The child Myrddin dwelt in a world between human and nature, touching both, yet aware, even in youth, that he would never be truly accepted by either realm. Myrddin's father felt the burden as well. He became troubled and haunted in dreams by his own fears. He was sorely tempted by the Dark Side in the flexing of a power that brought security to his feelings of instability. The story of Hestor of Galataine, his temptations, trials, and eventual triumph is a book unto itself. I will not, in this writing, venture into that forest. Yet it need be known that Hestor fell from Grace - not only in the sight of God, but in the eyes of his lovely Mary Grace. When she found her beloved to be a practioner of the Dark Face, he who makes the Light, and no longer following the star sent gaze of the Shining One, Mary Grace feld the Sacred Grove of the Sky Jewel Spring, talking her three year old son with her. SHe left Hestor to his wanton magic in a dark cavern near the grove, and went out i! Into the night, the child conceived of her husband's Light clutched to her breast.
Mary Grace found refuge in the Convent of Shorham - a Celtic Pagan-Christian convent on the 'Crystal Isle' of Glastonbury, near the Holy Hill of her wedding. Yet even the sacred waters of its well could not flush the tears of sorrow buried deep in her heart. Hestor was driven from Man by his brother and sisters. He went into Wales to dwell for the rest of his life. Upon his death bed in the last moments of life, the full measure of his faith was restored, and through the grace of the Shining One he returned in etheric body to the Spring of the Sky Jewel. There he found Merlin inside the dark cave where Hestor had fallen from Light. Myrddin and his father stood together for the first time since Mary Grace took her babe from the Grove on that terrible eve. Hestor's etheric body was as strong as his power, Dark or Light, had always been. The two men embraced, and Hestor pressed into his son's hand the amethyst key. The older Galataine was then consumed in Light and, as a tide slipping from a sunlit shore, he departed his son and this life, emancipated from darkness forever.
With the Amethyst Key, Myrddin opened the book of Worlds, each page inscribed by the Racial Mind, entwining the Ages of Man with the Ageless Realm of Nature and Spirit. The Amethyst Key was a divining rod the form of a key. It had been crafted of Sacred Fire in Atlantis by the Masters of the Blue Star (Rigel). It in itself, like any tool of divining, was merely a potent source of focus for the power within the controlling entity. Thus, from his father, Merlin received the path to his own power; as we all must come upon the path made for us by our preceding generation. In overcoming Darkness, Light takes its strength. SO the old cavern of Hestor's fall from grace was transformed by his son into a palace of crystal quartz. In this sanctuary fasted from the sun's dance, the crystal walls were lit from the flame of Myrddin's spirit, burning deeply into the tallow of his own soul. During 28 years of his exceptionally long life he he spent many hours within this cavern writing the testament given him through the Amethyst Key. He entitled it The Books of the Grove (later known as The Grove Books of Merlin).
Because I must of necessity gather momentum at this point, we open the book on the life of Merlin many chapters hence from his receipt of the Amethyst Key, to find him fast upon his chosen work. The focus of this Work was programming for future restoration, the Earth's network of etheric ley lines, correspondent to the geophysical structure of the planet. What remained of the crystal canopy after Atlantis' destruction was fast decaying. Merlin, with memory of his life as Thoth of Raismes (Hermes) worked to set into the ethers certain keys or signals for future re-alignment of the Earth's etheric and physical axis (and accompanying ley line balances). He selected from among the pagan initiates of the Age, those whose service was destined to be twined with his. These he sent into school for preliminary instruction, if they were not already knowledgeable. They were then brought back to him for attunment to the Inner Mysteries.
As Grand Illuminari, Myrddin brought to each of his following the SIght that had been passed to him through the blood of Galataine. In fact, it was this very elixir in his veins, a product of three sacred paths converging (the Christic, Orion, and Faery), that quickened his living form to become the Grail for the knowledge that followed through him. This 'gift' was a portal brought into focus through his genetic vine which found root in the Racial Mind of the Three Paths. It was need for continuity of these streamings that brought Merlin to the next threshold - that of engendering his strain into the new and tender matrix which was being formed like early frost upon a budding tree. This new pattern, coming from the hierarchy blueprint, was the bridging together of the Celtic-Duridic paganism (the knowledge and practices of the Goddess or divine nature of earth and woman/man) and Judeo-Christian doctrine (the Divine Father/Son, accepted through the descending of the Holy Spirit! into mankind).
Within the genetics of Myrddin of Galataine the crucible for this merging was contained. In the substance of life carried from one generation to another, we find the pure energy of manifestation. Each family unit spins its own patterning of this energy, which all together creates a synergy of the Racial Mind - that which explores, expands, separates and unites the many directions of spiritual experiences through the cultures and races of humanity. Thus Merlin, Master of the Mound (also known as 'Master of the Stone'), sought divine guidance in choosing the vessels that would carry his need to fruition for the fulfilment of the new world matrix.
Three quite different women, over a span of 11 years, gave to Merlin one daughter and three sons. It need be understood that these females were all initiates of the Goddess (although the last one embraced the Dark Goddess). They were knowledgeable and willing participants in the act of genetic engineering, planned through divine guidance. Except for his true love, Maria Merlin knew intimately each of these women only for the purpose of conceiving, and was otherwise celibate throughout his life. They therefore were not his wives or lovers, but co-workers in spirit. Other than for those brief selected times with him resulting in conception, they led their own lives, and for one, a marriage and other children. Those of the entire entourage of Merlin were either from the House of Galataine, by blood or marriage, or, as in the case of one of these three women mentioned here, as mother of Merlin's child (Rue, of the 'dark side'); or initiates from outside the Galataine Clan, yet accepted as kindred spirits into the Circle. This 'circle' became an Order known as The Eye of the Fawn. The Order did not live communally. They came together for special ceremony, initiation, schooling, and preordained Light work. Between-times, they dispersed into villages and twos throughout Great Britain, as well as some into France.
The woman to mother Merlin's first child, in fact was not a part of human reality. She was a Faery, seventh daughter of the Faery Queen of Avalon. Avalon was a dimensional Faery state with its window or touching point through the etheric grid being most prominent at Glastonbury. The Convent of Shorham, where young girls were taught the psalms of the Goddess and the heart of the Christ, was a point between the two lands, visible in both worlds. It was at SHorham that Myrddin first saw Maria (pronounced Mah`-ri-ah). He was opened to her beauty and suffered the sweet agonise of flesh laid bare to a roses' thorn. The young Merlin, but 29 years of age, four years into his full ministry, was stricken as all mortals, even half mortals are, with the enchantment of a Faery Princess.
While genetic engineering was certainly at work here, the Goddess of Nature and the God of Man were mindful of the youth whom they held in their service, and smiled upon him. For in the experience of loving a woman, so Myrddin became human to the effort of love's first moments as it stretches its untried wings into the sky. Through loving Maria, he was to receive what every great teacher must have - the ability to be human, to identify with the alternate sufferings and joys of his students. Thus was given to Merlin in spiritual ceremony, maria, Daughter of the Lily. Maria brought into the light of Avalon two of Merlin's children. Myrddin spent three years in Avalon with his beloved three human years, as time is set by a different clock in that realm. When he returned, he brought his daughter and son with him. This was as had been ordained, and was understood by both Myrddin and Maria before the children had been born. They would return to Avalon many times, yet for the most part they dwelt in the human world. The daughter was named Mercedes Adorah, the son, Heathgloren.
Mercedes Adorah would become a Mistress of the Mound, carrying on her father's work. While unknown to history, she worked closely with powerful agents of LIght in that Age, who held open the last gates to cosmic union. Heathgloren would marry into a Christian family, who eventually sired a King of France. It is from Heathgloren that the Merovinigians received their direct lineage to John Martinus through both the Galataines and the Awermehins (Mary Grace). Merlin's second son was born to him by Aminea, a mortal, who had wandered a great distance from a Northern Isle, having been cast out by her tribe. They were remnants on an ancient band of nomades who had been upon the British Isles before the advent of the Celtic culture. Aminea's son was Habarth. Like Mercedes, he would take up the mantle of his father, even to the fate of being sealed within a cavern. Yet Habarth's life was essentially in turmoil, as he was unable to come to terms with his own personality, separating it from the Greater Self, and the service of that Higher Order.