A Glastonbury prophecy
Congratulations to Charles Coulombe on his fine article on Glastonbury, and especially for his update on recent developments such as the new Benedictine community. My first book, King Arthur’s Avalon, concluded with a quote from Austin Ringwode, the last surviving monk of Glastonbury Abbey: “The Abbey will one day be restored and rebuilt for the like worship which has ceased, and peace and plenty will for a long time abound.” I believe that the new community is beginning to fulfil this prophecy. I am glad Mr Coulombe included a few words about the neo-mystics, who have caused confusion over the years. But I must make a humble protest at being included among them myself. I never was. My Avalonian writings have been before the public for a long time. The original inspiration came from a passage in the works of GK Chesterton, a very great Catholic. I was, and remain, within the fold. Geoffrey Ashe Glastonbury Charles Coulombe writes: My deepest thanks to Dr Ashe for his kind words, and for his correcting my misapprehension about his religion. I have admired his work since I was a teenager, and am overjoyed to find out that he too is Catholic. I fervently hope that he is correct about the return of the Benedictines to Glastonbury being the beginning of his cited prophecy’s fulfilment. Despite the doom and gloom about us, Jerusalem may yet be built “in England’s green and pleasant land”. May the Glastonbury Thorn always bloom!
