.

The Scottish throne was then given to James as Mary fled to England, hoping
Elizabeth, her protestant cousin, would help her. Instead, however, she was kept in
captivity for 19 years, frequently being moved between castles in the north and
midlands (the Heart of England). She was kept as far from the coast and London as
possible so that there was no way of escape.
The Catholics believed that Mary was the rightful heir to the English thrown. In their
eyes, Elizabeth was the illegitimate daughter of Anne Boleyn, who had only been able
to marry Henry VIII in the Church of England.

Mary Queen of Scotts was finally executed in 1587 at Fotheringhay in Northants for
treason, after an attempted assassination on Elizabeth I by the Catholics.
Since then there have been reports of some people experiencing miracles after visiting
her tomb. However, although she is recognized as a martyr, Mary was never canonized
because of her past.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,

How does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row.

The above nursery rhyme was thought to be about her, but it could also have been
about Mary I who was queen of England before Elizabeth I. They were both Catholic
and Mary I also earned the name "bloody Mary" because of all the protestants she put
to death to reform the Catholic religion.
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On Friday 10th October, 2008, Bernard did a very successful show at the Chatsworth
Estate, home to The Duke & Duchess of Devonshire.

It was during the early hours of 26 September 2008, that Bernard had an unexpected
message from spirit. It was a poem from Mary Queen of Scots describing her captivity
at the Chatsworth Estate, which can be viewed on You Tube

He was also to receive a poem from Saint Germain a few weeks later, who said
everything would be revealed at Samhain. This is the time of year when the thin veil
between the material world and the spirit world is lifted and so Bernard recommended
that listeners did a meditation at this time to see if we received any inspiration.

While I was sitting quietly, several thoughts came into my mind. First of all I thought
how the round table of King Author, which is the theme for the site of Psychic Radio
was in a circular shape and I wondered if there was any connection to the previous talk
I did about casting a circle? Especially with Merlin the magician sitting next to Arthur.

Psychic radio felt like a treasure hunt and the poems by Mary Queen of Scott's and
Saint Germain were like clues leading onto new discoveries - could we be on a quest?

A few days earlier, (5 weeks after the MQS poem) I was looking in the 'mind, body and
spirit' section of the library, when one of the books caught my attention. 'The 21
century Grail - the quest for a legend'. I picked it up and flicked through it, only to
see a picture of King Arthur at the round table. Next to the picture I read "The Holy
Grail manifesting to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table from a 14th
century French manuscript. Could the true Grail really be found?"

I read on the back "What would happen if someone were charged with a
modern-day quest to find the Holy Grail?

What mysteries would they uncover?

Where might their journey lead them, and would they find the true Grail?"

The Holy Grail was the cup of the Last Supper - used to collect the Holy Blood of Jesus.
Apparently the book talks about a dark side of the Catholic religion.

The events that Andrew describes in another book - The Sword and the stone(1982) -
caused such a furore among the earth mysteries and paranormal communities, that it
single-handedly catalysed the re-emergence of what he calls 'psychic questing'. This
is the spontaneous quest for answers to mysteries presented through inspired
means, either dreams or more obvious pyschic means, such as automatic
writing, meditations, mediumship or visionary experiences.

It is definitely nothing new. For 1,500 years Tibetan Buddhists had a complete magical
system in place for finding hidden religious artefacts which they called termas. This is
still used today in places such as Nepal, North India and Mongolia.

Psychic questing was once popular more closer to home. There are ample accounts of
Christian holy men and women being led to retrieve relics through dreams and visions.
One example was Joan of Arc, the French Maid of Orleans who was led by St
Catherine to find the sword of French folk hero Charles Martel. Despite her many
victories in battle she was later accused of witchcraft, resulting in her being burnt at the
stake in 1431. In 1920, however, the church reconsidered her case, when Joan of Arc
was pardoned and canonized.

Andrew worked with another talented psychic named Graham Philips and relates a
quest for the ‘green stone’ worn by Mary Queen of Scots in a ring. This was one of
many connections the book referred to that seemed to be associated with psychic
radio.
The following is a shortened version of events, told with the kind permission of Andrew
Collins. You can read it in more detail on his web site, just click here ...

Under hypnosis, 'Joanna' told Graham that Mary had possessed the Meonia
Stone, wearing it in a ring, before passing it on to a young Robert Catesby
(1573-1605), the leader of the Gunpowder Plot. Following the collapse of the
Gunpowder Plot, Catesby, it was alleged by 'Joanna', had given the stone into the
care of Lady Gertrude Wintour, the wife of Robert Wyntour of Huddington,
another of the leading conspirators. She in turn passed it on to Humphrey
Packington the owner of Harvington Hall, who was not implicated in the plot, and
thus able to hide it where no one would find it.

Graham later experienced a vivid dream which featured Mary Queen of Scots. It
clearly indicated that the Green Stone might well have been handed to George
Wyntour and Robert Catesby during 1582, while she was imprisoned at
Chatsworth House. The dream also showed that a number of Catholic activists in
the Derbyshire area were in constant contact with her and her entourage during
this period.

The quest began at Harvington Hall, where Graham and Andrew noted potential
clues among the remaining murals in a first-floor corridor of the hall which
portrayed 'the Nine Worthies', nine great heroes of history (usually three biblical,
three legendary and three historical).

They were drawn to consider the importance of a distinctive sword stance

displayed by at least two of the 'worthies', the strong man Samson and the
giant-slayer David. Known as the 'St George's Parry' (where the weapon is held
horizontally above the head to block an attack), it persuaded them to research the
possible relevance of knighthood, chilvary and the saga of 'King Arthur and the
Knights of the Round Table' to the Green Stone Story. It was felt that the St
George's Parry might be a clue pointing towards the importance of the familiar
image of King Arthur's sword Excalibur held in a horizontal position by the Lady
of the Lake. Perhaps they were looking for a concealment place on an island in
the middle of a lake, somewhere in the Worcestershire landscape.

Their historical detective work led Graham and Andrew to focus their attentions
on an isolated pool on the estate of the Earl of Coventry, beneath Knights Hill,
near Severn Stoke in Worcestershire. About to inspect the site first-hand,
believing that the 'Green Stone' or 'Meonia Stone' (as it became known) was to be
found there, Alan unexpectedly rang. They had not spoken to him for some days,
and he knew nothing about the latest developments. Without saying a word of
what had been happening, he spoke of experiencing another vision, the first
since glimpsing the Green Stone. He now felt that they were looking not for the
stone at this time, but an 'indicator' that would lead to the stone, and this would
be a sword. This baffled them, as there had been no indication that anything else
other than the Green Stone was on offer here. However, they took on board what
he said, and headed immediately out to the Knights Hill Pool, a journey of about
an hour from Wolverhampton.

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On the night of Monday, 23 October 1979, after some effort, Graham and Andrew
retrieved a short steel sword from behind an age-old dry stone wall holding up
the bank next to a small brick footbridge at one end of the pool. It was covered in
ivy and protected by thick undergrowth, making it extremely difficult to access. It
had obviously been there for a very long time indeed.

The sword was found in a small cavity, behind the ninth stone down and along
from the bridge (nine was a recurring number in the quest). It was hermetically
sealed in a thick layer of brown-green resin, which on removal revealed a pristine
sword with an inscription along the blade that read 'Meonia fore Marye'.

The 'Marye' implied in the inscription was assumed to be Mary Queen of Scots.

'Joanna' implied that the quest had to be completed by 31st October(Samhain),

which was just four days away. They were convinced by a friend, Marion
Sunderland, mother of Gaynor, a high profile UFO contactee featured in the book
ALIEN CONTACT by Jenny Randles, to return as soon as possible to the Knight's
Hill Pool, where she would help them to find the illusive stone.

The next day, Monday, 29 October. Standing on the footbridge next to where the
sword was found, Gaynor used the ceremonial weapon (found to be of late
nineteenth century manufacture) as a divining instrument, rotating it clockwise
until she felt drawn to a particular direction. Here, she said, some 'two miles'
away, was a 'ruined building', an 'abbey' perhaps, which held an important clue to
the quest.

Sure enough, there was a 'ruin' exactly where she had indicated. It was located at
a place called Dunstall Common. Yet it turned out not to be an 'abbey', but a
sham castle, built in the eighteenth century by the landscape architect Capability
Brown as part of the estate of the Earl of Coventry. The folly bore impressive
square and round towers, one of which was accessible, enabling Graham,
Gaynor and Andrew to climb its spiral staircase. They trod carefully in the partial
darkness, but then became concerned by the sound of beating wings coming
from above. It was accompanied by the fall of loose debris which cascaded down
on to their heads. Assuming that a large bird blocked the path, they turned back
and headed out of the mysterious tower (it was probably just nesting pigeons!).

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That night, at Marion and Gaynor's home in Flint, North Wales, a small group
gathered around an OS map of the Worcestershire landscape looking for further
clues to the quest, feeling like their luck was finally running out. Fred Sunderland,
Marion's husband, narrowed down the search by ringing an area that included
those sites already marked out as important perhaps. It was here, he suggested,
that everyone should concentrate their efforts to find a location. About to give up,
Marion flicked through a book on Mary Queen of Scots and noticed how the
Catholic monarch embroidered pictures of waterfowl (she said 'swans'), with their
necks in a distinctive U-shape. Marion mentioned this out aloud, at which
Graham's eyes fell upon a bend on the River Avon called the Swan's Neck located
firmly within our designated search area. Stabbing the map he exclaimed that he
had found 'it', and now felt sick inside. Everyone looked and saw the Swan's
Neck marked.

The mysterious U-shape may, in a way, have represented Mary's execution.

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The following day, Tuesday, 30 October 1979, Graham left early, saying that he
wanted to find out more about the Swan's Neck from the Worcester County
Records Office. As Andrew waited patiently at the Wolverhampton flat for
Graham to return with Graham's friend - Janet Morgan - who he had invited along
on the quest to the Cotswolds the previous day - Alan Beard and another friend
Terry Shotton, both of whom had arrived earlier, Marion called. She said that
Gaynor, who retired to bed early, and so was not privy to the latest information
regarding the Swan's Neck, had experienced a powerful dream overnight. Putting
her on the line, Gaynor explained how she had seen Graham, herself and Andrew
ascending the tower at Dunstall Castle once more.

Again, they had heard the sound of beating wings above, but this time instead of
making a hasty retreat they had continued their ascent only to come face to face
with a mighty white swan, its wings outstretched as if in a defensive stance.

Around its neck was a pouch held in place by a cord that Gaynor was convinced
contained the Green Stone. As it took flight, they had run back down the spiral
staircase, with the bird in pursuit, and after exiting the tower the swan had
continued its flight across the landscape to a location by running water, 'and
this,' she said, 'is where you will find the stone, on the neck of the swan'.

It was information that made sense of earlier psychic thoughts from both Marion
and Gaynor. Marion, for example, on holding the Meonia Sword following its
discovery, had seen an avenue of popular trees close to running water, feeling
that this might be where the stone was concealed, while Gaynor had seen a
figure in seventeenth-century clothing running across open country towards a
bridge over a river or stream. Around his neck was a pouch, the one now worn by
the swan, out of which he had removed a casket containing the stone ready for
burial. Quite separately, both Alan and Terry had drawn pictures of an
arch-topped casket in which they believed the stone would be found.

The stone was eventually found at Knights Hill in even more curious
circumstances at the Swans Neck location.

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Andrew later discovered that the position of a new star which had appeared in
Cygnus, the swan, back in 1600, was actually in the neck of the swan. When its
position in relation to the rest of the celestial swan was overlaid on to a map of
the Swan's Neck bend on the River Avon, where Graham claimed he had found
the Green Stone, the two positions corresponded perfectly. Not only did this
connect the stone with the influence of Cygnus, but it also indicated that there
was a relationship between its place of concealment and the new star of 1600.
This was a stunning realization which recalled Gaynor Sunderland's remarkable
dream about the swan in the tower, experienced towards the climax of the Green
Stone quest.

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In his book THE CYGNUS MYSTERY, Andrew proposes that cosmic rays from a
binary star system called Cygnus X-3 effected human evolution, catalysing the
emergence of the first universal religion and cosmology as early as 17,000 years
ago. He suspects very much that our Palaeolithic ancestors were aware of
Cygnus's influence on their lives, and even attempted to enhance this through
cyclic initiations and ceremonies in caves deep underground, where its signal is
clear. It is an influence that came to be personified in the heavens as a cosmic
bird of creation, variously seen as a swan, vulture, hawk, dove, heron, magpie,
eagle or bird of paradise. It was the basis behind concepts of the Supreme Being,
such as God, Yahweh, Allah, the One, etc, as well as Cosmic Mothers, such as
Nut (or Nu-it), Hathor, Saraswati, Allat, al-Uzza, Venus, and Bride-Bridget.

There is something very special about the influence of the Cygnus constellation
on the human mindset. Andrew believes that in the past it was seen as the source
of cosmic life and death. Our most distant ancestors actually believed that life
originated from this region of space, and that the souls of the righteous would
return there in death. In many ways it was the first location of heaven. Its
counter-balance and rival in the night sky was Draco, the celestial dragon, which
symbolises the abysmal realms of deep space, the void, or abyss, seen in some
ancient mythologies as a place where souls can be lost forever. As Cygnus is the
green ray, Draco signifies the red ray and together they form a necessary cosmic
balance in our own perspective of the universe. These two rays create an energy
similar to the DNA double helix, one of the most powerful symbols of human
evolution.

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Going back to the Catholic cause of 1605 ... as ill-conceived as the Gunpowder
Plot might seem today, it sprang from the vented anger and frustration of
suppressed English Catholics, who were being fined and penalized simply for
refusing to recant the faith of their ancestors. They expected emancipation when
Mary Queen of Scots's son James I (James VI of Scotland) succeeded Queen
Elizabeth to the throne in 1603. Yet not only did this fail to happen, but James
became even more fanatical than Elizabeth, tightening his grip on the Catholics
and initiating terrible religious persecutions throughout the land. He even wrote
a much-reviled book on how to find out whether a person was a witch, or in touch
with demons, devils and spirit familiars. Any priests found were charged with
treason. The form of execution was one of the most horrendous ever practiced,
being hung, drawn and quartered.

It was a dark time, and Andrew assumed that perhaps the swan had become the
symbol of hope not only for Protestant Rosicrucians (European mystics who
used the symbol of the rose upon the cross as a sign of secret recognition), but
also the suppressed Catholics of England, Scotland and Ireland, who now looked
towards James's eldest daughter Elizabeth Stuart as their voice of salvation. At
the time of the Gunpowder Plot she was staying at Coombe Abbey in
Warwickshire, and the conspirators had hoped to place her on the throne of
England and Scotland following the murder of her father. The Catholics imagined
that, if coached by the right tutor, Elizabeth would become like her grandmother,
tolerant towards both Catholics and Protestants, embodying the spirit of the
divine, seen by them in terms of the Virgin Mary.

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Underneath the Houses of Parliament, cellars were rented out to merchants and other
people who wished to store goods, so the conspirators rented one of them and filled it
with 36 barrels of gunpowder, sticks and fire wood.

The plot lasted one and a half years until eventually Guy Fawkes was chosen to set fire
to the gunpowder. This was a very dangerous job, but he was willing to die for their
cause.

Francis Tresham had joined the plot, but on finding out that his Catholic friend would be
attending Parliament, he wrote a letter to warn him. Unfortunately, the letter was given
to the King, who had the cellars searched at midnight. Guy Fawkes was caught red
handed. Being surrounded by the barrels, he was unable to deny his guilt.
The soldiers took Guy to the Tower of London where he was tortured, but never
revealed who his accomplices were. He was later sentenced to death and became yet
another catholic martyr.

A nursery rhyme was made up to remind future generations of the plot:

Remember, remember the fifth of November,

Gunpowder, treason and plot,
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
'twas his intent
To blow up the King and the Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God's providence he was catch'
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

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It was 5th November, the morning of Guy Fawkes night. I was half asleep when the
words of a song came to me. I found myself saying “Now the sun’s gone to hell; And
the moon’s riding high”.
They’re from a song called Brothers in Arms, by Dire Straits and I recalled hearing Paul
Angelo play it on one of his shows. You can watch the video on You Tube

My first thought was that it sounds like Samhain (which was 7 November) or the day of
the dead, but I then realized it was about Mary Queen of Scots.

The lyrics are:

These mist covered mountains

Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be I asked Vilna Kembery, from the Chatsworth Estate, if she lived by
mountains? It’s actually in the Peak District which is a hilly part of England and one
area is known as the Switzerland of the Peaks. The lowlands are where she was from
in Scotland.
Some day you'll return to me
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms
Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire this is the spirit of the Catholics. Luke 3:15 says "People's hopes
began to rise, and they began to wonder whether John perhaps might be the Messiah.
so John said to all of them, "I baptize you with water, but someone is coming who is
much greater than I am. I am not good enough even to untie his sandals. He will
baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire"
I've witnessed all your suffering
As the battle raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm Queen Mary was executed in 1587. click here
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms this is the Catholics and the conspirators of the Gunpowder plot.

There's so many different worlds there is the spirit world and the material world
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones this could be referring to peoples different religions and
imagine what we could do if we stopped fighting each other and worked together to
look after our planet
Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon's riding high the sun is at its lowest point on the horizon at Samhain
and when I read this on the radio, it was the full-moon. It could also be the male sun
energy going down and the female moon rising.
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight the Cygnus constellation is in the form of a celestial
'swan', which was also the secret code-name for Mary Queen of Scotts. She had
embroidered pictures of swans with their necks in an unusual U-shaped position.
According to Andrew Collins a new star (supernova) appeared in 1600 within Cygnus,
and was seen by those awaiting a new age of enlightenment as a divine sign of its
imminent arrival. When its position in relation to the rest of the celestial swan was
overlaid on to a map of 'the Swan's Neck' on the River Avon, this was where they
found the green stone.

And every line on your palm

We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms war is foolish because we are all brothers and sisters.
Conflict continues today in places such as Ireland, where they don’t celebrate Guy
Fawkes night because of the religious implications of the Protestants and the Catholics.

Just a few days later we celebrated Remembrance Day - the eleventh hour on the
eleventh day of the eleventh month. This marked the end of world war one in 1918 and
is when we have a 2 minute silence in England. We also wear a red poppy and have
ceremonies in memory of those who sacrificed their lives for us during wars.
I had a thought that Samhain sounds like an abbreviation of Saint Germain and found
out that he was supposedly Francis Bacon in a previous incarnation. Many believe
Francis wrote the sonnets of William Shakespeare and possibly some of his plays.

Shakespeare's plays were about queen Elizabeth I, but were written in a code. These
were dangerous times and although she was his patroness, there was always a
possibility of being executed if she was displeased.

Many of his plays include swans and one of Shakespeare's theatres is also called 'the
swan'. They feature spells and magic; fairies, ghosts and witches; storms and
shipwrecks.

The play 'Macbeth' is about the murder of a scottish king, which was obviously inspired
by the Gunpowder Plot and other plots against James I. It seems designed to celebrate
King James's ancestors and the Stuart accession to the throne (James believed himself
to be descended from Banquo) and the parade of eight kings which the witches show
Macbeth in a vision in Act IV is generally taken to be intended as a compliment to the
King.

Another of his plays 'Midsummer Night's Dream' was written five years after the death
of Mary Queen of Scotts in 1592. In Act ii. 1. it says...

Thou rememberest
Since once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude sea grew civil at her song;
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea-maid's music.

The mermaid and sea-maid is Mary Queen of Scott's; the dolphin's back refers to her
marrying the Dolphin or Dauphin of France; the rude sea grew civil are the Scotch
rebels; the stars refers to the Earl of Northumberland, the Earl of Westmoreland, and
the Duke of Norfolk; shot madly from their spheres describes the fate of these men
who revolted against Queen Elizabeth because they were enchanted by Mary's beauty.

There were two main types of mermaids - the good Nereids and the bad Sirens.
The Nereids were protective of sailors, and reserved their beautiful singing voices to
entertain their father, unlike the dangerous Sirens who ensnared sailors with their
enchanting voices and lured them to watery deaths. The Sirens were originally
bird-women related to the Egyptian Ra, or soul birds, demons of death sent to catch
souls. But the Sirens eventually became synonymous with mermaids; thus the
mermaids acquired their unpleasant reputation and were seen as omens of
shipwreck,enchanting men to their doom.
Whilst the Sirens tempted Odysseus with supreme knowledge, a god-like attribute, later
the emphasis shifted to worldly temptation. Thus the mermaid/siren symbol was used
by the Mediaeval Church as embodying the lure of fleshy pleasures to be shunned by
the God-fearing. The mermaid became a victim of the repressive sexual attitudes of the
Christian Church. Mermaid carvings figured prominently in church decorations in the
Middle Ages, to symbolically serve as a vivid reminder of the fatal temptations of the
flesh. These rapacious soul-eaters (the legacy of the bird-sirens) were of course not
considered to have souls of their own. Thus the legends of the more highly-principled
mermaids, anxious to acquire souls, arose.

The Christian Church's idea that mermaids were dangerous temptresses and had no
souls of their own was symbolic of their belief of most women, supporting a male
domination.

The name Mary is latin in origin and means 'star of the sea', but in Elizabethan times
the mermaid was also used as a symbol of prostitution. I am sure that this imagery
would have pleased Elizabeth.
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August 2009, I decided to pay Harvington Hall a visit. The moated medieval and
Elizabethan manor-house was built by Humphrey Pakington in about 1580. Many
rooms have their original Elizabethan wall paintings.
The Hall also contains the best surviving series of priest holes in the country ... no one
was ever found there. Four of them seem to be the work of the master-builder of hides,
Nicholas Owen, who was arrested at Hindlip, near Worcester in 1606 and tortured to
death in The Tower of London.

As it is only 3 miles from Kidderminster, where my parents live, they agreed to visit a
few days in advance to book our places. It was while my mum was talking with the
sales lady in the shop, that the lights went out.

Everyone was startled and a man waiting behind her said "things like this seem to be
following me around ... maybe it's a ghost?" The sales lady said she hoped not
because she would have to get the bishop in....

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Harvington Hall is well known for it’s wall paintings which were completed in the 1600’s.
Until 1936 these paintings had lain forgotten beneath a layer of whitewash, but have
since been uncovered and can now be seen by visitors to the Hall.
It was this picture of Humphrey
Packington that Andrew Collins and
Graham Philips believed to be a clue
to the whereabouts of the Green Stone...

And then a miniature caught our attention, hanging on the whitewashed wall at
eye level.

'It's Humphrey Packington,' Graham announced, moving in to take a closer look.

The Elizabethan portrait showed Packington with a moustache, a long beard and
a white neck ruffle.

'Here, what's that he's clutching?' Graham asked excitedly. 'It's a jewelled
pendant hanging on a chain around his neck. His hand is delicately holding it
and, you look, his little finger seems to be bent outwards in an almost unnatural,
hook-like manner. Perhaps it's a clue.'

Maybe. The little finger did look a bit too dainty to be true.

Graham smiled. 'No, I'm serious. It could be a clue, as it is the only picture of
Packington we've seen so far. The pendant might symbolize the Meonia Stone.'

I shrugged my shoulders and smiled back at him. It might, and then again ...
 While looking through the book
Mary Queen of Scots by Susan
Watkins, I noticed this picture of
Diane de Poitiers... Lady at Her
Toilette, School of Fontainebleau. It is
thought to be Diane de Poitiers.
Mary was very close to Diane at the
French court, the beautiful mistress of
the French King, Henry II. Catherine of
Medici harboured a deep resentment for
the woman who had everything she did
not: beauty, breeding, taste and the
King's heart. Henry's relationship with
Diane was tantamount to marriage - she
took care of the children, he wore her
colours (black and white), entwined his
initials with hers and spent most of his
time with her. Henry had been only
fourteen when his father decided to get
the thirty-one year old widow Diane to
"tutor" his dull and timid son. He fell in
love with her from the very beginning and
had no eyes for the Italian bride chosen
for him, Catherine of Medici. When the young Catherine arrived at the French court,
Diane and Henry were already lovers and it was in this humiliating state of affairs that
she led her life.
Ronsard, the poet (who was Mary's tutor in Literature), wrote that Diane de Poitiers was
transforming herself into Venus... notice that her hand is in a similar position to
Humphry Packington (above) and she is holding a ring.
There is an almost identical picture in the same book painted by Clouet, 1558-60. The
face closely resembles Clouet's authentic portraits of Mary Queen of Scots - her hand is
in a similar position and she too is holding a ring.

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The planetary influence of Venus, expressed in alchemy by the metal copper and
the colour green, governs Cygnus, the swan, which is located centrally on the
celestial river known as the Milky Way. Venus features in alchemical philosophy,
where her symbolic marriage to the alchemist as Mercury, or Hermes, creates the
androgynous Mercurius, the culmination of the magical art. All this suggests that
whoever was behind the Green Stone's apparent concealment at the Swan's Neck
was familiar not only with alchemical ideals, but also that the stone reflecting the
influence of Venus, associated with the sphere of Netzach in the Tree of Life, the
Hebrew mystical system understood by the Rosicrucians.
A second cabochon stone, an orange-red carnelian known as the Eye of Fire (or
Red Stone), was found subsequently in 1982 by Graham and his friends (the
quest occurred after Andrew chose to withdraw from the group), and this
unquestionably reflected the influence of Mercury, the sphere of Hod on the
Cabbalistic Tree of Life. Venus and Mercury, Netzach and Hod, green and red, are
equal and opposites in alchemical philosophy, creating a cosmic balance,
reflected in dualistic symbols such as the swan and the dragon, the bird and the
serpent, intelligence and matter, order and chaos, light and dark, God and the
devil, Cygnus and Draco. These are basic dualistic principles still acknowledged
today by those magically active in the psychic questing community.
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I believe a future date to look out for is 6 June 2012. Not only will there be a transit of
Venus, but it is also a full moon. Interestingly it precedes 7 June, which is the feast of
the Holy Trinity - Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly
between the Sun and Earth, obscuring a small portion of the solar disk. During a transit,
Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun.
The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours (the transit of 2004 lasted six
hours). A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon, but, although the diameter of
Venus is almost 4 times that of the Moon, Venus appears smaller because it is much
farther away from Earth.

Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena and
currently occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight
years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years. Before 2004, the
last pair of transits were in December 1874 and December 1882. The first of a pair of
transits of Venus in the beginning of the 21st century took place on 8 June 2004.

The 2004 transit of Venus

 I took many pictures at
Harvington Hall and found that
orbs mainly appeared at the
back of it's neighbouring
church, St Mary's. They almost
seemed to be balancing on a
pole that went across the
ceiling. It made me think of the
Chatsworth show, when
Bernard mentioned that he saw
Mary Queen of Scotts walking
along the balcony at the back of
the theatre...

On Saturday 31 October, 2009, the 30th anniversary of the Green Stone, Andrew
Collins teamed up with a group of people to re-visit Harvinton Hall. They saw
Humphrey Packington's enigmatic tomb inscription in nearby Chaddersley Corbet
church, visited Rushock, the home of William Shakespeare's friend Thomas Russell,
esq., saw John Thornborough, bishop of Worcester's, grand tomb, with its
alchemical-hermetic clues in Worcester cathedral, before going on to do a meditation
around dusk at the Swan's Neck, the place of discovery of the Green Stone back in
October 1979. As they drove there they saw a flight of 20 whooper swans in a
V-formation returned to the UK after spending the summer in the Arctic region ... a good
omen and sign of victory.
 Honey Malone
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