[TillE]

More interesting to me here is the history of the "line". Is this a medieval idea or a modern one? Wikipedia is surprisingly unhelpful. "According to legend", yeah ok.

Who first wrote about this? Who picked those seven sites? The earliest source mentioned is from 1969, and it's not even about this particular line.

There's no shortage of writing about esoteric Christian topics throughout the centuries, but this one seems really thin and really modern.

[topaz0]

I had the same question and was not able to find much concrete, but this blog post [1] claims that it was first mentioned in the '70s by some archeologist type.

[1]: https://www.philipkosloski.com/who-discovered-the-sword-of-s...

[SamBam]

Right, that's the biggest thing. If medieval builders were deliberately placing these in a line, there would be documentation and discussion about it.

[loceng]

This comment has helped me realize that most people likely don't have an understanding of the deeper or more evolved spiritual-religious communities.

For example, the Santo Daime church originating in Brazil - and who drink Ayahuasca at the beginning of and throughout what they call works [Ayahuasca is in Brazil's constitution as a right, and Canada also has it legalized for the church to import legally] - and then sing from hymns depending on the type of work and time of the year, their hymns containing the teachings, sung mostly in Portuguese; arguably those teachings will have been divinely transmitted to the people, mostly the founder to begin, while in the altered-connected state; the biologic pathway for part of this experience is the concept of ego death-dissolution, where your ego temporarily is out of the way to allow your senses to be more aligned with the more holistic - your senses not "calcified" away from feeling more than just your strongest stimuli of your own senses and the signals of your ego mind - both that can mask the more subtle - and can be repressed if disconnected from it at a young age due to various reasons.

Furthermore, if you read the book The Immortality Key, there is the belief circulating that wine - "the blood of Christ" - historically wasn't alcohol but wine was a mix, and arguably an entheogen-psychdelic that then connected people to an altered state to help open the mind and heart, and heal vs. alcohol which is a depressant and poison; where the knowledge that Jesus taught/shared was supposedly from 300 years prior from the Greece region, where millions of people would pilgrimage to annually arguably to partake in drinking the "wine."

Part of the misunderstanding is that it's believed that Christ has already resurrected but in energetic form, where he joined the divine celestial order, along with St. Michael and other energetic-conscious beings.

I've thought it's an interesting idea, whether it was oppressors who wanted to prevent this healing and weaken people's connection to God - which arguably gives people strength when they have a faith in something invisible [and unengaged most of the time], and/or if it was authoritarians incidentally working with or benefitting from industrial complexes - producers and merchants of alcohol who decided to claim their alcohol was the "wine" that "everyone was talking about and pilgrimaging for" - and in high demand, for the sake of profits; which would have also caused people to not ride the wave of word of mouth transmission toward drinking Ayahuasca et al; it makes me think partly of the more recent "war on drugs" that happened to suppress-control and prevent access to arguably highly effective non-patentable and relatively natural medicines, that are now coming to light again - Ayahuasca, mushrooms, ketamine, MDMA, etc.

In conclusion, St. Michael or anyone in the divine order - conscious energetic beings who can influence at least in so much as giving guidance - could have guided each builder or person picking the build site independently, potentially leading to such a phenomenon - whether the St. Michael's Sword line was simply coincidence or happenstance, or perhaps could simply be decided to be human-made and simply a recognition to honour St. Michael; to me it boils down to a fun-playful thought exercise, but where it could be dangerous in that an ideological mob could use it to demonize people who let's say are needing or desperate for hope or truth of the divine - and haven't yet reached a faith state.