John Dunn

Words to accompany the videoed walk around the ruined tower of Temple Bruer

Thursday, 4 January 2024 at 20:34

I’m gradually building the commentary to my next YouTube video production, which is based upon a motorcycle excursion to the Preceptory of the Knights Templar, known as Temple Bruer, in Lincolnshire. (The work in progress is included on the home page to keep things fresh for Google search ranking.)

Words to accompany the videoed walk around the ruined tower of Temple Bruer

There are many examples of graffiti. Some of them are recent. Many were made in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and there are some with 17th century dates. Temple Bruer has been a visitor attaction for many years.

There’s also a considerable number of masons' marks. Masons' marks were used to identify the work of individual masons, when they were paid by piecework rather than by day rates. The marks were straight-line designs scratched on the surface of the stone.

This ground floor chamber probably served as a side chapel or chapter house.

This rubble scar on the east wall is where an altar was once located.

The remains of seats for priests can be seen below the blind arcading - that series of arches and column remains along the south and west walls.

The stone grave cover in the form of a knight was excavated outside in the farmyard.

The function of the first floor is uncertain. It was possibly a private devotional space or simply a store room, who knows.

The staircase continued to a third floor, again no-one knows what purpose this served.

The roof dates from the early 20th century, when the tower was saved from further decay and made watertight.

© John Dunn.

Thus spake Love

Monday, 1 January 2024 at 15:35

Thus spake Love

Eros went down the mountain alone.
An awakened one is Eros: what will you do in the land of the sleepers?
Could it be possible! They have not yet heard of it, that God is dead!
Teach them Eros! Tell them where you’ve been.

Hear me, you deluded innocent fools of Beulah.

I climbed the heights to look down upon the Synagogue of Satan. You think you see the Creator, but you are mistaken. What you see instead is Urizen, the demiurge, a self-deluded and anxious shaper of pre-existent matter; and you follow his ways.

When you worship Urizen you worship Satan, the puppeteer pulling the strings of mankind, the over-bearing father, the failed architect, the ‘Accuser of the World'. You have been infected by the children of Urizen into Devil Worship.

"Man must and will have some religion; if he has not the religion of Jesus, he will have the religion of Satan, and will erect the Synagogue of Satan." (William Blake)