Journal of Geomancy vol. 3 no. 3, April 1979
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With the decline of the Christian religion in Britain, the Church is increasingly in the strange and disturbing position of having to dispose of sacred buildings which are no longer required owing to falling attendance figures. The dilemma of whether to demolish the structures or whether to sell them off for secular use has not yet been resolved. Several churches have been sold and are now residences. Whether any untoward effects have been felt by the new inhabitants, we have yet to find out. What is certain is that the dilemma in which the Church of England finds itself stems from the general failure of its bureaucrats to realize that the places upon which their churches stand are special sites, divined centuries or even millennia ago by the geomancers of old. These places, sacred places on the Earth, still retain some of the old power, but now the Church authorities only seem interested in ensuring the non-profanation of graves. In some cases, even the bones of the dead are not revered. When the so-called Lion Yard redevelopment was being carried out in Cambridge, part of Great St. Andrew’s churchyard, required for commercial development, was uprooted, and the bones moved to a reduced fane. How one deconsecrates a church is not revealed, but the magical ceremony is being investigated.