"Was it all part of some delusion? Was my apparent dowsing ability a wish fulfilment? Was it being manifested in some fantasy on a world-wide scale? If the ley-system were a fantasy, then it was shared by various people, some of whom had even committed themselves in print. On an empirical basis, I was prepared to be satisfied that the system had been proven. Incidents flowed through the memory and I became disposed once again to the view that I was dealing with something real."

 

Research in England provided evidence that the seveteenth century architects who led the classical revival were aware of the ley-system and its workings. A visit to Blenheim, the work of Vanburgh, proved enlightening. There was obviously a link with the Masonic and Rosicrucian brotherhoods which was apparent throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and even up to the time of Pugin and his colleague, Charles Barry, in the nineteenth century. Not surprisingly, Bladon Church, were Winston Churchill was buried, is on a line with the main axis of Blenheim, running through the Column of Victory, the Great Hall, the Saloon, and the main avenue to the Palace. Following this visit to Winston Churchill's birthplace, Colin determined on a look to Chartwell. Here he found, as at Blenheim, that in addition, to other patterns a 49-bar line was dowsable, linking specific focal points in the grounds, such as the Round Pound and the rose garden. To quote Colin;

 

"On leaving Chartwell I was pondering the fact that it was not only on a 49-bar line but had a secondary 49-bar sytem as well, and I reflected that Churchill had been born on a focal point of the system in England and had lived a major part of his life on a similar line."

 

When Colin related his thoughts to hir brother David, the latter reminded him of a 49-bar line from Westminster Abbey which did not go to Downing Street. "I think I might know where it might go,"was Colin's reply, "the Admiralty Block-house where Churchill had his room deep below." This was confirmed when the was able to check some weeks later. Like Colin, we can only speculate on the probabilities indicated by all this. As he points out, Churchill could have been aware, and working deliberately in a way similar to our Fountain work. This would explain a number of fortuitous happenings during the period. Churchill was a Mason with the United Studholme Lodge. He employed Dennis Wheatley and Walter J. Stein as his advisers during the war. Map dowsers were used by the Admiralty with his approval. And he forbade any reference at the Nuremberg trials to the occult activities of Hitler and his Nazi 'inner circle'. Churchill was also an intimate friend of Wellesly Tudor Pole, whose suggestion of the Big Ben Silent Minute also played a key role in our deliverance.

 

In May 1977, not long after the visit to Chartwell, a new momentous turning point was reached. At the time, Colin thought it as merely new and interesting data. He had checked St. Peter's, the parish church of his home town, Brighton, and found that apparently it was not in the 'system'. Could it have been interfered with? The architect, Sir Charles Barry, had certainly had the required esoteric knowledge to position the church correctly. Dowsing for the answer to this, his hunch was confirmed, and with the necessary invocation the usual pattern of lines appeared. The southern line went stright to the Octagonal Room in the Royal Pavilion and from there to the old neo-classical Town Hall. Northwards, this line was subsequently found to go towards Wolstenbury and London. As Colin wrote in his notes, "It appeared to have opened up an entirely new circuit of indefinite distance." At the time it was the southernmost route that interested him. As it went from St. Peter's towards the sea, it ran through a series of gardens in a sort of 'avenue' culminating in the circular area with the fountain known as Old Steine. The name refers to the ancient stones still incoporated in the base of this fountain, thought to be an ancient site. The relevance of this was to emerge later. Checking out the area, it was found that a number of nearby artifacts such as the obelisks, the domed war memorial and an adjacent pool, linked with the Old Steine fountain. In a a nearby are, labelled "It is forbidden to enter this area", a nocturnal dowse confirmed that a tree circle and the other fountain in its sunken octagonal pool were also in the system, the whole of which was part of a 49-bar line.

 

Linked to Lewes, at a slightly different angle, a line runs through Hamsey, an ancient church on the banks of the Ouse and on across Sussex to High Rocks, a Mesolithic site near Tunbridge Wells, via the churches of Newick and Maresfield. These interesting discoveries posed a number of questions. Firstly, who 'installed' Brighton's elaborate ley-system? Secondly, who had 'turned off' the power, which Colin and David had now restored? The third question is obvious. "What purpose is served by switching it on again?" Subsequent events concerned with the founding of Fountain International have supplied an answer to this last question. Or, at least, we have found our own reason for keeping the system 'in repair', as it were. Considerable thought on Colin's part resulted in this answer - an asnwer which seemed to fit and which indeed proved to be an important and far reaching conclusion. Colin's own words are necessary here;

 

"The Earth, as Mind, is controlled by lines of force, its nervous system. The Manichean struggle is carried out on earth through the operation of that system. It depends on telluric, celestial and spiritual node points. Informed people on earth can create focal points through working to increase the lines. Subliminal influences can also inspire people to do certain things at certain places. Knowledgeable people with good or bad intent can manipulate the system."

 

He also sees the multiple-line pattern on important sites (at that time, 49-bar lines) as Messianic in nature, carrying out the Divine Plan. Much more was to evolve from this in subsequent years, including increases in the numerical ratios, as will be seen later.

 

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