Research Into Lost Knowledge Organization

"The late Elizabeth Leader was a keen student of Folklore, especially that of Somerset, and took a great interest in Mrs Maltwood's researches into the Glastonbury Zodiac. Whilst attending talks at the home of Mrs Von Harten, she met Janette Jackson who was also interested in this locality, especially in the work of Frederick Bligh Bond who had supervised the excavations at Glastonbury Abbey. Miss Leader introduced Keith Critchlow ARCA, Architectural Lecturer in Arts, History and Structure, to a book The Canon by William Stirling. He considered that the contents, involving a system of measures relating to sacred structures that were no longer taught in schools, merited further investigation.

"At this period Miss Leader was working in the office of Commander G.J. Mathys who became interested in the subject and suggested how to set up an organisation to promote the traditions relating to the Isle of Avalon and other matters. The Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation was founded in May 1969 with Commander Mathys as Chairman, Janette Jackson as Honorary Secretary and Elizabeth Leader as Archivist, with founder members, Keith Critchlow, John Michell and Professor Mary Williams. A number of other distinguished members gave valuable support in the founding and the subsequent running of the Organisation.

"R.I.L.K.O. became a registered charity in 1974 and we were honoured when Professor Alexander Thom B.Sc., D.Ac., M.A., Hon L.L.D., Professor of Engineering Science Oxford University, accepted the position of Professor Emeritus. He retired in 1981 and we were fortunate to have as his successor the late Mr John C. Irwin FRSA., FRAS., FRAI., FSA., former First Keeper of the Oriental Section at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2004 the late John Michell, the distinguished scholar and writer about ancient traditions, and also a R.I.L.K.O. founder member, graciously accepted the position of Professor Emeritus."

History
"The late Elizabeth Leader was a keen student of Folklore, especially that of Somerset, and took a great interest in Mrs Maltwood's researches into the Glastonbury Zodiac. Whilst attending talks at the home of Mrs Von Harten, she met Janette Jackson who was also interested in this locality, especially in the work of Frederick Bligh Bond who had supervised the excavations at Glastonbury Abbey. Miss Leader introduced Keith Critchlow ARCA, Architectural Lecturer in Arts, History and Structure, to a book The Canon by William Stirling. He considered that the contents, involving a system of measures relating to sacred structures that were no longer taught in schools, merited further investigation.

"At this period Miss Leader was working in the office of Commander G.J. Mathys who became interested in the subject and suggested how to set up an organisation to promote the traditions relating to the Isle of Avalon and other matters. The Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation was founded in May 1969 with Commander Mathys as Chairman, Janette Jackson as Honorary Secretary and Elizabeth Leader as Archivist, with founder members, Keith Critchlow, John Michell and Professor Mary Williams. A number of other distinguished members gave valuable support in the founding and the subsequent running of the Organisation.

"R.I.L.K.O. became a registered charity in 1974 and we were honoured when Professor Alexander Thom B.Sc., D.Ac., M.A., Hon L.L.D., Professor of Engineering Science Oxford University, accepted the position of Professor Emeritus. He retired in 1981 and we were fortunate to have as his successor the late Mr John C. Irwin FRSA., FRAS., FRAI., FSA., former First Keeper of the Oriental Section at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2004 the late John Michell, the distinguished scholar and writer about ancient traditions, and also a R.I.L.K.O. founder member, accepted the position of Professor Emeritus.

"In 2011 R.I.L.K.O. was further honoured when Professor Keith Critchlow, a major inspiration and influential founder member of RILKO in 1969, most graciously accepted the position of Professor Emeritus.

R.I.L.K.O, the Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation is a charitable educational trust whose members study hidden knowledge in myth, legend, number geometry, art, music, architectural proportion, megalithic structures and the geomantic layout of cities and landscape."


 * Chair - Robert Stephensen

Journal
CONTENTS OF JOURNAL 81 (Winter 2012)

Chairmans’s Comments A Short History of Temple Bruer Preceptory ... John Ivory Children’s Games The Shamans of Egypt ... Gary Lachman Venus. The Bringer of Peace Christine Rhone Interview The Effect of Meditation Attainment on Psychic Awareness ... Serena Roney Dougal Book Reviews Part of The First John Michell Memorial Lecture ... John Nicholson Human Mathematics ... Nicola Graves-Gregory Snow’s Secret Vibrations ... Jill Mattson Stopping By The Woods

Contact
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