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Temple of the Stars by Brinsley Le Poer Trench Was the actual discoverer of the Somerset zodiac, which for some reason, he knew existed. In about 1580, the famous scholar and magician, Dr. Dee, discovered what he believed to be Merlin’s secret in the Glastonbury plains. According to his recent biographer, Richard Deacon, he became interested in the “unusual arrangement of the prehistoric earthworks in the Glastonbury area and had diagnosed that these objects when carefully mapped represented the signs of the Zodiac and the stars.” (p. 10) Comment It is obviously not by chance that Dee suddenly makes such a discovery. He must have had books containing information of the prediluvian epoch. Dee possessed most of the books that were said to have burned in the dissolution of the Catholic monasteries, under Henry VIII (Tudor). These books were kept at his house at Mortlake, on the Thames River. There is reason to consider that a tremendous seismic upheaval occurred on the Earth’s surface at approximately 25,000 B.C. There is strong evidence that there was another around 1,300 B.C. And finally, the island of Poseid...was submerged about 9,500 B.C. However, the British Isles still exist. (p. 20) The British Isles were suggestively named the Fortunate Lands or the Isles of the Blest, by the ancients. Is this because they survived when Atlantis sank? Luna Originally, the third planet from the Sun, she had two moons of her own. Known as Diana to the ancients. Earth sometimes came close, in orbit, to Luna, which caused upheavals, and change of magne- tism. At one point, the magnetism of Earth captured one of Luna’s moons and it crashed into the Earth around 13,000 years ago. The other moon exploded leaving Luna as the sole satellite of the Earth. (See p. 31) Could these violent paroxysms give rise to the myths stating that the Moon is connected with evil, with driving people mad? The Columbian Indians say that a great catastrophe befell the Earth, before the Moon shone in the sky. (See p. 33.) Was one of the first to suggest that Arthur’s Round Table was a representation of the celestial zodiac (see p. 36) 191 Appendix B: Book Abstracts Sir John Dee Seismic Upheaval Our Moon is relatively too big compared with the satellites of other planets. (p. 33) Catherine Maltwood Arthur Pendragon Born of Uther Pendragon, Head of the Dragons. Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation