Glastonbury abbey:" The New Jerusalem".

[paradoxAA9]

Another excellent piece form you mikesey - and all accompanied by one of my favourite contemporary composers. Have you seen the new Avalon grid website by the way? Your other videos would be very well received there I'm sure. Many thanks for posting.

[jfc3phd]

Thank you that was beautiful !

[tippytee909]

Thank you Mikesy for the beautiful video. I will go there one day, soon I hope. Question: When was this film taken? I can see the trees are bare. But what month? Maybe my question should be "When is the best time to visit the Abbey and enjoy the peace and tranquility all the photos seem to exude?" Thanks again....Noble

[mikesey1]

@tippytee909

If I remember right, this video was shot over a period of three weeks in early Spring, March I think. I'll have to look at the raw files to ascertain its shooting period. For peace & tranquility, Summer is to be avoid as there are numerous school parties arriving, groups of tourists with guides, and reanactors walking about; a lot of people do not like this, and accuse the abbey authorities of turning the ruins into a "theme park". Winter or late Autumn best for quiet.

[tippytee909]

@mikesey1 Thank you so much for your reply.Late Autumn it shall be. Beautiful footage of Glastonbury. And the Requiem was wonderful. Alot of work you did putting this all together and posting for it for all to see. I'm a big fan of Glastonbury and it's history. I have read many books on the topic of it's history. Very intriguing. Thanks again. Noble

[mikesey1]

@skeatesy1

Okay!

[drigin1234]

Magnificently filmed. I only wish one day I can visit this holy Place and walk up the Tor.

[0001kd]

really great

[Tierheiler]

What a beautiful video, well done indeed. You're almost able to catch the mystery of the place. Thank you for that.

[mikesey1]

@Tierheiler

Thanks, I tried over some weeks to, get this right, without altogether succeeding!

A new King Arthur monument may soon be appearing in the abbey, replacing the pole and notice already shown in the video.

Mike.

[57weber]

It's great!

I have been there...

[pogmotho1n]

Was Mary Magdalene just a freemasonic femme fatale after Jesus's DNA?

[jusbarryman]

Good morniing Mike,once againthanks for the vid

[jusbarryman]

Excellent Mike,simply wonderful.

[lindagram1]

Beautiful! Readers might enjoy Glastonbury by Donna Fletcher Crow - Christian History of the cathedral. Quite of tome- 800+ pages of good reading

[gus1651]

Perfect this is how a video should be. The first video on the search list for Glastonbury was just a series of stills. In contrast you have used your video camera lovingly and without hurry. Thank you.

[mikesey1]

Thanks. It took over three weeks to make this video, constantly shooting, deleting and shooting again. I needed to make sure that there were no distractions and noise was a problem resolved by adding a soundtrack and not using the camcorder's own track. At one point there was a bell-ringing practise in a nearby church, which I thought could be used, but there was too much noise from the High-street.

There are still skewed shots, but I tried to make this good, in celebration of a great place.

[M3UEX]

verry nice video

[SteveOSpielberg]

Thank you Mike for sharing this link many a I time I came here and many times will I return

[mikesey1]

Hi, Steve.

I took this one off my Facebook wall due to lack of comments, and deciding that it was not the right place to put it. I'm glad it is appreciated here anyway, and the viewcount shows that. Sad people will never agree that anything that they cannot prove is true: very shortsighted IMHO., and a symptom of our cynical society right now.

Mike.

[RoseThistleArtworks]

Saxons = Isaac's sons-saac'ssons

[ambrosiustranquillus]

Urgh, people that know nothing about linguistics shouldn't make stuff up like this. The name of the Saxons comes from the sax - a type of sword.

[mikesey1]

I always thought that the (now German) province called "Saxony" played a part in the naming of its inhabitants?

Really, all the invaders of that time, ie: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, were all referred to as "Saxons" by the Celts.

[ambrosiustranquillus]

Saxony is named after the people that inhabited it (like France is named after the Franks, and Scotland after the Scots). Some ethnic groups are called after their land (like the Icelanders or Faroese) but most lands are named after the ethnic group that lives in them, or invaded them.

[jusbarryman]

@mikesey1 I was taught that the word saxon came from the term Issac's sons referring to the son of Abraham,and that the word jutes derived from the word judah

[mikesey1]

@jusbarryman

Well, it's probably that the Saxons came from Saxony, and the Jutes from Jutland, but these are possibly misconceptions.

[Curt1233brit]

@ambrosiustranquillus no it dosnt the saxons where a name of people just like the french back the where called the franks

[ambrosiustranquillus]

@Curt1233brit

The people got their name from the sword. All nations names originally meant something in particular, they weren't just meaningless names like we think of now. Cymru (Welsh for Wales) for instance means "Compatriots", and "Welsh" in English originally meant "Foreign", Saxons meant the people named after the saex, the Franks themselves are most likely named after a type of javelin they favored that the Romans called francisca.

[ambrosiustranquillus]

@Curt1233brit

Also, back then the people we call "French" now were not Franks. Franks back then spoke a Germanic language, and the people that spoke what became the French language we know today were actually their bitter enemies and spoke vulgar Latin, they considered themselves Gaulish Romans. They only started calling themselves French after the Franks invaded their country and didn't give them any choice. There are still Franks that are not French, and French that call themselves Gauls.

[Curt1233brit]

@ambrosiustranquillus yes but back then borders didnt exist so the are many diffrent cultures like the franks and tha gauls in the same area

[ambrosiustranquillus]

@Curt1233brit

I think you're missing the original context since YouTube took out the reference to what my initial post was replying to. Someone claimed "Saxon" came from "Isaac's Sons" when in fact it is known to not. That's all it was about.

[kimdana1234]

This abbey was constructed by the blueprints of Ezekiel's prophetic temple dimensions?

[barrytrussell09]

I've seen you and your vids before sir,I'm not sure you would remember.I was told that King Aurthor was a desendent of St.Joseph,just a point of interest

[mikesey1]

Yep, the ancestry of Arthur, via Joseph is often mentioned.

The site of Arthur's last resting place will be adorned with a more fitting memorial during 2010. A liitle better than just the plaque and a rectangle marked out on the ground.

Thanks for commenting, Barry.

[barrytrussell09]

Did I mention what an awsome vid,i don't think i did.

[barrytrussell09]

I believe this legend just as I believe the bible and the legend of Beowulf,they all tie in together.They all tell the story of the nephilim aen't there many legends of giants based in briton

[mikesey1]

A legend of Arthur doing battle with a giant or giants at nearby Brent Knoll , near the Bristol Channel, exists. There are many others.

Brent Knoll is an Iron-age hill fort, and can be seen clearly from Glastonbury Tor, It, and the Welsh coastline can be seen in the "Spectre on the Tor" video

[enigmatik3n1]

Such a beautiful and holy place, the Spirit still rests there, as do the many Saints that lie buried in its hallowed ground. Such a terrible pity that thugs destroyed it.....but not it's Spirit.

[rakovsky]

It is pretty random.

[rakovsky]

Music by the West Kazakhstan Orchestra?

Where did that come from???

[mikesey1]

Hmm, Kazakhstan probably!

A former state of the old Soviet Union, I think.

I spelt it wrong on the credits, you notice!

[se7enforallmankind]

What is the story is behind Joseph's well- Why is it there? Also, do you know the name of the church where the old manuscripts were nearly destroyed by fire?

[mikesey1]

Hi there. The Well was here when the present stone abbey buildings you see in the video were built. Some attribute early paganism to the well. The St. Mary chapel's walls were enlarged, when building it in AD 1184-6 to accommodate the well which must have been outside the previous old church, built allegedly by St. Joseph of Arimathea. Presumably the manuscripts were in the abbey library, right here. Many were written in the abbey scriptorium.

The Tor is natural, but shaped by men.

[se7enforallmankind]

Thank you for the awesome video! For some reason, I got very emotional watching this-can't explain it- and felt like I wanted so badly to go to Glastonbury-to LIVE there!. I am in complete AWE! Exactly who built the "tor"?

[mikesey1]

This place inspires this feeling, and I understand yours.

Many people want to live here; some are disappointed especially if too much "Baggage" has been brought with them. The place has "warts" too, with some drunken behaviour and drug addiction seen, common to many places in the UK and the World.

However, these problems are probably much less than in other places.

People come here to be "Healed" and many are.

To me, it's the very greatest of towns, seeped in mystery and legend.

[mysticmagic4760]

Great video! Beautiful to look at and listen to. Well done.

[mikesey1]

Thanks, glad you like it.

[antoniotrento]

I do not understand how Henry VIIIth could destroy this great place.

[mikesey1]

He was a greedy and uncontrollable tyrant.

He ordered the destruction of most other abbeys too.

Bear in mind though, that after 400 years of this place being used as a source of stone, most of the destruction was carried-out by locals, and a good deal of the stone was used to raise the level of the road to Wells. Travel to that nearby city from Glastonbury and you're driving over stone from this abbey!

Thanks for the note.

Mike.

[waltzOP]

maybe he was muslim?

[i2smile]

Revelation 21 (King James Version)

1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.

2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

[i2smile]

Revelation 21 (King James Version)

3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

[jusbarryman]

@i2smile What a day that will be,Halaluyah(praise ye the Lord)

[imur11]

EMBODIMENTS of Divine Love!

Only when people shed their selfishness can they turn their mind towards God. The love of God will dispel the ignorance and conceit of man as the sun dispels the morning mist. The heart is the seat of love. That love must express itself, to begin with, in the home. From there, it must extend to one's village or town, to one's state, nation and ultimately to the whole world.

SAI

[mikesey1]

I shall, many thanks. Mike.

[hdiylove7]

Interesting. Check out National Sunday Law by Jan Marcussen.Very amazing truth for ou last days on earth!God bless!