John Goodchild

John Goodchild

John Goodchild, (1851-1914), was a physician and author of "Light of the West".

Goodchild was an antiquarian influenced by British Israelite ideas and the Golden Dawn esoteric group. He was friends with William Sharp (Fiona Macleod) who dedicated his final literary work "The Winged Destiny: Studies in the Spiritual History of the Gael" to Goodchild.

He saw Glastonbury, Iona (Scotland)and Devenish Island (Ireland) as being a triune of holy sites in the British Isles

The Blue Bowl

Whilst visiting Bordighera, Italy, Goodchild bought a 'bowl and a platter' seen in a tailor's shop. Ten years later he felt'directed' by an intense psychic experience to take the 'bowl' or 'cup' to Bride's Hill, Glastonbury a place he had never previously visited. Arriving in August 1898 he soon concealed the 'Cup' in a sluice under a thorn by the River Brue. This place was known as the Women's Quarter, Beckery and was linked to St Bride. Then, he waited for the future discovery of the cup 'bywomen' as had appeared to him in a vision. He continued to visit the site every year from 1899 until 1906, except the year 1905.

The platter is claimed to have been sent to the 'Sons of Garibaldi' which may be a reference to the Rite of Memphis-Misraim, which Giuseppe Garibaldi was grandmaster of for a while.

References

* "The Avalonians", Patrick Benham, 1993
* 'The watching of the Rose', by Alan Royce, "Avalon Magazine" No. 37, Winter 2007


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