Culture January 2008
Celtic Trails
Ancient Lineages and Ley Lines in Scotland
by Jackie Queally
I am a tour operator by default, based in Scotland. My love of nature, indigenous cultures and landscapes led me in 1999 to set up Celtic Trails, which has gained a reputation for being more of a facilitating organization for people on a quest for ancient knowledge rather than merely a tourist enterprise. When I began my business, I was interested in Celtic matters—being as I am of completely West Coast Irish stock! I discovered there were many early sites in Scotland that held vestiges of the abodes of Celtic saints, and surprisingly few local people seemed aware of them.
Simultaneous to the process of cataloging a list of Celtic sites in Scotland that were off the beaten track, I was also becoming increasingly aware of a strange pattern of ley lines in the areas where I was traveling in the Scottish countryside. Scholar, reverend and tour director William Buehler, who is a friend of mine, has spent the last thirty-three years investigating sacred geometry and Earth grid design. He invented the term Reshel to describe this intricate pattern. His metaphysical knowledge of early Celtic and Hebrew languages is truly amazing and his term Reshel is used to describe the application of that knowledge as it applies to earth grids of what he calls “Metatronic” vibrations (after the archangel Metatron). It appeared to him that the ley line pattern in Scotland was known to the early Celts as well as later to an inner core of the Knights Templar. Many of the sites I take people to on my day-long tours from Edinburgh are on specific Reshel geometric nodes. The ley lines seem to affect human consciousness and this may explain why conversations during the tour often turn to spiritual matters and personal revelations.
In 2005, Buehler accompanied one of my tours and gave a rare talk on the subject of the Reshel. I took him to Borthwick in Midlothian Scotland where the official cupbearers to the St. Clair clan (who had created the Rosslyn Chapel) lived. The Chapel, and the clan, became known through popular media because of their appearance in the book The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and the subsequent movie version starring Tom Hanks. When Buehler saw a sundial wrongly placed in the early fifteenth century Borthwick aisle, Buehler knew it was done deliberately as a clue to the geometry of the region. Extending the line along the sundial’s plane, he realized that it traversed a group of ancient spirals and other markings in a remote section of the glen adjacent to Rosslyn Chapel. These markings appear to indicate worship of the sun and moon and are on a presently inaccessible cliff on private land. I have known of these markings since the 1980s and have always been drawn to them. When I showed them to an expert from the Smithsonian Institute, he estimated that they dated from before the last Ice Age, at a time in Earth’s history when river levels were higher and canoe-travelers were able to draw images alongside the cliff.
Buehler was pretty sure that the cliff with the ancient markings engraved on it was the center of a specialized heliotrope, which is essentially an etheric mechanism that will track the sun or any planet you point it’s pointed towards so that the energy of that celestial object empowers the site and the entire region is boosted by the phenomena. Appropriately, the line was named the Sun Line. Buehler perused the local map further and eventually produced a diagram of a many-spoked wheel going from the alignment of the cliff images through Roslin Glen to Borthwick, with the center of the wheel positioned on Borthwick. Within that wheel, a major pentagram is clearly seen.
I find that the laws of synchronicity and instant manifestations work exceedingly well with the Reshel when I focus on it. As earth transcends her present frequencies and new higher vibrations enter naturally, many events borne of the evolving earth grids manifest. For instance, a few months after the pentagram was discovered in Midlothian, Crichton Miller, a celebrated author in the field of Celtic hidden history (see his book The Golden Thread of Time), introduced me to the work of Harald Boehlke and his book, The Norwegian Pentagram, originally published in Norwegian. The Norwegian Pentagram, which was recently translated into English under the title The Viking Serpent (Trafford Publishing), tracks the history of a group of early Celtic monks from Britain and Ireland who ventured to Norway in the tenth to twelfth century to build new cities in inhospitable spots with the financial backing of the early Norwegian kings. The book’s English title points to the Viking’s worship of the Serpent/Dragon. Boehlke argues that the essence of Christ is the Serpent and that the Roman Church altered this meaning. The learned Celtic monks of the British Isles, with all their knowledge, had seemingly disappeared only to re-emerge with a movement in the late eleventh century known as the Knights Templar. Boehlke’s well-researched book sheds light on a missing chunk of history and helps bridge a gap in the lineage of this esoteric knowledge. It indicates that cultures, in their quest to sustain knowledge, are always more connected to each other than we think. It also creates a deeper link between the essence of Celtic Christianity and the original Jerusalem Church. There are many legends associated with the specific sites Boehlke found. The overlap of these sites with Beuhler’s Reshel in Scotland has led Beuhler to believe that the pentagram Boehlke unearthed and that he speaks about in his book is yet another specialized heliotrope.
When one location on the Earth is “upgraded” by a new geometric pattern being exposed, other areas follow suit. The far northern lands of Europe are truly a Gaian gateway to the angelic realms. Uncovering these sacred patterns helps the earth at a time when it is needed the most.
Celtic Trails will offer tours in 2008 featuring author Harald Boehkle. For details, please see www.celtictrails.co.uk and www.templartrails.co.uk. Queally has taken small groups on a variety of personalized tours of Rosslyn Chapel and other sites close to Edinburgh for the last eight years. Recently, she has extended these tours into more metaphysical studies in Roslin and soon will offer tours in Rennes Le Chateau. She lives in Roslin and can be contacted at jac@celtictrails.co.uk.