The English poet and visionary mystic William Blake believed that Albion, the oldest name for the British Isles, was the original and true Holy Land of Christ. In my well-researched book “Vision of Albion: The Key to the Holy Grail” I show that there may be some substance to such an intriguing notion. Drawing on historical source material, I have investigated Blake’s mystical view of Albion as Christ’s Holy Land, which is inextricably bound up with the English poet’s intuitive sentiment expressed in his famous lines: And did those feet of old walk on the green mountains of England? And was the Holy Lamb of God seen, in the pleasant pastures of England?
As a result of deciphering clues to Gaelic place names, along with well-established traditions and legends, my research supports Blake’s thesis of Christ’s presence in the British Isles. Additionally, it appears that other members of the Holy Family, including the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Joseph of Arimathea, may have visited the British Isles. If this was the case, what could have been the reason they came from the Middle East to the Western Blessed Isles?
My many years of research show that the Holy Family was most likely related to contemporary royal bloodlines in Britain, in particular the Silurian royal house whose realm, at the time, appears to have stretched from present-day South Wales to North Wales. from Wales. southwest Scotland. Furthermore, there may have been a common Gaelic ancestry between the former British royalty and the Jesus family of Galilee in the Middle East.
According to Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms, writing in 1834: “It has escaped all observation, so far as I have discovered, that the country around Tire and Sidon, as far as Acre, formerly bore the name of Galilee, or country of the Gael on the sea-coast; the same name, Gael, the Phoenician colonies in Europe called themselves, and gave their settlement in Europe… I am not disposed to go beyond the limits of fair criticism, or force a point in favor of either hypothesis, but can I refuse to claim the Phoenicians as the ancestors of the Gaels and Galilee as their original country? (The Gaelic and the Cymbri)
Geographically, Galilee was originally part of southern Phoenicia. It is generally accepted that Phoenician sea traders visited Britain, particularly Cornwall, where there is also an ancient tradition of a visit by Jesus and his great-uncle, Joseph of Arimathea. The tribes of the Gaels, part of the great Celtic racial current, are believed to have migrated west from Galatia in Asia Minor (now modern Turkey), through Galicia in northern Spain, finally reaching the British Isles where we find , for example, such Gaelic Place Names as Galoway in Scotland and Galway in Ireland. The retention of the ‘gal’ prefix suggests the presence of Gael in these areas.
However, what seems to have escaped general attention, as Sir William Betham observed, is the Gaelic meaning of the place name Galilee in Palestine. Could this suggest the presence of Gaelic Celts there, considering that Jesus and his family were Galileans? This possible common racial background would suggest a basis for the Galilean royal family of Jesus, descended from the biblical King David, to be related to the Gaelic royalty of ancient Britain.
Furthermore, I record that the entire cycle of legends that has the Holy Grail as its center refers to Britain and Britain alone. I also cite sources that identify the corpus of the Holy Grail with the occult Shambhala tradition. Unbelievably perhaps, my research suggests that the famous Shambhala, the abode of the spiritual masters who are said to oversee the evolution of the human race, is not located in the Asian Himalayan region, as is traditionally believed, but rather within the holy islands of Britain, William Blake’s Holy Land of the West.
