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Angel Walk 
“RUPERT: …(I)nsofar as we see angels as organisedholarchically, perhaps we can see them as associated withangel fields. Angels themselves could be thought of as a particular manifestation of the activity of these fields, justas photons are a particulate way of thinking about theactivity, the energy, carried in electromagnetic fields.MATTHEW: Somehow we’re talking about photon andfield coming together in the light. Angel light.RUPERT: And their traditional role is as interconnectors,as messengers…”(p.41,
The Physics of Angels
, Matthew Fox & RupertSheldrake, San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1996)We skirt around St Michael and All Angels on MountDinham – the place is such an obvious vantage point – justlike the sites of Danes Castle, Rougement Castle and theLaw Courts, yet no one seems to know much about previous uses of this site – it was called ‘California’ at onetime, and prior to the church being built it was ‘Turner’sField’, used to dry cloth over racks. Field. It was purchased by John Dinham to prevent a fun fair getting hold of theland, with, at least in Dinham’s mind, the potential for thesite becoming an operating pitch for prostitutes. Acontested field. Commandeered by someone whounderstood the pull, the curving of ideological and sensual
 
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space that could happen in this field. Not by a Puritan, but by a patron of an alternative sensuality. The church was built as an “idealistic propaganda tool” according to guideRichard Parker, who leads an Exeter Open Day tour, for Tractarianism and Anglo-Catholicism, for visuality againstPuritanism. For stone symbol against the ‘word alone’.On our way we’d dodged the trafficto climb onto the base of the Clock Tower and there was a tiny whiteangel – a brilliant white, delicateangel-shaped miniature moth. Notes: “electricity and god areindistinguishable” – this seems to bea quote from someone, one of us? – it sounds unintendedly Futurist…Matthew and Vicky had been drifting and went in CreditonChurch – on the Michael Line, the former centre for localecclesiastical power before its usurpation by Exeter’sgrowing economy – lately I’ve read the move was for defensive rather than economic reasons, hmm - (the Bishopof Crediton lives in a green mossy world off the CathderalClose in Exeter) - in the church they found a memorial toRedvers Buller, complete with four archangels and adedication to Godfrey de Bouillon, Crusader conqueror of Jerusalem in 1099... Notes: “awareness, among the elite, of esoteric currents”
 
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“The figure to the right of the cross bounded by wheat – Godfrey of Bouillon.”
 Notes: “An astral plane: Tony the Tiger, Michelin man,Ronald MacDonald… interacting...”… and initiator of such architectural events as therebuilding of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and theconstruction of the dome over the Rotunda – inspiration for the round churches of the Templars – the Temple inLondon, just down the river from Somerset House. Whatwas Buller’s interest in this soldier conqueror of mythicspace? Of pseudo-origins? In de Bouillon, the imaginaryfounder of a secret society
within
 the Templars, theconspiracy within the conspiracy, the “Prieuré de Sion”, atthe heart of ‘
The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail
mythos?“Designed by W. D. Caroe, 1911.” Who is he?
Godfrey of Bouillon, one of the knights leading theCrusade, is as noble as his counterpart Ibn Khaldun,who believes that Christians, Jews and Muslims arefundamentally the same, and hopes that peace maybe forged between the disparate religions.” 
(From an unfilmed treatment of
Crusade
, intended for Arnold Schwarzenegger. p112,
Tales From DevelopmentHell
, David Hughes, London: Titan Books, 2003.)“water wings” - on a dropped or discarded shopping list

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