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= REVIEWS THE MARIAN CONSPIRACY by Graham Phillips CD-ROM Pan Books, UK, 2001 (first published by j Sidgwick & Jackson, UK, 2000) Reviewed by Duncan Roads ISBN 0-330-37202-5 (353pp pb) THE MARALINGA FILES Price: A$20.00; NZ$32.95; £6.99 by Paul Langley Distributors: Australia/NZ/UK— Pan Australian Atomic Ex-Servicemens Macmillan, www.panmacmillan.com Association, South Australia, 2001 uring a visit to the Vatican on the invita- Price: A$12.00 inc. p&h in Australia tion of one Father Rinsonelli, a senior Distributor: Australia—Paul Langley, archivist in the Vatican Library, author AAEA, PO Box 539, Noarlunga Centre, SA Graham Phillips (Act of God and The Search 5168 for the Grail) was shown a room containing he shameful involvement of Australia in the rather disorganised "Secret Archives" of the UK's nuclear tests at Maralinga is Vatican affairs through the centuries. He still being unravelled. This CD-ROM is an was asked by the archivist if he'd considered excellent collection of documentation and a link between the Holy Grail and the Holy —_ accounts of just some of what went on dur- Mother, the Virgin Mary. Very little was. ing the British nuclear bombing of Australia. written about Mary, the Mother of Jesus, in the New Testament, about what had hap- pened to her after the Crucifixion or where she'd lived her final years. The priest M U RY ! Cc showed him a document about the appear- Reviewed by Richard Giles ance before the Inquisition of Giovanni Benedetti, an archaeologist with the Vatican REALM OF THE RING LORDS Museum, who dismissed the idea that Mary's by Adrian Wagner tomb was in Jerusalem but suggested aloca- / MediaQuest, UK, 2001 (57mins) tion in a distant land. Phillips was intrigued, Price: A$33.00; NZ$45.00; £12.95; so decided to find out more. NLGfn/a; US$17.00 It had been a Church "tradition" dating Distributors: Aust/NZ/UK/Europe— back to AD 380 that Mary had ascended bod- NEXUS offices; UK—MediaQuest ily into Heaven, and the Inquisition consid- _|nternational Ltd, tel +44 (0)1239 710594, ered the tomb idea to be a Dark Ages myth. —_ email enquiries@®mediaquest.co.uk, web- But it wasn't till 1950 that the Assumption site www.mediaquest.co.uk/awagner; was declared dogma by Pope Pius XII, so USA—MediaQuest International, website discussion of Mary's tomb is in effect hereti- http://mediaquestusa.com/index.html cal—for if Mary ascended into Heaven, how he third book by Laurence Gardner, could she have been buried in atomb? Realm of the Ring Lords, was released in Phillips's well-researched investigation in 2900) (see NEXUS Reviews, 8/01) and dealt The Marian Conspiracy weaves its way from with the Elven bloodline and its centuries of the Holy Land, to Ephesus in Asia Minor and persecution by the Roman Church. The on to Britain. It posits that the legends of the Ring and Grail cultures were preserved, but Grail and Avalon relate to Mary and her only because they went "underground". secret burial place in the British Isles on the Adrian Wagner, in his third CD of music island of Anglesey. An enthralling history based on the Grail legends, captures the with supporting b&w photos of sacred sites. story of the Elven kings, pixies and faeries ri 1 1k and the mythology that we know so well (HAHAM PI Ml | IPS from our childhood fairytales. He recreates the sound of Celtic dance, faerie processions and kingly marches and dances. He inter- prets the legends and tales of our culture, including Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood and even Count Dracula. In his own inimitable style, Adrian weaves into his music the real story made aural, dan- gling before us clues and musical triggers (note especially track 4, "Tomb of the Ring Lords"). He opens a collective memory link to evoke imagery of a long-distant past and the heritage of the Ring Lords and their faerie companions. This is a journey through the old dark lands, past the excesses of the mediaeval Church and into the light of a new understanding of the Ring Lords. CD-ROM Reviewed by Duncan Roads THE MARALINGA FILES by Paul Langley Australian Atomic Ex-Servicemens Association, South Australia, 2001 Price: A$12.00 inc. p&h in Australia Distributor: Australia—Paul Langley, AAEA, PO Box 539, Noarlunga Centre, SA 5168 he shameful involvement of Australia in the UK's nuclear tests at Maralinga is still being unravelled. This CD-ROM is an excellent collection of documentation and accounts of just some of what went on dur- ing the British nuclear bombing of Australia. MUSIC Reviewed by Richard Giles 80 * NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2001