William Stukeley

[Pimander]

The apple story.

I think an English antiquarian named William Stukely wrote about a conversation He and Newton had whilst taking tea in Newtons garden beneath the apple trees.

He was more than an antiquarian.  Stuleley was a Druid, probably a Mason and also a Minister.

Stukeley perceived the entire prehistoric landscape as laid out in a sacred pattern with centres at Stonehenge and Avebury. The stone circles and earthworks at Avebury he recognised as part of a larger figure inscribed in the landscape in the form of a serpent.

November 7, 1687 - March 3, 1765
The Rev. Dr. William Stukeley was a medical doctor, Anglican priest, field archeologist and antiquarian.
Author of Stonehenge a temple restor'd to the British druids and Itinerarium curiosum: or, an account of the antiquities and remarkable curiosities in nature or art observed in travels through Great Britain ..., Stukeley is responsible for the popular identification of Stonehenge with the Druids, and the current interest in Druidism. Although a gifted field archaeologist, his interpretations and conclusions were highly imaginative.

SOURCE: http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/stukeley_w/stukeley_w.html


Maybe we should run a thread on this stuff sometime.  What do you think Hobbity?

[Littleenki]

He was more than an antiquarian.  Stuleley was a Druid, probably a Mason and also a Minister.

Stukeley perceived the entire prehistoric landscape as laid out in a sacred pattern with centres at Stonehenge and Avebury. The stone circles and earthworks at Avebury he recognised as part of a larger figure inscribed in the landscape in the form of a serpent.
SOURCE: http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/stukeley_w/stukeley_w.html


Maybe we should run a thread on this stuff sometime.  What do you think Hobbity?

I dont know 'bout the Hobbit, but Im for it, Pim!
I also noticed this tidbit on the border of the site you linked....

The following list has been compiled from primary references or creditable authors. It is neither comprehensive nor definitive, but merely attempts to demonstrate the interest in Freemasonry found in all spheres of society.

Ah, the spheres, large and small, it is all scalar isnt it?

Spheres? Not groups or assemblies?

Always looking for the 8th!

Freemasonry? Not so sure, but Im sure Hobbity has a great deal of intersting opinion on that world, so a new thread sounds good!

Eyes peeled!
Le

[hobbit]

DRUIDS,
I have here an origonal 1829 book upon druids by godfrey Higgins,
Said to be a mason...blah, blah ,blah.

He states that the druids emigrated from India.

Whatever I feel it safe to say that knowledge has been lost or forgotten?

I have personally covered just about every inch of Avebury and it's environs, and in so doing seem to have become aquainted by two serpents...We are friends.

And they don't mind been diverted locally, built up locally at all.

Unbelievable efforts were undertaken to do this, the ditchs were origonally sixty feet deep, with embankments similer around them....all said to have been moved by hand with antlers as pick axes.

Stones that dwarf houses are arranged in great circles and avenues .


WHY??
hobbit

[Littleenki]

Hobbit, do you think Avebury and Stonehenge may have been laid out by dowsers?

And some of those stones, arent they completely buried?

An interesting place indeed!

As far as Mr Stukely being a proponent of the Hermetica, I think he may have been linked more to the newer freemasonry of the times, which like the King James bible, had seemed to be much different than the original teachings it stemmed from.

Just speculation on my part though, as he may have been the real deal.

And for Avebury, maybe he found something there which peaked the interest of the freemasonry lodge of England, and was inducted as such, a new mind with new ideas.

I bet he was a dowser..eh Hobbit!:D

Those serpents mean something, and to me it seems another connotation of the law of correspondence, eh?

Cheers!

[hobbit]

Hobbit, do you think Avebury and Stonehenge may have been laid out by dowsers?

And some of those stones, arent they completely buried?

An interesting place indeed!

As far as Mr Stukely being a proponent of the Hermetica, I think he may have been linked more to the newer freemasonry of the times, which like the King James bible, had seemed to be much different than the original teachings it stemmed from.

Just speculation on my part though, as he may have been the real deal.

And for Avebury, maybe he found something there which peaked the interest of the freemasonry lodge of England, and was inducted as such, a new mind with new ideas.

I bet he was a dowser..eh Hobbit!:D

Those serpents mean something, and to me it seems another connotation of the law of correspondence, eh?

Cheers!

I follow in the footsteps of many before Me.
If I didn't , I wouldn't be here.

hobbit

[Littleenki]

Question answered, Hobbit...
Le

[hobbit]

This video gives a good over view of the environs around Avebury.
The stones are sarsens and aprox forty tons each.

The huge wooden posts at the end at stanton drew  I will come to with the druids in mind and Oak tree groves.


hobbit