Rainbows End

Geoff Logan

Description

Every now and then, King Arthur and Camelot come back into human consciousness. This story takes the mystery into modern thinking and is why you should read the book.
Sometimes the 1300s come back to haunt us today. Rainbows End asks the question is the past relevant now? Our hero Zarfidi Virtue explores this dimension as he works his way through life's trials. The reader can thus explore this reality with our hero and attempt to answer the same question for themselves. In the end, only the reader can make this decision that always haunts us when the fork in the road asks, which way do I choose to seek the meaning of life?

Sujets

• Now
• Rainbows End
• Past
• Life
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: AuthorHouse
• Date de parution: 27 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798823002479
• Langue: English

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RAINBOWS End
 
 
 
 
GEOFF LOGAN
 
 
 
 

 
 
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© 2023 Geoff Logan. All rights reserved.
 
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
 
Published by AuthorHouse 03/14/2023
 
ISBN: 979-8-8230-0249-3 (sc)
ISBN: 979-8-8230-0248-6 (hc)
ISBN: 979-8-8230-0247-9 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023903734
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Synopsis – The story so far
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Epilogue
SYNOPSIS THE STORY SO FAR
 
 
I N THE PREVIOUS episode, entitled ‘A Man of Colours,’ Zarfidi Virtue took over from Iva Davies in the quest of finding the burial place of the last Iman of Islam. This he did by finding the secret scroll on the Greek island of Kostellorizo. Then, following the hidden signs left by the squire, William McBride at Beverley Minster, Zarfidi was able to piece together the clues of where the burial site might be found. After many adventures and mishaps along the way, he finally found the path to Teba Castle in Andalusia, Spain. Here the Australian found the prize he wanted to find.
However, the pressure of such a demanding task, finally took its toll on the young man. The loss of his lover, Manuela and close encounters with the underworld’s, Annie Palmer along the way, left Zarfidi with no more stomach for continuing the journey any longer. This made the architect put the ring cycle to one side for several years as he returned to a normal life in Perth, Western Australia. And in doing so, he only wanted to participate in the mundane tasks that others in society experienced, every day. This worked out for some time as the knowledge of Teba Castle remained hidden from public awareness in the shadows of the darkness of the night heavens.
Still, when fate has a plan for the future to complete, a pause is only something the chosen ones can expect to be given, before reality knocks on the door, again. Especially, as Zarfidi already knew that only half the task had been completed to date. Because, the source of the Knights Templar treasure still needed to be found, so that the last temple in Jerusalem could be built again at the end time before the Last Iman arose to life again from Teba Castle. And to ignore such a proposition, might mean that other adversaries who wanted to stop the temple from being undertaken for their own earthly reasons, would find out about the Teba site in the meantime.
Thus, giving them the opportunity to foil such a plan by encouraging Moslems in the Middle East with the help of the Last Iman to finally challenge the Christian faith as the dominant religion on the face of the planet. And to have the likes of radical Iran pushing its agenda against Europe in the Mediterranean and northern Africa would only lead to war and conflict in that part of the world. So, Zarfidi Virtue could not be left to his own devices for too much longer before the soft beating drum of the end time would once again be heard by those who played a part in the story. And this only left one thing to now show its face. How and when would such a spirit of King Arthur and Camelot of the past, come back again into the arena of western thinking to save the final chapter of humankind from total destruction.
CHAPTER 1

G AVIN TATE MADE his way slowly down Trinity Lane towards Wednesday Market in Beverley, England. He, for many years had been a deacon at the local Minster and a leading church figure in the town. Now retired, Tate lived on a small property at the edge of Beverley, growing strawberries and rhubarb as a hobby. Only every now and then did he come into town to buy groceries and distribute his produce to stall holders in Market Cross. And generally, Tate only paid attention to the Beverley Minster every now and then, when something interesting happened at the church. However, on this occasion, the cathedral had now come back very much into his thoughts. So, as he finished his morning shopping, the old deacon made his way to the Minster. After talking to several of the volunteers he knew and wandering around the stone minstrels that the squire, William McBride had constructed in the 1330s, the old man sat down in St Catherine’s Chapel.
For some time, he remained in deep thought that brought him back to the time the deacon helped the Australian, Iva Davies overcome the entrapment of Janina Schafer at St Triduana’s Well in Restalrig, Scotland. At the time, Gavin told Iva he did so to prevent evil from gaining the last remains of the Templar treasure in the Well. However, this was only partly true. For many years, the deacon had been placed at the Beverley Minster by the London templars to report on anyone who came out of nowhere with a special interest in the stone minstrels. Because, the real reason for such an interest was probably to locate and steal the remains of the Templar treasure.
However, Gavin Tate had another purpose for his interest in taking up the offer and remaining in Beverley. One of his ancestors was a Benjamin Cross who lived and worked in the town when William McBride came from Scotland. And Cross who was at the time, a farm supervisor for the Franciscan Monastery near the Minster, became friends of McBride and Edeyrnion the Welshman who later became William’s father- in- law. And although much of William McBride’s history had vanished over time, some of Benjamin Cross’s recollections had survived. The farm supervisor. always kept a diary about the weather and agricultural projects he was working on at the time. And this included many of the people he came in contact with, such as William McBride.
And although some of the writings of Benjamin Cross were now difficult to interpret from that time, some of the tales were amusing and interesting to read, nonetheless. Especially, the references to the Frid stool and the Cauldron of Diwrnach or the Black Madonna that were associated with King Arthur of Camelot fame. Still, hidden amongst the more obvious stories of the age were references to lesser-known identities with tales perhaps to tell of their own. And the one that caught Gavin Tate’s eye when reading the old manuscripts was a certain Madam Ermengarde Gleiberg. The woman had a French Belgium origin and provided William McBride with a great deal of information about the Templar’s time in Jerusalem during the crusades. And more importantly, what should be done to build the third and last temple on the city mount at the end time.
It was this issue that intrigued the old deacon over the years.
‘How did she know such information,’ he often asked himself. ‘Especially, when Madam Gleiberg was not known to be part of the Templar inner sanctum in Paris with access to this form of privileged information.’
‘And then again,’ he asked himself. ‘Why did the woman bother to give such information to William McBride in the first place?’
It took some digging and cross referencing of Benjamin Cross’s inclinations in his writings that provided some clues. At the time of the Scottish crusaders led journey to the Holy Land in 1329, they called into Bruges on the Flemish coast to recruit mercenaries to join the venture. Here, the templar knights, Sir Robert and Walter Logan who were charged with the task of returning Arthur’s black statue to the new Jerusalem, met Madam Gleiberg. And over this period, one thing led to another, and the lady and Sir Walter had an encounter of the personal kind. Then, when Sir Walter and Robert Logan were killed at the Battle of Teba in Spain during 1330, Ermengarde subsequently gave birth to a baby girl. When William McBride returned home from Andalusia and settled in Beverley, she asked William and his wife, Catrin to raise the child.
Eventually, Ermengarde left the service of noble families in Europe and started a merchant business of her own. This became financially very successful and led to an arrangement over the following years between herself and Willian McBride. Madam Gleiberg sold the former squires horse ware goods from his shop in Beverley to those in the Mediterranean and North Africa. And in return, William sold her jewelry and pottery from the Middle East and Africa to locals. And naturally, when she came to talk business with the former squire, Ermengarde was able to catch up with the progress of her daughter at the family farm in neighboring, Walkington. However, when Benjamin Cross died of old age, the writings naturally stopped, and the story of the child went cold from then onwards.
And although the stories that Ermengarde told William McBride of the end time in Jerusalem could be put down as old wife’s