View From The Big Hills

Many years ago David Goddard introduced me to the fictional writing of Moyra Caldecott. Her stories captivated me, covering mythical and magical themes against backdrops which included Ancient and Roman Britain, Glastonbury, Egypt and Bronze-age Greece.  Her trilogy, “Guardians of the Tall Stones” blew me away. As a great adventure of initiation and the Mysteries, the Guardians saga is interspersed with profound inner teachings which remind me from time to time of some of the “channeled” elements in the fictional writing of Dion Fortune.  Round about the end of the 1990's, I was blessed to be able to meet Moyra at an event David arranged at Avis Ades’ home in Wiltshire. A beautiful person, charming and vastly knowledgeable, she occasionally let slip a mischievous twinkle from her eyes. Etched into my consciousness, I will cherish this meeting for the rest of my life. The meeting came at a point in time when I was really struggling to relate to something my then...

Having heard a little bit about the mysterious Maiya Tranchell Hayes, I will now move on to Dion Fortune's "Hibernian Adept." I first learned of Art O’Murnaghan from someone we shall call "Hestia" at a public discussion meeting in Friends Meeting House on St Martin’s Lane, London (pictured below).  The meeting was one of a series of public meetings advertised in both Prediction Magazine and Aquarian Arrow , and run by members of Charles Fielding’s The London Group in the 1980s.  Resident for many years in 3 Queensborough Terrace (pictured below), "Hestia" had been a member of the Fraternity of the Inner Light and had worked closely over many years with Dion Fortune, Charles Seymour, Christine Campbell Thomson, Gladys Lathbury, Margaret Lumley Brown, Arthur Chichester, Rosina Mann and Art O'Murnaghan.  During one of the breaks in a meeting, having by then worked out my nationality and accompanying passion for all things...