that God-government might manifest in the earth

        The first connection of Joseph of Arimathea with Britain is found in the 9th century Life of Mary Magdalene by Rabanus Maurus (AD 766-856), Archbishop of Mainz.   Rabanus states that Joseph of Arimathea was sent to Britain, and he goes on to detail who travelled with him as far as France, claiming that he was accompanied by "the two Bethany sisters, Mary and Martha, Lazarus (who was raised from the dead), St. Eutropius, St. Salome, St. Cleon, St. Saturnius, St. Mary Magdalen, Marcella (the maid of the Bethany sisters), St. Maxium or Maximin, St. Martial, and St. Trophimus or Restitutus."  An authentic copy of the Maurus text is housed in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.  Rabanus Maurus describes their voyage to Britain:

  Leaving the shores of Asia and favoured by an east wind, they went round about, down the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Europe and Africa, leaving the city of Rome and all the land to the right.  Then happily turning their course to the right, they came near to the city of Marseilles, in the Viennoise province of the Gauls, where the river Rhône is received by the sea.  There, having called upon God, the great King of all the world, they parted; each company going to the province where the Holy Spirit directed them; presently preaching everywhere….

  The route he describes follows that of a supposed Phoenician trade route to Britain, as described by Diodorus Siculus. http://www.incrediblestuff.theosophywales.org.uk/theosophyjosephofarimathea.htm

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     The basic story of Joseph's trip to England varies in some details from account to account.  But the bare facts are that Joseph, with many disciples travelled from the holy land by boat and landed at Marseilles, in the Vienoise province of the Gauls (France).  From there he went on to England established seminaries, sent out missionaries, and helped in the conversion of the Royal family.  In his "Ecclesiastical Annals" Cardinal Baronius, Curator of the Vatican library, gives this account.  "In that year the party mentioned was exposed to the sea in a vessel without sails or oars.  The vessel drifted finally to Marseilles and they were saved.  From Marseilles Joseph and his company passed into Britain and after preaching the Gospel there, died."  The reason for the boat having been set adrift was that the Jews wanted to get rid of these Christians but couldn't get away with murder.
  How many of the disciples were with Joseph of Arimathea during his short stay in Gaul, before going on to England, is hard to say.  Various existing records agree in part with the Cardinal Baronius record, naming among the occupants of the castaway boat Mary Magdlene, Martha, the hand-maiden Marcella, Lazarus whom Jesus raised from the dead, and Maximin the man whose sight Jesus restored.  Other records state that Philip and James accompanied Joseph.  Others report that Mary, the wife of Cleopas, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, were also in the boat.   http://asis.com/users/stag/josephar.html

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    Around 36 CE would be the most appropriate date for the exodus of Joseph of Arimathea from the land of Palestine. Yet the date of the exodus of James the Just to Jericho and the date of the forced exile of Joseph of Arimathea and those under his protective care off the coast of Caesarea appear to be before the death of Stephen by stoning by the members of the Sanhedrin....

 Raymond Capt – “without sails and oars, they drifted with the wind and the currents arriving unharmed at Cyrene, in northern Africa.  After obtaining sails and oars, the little party of refugees followed the trade route of the Phoenician merchant ships as far west as Marseilles, France.”  (Raymond Capt, The Traditions of Glastonbury, cited by Joseph of Arimathea and David’s Throne in Britain, Triumph Prophetic Ministries, Altaden CA, pg 21)...

-Glastonbury Tor

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-Cadbury/Glastonbury ruins

-Joseph of Arimathea preaching  (from Mysteries of the Holy Grail, S.U. Press)

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The Chalice Well – photo by Robert Mock MD

  Here according to the best traditions they found a small round mud and wattle hut built to the designs of Celtic architecture that Joseph and Mary testified was the site where Yahshua as a young man lived, studied and worshipped while living in this area.  

  This land is ripe with traditions that are very strong that Yahshua (Jesus) came to Britain as a child with his great uncle, Joseph of Arimathea, a Roman Decurion, to scout for tin and lead mines so that these metals could be shipped back to Rome.  The purported site where the original Josephean settlement was built was around the oratory that was built by the hands of Jesus.  Twelve mud and wattle huts similar to the construction of homes in ancient Britain surrounded this place of worship near an ancient native spring now called the Chalice Well. ...

  It was also here at Avalon, that Lazarus life is identified, in the Celtic MSS, known as The Triads (Laws) of Lazarus.  (Capgrave, De Sancto Joseph ab Aramathea, quoting ancient manuscript and the Book of the Holy Grail, quoted in Jowett 163)  And it was from here that Lazarus, returned to Gaul, the area of Provence, France with Mary and Martha.  In the ancient church records of Lyon it states, ‘Lazarus returned to Gaul from Britain to Marseilles, taking with him Mary Magdalene and Martha.  He was the first appointed bishop.  He died there seven years later.”   (-Jowett, George F. The Drama of the Lost Disciples, Covenant Publ., Co, 8 Blades Court, Deodar Road, London SW15 2NU, 1961, 1993, pg 164)

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  The religion of the Druids was kept by oral laws and nothing was written in parchment or stone.  The Triads were committed to memory on the simple beliefs of God and the trinities of life, nature, and worship.  Some of these triads have been preserved from antiquity.

• There are three obligations of every man: Justice, Love and Humility.
• There are three rights of every man:  Life, Freedom and Achievement.
• There are three duties of every man:  Worship God, Be Just to all men, Die for your country.
• There are three beliefs in God:  Believe in God who made you; Love God Who saved you; Fear God who will judge you.
• Three persons have the claims of brother and sister:  The widow, the orphan and the stranger.

 The educational system of the Druids was the most extensive educational system in the ancient world.  There were forty known universities which were located in the forty tribal capitals of the Druids. These tribes eventually formed the boundaries of the modern counties in England and depict the ancient tribal boundaries.  

  It is reputed that the Druidic universities enrolled a total of sixty thousand youth which included most of the younger nobility of Britain and they attracted thousands of youth from the continent of Europe including the Senatorial families of Rome.  
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                         I Return to Glastonbury   

 Out of the light of the Ancient of Days I come on this day of Pentecost to bring to you my heart’s love of the Mother-flame.  As I brought to this land the light of the chalice so I bring a flame to fill your chalice with the renewal of the ancient covenant that God-government might manifest in the earth in preparation for the golden age and that this government might be through each and every son of God and child of the light who shall raise up that flame of the victorious Christ-consciousness.

I return to Glastonbury and to the site of our ancient focus.  I come to renew then the trust of the Lord Jesus Christ, my son.  I come to recall to you that he, as the great master of the Piscean age, waits to initiate souls who will become his disciples in deed, in word, in service to the Brotherhood.  Discipleship unto him through the mystery school of Lord Maitreya is the way that we have opened that this dream of Camelot might truly come into manifestation.

We have called the sons of our heart to the United States, but there are many in this land and in many nations who are yet to come forth in the understanding of the mysteries of the grail.  As your feet touch the ground which they have touched before and as you celebrate again the communion that we shared in his body and in his blood I am here to bear the light of the resurrection of all that has gone before and for the conclusion of an age that must pass through the nexus of the judgment ere the new age can dawn.

You have come with an understanding that Morya has called astute--an understanding of the forces of Armageddon, a penetration of the causes of the crumbling of our Camelot and of the crumbling of the British Empire.  These same forces of degeneration and decay have set in to the very roots of the United States.  And in the very roots of that nation they must be burned out by the sacred fire and by consecration to the ruby ray.  There is the possibility to understand the nature of decay by studying modern British history.  And tracing that modern history back into the past one sees even further into the origins.

All of the nobility and light which Saint Germain brought through the dispensation of the Shakespearean plays, all that has been brought by Thomas More as El Morya has played his role of loyalty to the Church, loyalty to the inner matrix and to truth itself--all of this has been a foundation which could have been for the victory of these nations.  And yet the seeds of degeneration and death sown by the fallen ones who walk the way of death have manifested even the records of the decline of Rome and of other past civilizations.  Thus nation by nation it has been the work of the archdeceivers of mankind to implant the seeds of unrest and the coils of the descending spirals.

Now you come to match these and to supersede them with a great light and a great energy of the resurrection flame.  Thus the reversing of the spiral is the call of the hour--and the arresting of those spirals as the Great Divine Director has taught us.  I AM the Mother-flame in the earth.  I AM the very heart of the brooding Universal Mother Spirit.  And yet I cannot enter in where there is not devotion and love given unto the Eternal Mother--unto that Mother of the Saviour and unto the Mother in embodiment who does truly embody the Mother-flame of Camelot as the Community of the Holy Spirit come again.  Thus the eternal Guru/chela relationship is always the nucleus, is always the magnet of the heart in the center of every constructive endeavor.  And therefore the destructive endeavors that have come to manifest on this soil and on the shores of America are composed of an anti-light forcefield, an anti-nucleus and an anti-magnet.

This usurping of the light of Alpha and Omega has manifested in many ways--ways with which you are entirely familiar in the culture of drug, rock, sensuality and perverse misuses of the body of the Mother’s children and of the sacred fire of Her light.  Thus crime and death and murder and rape and all forms of dishonor in the body of the lightbearers, as seeds of the wicked, are the forces of corruption which are counteracted today.  So the knights went forth of old to slay these dragons, to redress social injustice, and to challenge the Nephilim* who had set themselves up then as kings, as feudal lords--and in holding their fiefdoms, holding bound the children of the light and depriving them of their energy and their very lifeblood.

So the history of cycles moves on.  There is an opening in these cycles in this very era and in this decade as the seven archangels bring into manifestation the mysteries and the initiations of the eighth ray under Sanat Kumara.  It is a moment in cosmic history and in planetary history.  And be ever mindful, my children, that it is a moment in your personal history when you also can redress all wrongs and injustices of the past.  In order to accomplish this you must be diligent on the path.  And this diligence must take care in the understanding that the path of discipleship, the path of acceleration of the chela must be tended to daily.  The very fires of the heart must continually be enhanced and multiplied for the sustainment of the Guru’s light within your heart.

The very presence of Sanat Kumara indicates to the entire Brotherhood that this is a moment when we can descend to earth to contact many chelas of the light.  Therefore it is an hour for intensity, for acceleration, for going after the initiations that will propel you to new rungs of the ladder of God-d­ominion and self-mastery and the ability to convey a greater and greater heartflame unto the children of the Sun.  Thus with fond hope for the renewal of all that Morya and Saint Germain and the Lord Jesus Christ and Lanello have held in their hearts we come and we gather with you on this site now made famous by the excavations.

So it is good that men come to consecrate a place, a place that they can go back to and say, “This is where Camelot was.”  But we are more interested in defining where Camelot is today.  Not on the ruins of the past but upon the altar of the heart do we build anew.  For that mighty threefold flame that is God’s gift to every son is the true record and the place of all that Camelot has been and of every sacred mystery school, ultimately going back to the original of Lord Maitreya.  So the dream of Merlin conveyed to Arthur and conveyed to all the knights is truly derived from the yearning for the Edenic light, for the return to the Source and for the return to Maitreya.  All sons of light in the earth, all children of the light have a longing for that return to the blessed Buddha and to the blessed Mother.

And therefore when there is the gathering on the hillsides of the world again and again, as there is this gathering in this hour, it is always the celebration of the master and the disciple, the Guru and the chela who are one, the Lamb and the Lamb’s wife.  And thus the marriage of the Lamb is come.  And the marriage of the Lamb can come only when the bride is ready; and the bride is truly the chela who loves and loves again.

Therefore place yourselves in proximity to Maitreya and to the Mother.  Understand that in your questing in the world and in the world of the Spirit there is a need to be close to the flame, all the while increasing your prowess, your ability to deal with the fallen ones through education, through professional experience and through the founding of the holy family.  Saint Germain comes to sponsor you and all that you hold dear.

Therefore I take from my heart the mighty fires carried from the very place where the Last Supper was held.  I take from my heart the body and blood of Christ as from the holy grail.  In blessing this bread and this wine I convey to you a physical and tangible focus of all these initiations which Life will unfold to you if you endure on the path.  I remind you to contemplate as we celebrate this communion that the disciples went forth, that many were blessed and baptized and received in the Holy Church; but out of all that were received and consecrated only the few by comparison actually fulfilled the spiral and attained to the victory of the ascension.

Now at the conclusion of the age it is the hour for those mass ascensions on the hillsides of the world.  And I tell you that one day there shall be an ascension from this very hillside.  And the focus which I plant here in this hour, through your hearts and prayers and the heart of the Messenger, begins a spiral of ascension’s flame that will rest in the etheric octave until those devotees of Camelot and of all for which it stands can draw that flame out of the etheric into their physical temples and raise up a pillar of fire for the ascension current passing through then the lifestream (i.e., the lifestream itself will pass through) from the matter to the Spirit; and the fusion of the spheres will take place.  When the sphere of your causal body and your mighty I AM Presence fuses with the threefold flame in your heart then is come the hour of the fullness of your ascension.

I AM ever the Mother receiving you in the hour of your crucifixion, receiving you in the hour of your resurrection.  As I have sponsored Jesus so I sponsor you.  As you take the opportunity to be sponsored by me, O pilgrims of the Central Sun, remember that all is possible and all can be accomplished by you in this very life.  Will you not then seize the torch of Camelot and run with it and go and tell, tell them, tell all the nations that Camelot is come again, that Camelot is the real and living flame of Life--adequate, sufficient and God-victorious to every need.

Let the fallen ones challenge the light; let the light swallow up their darkness.  Let the Life prove in you that it, as Light and as Life, is God-victorious at every hand.  Blessed ones, go forth to conquer, for we behold the dawn of victory.  [Messenger invokes the Lord’s blessing of the bread and the wine.   Communion is served.]

(by Ruth Hawkins)

-Mother Mary, delivered to Messenger of the Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on the hill at Cadbury, England, on Pentecost, May 25, 1980 during the Montessori International pilgrimage to the British Isles.  Mother Mary with Joseph of Arimethea carried the holy grail to Glastonbury following the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 

*Nephilim [Hebrew Nephilim “those who fell” or “those who were cast down,” from the Semitic root naphal “to fall”]: a biblical race of giants or demigods (Gen. 6:4).   According to scholar Zecharia Sitchin, ancient Sumerian tablets depict the Nephilim as an extraterrestrial superrace who “fell” (in vibration) to earth in spacecraft 450,000 years ago.  The ascended masters reveal that the Nephilim are the fallen angels cast out of heaven into the earth (Rev. 12:7-10, 12).  They are “the Watchers” revealed in the Book of Enoch.

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