In May 1977 I had occasion to visit Oxford and I was able to go on to Blenheim which I long planned to visit. We drove to Woodstock and approached by the eastern entrance. No line could be found, but coming out of the main entrance was a 7-bar line. This was the line of the main avenue of Blenheim. It goes straight to the tower of Bladon Church where Sir Winston Churchill is buried. Blenheim was named after the little village on the Danube where Marlborough won the first of his victories. It is said that the Queen herself chose the architect, Sir John Vanbrugh, creator of Castle Howard and Greenwich Hospital, passing over her chief architect, Sir Christopher Wren, in the process. Vanbrugh was his pupil and, in view of Wren's intimate involvement in Operative Masonry, one may suppose that his pupil was well-informed. Sir John Vanbrugh appointed as his assistant Nicholas Hawksmoor, who was responsible for much of the detail, including the ceilings, in which the Octagon figures frequently. Hawksmoor also assisted Wren in the building of St. Paul's Cathedral. He also designed and had built the west towers of Westminster Abbey and was responsible for various university buildings at Oxford. Wren's comprehension of the sacred dimensions of the ley system seems obvious. Equally obvious from the evidence is the fact that this cannot be separated from his Masonic and Rosicrucian connections. He communicated his knowledge to his pupils and associates, and they applied it to both religious and secular monuments. Blenheim is one of the latter, and it appears that it was deliberately and specifically built into the ley system.

We joined a party to tour the apartments of Blenheim. The Great Hall had a triple line running east-west through it, and it was something of a 'frisson' to find, to the west, that the line ran through the bed where Sir Winston Churchill was born. "At Blenheim," he once said, "I took two important decisions: to be born and to marry. I am happily content with the decisions I took on both those occasions." He proposed in the Temple of Diana! Interestingly, the guide book includes the comment by the late Duke: "We can look back now on the pattern of Sir Winston's life and see, or think we see, a pleasing inevitability. His birth here at Blenheim, his proposal of marriage here beside the lake, his burial at Bladon - these things form a mosaic which seems almost too neat to be true." The guide book goes on: "Vanbrugh's north-to-south axial line through the Column of Victory, the Great Hall, the Saloon and the Tower of Bladon Church, which may be seen from the Saloon, and beside which tower Sir Winston is buried. Thus physically and symbolically are linked the places of his birth and burial." One wonders if the author of the guide book, David Green, was unconsciously inspired or consciously aware. The fact remains that a 7-bar dowsable line runs down that main axis. I checked it from the south side as well, as it left the house to go on down to Bladon Church.

We were taken round the sumptuous rooms of Blenheim. I noticed Hawksmoor's ceilings particularly octagons, ovals and (*illustration). What stuck in my memory was the Long Library, a magnificent Vanbrugh design, with Hawksmoor's detail - at one end, the great organ installed in 1891 by the 8th Duke with above it a remarkable octagonal ceiling. I took a look outside. The water gardens are the life's work of the 9th Duke who died in 1934. The key to their design, says the guidebook, lies in the Bernini river-gods fountain on the second terrace. This was interesting, because Bernini was the elderly Italian sculptor who was working in the Louvre and who permitted Sir Christopher Wren to see his drawings on his visit to Paris. This scale model for the famous fountain in Rome's Piazza Navona was given to the 1st Duke and revered by the 9th, who determined to give Vanbrugh's palace the majestic, formal setting he knew it deserved. What the guide book fails to mention is that there are two of these fountains, and that one is surmounted by a black obelisk and the other by a white one. I was able to dowse that a 49-bar line was coming in from the west and was bounded by these two obelisks. The line narrowed substantially to be bounded within a smaller compass by two fabulous beasts, reminiscent of those at Beckford's Fonthill. Two reclining sphinxes, but with female heads on longer necks than that at the Pyramids in Egypt. From there the line disappeared into the second terrace of the water garden to re-emerge the other side, to the south of the Woodstock Road entrance, where I was able to check it.

So Blenheim was, as I had suspected, on a main line; all was in order, according to Elohim. The last year at Bladon seemed to have worked and the line from Churchill's tomb was now a 7-bar line. That could only be good. I noticed before leaving that the Marlborough Arms are based on the Hapsburg Double-headed Eagle with the halo round each head. This was because the House of Hapsburg had benefited from Marlborough's activities. I wondered whether that is the source of the family's occult knowledge? I look at Charles Vth's crest now, on a Toledo plate on my wall, and find it identical in general terms to that above the monument to the first Duke and Duchess of Marlborough in the Bleinheim Chapel. I left in pensive mood, finally noting that the grounds had been laid out by Lancelot (Capability) Brown, a man whose activities I determined to investigate on another occasion.

Our next visit was to Chartwell, home of Sir Winston Churchill. As a good friend of mine lived just up the road, I had been able to dowse it in passing and show an important line running through it, but that had been nearly a year earlier. I picked up the first 49-bar line running from the house to the round pond. One was able to notice that the fish-ponds, insofar as one could dowse over them, showed evidence of the 7 circles. We approached the main entrance and I could see the line I had earlier detected on the road outside. It came through the front door, but there were two lines! In the library, one cannot penetrate too far, but it was enough to dowse the double-square rectangle. Upstairs, one could visit his study, where he used to write, rather than in the library. Here another double-square rectangle could be dowsed. Churchill used the study for the best part of 40 years. It was an essential part of his life. There are majestic views across the garden to the lakes. The bedroom contains a four-poster bed from which may be dowsed a triple-line, but nothing else is available for dowsing within the house.

The garden is the place which really tells all. On the front lawn, there is an ancient yew tree. The line from the bedroom loses itself in a spiral around this tree. The 49-bar line on the round pond does not enter or depart from the house, as a circuit of the lawn showed. I moved to the south and around to the croquet lawn. There was nothing. At the southern end of the croquet lawn is a curious, circular saucer tumulus, which serves as a garden waste dump. Access to it is through a narrow channel. Inside are the 7 dowsable circles, though they were incomplete. I was able to restore them. It reminded me of a similar construction with similar dowsing phenomena at the Rothschild Villa at Cap Ferrat in the South of France. From there one can move into the rose garden, through whose avenue I picked up the 49-bar line. In the centre of the avenue is a sundial. The whole area was originally the kitchen garden, the greater part of whose walls were built by Churchill himself between 1925 and 1932, but its transformation into a rose-garden was a gift to Winston and Clemmie in 1958 to mark their Golden Wedding Anniversary. The 49-bar line through the rose garden makes a circuit to come back to the house at the base of the railed garden. The other comes in from the Chart and leaves from the base of the garden via the round from the Marlborough Pavilion. Built at the inspiration of Lady Churchill in the 'Twenties, this is a temple to the 1st Duke of Marlborough. Four terra-cotta plaques on the wall represent rivers associated with his campaigns in the War of the Spanish Succession and a frieze evokes the wars and, in particular, Blenheim. On the floor, great flagstones form an octagon, albeit not equilateral. Elsewhere in the house itself, above his study, is a kind of turret or bell-tower with a weather-cock. It is octagonal.

Leaving Chartwell, I was pondering the fact that it was not only on a 49-bar line, but had a secondary 49-bar system as well, and I reflected that Churchill had been born in a focal point of the 49-bar system in England and had lived a major part of his life on a similar line and had been born on one. When I related this to my brother, David, he said, "What about that 49-bar line from the North Door of Westminster Abbey. We know it does not go through No 10, Downing Street. Why not?" "I think I know where it might go," I replied, "the Admiralty Block House where Churchill had his War-Room deep below." It was some weeks before I could go there. I parked the car on a hot July afternoon and, under the watchful and puzzled stare of a London bobby, I walked on to Horse Guards Parade and there it was. So far as I can tell, the line goes through the Treasury, changes direction slightly through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, misses Downing Street and goes across Horse Guards parade to the Blockhouse. And so the circle was, if you like, complete - birth, domestic life, public life and death - all directly involved with a 49-bar line.

The question is - what does it all mean? Was Churchill a very superior puppet manipulated by the force that manifests through a 49-bar line? Or was he conscious of the magical world and able to work quite deliberately in it? We know he was an intimate in his youth of Wilfred Blunt. An oil painting by Blunt's son-in-law hangs at Chartwell. Churchill was a Mason with United Studholme Lodge. We know he employed Dennis Wheatley as a Special Adviser during the War. We know he employed Walter Johannes Stein, that Grail Adept who fully understood the diabolic machinations of Hitler and his henchman. We know that map-dowsers were employed by the Admiralty with his approval. We know that he forbade reference to Hitler's occult activities at the Nuremberg Trials. We believe that Churchill personally designed the octagonal pill-boxes still to be seen in the cornfields of southern England. They are fed by a triple-line and contain the 7 dowsable circles complete within them. As one who was once trained as an infantry officer, I could never understand why these all stand out in the open in the middle of fields, instead of at the edge of copses, woods or some other form of natural camouflage or protection. Now I can only conclude that their defensive function was not military.

We know too that Churchill laid out and built much in the Chartwell gardens with his own hands. Was his exile and retreat a magical retirement during which he was preparing some occult power source for the struggle he knew was coming? What was the nature of his reverence for Blenheim Palace? He must have understood something of the sacred architecture. In all his speeches he singled out Hitler and Nazi-ism as a monstrous theological evil - making the struggle a Manichaen one. Of course, for me, the dowsing evidence is conclusive, but for others I can only produce circumstantial evidence. Let those who can dowse go and find the same. Did he give us vital insight when he addressed the Combined Senate and Congress of the United States during the Second World War in the following words? "He must indeed have a blind soul who cannot see some Great Purpose or Design is being worked out here below, of which we have the honour to be faithful servants."