St.Clair's Argonaut - Merlin Of The Mound

Merlin Masters of the Mound

"Thoth served to enlighten humans in that age that they were not the spawn of the Nephilim, the fallen angels of Lucifer.

He revealed to them that although the Fallen Lords had greatly tampered with their mortal bodies through eons of genetic manipulation,

human kind were still 'angels unaware.'"

Soul Invitation

Merlin Masters of the Mound (channeled by Maia from Thoth)

Thoth spoke into my mind, he told me that he was one of the five souls of Merlin. He lifted the veil for me, and I peered into the misty folds of the Goddesses robe to behold Myrddin of Galataine.

When an incarnation 'window' is opened for an aspect of karmic interaction affecting many people, often that incarnating entity is comprised of multi-souled levels. Thoth Hermes in that incarnation, was/is only one soul. Yet Merlin was five souls, all layered and working together through the window that was Myrddin.

In a layered entity, there is first the 'body soul' - that soul which attaches directly to the body chakras, animating the physical mode and coordinating the ensuing layers with that bio-link and the other connective souls of the layered complex. It is difficult for us to contemplate more than one soul working in such unity, but with spiritually evolved entities such as Merlin, this is accomplished. Thoth explained to me that he himself was not a product of layering because his service required single-entity consciousness (he did not elaborate further). In the most illuminate layers of Merlin's five-soul structure were Thoth and the one known a later incarnation as St.Germaine.

There were then two other souls serving as grounding and balance factors - one is now incarnate as a female of great spiritual power in the inner Earth. The other is presently in male embodiment upon the surface of the planet. Lastly, there is the body-soul of Myrddin, which was sealed away etherically awaiting its future release when it will re-enter the physical body of Merlin.

Myrddin's family name, so Thoth informs me, was Galataine. They were originally from Gaul, but his father, along with three aunts an uncle (and their families), came to the Isle of Man off the coast of Scotland, led by a 'Shining One' in his father's visions. It was there, upon this small island, that Myrddin was conceived and born. Myrddin's father, Hestor, and his siblings, had a powerful mix of genetics – part ultra-terrestrial (Rigel, in the constellation of Orion), and also some 'cosmorphic', or Faery. This was in an age when the veils which separate the Nature and HUman Kingdoms were still fluttering in the winds of change. Thus, the Faery People, or Cosmorphic Beings could at certain levels, merge their seed with humankind.

Hestor and his kin had a strange blend in their veins, coming from the stars, the Nature Realm, and the Gauls. Since Gauls were Celts, we can see that the Galataines were returning to their original homeland when they journeyed to Great Britain. But the most interesting find was yet to come. In reading on, I came to the historical fact that the Merovingian Dynasty was in Gaul. This is the Family that the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail claim to be direct descendants from Jesus' and Mary Magdalene's son. Thoth had confirmed this, although he did not agree that this child was born of a physical union between Jesus and Mary as is assumed in HBHG.

Thoth has also revealed that the lineage of Merlin and Jesus both stem from an ancient Egyptian-Hebrew-Celt named 'Torhannah'. Her history can be referenced in SOIF's Star Lotus and issue #-90 of Temple Doors. The son of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, John Martinus, was born on the Isle of Iona, given unto the care of a Ionian Celtic Priestess, Elaine, who brought him to Glastonbury, England at the age of two. It is clear that he was born for a purpose, another product of genetic engineering, which is so evident in Merlin's life; and thus was relinquished from the no doubt loving arms of his mother into the flow of destiny at a tender age. John Martinus was to become the first Templar, from whence the Knights Templar descended. Actually, there were Templars of a sort as far back as Lemuria, but apparently not a true precursor of the Order as was John Martinus. From this 'Son of the Sun King' also sprang the (Frankish) Merovingain dynasty. But Thoth stresses that the Merovingains were for the most part, not a kin worthy of their ancestry. There was a inner core group that was both knowledgeable and worthy, and it was to the credit of his 'Secret Order' within the larger dynasty, that the Grail Mysteries were preserved. But that is another story. In returning to the Galataines we see them more clearly defined through this brief detour. As descendants of Torhannah, they were cousins to the Martinus lineage.

Myrddin's mother, Mary Grace, bore an even closer Christic lineage. She had been given her name, for at her birth, all in the room saw the Mother of Christ hover near the babe. Mary Grace's mother was a part-Jewish Christian, and a direct descendant of Joseph of Arimathea, uncle of Joshua ben Josef - Jesus Christ. Hestor, from the House Galataine, married Mary Grace, from the House of Arimathea, in a Celtic-Christian ceremony at the foot of the Holy Hills (later to become Chalice Hill) in Glastonbury, at Somerset, England. It was in that age called the 'Holy Hill', for it had been this place which was consecrated by Jesus when he made his second journey to Glastonbury as a young man (the first trip had been as a boy with his uncle Joseph). Later, his son, John Martinus, would build an inner temple beneath the hill, which was sealed away after his death.

Hestor and Mary Grace made their home on the Isle of Man, where the Shining One of Hestor's vision had brought him. From the eyes of this most elusive Being Hestor had been given the Sight. He had witnessed the 'sky jewel' (meteor fragment) strike Man, long before his birth, cracking the earth and burrowing deep within the cold winter ground. From that small crack came forth a spring from which flowed a sparkling creek, igniting fertility to burst aflame along its pathing banks. All this had seen in the mirror-light of the Shining One. Thus, he needed no common hand to lead him to the Sacred Spring, for it brimmed within his heart and flowed without hindrance through his seeking mind. When Hestor hand his young bride arrived at the spring, he built a home nearby, of yew tree and deerhide. Here Myrddin sought the psalm of life, grasping it eagerly with his strong lungs, in the dawn of what is now down as September 15th, the Year of Our Lord, 363).

The child Myrddin dwelt in a world between human and nature, touching both, yet aware, even in youth, that he would never be truly accepted by either realm. Myrddin's father felt the burden as well. He became troubled and haunted in dreams by his own fears. He was sorely tempted by the Dark Side in the flexing of a power that brought security to his feelings of instability. The story of Hestor of Galataine, his temptations, trials, and eventual triumph is a book unto itself. I will not, in this writing, venture into that forest. Yet it need be known that Hestor fell from Grace - not only in the sight of God, but in the eyes of his lovely Mary Grace. When she found her beloved to be a practioner of the Dark Face, he who makes the Light, and no longer following the star sent gaze of the Shining One, Mary Grace feld the Sacred Grove of the Sky Jewel Spring, talking her three year old son with her. SHe left Hestor to his wanton magic in a dark cavern near the grove, and went out i! Into the night, the child conceived of her husband's Light clutched to her breast.

Mary Grace found refuge in the Convent of Shorham - a Celtic Pagan-Christian convent on the 'Crystal Isle' of Glastonbury, near the Holy Hill of her wedding. Yet even the sacred waters of its well could not flush the tears of sorrow buried deep in her heart. Hestor was driven from Man by his brother and sisters. He went into Wales to dwell for the rest of his life. Upon his death bed in the last moments of life, the full measure of his faith was restored, and through the grace of the Shining One he returned in etheric body to the Spring of the Sky Jewel. There he found Merlin inside the dark cave where Hestor had fallen from Light. Myrddin and his father stood together for the first time since Mary Grace took her babe from the Grove on that terrible eve. Hestor's etheric body was as strong as his power, Dark or Light, had always been. The two men embraced, and Hestor pressed into his son's hand the amethyst key. The older Galataine was then consumed in Light and, as a tide slipping from a sunlit shore, he departed his son and this life, emancipated from darkness forever.

With the Amethyst Key, Myrddin opened the book of Worlds, each page inscribed by the Racial Mind, entwining the Ages of Man with the Ageless Realm of Nature and Spirit. The Amethyst Key was a divining rod the form of a key. It had been crafted of Sacred Fire in Atlantis by the Masters of the Blue Star (Rigel). It in itself, like any
tool of divining, was merely a potent source of focus for the power within the controlling entity. Thus, from his father, Merlin received the path to his own power; as we all must come upon the path made for us by our preceding generation. In overcoming Darkness, Light takes its strength. SO the old cavern of Hestor's fall from grace was transformed by his son into a palace of crystal quartz. In this sanctuary fasted from the sun's dance, the crystal walls were lit from the flame of Myrddin's spirit, burning deeply into the tallow of his own soul. During 28 years of his exceptionally long life he he spent many hours within this cavern writing the testament given him through the Amethyst Key. He entitled it The Books of the Grove (later known as The Grove Books of Merlin).

Because I must of necessity gather momentum at this point, we open the book on the life of Merlin many chapters hence from his receipt of the Amethyst Key, to find him fast upon his chosen work. The focus of this Work was programming for future restoration, the Earth's network of etheric ley lines, correspondent to the geophysical structure of the planet. What remained of the crystal canopy after Atlantis' destruction was fast decaying. Merlin, with memory of his life as Thoth of Raismes (Hermes) worked to set into the ethers certain keys or signals for future re-alignment of the Earth's etheric and physical axis (and accompanying ley line balances). He selected from among the pagan initiates of the Age, those whose service was destined to be twined with his. These he sent into school for preliminary instruction, if they were not already knowledgeable. They were then brought back to him for attunment to the Inner Mysteries.

As Grand Illuminari, Myrddin brought to each of his following the SIght that had been passed to him through the blood of Galataine. In fact, it was this very elixir in his veins, a product of three sacred paths converging (the Christic, Orion, and Faery), that quickened his living form to become the Grail for the knowledge that followed through him. This 'gift' was a portal brought into focus through his genetic vine which found root in the Racial Mind of the Three Paths. It was need for continuity of these streamings that brought Merlin to the next threshold - that of engendering his strain into the new and tender matrix which was being formed like early frost upon a budding tree. This new pattern, coming from the hierarchy blueprint, was the bridging together of the Celtic-Duridic paganism (the knowledge and practices of the Goddess or divine nature of earth and woman/man) and Judeo-Christian doctrine (the Divine Father/Son, accepted through the descending of the Holy Spirit! into mankind).

Within the genetics of Myrddin of Galataine the crucible for this merging was contained. In the substance of life carried from one generation to another, we find the pure energy of manifestation. Each family unit spins its own patterning of this energy, which all together creates a synergy of the Racial Mind - that which explores, expands, separates and unites the many directions of spiritual experiences through the cultures and races of humanity. Thus Merlin, Master of the Mound (also known as 'Master of the Stone'), sought divine guidance in choosing the vessels that would carry his need to fruition for the fulfilment of the new world matrix.

Three quite different women, over a span of 11 years, gave to Merlin one daughter and three sons. It need be understood that these females were all initiates of the Goddess (although the last one embraced the Dark Goddess). They were knowledgeable and willing participants in the act of genetic engineering, planned through divine guidance. Except for his true love, Maria Merlin knew intimately each of these women only for the purpose of conceiving, and was otherwise celibate throughout his life. They therefore were not his wives or lovers, but co-workers in spirit. Other than for those brief selected times with him resulting in conception, they led their own lives, and for one, a marriage and other children. Those of the entire entourage of Merlin were either from the House of Galataine, by blood or marriage, or, as in the case of one of these three women mentioned here, as mother of Merlin's child (Rue, of the 'dark side'); or initiates from outside the Galataine Clan, yet accepted as kindred spirits into the Circle. This 'circle' became an Order known as The Eye of the Fawn. The Order did not live communally. They came together for special ceremony, initiation, schooling, and preordained Light work. Between-times, they dispersed into villages and twos throughout Great Britain, as well as some into France.

The woman to mother Merlin's first child, in fact was not a part of human reality. She was a Faery, seventh daughter of the Faery Queen of Avalon. Avalon was a dimensional Faery state with its window or touching point through the etheric grid being most prominent at Glastonbury. The Convent of Shorham, where young girls were taught the psalms of the Goddess and the heart of the Christ, was a point between the two lands, visible in both worlds. It was at SHorham that Myrddin first saw Maria (pronounced Mah`-ri-ah). He was opened to her beauty and suffered the sweet agonise of flesh laid bare to a roses' thorn. The young Merlin, but 29 years of age, four years into his full ministry, was stricken as all mortals, even half mortals are, with the enchantment of a Faery Princess.

While genetic engineering was certainly at work here, the Goddess of Nature and the God of Man were mindful of the youth whom they held in their service, and smiled upon him. For in the experience of loving a woman, so Myrddin became human to the effort of love's first moments as it stretches its untried wings into the sky. Through loving Maria, he was to receive what every great teacher must have - the ability to be human, to identify with the alternate sufferings and joys of his students. Thus was given to Merlin in spiritual ceremony, maria, Daughter of the Lily. Maria brought into the light of Avalon two of Merlin's children. Myrddin spent three years in Avalon with his beloved three human years, as time is set by a different clock in that realm. When he returned, he brought his daughter and son with him. This was as had been ordained, and was understood by both Myrddin and Maria before the children had been born. They would return to Avalon many times, yet for the most part they dwelt in the human world. The daughter was named Mercedes Adorah, the son, Heathgloren.

Mercedes Adorah would become a Mistress of the Mound, carrying on her father's work. While unknown to history, she worked closely with powerful agents of LIght in that Age, who held open the last gates to cosmic union. Heathgloren would marry into a Christian family, who eventually sired a King of France. It is from Heathgloren
that the Merovinigians received their direct lineage to John Martinus through both the Galataines and the Awermehins (Mary Grace). Merlin's second son was born to him by Aminea, a mortal, who had wandered a great distance from a Northern Isle, having been cast out by her tribe. They were remnants on an ancient band of nomades who had been upon the British Isles before the advent of the Celtic culture. Aminea's son was Habarth. Like Mercedes, he would take up the mantle of his father, even to the fate of being sealed within a cavern. Yet Habarth's life was essentially in turmoil, as he was unable to come to terms with his own personality, separating it from the Greater Self, and the service of that Higher Order.

Merlin's third son, Ian, was born during an eclipse of the moon. The child's mother was Rue, a Maiden of the Dark Queen, Lilith. It is here that we come to the great inner mystery of Merlin's chronicles, as we are brought back to the side of Darkness within us. It is also here that a great and dramatic part of Merlin's life be left untold
for now, as it would require more telling than has been allotted within this space. A brief discourse only, of Merlin and Rue can be given here. Merlin was slipped a hypnotic drug by Rue, whereupon she proceeded to effectively seduced him. This Task had been appointed to her by Lilith, who wished to become involved in Merlin's genetic for her own purposes. In that Age, while there were those that could pass through the Goblin Doorway into Avalon, most could not. It usually required a vibrant strain of Faery blood to do so, something which Lilith and her following lacked, at least in its rarefied (and therefore qualified) form. The result of this conspiracy perpetrated on Myrddin, was a son who was very much a neutral child. He seemed positioned on the brink of eternity, afraid to leap in either direction. Ironically, Merlin saw his experience with Rue not as an evil encounter, but part of the Divine Plan; that Darkness may once again be transformed to Light, fortifying the latter.

As a soul is raised above the mire, so more power is given to lift others from similar fates. It is like a gathering of eagles in high places. For each that soars upward from the valley floor, so another follows suit. The hand cannot but touch the sick if it is to cleanse the wound, and so it was from the generation of the last child Ian, son of a Prince of Light and Maiden of Darkness, that a Holy Knight was chosen. Growing into manhood, Ian was not allowed contact with his father as were his siblings. Although an attempt was made, Rue was not successfully converted. After a false try, she withdrew from the Circle, back into the embrace of the reigning Dark Queen, Lilliana, on the throne of Lilith. Rue was determined that Ian not know his father's world. Thus, Merlin's third son became a defiant young man, serving neither side, living without faith. Nevertheless, ancient stirrings built up within him, for the blood of Galataine was heady stuff, even when it coursed through the veins of the unbelieving. Ian married in his seventeenth year to a young girl from the Isle of
Iona.

Although he did not at the time know it, his bride was quite versed in her family's religion, her mother having spent a year in the Convent of Shorham. Her Grandmother had been a Priestess of Gwena in the Celtic Ionian Mysteries. It was from the Ionian Mysteries that the Priestess Eliane had been chosen to guardian the son Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Iona was the birthplace of this sacred link, and still contains testament to the event buried within a chamber beneath the sod of the island. Rommela, as Ian's wife, was another 'planned' episode, but that is not to say she did not her young husband, who, beneath a veneer of sarcasm, yearned to find his spiritual self. The child born of their union was Myyrith (pronounced Mer-ith), grandson to the Master of the Mound, a grandfather he would be kept from knowing until his fourteenth year. It was then that his father and grandfather reached an agreement, and a somewhat uneasy communion. Myyrith was at last allowed to drink from the sacred springs of Merlin's heart and mind.

In a vision, Merlin was told by his father that Myyrith was the 'chosen one' to ascend the throne of a New Order consciousness, bringing together the realm of the Goddess and the world of the Christ in man. Yet this, in the final tally, was not to be. Had Myrddin been able to share his spirit with Myyrith from the child's birth, it would have been accomplished, but Ian had kept Myyrith from his grandfather until the door was closed. Divine Timing was the yardstick for the ascendancy of blood lineages in that era, and the moment of Galataine throne had passed. Instead, Merlin acted as emissary to bring another child into the world for his purpose. The Momentum achieved through the Galataine lineage had been disrupted, and now, Merlin knew, it must pass onto another family, that of Pendragon. The Pendragons were still within the David lineage - the Christ Tree, being related to the Galataine (from Myrddin's mother) through Joseph of Arimathea. But even as Merlin orchestrated Arthur's entrance into his earthly cradle, he now had his grandson beside him, and the bond between them grew.. Myyrith was eager for the touch of Light and he burnished brighter and brighter near the flame.

We will return to Myyrith in a moment, but it should be mentioned that Merlin had grandchildren other than Ian's son. One of special importance to our chronicles was Carmarthen, son of Mercedes Adorah and Sucat, or Particus, who would become in historical perspective, 'St. Patrick' of Ireland. According to Thoth, Particus' parents were killed in a fire when he was a small child, and his Celtic grandmother raised him. She was a member of The Eye of the Fawn, and Particus, or as he was called then, Sucat, formed a close bond with Merlin's daughter. As a young man, he left his grandmother and the Grove Circle of Merlin behind, but after his captivity and enslavement in Ireland, he returned to the Isle of Man to visit the grave of his grandmother. It was then that he re-established friendships with Myrddin and his Grove Folk, which stirred in Particus, old embers of ancient beliefs. He stayed three years with Mercedes, leaving her with their child, Carmarthen. There was no bitter! ness in parting, as Mercedes, a priestess in her own right, foresaw Particus' true destiny and urged him to pursue it. Mercedes had intended that Carmarthen be born in Bannock Hills, Scotland, but her son entered the world on a winter solstice in a stone circle on the Isle of Skye.

Our path turns once again to Myyrith. He worked closely with his grandfather from age of fourteen until his death at thirty-eight. Several weeks before he was to depart the Myyrith identity, he was cast into a sea of love, as his grandfather had been with the beautiful Maria. Myyrith's young maiden was another Elaine (related to, but not the same soul as the Ionian Priestess of ages past). She was the daughter of King Pelles of the Castle Carbonek, which at a certain period in the Merlin era, housed the Grail Cup and original texts of the Grail Mysteries. Elaine was a 'lily maid', meaning that she served the Goddess and had been instructed at the Covent of Shorham up to a certain initiatory level. Like Myyrith, she was a descendent of Joseph Arimathea. A week after his physical union with Elaine, Myyrith underwent the initiation of the serpent, and died by its poison. This act purified the strain of the Dark Queen that this good and gentle soul had carried as a burden within h! im. He was then ready to accept the gauntlet of purity to him by the Shining One, and his soul entered the womb of his love, Elaine. So Myyrith became his own son, Ban, baptised Galahad.

"Galahad, in the Vulgate, is the name of the great-grandson of Joseph (of Arimathea), and is the same as Gilead, Numbers 26:29, Judges 10:18. His lineage is obscure on his father's side; but through his mother he descends from "the first Bishop in Christiandom", Joseph of Arimathea. A legend states that Galahad's father was 'a fiend' who attacked a holy nun, that the infant of this union was taken by the convent and reared to young manhood until the time to send him to King Arthur's Court. Another legend has it that Sir Lancelot was his father and Eliane, daughter of King Pelles of the Castle Carbonek, was his mother..." -From Corrine Heleine's Mysteries of The Holy Grail.

There is a close similarity between the 'fiend and the nun' of Galahad's story and Merlin's conception in legend supposedly having taken place between a 'demon' and a mortal woman, who fled and took refuge in sanctuary. Both these stories relate the stigma that Myrddin and his grandson Myyrith bore. The former's father had tuned to evil forces, the latter's grandmother served the Dark Queen. Yet Myrddin's would be washed clean of his transgressions in the last moment of life and Myyrith's grandmother, while not entirely converted to the Light, would cease to be active in Dark Works, long before her death. While Lancelot was not the true father of Galahad, he became his father in spirit, and served as a guiding force in Galahad's youth. Elaine was indeed a 'holy nun' while serving in the Convent of Shorham, where even the attire was a facsimile to the Christian habit.

It was through Galahad that much of the original plan was completed, for in him was the blood of Galataine, and it was he who would redeem the Holy Grail for the spiritual rebirth of a future age. Merlin's part as the 'genetic engineer' is touched upon in Gareth Knight's The Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend:

"Merlin's aim was the selection and interbreeding of particular bloodline that would be the basis for founding an aristocratic line of priest-kings after the old Atlantean model. The particular qualities of blood would be such as to make available a refined type of clairvoyance that would enable easier contact between ruling family or class
and the inner plane guides behind nation. This is the basis for the conception of the 'sang real' - the royal blood of the Holy Grail. At a much later date it too on a higher individualised form as the attainment of individual conscious expression of the inmost spiritual powers in the physical body."

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