LATEST NEWS: Posted below is my most recent article, "The Rosslyn Motet: What the Mainstream Media Didn't Tell You," which raises the strongest of doubts about the cracking of a code, supposedly hidden in Rosslyn Chapel's so-called "Musical Cubes" for more than five centuries. The Crackers of the Code, Tommy and Stuart Mitchell, claim to have found a piece of music hidden in the cubes, and have called it “The Rosslyn Motet,” now enjoying brisk sales around the world. All I can say is "caveat emptor!" If you would like to read my articles in the order they were published, just click on the "Articles Archive" link to the right.

By Jeff Nisbet

(Originally published in Atlantis Rising #65 -- September/October, 2007 -- under the title “The Rosslyn Motet: What the Mainstream Media Didn’t Tell You about the Chapel’s Musical Cubes,” and republished in translation in the December 2007 edition of Italy's Hera magazine.)

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On April 30, 2007, Scotland’s newspaper of record, The Scotsman, published a short article headlined “Musical Secret Uncovered in Chapel Carvings,” about a father-and-son team of Edinburgh musicians, Tommy and Stuart Mitchell, who claimed to have “found a secret piece of music hidden in carvings at Rosslyn Chapel.” It was, Stuart said, like finding a “compact disc from the 15th century.”

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An entry from my ever-growing Quotes Archive follows. If you would like to read the entire archive, click here.

"The study of mythology might be compared to the investigation of a sealed box. We do not know which is top or bottom, who sent it or why. It is a kind of Pandora's box in which one may hear the buzzing of malignant superstitions, or the voice of a universal religion, or, again, the heartbeat of a social organism. Some say the box is empty; if we hear anything, it is the sound of blood in our ears, like the distant surf audible in a seashell. As for me, whenever I poke or shake that mysterious package I hear the sound of laughter. I hear other noises as well, but the laughter is unmistakable..."