It is said that when Britain is in the direst peril and needs him the most, King Arthur will arise from his grave and return. We believe this because we used to hear rhymes about it while still in the cradle – bardic poems that hail from of another time, when our ancestors carved stories about the Once and Future King in the green and pleasant hills of Avalon so that they would never be forgotten.
These esoteric dramas are as rich and fertile as the black peat laid down in the soil of the salt marshes and flower-filled meadows around Glastonbury. But their deeper significance is only visible to those with the eyes to see, of which there are few today. Yet they are still faithfully acted out, every night, by colossal earthwork giants on a massive stage that is lit by stars shining down into an oft-flooded cauldron-shaped landscape reminiscent of the Holy Grail.
I wrote Stories in the Summerlands as a guide to help those who are interested in discovering the real magical secrets of Avalon. I dig under all the religious and political glosses to excavate the esoteric messages that our earlier ancestors have enchanted and engineered into the land – a huge, royal diamond-shaped Merlin’s Precinct of more than 100 square miles.
The Holy Grail
I explain in simple terms how the Holy Grail is synonymous with the Philosopher’s Stone and the Vesica Piscis. I show how local Somerset legends that feature Jesus and Joseph of Arimathea are actually vehicles for the secret codes of the Grailkeepers who, going back at least as far as the days of King Alfred the Great and the Knights Templars, have used this “land of the nobles” to magically underpin the spirit of Sovereignty.
It is no mere empty custom that every Christmas, the King is sent a sprig of may blossoms from the Holy Thorn that grows here. Neither is it a meaningless pageant that on Beltane and Samhain, the duel over the hand of the Queen of the May is celebrated by drumming and piping crowds escorting carved red and white dragons up the High Street, and then along the lovage-lined lanes to Glastonbury Tor.
The ciphered messages of those custodians of the Grail are still writ large in the art and architecture of the churches and cathedrals, keeping alive the wisdom of the Dragon Clans of old, despite the efforts of many a Christian bishop to eradicate it through the burning of abbey libraries, the dissolution of the monasteries and the crucifixion on the Tor of the last abbot of Glastonbury by the court magicians of Henry VIII.
The Grailkeepers
You will also learn in Stories in the Summerlands about the Weavers and Keepers of the Grail Mysteries who, like the Old Norse Norns, used words, pictures and music to weave the weft and warp of Wyrd, which we call consensual reality. In other words, these bards are the creators of the culture that underpins the values of our social fabric, the material of which is kept in good condition by the telling and re-telling of these metaphorical stories which have been impregnated and enchanted into the land of Avalon.
As Shelley wrote: “Poets are the secret legislators of the world.”
I uncover all of this, and more, as I walk alongside you on a real pilgrimage of the soul in which you will develop the ability to recognise the esoteric wonders impregnated into the secret places of the Summerlands of Avalon. And once the hidden knowledge of the initiates of the Mysteries is revealed to you, you will be able to enrich your own life experience because it will open your eyes to the magic in your own land.
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Annie Dieu-Le-Veut 
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