From Him To Eternity

In North London there is a restaurant called Dante. By using this name the owners are implying that it is a place of quality and culture. Their assertion is slightly undermined by the fact that the drawing on its logo is not of Dante but of King Henry the Eighth. He too was a person of quality and culture but if the owners also were they would be able to tell the difference between the two.

The only justification that the owners could have for such an error is if they were members of a little-known religious sect. In America there is an organisation called the Saint Germain Foundation which worships a figure from the French court who they believe manifested himself throughout history as many other people such as Christopher Columbus and George Washington. He is treated as an Ascended Master of great wisdom. Maybe there is a sect which thinks Dante and Henry the Eighth are one and the same. If so I would not like to have them living next door to me. Just imagine how this figure would argue with itself about which circle of Hell its wives were in! Such a tortured soul could only attract equally tortured followers.

There is however good reason to believe that several famous people who lived at different times are in fact one and the same. Examine the evidence and then prove the contrary if you will.

There has been much speculation over the last 400 years about the true identity of Shakespeare. Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford are among those who have been postulated as the 'true' author of Shakespeare's plays. The longer time goes on the more evidence emerges that their author was in fact the same William Shakespeare who always claimed to be the author. But why is there any dispute about this in the first place? Did anyone dispute the authorship of almost equally great figures such as Chaucer or Dickens? It is because William Shakespeare was one manifestation of a multiformed figure of great wisdom. How can we tell? Because he came from Warwickshire as all the best people do. All you need to understand is the natural superiority of the Warwickshire man to all others. Then the true identity of Shakespeare becomes clear.

The first Warwickshire man to gain public prominence was Richard Neville the Earl of Warwick. He was allegedly killed in the Wars of the Roses. How can anyone tell? There were no dental records or DNA evidence in those days. It is equally likely he instructed a servant to die for him then disappeared. No one can disprove this. With his family connections he could hide where he wanted and be born again to any woman he chose to put Warwickshire back on top. Hence the universal reverence for Shakespeare and his own recorded self-regard. Hence the subsequent rise to greatness of the Birmingham of its great industrial fathers. All of these were further manifestations of Warwick rising to supremacy. These would have been enough. But his two greatest manifestations had yet to come.

In the 1880s the most famous product of Birmingham was Aston Villa Football Club. It won the FA Cup in 1887 and the double in 1897. It was the first working class football club to see itself as grand. The books say a trio of Scots were responsible for its rise to greatness. This ignores the contribution of local Warwickshire players who always outnumbered them. One of these was an obscure chap called 'Bat' Garvey. Garvey did not play very often but he must have been the presiding genius of the club. Why? Because he was not only local but came to Villa from a club called Aston Shakespeare. That should have given people a clue. He stayed with them through all their great years in different capacities. That is until there were no more worlds to conquer. Birmingham and Warwickshire had been on top in the real world for long enough. Now it was time to take over an alternate reality. Here the final and present manifestation of Warwick began to emerge.

With the rise of public literacy it was only a matter of time before someone invented the comic book. The world of comics was not that much different to the one the rest of us live in. Except it was ruled by superheroes. We can all name Superman, Spiderman, Popeye, Pansy Potter. We can also name Batman. Now you see why the death of Bat Garvey was never recorded. If all the superheroes had a fight Batman would emerge victorious. Why? He is a Warwickshire man. He is the latest manifestation of the Earl of Warwick and his innate superiority to others. It is a shame Adam West and Michael Keaton and Val Kilmer have never mastered the accent. But here once again is The Earl of Warwick rising to the top in a new form to demonstrate the natural superiority of my kind over all others. Here once again is the natural order of society restored in a plane beyond the imagination of even Warwick himself in the first instance. This just shows once again the greatness of the man.

It would be wrong to make a religion out of the Earl of Warwick and his different forms. But that is the fault of religion not him. Religion is based on truths revealed through belief. Warwick is truth revealed through existence. He leaves wise sayings and great achievements. But greater than all of these is the simple fact of being a Warwickshire man. The manifestations of Warwick are Warwickshire men in their fulness. But latent within all of us from the county is the capacity to rise in the same way. Non-Warwickshire men will never know this. We should not care. As existers rather than believers we cannot expect a world based on an inferior form of truth to grasp its ultimate destiny of being ruled by the men of Warwickshire.