The Quest At Glastonbury A Biographical Study of Frederick Bligh Bond

New York: Helix Press / Garrett Publications. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1965. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a slight torque to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some light rubbing ot the spine joints and a couple of small edge tears. "Frederick Bligh Bond (30 June 1864 – 8 March 1945) , generally known by his second given name Bligh, was an English architect, illustrator, archaeologist and psychical researcher. " "As early as 1899 Bligh Bond had expressed his belief that the dimensions of the buildings at Glastonbury Abbey were based on gematria, and in 1917 he published, with Thomas Simcox Lea, Gematria, A Preliminary Investigation of the Cabala contained in the Coptic Gnostic Books and of a similar Gematria in the Greek text of the New Testament, which incorporated his own previously published paper, The Geometric Cubit as a Basis of Proportion in the Plans of Mediaeval Buildings. In 1908 the Church of England appointed him director of excavations at Glastonbury Abbey. Before he was dismissed by Bishop Armitage Robinson in 1921, his excavations rediscovered the nature and dimensions of a number of buildings that had occupied the site. ]Bond's work at Glastonbury Abbey is one of the first documented examples of psychic archaeology. Bond with the retired navy Captain John Allan Bartlett ("John Alleyne") as a medium claimed to have contacted through automatic writing dead monks and the builder of the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury, who advised him where to excavate." .