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Subterranean chambers and coffins were linked with him; and the possibility that one of the artifacts linked with him was buried in a subterranean structure, seems plausible. A related question might be whether and where the thirteen other artifacts linked with Osiris are buried.


It may be too early to suggest a coherent theory, but there are interesting points to make. The Hopi, a Native American tribe in Arizona, see their place of emergence—the place of creation—in the Grand Canyon. It is therefore a very special place for them. Could it be the same for the ancient Egyptians, who spoke of a Western Isle as the place of their origins? A place from which they came to Egypt…


Some will immediately fill this in as At- lantis, a continent said to exist in the direc- tion of America; and though the Greek phi- losopher Plato wrote of it, he was relating information that came to him from Egyptian priests… the same priests who believed their deities had lived, thousands of years earlier, on Earth. If Osiris belongs to that period, 20,000 odd years ago, and to a lost civiliza- tion, then the possibility that this civilisation sailed to ancient America must be consid- ered. Archaeology is discovering, with every passing day, that human presence on the American continent is far older than previ- ously assumed.


The Hopi also speak about a magical water jar said to create wells and streams even in the most adverse climates. Many of their great houses in Arizona were without running water, yet communities once thrived there. Did water indeed come from some magical water jar? Part of their tradi- tion states that sometimes a jar broke, and hence a representative needed to travel west, to an undefined location on the Pacific Coast, to refashion a magical water jar. Interest- ingly, such water jars, or baskets, or chests, are in Egyptian culture specifically associated with Osiris. Coincidence? Or another clue that Hollywood Hill might be linked with the mysteries of ancient Egypt.


Hollywood Hill was a private project of Linda Goodman, which came to a halt when she died in 1995. Those who knew her and of her interest remain convinced that Goodman was actually onto something, if only because they had seen the results of her scientific surveys. Alas, when she died, the relevant documents were apparently lost, meaning that the story of the Hollywood Hill became another… legend. Those who knew her hope that some day they can rekindle the project. Since 1995, surveying technology has made gigantic strides;and what seemed impossible to map at that time may now be quite doable. Can we accept that the ancient Egyptian dei- ties were once physically real? And if so, is it possible that, somehow, an ancient Egyptian relic ended up halfway across the world? The whole idea seems to be, at the very least, good material for some imaginative Holly- wood scriptwriter.


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young ghillie on the Balmoral staff, was named as a suitable substitute. Lees was however allowed to give séances to her Ma- jesty in exceptional circumstances and did so.”


The “ young ghillie from Balmoral” (“ghillie” is from gille, the Gaelic word for servant) was quickly dispatched from the royal residence in Balmoral, Scotland, to Windsor Castle. John Brown remained in the Queen’s personal service for 20 years, until his death in 1883 at age 56. Longford writes that “except when too ‘bashful’ to receive messages from the spirit or any other world, [he] acted as the Queen’s medium until he died.”


Supposedly, Robert James Lees remained in the picture. Longford provides the tradi- tional account: “Robert Lees is said to have stood in for Brown on several of these occa- sions [the séances], also being summoned shortly before the Queen’s death, when she kissed his hand at parting. Because of the stigma attaching to Spiritualism, Lees ob- served the utmost secrecy, corresponding with Queen Victoria only by courtier. Nothing of his royal connection (which is said to have included Queen Alexandra) emerged until he died in 1931. Then his daughter, Miss Eva Lees, told the story for the first time in the press. It has been retold in the course of 30 years to psychical re- searchers and writers including the present author [Longford] who heard it from Miss Lees in 1962. By way of tangible evidence, Miss Lees states that in her possession are half-a-dozen envelopes bearing the royal cy- pher which contained letters from Queen Victoria and other Royalties. Miss Lees also allowed the author to see a copy of her fa- ther’s first and best-known book, Through the Mists, bound in crimson morocco with the royal cypher stamped in gold on the cover—alleged to be a gift from Queen Vic- toria.”


Over the course of 20 years, Victoria and Brown became very close. He was given addi- tional duties, many of which brought him into daily private contact with the Queen. Victoria was intensely fond of Brown— though we will likely never know the full ex- tent of her true feelings for him, since, it ap- pears, one of her children (possibly her youngest daughter, Beatrice, or, more likely, her son Albert when he ascended to the throne as Edward VII in 1901) destroyed most references to Brown in Victoria’s diaries.


Over the course of his life in England, ru- mors abounded regarding John Brown’s friendship with Queen Victoria. The sculptor Sir Joseph Boehm, who did a bust of Brown at Balmoral, is reported to have heard that the Queen had “got it into her head that somehow the Prince’s spirit had passed into Brown and four years after her widowhood,


being very unhappy, allowed him all privi- leges.” Elizabeth Longford insists this was only hearsay. Longford believes such rumors were sparked and fanned into flame by a British press frantically in search of readers. Longford reports that, for example, “In Au- gust 1867 a satirical magazine, Tinsley’s, wrote that ‘their queen had gone mad— Brown was her keeper; had gone spiritu- alist—Brown was her medium; had gone wrong—Brown was her lover.’ ” Longford as- serts this is sheer fabrication.


Biographer Elizabeth Longford raises real doubts as to whether any séances with Robert James Lees ever actually took place. Regarding the secret pet-name for Albert


John Brown


that Lees’s spirit guides released to Victoria’s ambassadorial courtiers as proof that Albert was being channeled, Longford maintains that no such pet-name existed, and that Al- bert always signed his private letters to Vic- toria “A” or “Albert.” Longford further as- serts, regarding the Masonic handshake with which Lees greeted the courtiers, that Albert was never a Freemason and that Victoria had little else but contempt for Freemasonry. Longford also does not believe that the pos- session, by Lees’s daughter Eva, of letters purportedly sent by Victoria to her father are proof (because they are embossed with the royal cipher) that the séances with Robert James Lees ever took place. Longford says the letters (four, not half-a-dozen) contained only acknowledgements from the secretaries to the four royal recipients, who were the Duchess of York, Princess Henry of Batten- burg, the Princess of Wales—and Queen Vic- toria.


If the Prince Albert’s-spirit-channeling séances with Lees ever did take place, they have been the subject of a cover-up so mas- sive as to be of truly regal proportions. This is just as true of any séances conducted by Brown in which he became the new vehicle for Albert’s spirit to the extent that he could have a more-than-Platonic relationship with Victoria. The only thing we know for sure is that the 130-year-old rumors of Queen Vic- toria’s uncanny love triangle that strayed into the afterworld have not lost their power (the Doctor Who episode is proof) to titillate us all.


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