Post by shanestokes777 on Sept 3, 2019 14:38:29 GMT
Joseph of Arimathea came to Britain
by Alan Wilson & Baram Blackett
Christianity arrived in Khumry-Wales in AD 37, in "the last year of Tiberius". This is
attested by the official historians of the Church of Rome, Cardinal Baronius, the
Vatican Librarian, writing around AD 1530, and Cardinal Alford (Griffiths) – as well
as by the British monks Gildas (Aneurin y Coed Aur), who lived AD 540-600, and
Nennius, who wrote circa AD 800.
Later writers had to be very careful as Christianity officially arrived in Eastern
England in AD 597, with Austin-Augustine of Canterbury, who converted the
immigrant Saxons and Angles. Yet Austin met with seven British bishops in AD 600
at Aust in the west of Britain, on the Severn estuary. Pelagius, a British monk, had
denied the doctrine of original sin as developed by Augustine of Hippo, arguing
instead for free will. This was in the early AD 400s. Before that, three named British
bishops had attended the Council of Sardonica in AD 347 and three more the Council
of Arles in AD 314. The Roman Empress Helena was, we believe, a Christian and a
British Princess [see More 2]. Earlier still, King Lierwg (known to the Romans as
Lucius or Luke) had corresponded with Eleutherius, Bishop of Rome, around AD
178-180, as Christian to Christian. All this is in the official Church records. There is
also a record of there being archbishops in London from the second century AD [see
More 1]. So Austin did not bring Christianity to Britain, though he did bring Roman
Catholicism.
When the English later became dominant on the island of Great Britain, and even
after they had set up the breakaway Church of England, it was still unwelcome to
suggest that Christianity was in the west of Britain before the east and that it was in
Britain before Rome. So many Khumric texts were doctored to avoid trouble.
The story was retold, for example, in such a way as to have Eurgain the daughter of
King Caradoc I bring back Joseph of Arimathea to Britain from Rome around AD 58.
In fact, Joseph had arrived in Britain twenty years earlier and he never was in Rome.
As is made clear by Jowett, the nineteenth century religious historian, and others
Christianity went from Britain to Rome, carried by the family of King Caradoc from
South Wales.
The Romans invaded Britain in AD 43. They gained a hold on the south of the island
of Great Britain but had difficulties on their western flank. This was because of the
Essyllwg - miscalled 'Siluria' - which was certainly South Wales. The Silurians were
so dangerous that Roman generals were told not to engage with them. The nephew of
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King Caradoc I, Ceri Longsword, King of Essyllwg, succeeded his uncle as Battle
Sovereign. He built fleets and denied the Romans access to western Britain and
successfully kept them out of Wales until AD 74, when there was a battle which both
sides claimed as a victory.
The Romans attempted an accomodation with the British kings in the west but after an
apparent massacre of the women and children at the Vale of the Martyrs (where they
had been placed away from the battle field), claimed by the Romans as a victory, the
mighty King Baram (Bonassus), son of Ceri, drove the Romans clean out of Britain.
This was in AD 80. As Tacitus puts it, "Bonasus usurped the empire in Britain". Note
that there were no Roman governors or officials in Britain from AD 80-125. The
enraged Emperor Domitian had the expelled Roman governor of south-east Britain,
Salustus, executed.
Returning to Joseph of Arimathea, he had journeyed up the river Rhone, along the
River Loire and across to West Britain from Bordeaux. He did not come across the
Channel. Joseph, who was not in our view a tin trader as is often said, arrived in South
East Wales in AD 37 and began to establish there Apostolic Christianity. He was the
first Christian missionary anywhere. The famous Llywel Stone, now in the British
Museum in London, shows scenes of the Christian arrival from the Eastern
Mediterranean. Joseph became known in Britain as St Ilid. Church sites dedicated to
St Ilid are still extant in Glamorgan and Brecon. His first site was Llanilid at
Tonyrefail
King Caradoc I led the British resistance to the Romans, from AD 43 -51. He was
betrayed and the Romans took him with his family to Rome. With Caradoc and his ilk
went Christianity, as given them by Joseph of Arimathea. Linus, a son of King
Caradoc I, became the first Bishop of Rome in AD 58. St Paul was not in Rome until
around AD 66 and St Peter never went there.
In Rome Gladys, sister of Caradoc, changed her name to Claudia and married a
Roman, Aulus Plautius. Eurgain, the daughter of King Caradoc I, also married a
Roman, Rufus Pudens. Claudia was later put on trial for being a pagan as she was a
Christian and declined to worship Jupiter, Mars and the rest of the Roman pantheon.
She was ultimately acquitted.
King Bran was an infant in Rome and a great-grandson of King Caradoc I. Bran grew
up and had a son King Caradoc II. This has caused confusion amongst some
researchers, who fail to see that there were two King Caradocs. The first was the son
of Arch, the second of Bran. The latter became a famous Christian and was known as
Bran the Blessed.
Referring again to events in Britain, Joseph had moved into modern-day England after
being granted lands there by King Arviragus. This king was a ferocious enemy of the
invaders and the idea of a Roman ‘conquest’ of Britain in this period is laughable. The
first century Roman poet Juvenal wrote to the effect that if the Roman Emperor were
lucky Arviragus would fall from his British chariot-pole and die.
The king in the east of Britain had been Cynfelyn – known as Cunobelinus to the
Romans and called Cymbelline by Shakespeare. When Cynfelyn died he was
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succeeded by Gweirydd, a name Latinised to Guiderius in the chronicles. During the
Claudian invasion, Gweirydd was cut down treacherously. His younger brother
Arviragus assumed the mantle of kingship in Gweirydd’s stead, taking the battle to
the Romans and slaying the traitor.
The granting of land was a king’s prerogative or needed the king’s permission, so
Arviragus must presumably have been king already when he granted land for Joseph
to found a Christian community that some have described as a university. This would
put it about AD 45 or after. Where was this community sited? The answer was that it
was near Atherston in Warwickshire at a place called Glastinbri. Glastons in Breton
and Cornish means ‘place of oak trees’, while in the related Khumric-Welsh tongue
Glastenau means ‘the scarlet oak’. So the area was one of oak trees. There are plenty
of meetings under oaks and stones under oaks in the Old Testament.
There was a later ridiculous confusion between the true Glastinbri in Warwickshire
and Glastonbury in Somerset, but the Christian community at the latter site was not
even founded until AD 941. Research places Joseph's foundation very firmly at
Oldbury, south-east of Atherston. This is where there is the great ancient graveyard
where multitudes of the illustrious British are buried.
Caradoc of Llancarfan and Matthew of Westminster gave directions on how to get to
‘Glastonbury’ and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle cites a Glastenic holy place in the
seventh century. All that is necessary to locate Joseph’s community is to take the
dozen available directions and follow them faithfully. They take you unerringly to
Old Bury – 'old burial place' – at Oldbury in East Atherston. The name Atherston can
itself be translated readily enough and conveys an intriguing piece of information
relating to a later era: Arthur's Grave Mound (Twyn).
The great road cited in the historical directions is Watling Street. This runs from
London to Wroxeter-Viroconium, the former capital city – and this great ancient (preRoman) road runs straight through Atherston. Then the great scraped-out ditch cited is
very clearly Offa’s Dyke. Great woods are mentioned called the Ardennes. These can
be traced via a dozen Arden names - Henley in Arden and so on. These woods
stretched around the areas south of what is now Birmingham and Coventry. Carry on
with the designations and you get to Glastonbury at Old Bury in the Midlands.
St Collen of Llangollen was a regular visitor to ‘Glastonbury’ and Llangollen is a
short distance west of Oldbury-Atherston. St David, when at Llanthony Abbey in
Northern Gwent, was also a regular visitor. These people could not possibly have
gone south-east to the Gloucester area and then west to the Somerset Glastonbury.
There is no great ancient graveyard there, where the great figures of Britain were
buried – and according to the old directions there has to be. There are, though, many
huge ancient grave mounds in the vast cemetery at Oldbury, Atherston.
All the place names around Atherston and Oldbury are clearly unmistakeable ancient
Khumric Welsh. They translate well enough: “free grazing for sheep”, “granted free
without taxation”, “ploughland of the Court”, etc. This is all quite correct Welsh in
what is now central England.
A degree of accomodation was reached between the Roman invaders and the eastern
realm, with Arviragus marrying a ‘daughter’ of the Emperor Claudius. Claudius
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founded the city of Gloucester in AD 48 on the eastern bank of the Severn River,
which was the boundary between Khumry (Wales) and Lloegres (England). The body
of Arviragus’s heroic brother Gweirydd was moved there and doubtless prayed over.
Another name for Gweirydd is George. We believe in fact that this is the true St
George. Arviragus it was who granted land to Joseph of Arimathea, but we think he
was carrying out his brother’s wishes. It was for offering sanctuary to the Holy
Family that George’s fame was to run far and wide, until that fame was snuffed out.
The later Roman Catholics found it troubling that Christianity came first to Britain,
before Rome, so a false narrative was developed for St George. This story relates to a
Roman soldier in the early AD 300s who defied an imperial edict to sacrifice to the
pagan gods – a defiance allegedly uttered to the Emperor Diocletian himself. This
George had a father who came from Cappadocia, in modern-day Turkey. This
geographical information led in turn to a confusion with a disreputable later George of
Cappadocia. In short, the feeble Christian backstory on George was a smokescreen,
meant to occlude the British origin of Christianity.
We believe that Joseph of Arimathea gave Arviragus the Flag of St George, as a
gesture of gratitude for the gift of land, sanctuary, respect and friendship. An example
of the use of the Cross of St George is on the official coat of arms of the City of
London. (There is a sword in the upper left quarter, incidentally. That sword was the
one taken by the defending Britons from Julius Caesar during his abortive invasion of
Britain in 55 BC; it is not, as is said, the sword that beheaded St Paul – a ridiculous
notion in the context of Roman execution methods – nor is it a dagger used in the
Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.)
The official Church story of St George offers no rationale for the existence of the
Cross of St George in England.
The flag’s symbolism can be unpacked as follows. If you take the four Gospels of
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, they are represented by 1) the Man, 2) the Eagle, 3)
the Lion and 4) the Bull. Now look at a star map or, better still, gaze at the heavens on
a dark night and you will see that a line from Leo the Lion to Equilius the Eagle
passes through the Pole Star, the still centre of the rotating night sky. Now see that a
line from Taurus the Bull passes through the Pole Star to Hercules the Man. The idea
is that God promised stability on Earth by maintaining the position and posture of
Earth in relation to the Heavens. This is the meaning of the Cross of St George,
brought from the Holy Land by Joseph of Arimathea.
Many other nations and cities have adopted St George as their patron saint and have
likewise borne aloft his flag. Yet of only one nation is he the uniquely appropriate
patron saint and of only one nation is the Cross of St George the uniquely appropriate
symbol: England.
__________
Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett are the authors of Arthur & the Charters of the
Kings, The King Arthur Conspiracy and The Trojan War of 650 BC
by Alan Wilson & Baram Blackett
Christianity arrived in Khumry-Wales in AD 37, in "the last year of Tiberius". This is
attested by the official historians of the Church of Rome, Cardinal Baronius, the
Vatican Librarian, writing around AD 1530, and Cardinal Alford (Griffiths) – as well
as by the British monks Gildas (Aneurin y Coed Aur), who lived AD 540-600, and
Nennius, who wrote circa AD 800.
Later writers had to be very careful as Christianity officially arrived in Eastern
England in AD 597, with Austin-Augustine of Canterbury, who converted the
immigrant Saxons and Angles. Yet Austin met with seven British bishops in AD 600
at Aust in the west of Britain, on the Severn estuary. Pelagius, a British monk, had
denied the doctrine of original sin as developed by Augustine of Hippo, arguing
instead for free will. This was in the early AD 400s. Before that, three named British
bishops had attended the Council of Sardonica in AD 347 and three more the Council
of Arles in AD 314. The Roman Empress Helena was, we believe, a Christian and a
British Princess [see More 2]. Earlier still, King Lierwg (known to the Romans as
Lucius or Luke) had corresponded with Eleutherius, Bishop of Rome, around AD
178-180, as Christian to Christian. All this is in the official Church records. There is
also a record of there being archbishops in London from the second century AD [see
More 1]. So Austin did not bring Christianity to Britain, though he did bring Roman
Catholicism.
When the English later became dominant on the island of Great Britain, and even
after they had set up the breakaway Church of England, it was still unwelcome to
suggest that Christianity was in the west of Britain before the east and that it was in
Britain before Rome. So many Khumric texts were doctored to avoid trouble.
The story was retold, for example, in such a way as to have Eurgain the daughter of
King Caradoc I bring back Joseph of Arimathea to Britain from Rome around AD 58.
In fact, Joseph had arrived in Britain twenty years earlier and he never was in Rome.
As is made clear by Jowett, the nineteenth century religious historian, and others
Christianity went from Britain to Rome, carried by the family of King Caradoc from
South Wales.
The Romans invaded Britain in AD 43. They gained a hold on the south of the island
of Great Britain but had difficulties on their western flank. This was because of the
Essyllwg - miscalled 'Siluria' - which was certainly South Wales. The Silurians were
so dangerous that Roman generals were told not to engage with them. The nephew of
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King Caradoc I, Ceri Longsword, King of Essyllwg, succeeded his uncle as Battle
Sovereign. He built fleets and denied the Romans access to western Britain and
successfully kept them out of Wales until AD 74, when there was a battle which both
sides claimed as a victory.
The Romans attempted an accomodation with the British kings in the west but after an
apparent massacre of the women and children at the Vale of the Martyrs (where they
had been placed away from the battle field), claimed by the Romans as a victory, the
mighty King Baram (Bonassus), son of Ceri, drove the Romans clean out of Britain.
This was in AD 80. As Tacitus puts it, "Bonasus usurped the empire in Britain". Note
that there were no Roman governors or officials in Britain from AD 80-125. The
enraged Emperor Domitian had the expelled Roman governor of south-east Britain,
Salustus, executed.
Returning to Joseph of Arimathea, he had journeyed up the river Rhone, along the
River Loire and across to West Britain from Bordeaux. He did not come across the
Channel. Joseph, who was not in our view a tin trader as is often said, arrived in South
East Wales in AD 37 and began to establish there Apostolic Christianity. He was the
first Christian missionary anywhere. The famous Llywel Stone, now in the British
Museum in London, shows scenes of the Christian arrival from the Eastern
Mediterranean. Joseph became known in Britain as St Ilid. Church sites dedicated to
St Ilid are still extant in Glamorgan and Brecon. His first site was Llanilid at
Tonyrefail
King Caradoc I led the British resistance to the Romans, from AD 43 -51. He was
betrayed and the Romans took him with his family to Rome. With Caradoc and his ilk
went Christianity, as given them by Joseph of Arimathea. Linus, a son of King
Caradoc I, became the first Bishop of Rome in AD 58. St Paul was not in Rome until
around AD 66 and St Peter never went there.
In Rome Gladys, sister of Caradoc, changed her name to Claudia and married a
Roman, Aulus Plautius. Eurgain, the daughter of King Caradoc I, also married a
Roman, Rufus Pudens. Claudia was later put on trial for being a pagan as she was a
Christian and declined to worship Jupiter, Mars and the rest of the Roman pantheon.
She was ultimately acquitted.
King Bran was an infant in Rome and a great-grandson of King Caradoc I. Bran grew
up and had a son King Caradoc II. This has caused confusion amongst some
researchers, who fail to see that there were two King Caradocs. The first was the son
of Arch, the second of Bran. The latter became a famous Christian and was known as
Bran the Blessed.
Referring again to events in Britain, Joseph had moved into modern-day England after
being granted lands there by King Arviragus. This king was a ferocious enemy of the
invaders and the idea of a Roman ‘conquest’ of Britain in this period is laughable. The
first century Roman poet Juvenal wrote to the effect that if the Roman Emperor were
lucky Arviragus would fall from his British chariot-pole and die.
The king in the east of Britain had been Cynfelyn – known as Cunobelinus to the
Romans and called Cymbelline by Shakespeare. When Cynfelyn died he was
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succeeded by Gweirydd, a name Latinised to Guiderius in the chronicles. During the
Claudian invasion, Gweirydd was cut down treacherously. His younger brother
Arviragus assumed the mantle of kingship in Gweirydd’s stead, taking the battle to
the Romans and slaying the traitor.
The granting of land was a king’s prerogative or needed the king’s permission, so
Arviragus must presumably have been king already when he granted land for Joseph
to found a Christian community that some have described as a university. This would
put it about AD 45 or after. Where was this community sited? The answer was that it
was near Atherston in Warwickshire at a place called Glastinbri. Glastons in Breton
and Cornish means ‘place of oak trees’, while in the related Khumric-Welsh tongue
Glastenau means ‘the scarlet oak’. So the area was one of oak trees. There are plenty
of meetings under oaks and stones under oaks in the Old Testament.
There was a later ridiculous confusion between the true Glastinbri in Warwickshire
and Glastonbury in Somerset, but the Christian community at the latter site was not
even founded until AD 941. Research places Joseph's foundation very firmly at
Oldbury, south-east of Atherston. This is where there is the great ancient graveyard
where multitudes of the illustrious British are buried.
Caradoc of Llancarfan and Matthew of Westminster gave directions on how to get to
‘Glastonbury’ and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle cites a Glastenic holy place in the
seventh century. All that is necessary to locate Joseph’s community is to take the
dozen available directions and follow them faithfully. They take you unerringly to
Old Bury – 'old burial place' – at Oldbury in East Atherston. The name Atherston can
itself be translated readily enough and conveys an intriguing piece of information
relating to a later era: Arthur's Grave Mound (Twyn).
The great road cited in the historical directions is Watling Street. This runs from
London to Wroxeter-Viroconium, the former capital city – and this great ancient (preRoman) road runs straight through Atherston. Then the great scraped-out ditch cited is
very clearly Offa’s Dyke. Great woods are mentioned called the Ardennes. These can
be traced via a dozen Arden names - Henley in Arden and so on. These woods
stretched around the areas south of what is now Birmingham and Coventry. Carry on
with the designations and you get to Glastonbury at Old Bury in the Midlands.
St Collen of Llangollen was a regular visitor to ‘Glastonbury’ and Llangollen is a
short distance west of Oldbury-Atherston. St David, when at Llanthony Abbey in
Northern Gwent, was also a regular visitor. These people could not possibly have
gone south-east to the Gloucester area and then west to the Somerset Glastonbury.
There is no great ancient graveyard there, where the great figures of Britain were
buried – and according to the old directions there has to be. There are, though, many
huge ancient grave mounds in the vast cemetery at Oldbury, Atherston.
All the place names around Atherston and Oldbury are clearly unmistakeable ancient
Khumric Welsh. They translate well enough: “free grazing for sheep”, “granted free
without taxation”, “ploughland of the Court”, etc. This is all quite correct Welsh in
what is now central England.
A degree of accomodation was reached between the Roman invaders and the eastern
realm, with Arviragus marrying a ‘daughter’ of the Emperor Claudius. Claudius
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founded the city of Gloucester in AD 48 on the eastern bank of the Severn River,
which was the boundary between Khumry (Wales) and Lloegres (England). The body
of Arviragus’s heroic brother Gweirydd was moved there and doubtless prayed over.
Another name for Gweirydd is George. We believe in fact that this is the true St
George. Arviragus it was who granted land to Joseph of Arimathea, but we think he
was carrying out his brother’s wishes. It was for offering sanctuary to the Holy
Family that George’s fame was to run far and wide, until that fame was snuffed out.
The later Roman Catholics found it troubling that Christianity came first to Britain,
before Rome, so a false narrative was developed for St George. This story relates to a
Roman soldier in the early AD 300s who defied an imperial edict to sacrifice to the
pagan gods – a defiance allegedly uttered to the Emperor Diocletian himself. This
George had a father who came from Cappadocia, in modern-day Turkey. This
geographical information led in turn to a confusion with a disreputable later George of
Cappadocia. In short, the feeble Christian backstory on George was a smokescreen,
meant to occlude the British origin of Christianity.
We believe that Joseph of Arimathea gave Arviragus the Flag of St George, as a
gesture of gratitude for the gift of land, sanctuary, respect and friendship. An example
of the use of the Cross of St George is on the official coat of arms of the City of
London. (There is a sword in the upper left quarter, incidentally. That sword was the
one taken by the defending Britons from Julius Caesar during his abortive invasion of
Britain in 55 BC; it is not, as is said, the sword that beheaded St Paul – a ridiculous
notion in the context of Roman execution methods – nor is it a dagger used in the
Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.)
The official Church story of St George offers no rationale for the existence of the
Cross of St George in England.
The flag’s symbolism can be unpacked as follows. If you take the four Gospels of
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, they are represented by 1) the Man, 2) the Eagle, 3)
the Lion and 4) the Bull. Now look at a star map or, better still, gaze at the heavens on
a dark night and you will see that a line from Leo the Lion to Equilius the Eagle
passes through the Pole Star, the still centre of the rotating night sky. Now see that a
line from Taurus the Bull passes through the Pole Star to Hercules the Man. The idea
is that God promised stability on Earth by maintaining the position and posture of
Earth in relation to the Heavens. This is the meaning of the Cross of St George,
brought from the Holy Land by Joseph of Arimathea.
Many other nations and cities have adopted St George as their patron saint and have
likewise borne aloft his flag. Yet of only one nation is he the uniquely appropriate
patron saint and of only one nation is the Cross of St George the uniquely appropriate
symbol: England.
__________
Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett are the authors of Arthur & the Charters of the
Kings, The King Arthur Conspiracy and The Trojan War of 650 BC
