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THE LONDON PENTAGRAM

The above map shows what we have called the 'London Pentagram' (outlined in red)

The blue lines represent extensions of the three Watkin's Ley lines, the green lines represent two of the oldest
tracks in London, the Oxford track and the ancient track crossing it (now Charing Cross Rd), their crossroads
being St Giles Circus (Centrepoint). If these last two tracks are considered as Leys and combined with the
Watkin's lines a very interesting pentagram emerges.

Note: the street atlas here is not to Ordinance Survey scale and so not necessarily accurate. A more accurate
OS plotted pentagram has been used to guide the lines above.

The Five Corners of the Pentagram are:

1) St Paul's Cathedral, Ludgate Hill

2) St Martin's in the Field, Trafalgar Square

3) Tyburn, Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park

4) Unidentified area of Bloomsbury

5) Barbican, site of Iron age hill fort (has similar legends to Tower Hill)

This partially interesting but not conclusive, the crosspoints are also interesting however:

1) St Giles Circus

2) Leicester Sqaure Crossroads

3) St Clement Danes Church

4) St Bride's Well (or very near)

5) Lincoln Inn Field's gate

Most curious of all a line drawn through the St Clement Danes crosspoint up through the top corner,
the effective axis line (shown in yellow above) passes directly through the site of the old Masonic
Grand Lodge of London (shown with red cross), making it the norminal centre of the the pentagram

If this line is extended it passes through St John's Lodge Garden in Regents Park, on the very same
alignment as the garden (shaped like a Celtic Cross facing the pentagram). This site demonstrates
Masonic, Rosicrucian and Occult symbols and motiffs, the house it is attached to having housed many
famous people, including the the Duke of Wellington, members of the Rothschild Family and prominent
Freemasons and members of the Royal Society. Known as 'the secret garden' it is a highly mystical
place

The line extended south passes across the winding river Thames, to which the pentagram is aligned,
and enters Southwark ending at the Church of Mary Magdaline in the grounds of Bermondsey Abbey,
passing through the now famous Red Cross Bones graveyard on the way

Interesting sites on the lines of the pentagram include both Knights Templar headquarters (both the
Temple in the Strand and the original site at Holborn), several famous churches (associated with the
Ley line alignment) as well as some modern buildings such as the British Museum and the Bank of England
Other alignments are under investigation

While not totally convincing (several important sites are not aligned to the pentagram) it is none the less
an intrigueing alignment

Its history is also suggestive. The earliest backbone to the alignment is that of the medieval churches and
Templar sites (the Templars also went to some expense to buy at least one of the key churches, St Clement
Danes on the lower crosspoint). Later sites in the alignment were built by Hawksmoor and Wren, of the
Royal Society, after the Great Fire, and later still is the Masonic alignment. The last buildings to be aligned
seem to be public buildings built in the 19th Century.

This is an ongoing HERU research program.