DULCE DOMUM. THE FAIR HAVEN

From Olivia Robertson, FOI Co-Founder

David Alexander Durdin-Robertson passed into spirit world on the 14th April 2009.  He was the only son of two Co-Founders of the Fellowship of Isis, Pamela and Lawrence Durdin-Robertson, and nephew of Olivia.

He protected Huntington Castle with his skills as a builder, renewing the foundations. Above all his beautiful, youthful and inspired wood carvings, twenty-one of them, are focal images in various shrines in the Temple of Isis.   His most noted carving, made when he was eighteen, is the figure of Isis on the High Altar.  She bears a watering-pot on Her head, the Hathor Crown representing harmony of Sun and Moon.

Globally, David is known in a television documentary on the Castle on the Discovery Channel.  He is shown, bearded, emerging from an ancestor’s portrait.  In an interview he gives an account of an out-of-the-body experience in the Castle library, surrounded by apparitions – later identified on the Channel as Druids.  The Temple of Isis is shown in the film.

David’s spirit presence manifested to Olivia the day after his passing.  He made two resounding knocks on her door at dawn.  Olivia understood that these were the traditional “Knocks for Admission” to the ancient Egyptian Ritual of 'The Coming Forth by Day.'  This resembles the FOI liturgical 'Rite of Rebirth' and the 'Awakening of Osiris and 'Initiation of the Pylons.'

Of course the Ceremonies in the Temple and work of the Fellowship continue.  After all, Isis goes back five thousand years and is powerfully manifesting in the New Aëon. Our Divine Mother is eternal – as are we all!

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 Separate info received later from Minette Quick, who is Honorary Secretary of Circle of Isis:

 Olivia and members of the FOI Irish priesthood conducted a ceremony of Dulce Domum to honor David Alexander Durdin-Robertson in the Temple of Isis at Clonegal Castle. The rite took place at 3:00 pm Greenwich Mean Time on Saturday, the 18th of April 2009.  

"Olivia held a lovely ceremony in the Temple with a few of our priesthood present on Saturday last whilst the funeral took place in the village.  She joined the family cortège walking down the Avenue of the Castle to the village behind the hearse and then turning its way up the hill to the Church.  She then left the procession which by then was followed by a great many neighbours and friends of the family, and joined our group to return up to the Castle.  It was a beautiful and fitting farewell to her nephew, particularly after his spirit visit to Olivia the morning after his passing."

- Minette Quick, Honorary Secretary, Circle of Brigid, Ireland