Why This Book?

• At last I felt at ease with the Swastika!
• Once totally benign, now universally vilified - but help was at hand!
• You too can be full relaxed in the aura of this symbol when you come across it in any context.

Years ago I was told by a don in the University of Cambridge here in England, in no uncertain terms, ‘Don't do it! You will never be able to restore the fortunes of this symbol now so hopelessly tarnished with the Nazi brush. In fact, you are likely to stir up more trouble than it's worth, and you'll create more problems than you'll solve.' Was he right?!?

Then I remembered that some years before when I was on an ordination retreat in Essex that I had taken a short cycle ride and discovered the lovely little church of St. Mary the Virgin, Great Canfield. When I entered the porch I was amazed to find five ‘swastikas' cut into the stonework beside the front door.

What on earth were they doing there in a place of Christian worship that had been standing there since the Middle Ages? Visitors sometimes asked what they thought might have been an embarrassing question for the Vicar, but the guidebook simply pointed to the source as ancient Rome, and the multitude of underground catacombs still accessible today.

So began my quest to track down the reason why these symbols were found in a Christian Church and what they might mean.

Years later I published a booklet on these five ‘Swastikas' making clear that they had come from the ‘Gammadion' of the ancient classical world; and that they might well be termed ‘Fylfot-Crosses' within the cultural history of Western Europe.

This booklet is now being offered FREE to every one who asks for it by email this month. Simply ask for a copy of:

‘The Fylfot-Crosses in the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin Great Canfield' [ISBN 0-9545455-0-8]