Old Melrose Estate

We first visited Galashiels to purchase Charlie a new phone; his old phone is kaput, and he's been struggling with it for months. Galashiels doesn't stress me so much these days, it's taken eighteen months to recover from living in Galashiels for two months.

At Jedburgh I was followed into the Cooperative Supermarket; followed into supermarkets by "strangers" almost every time; talk to a cashier and leave without making a purchase. Sick of these parasites, after fourteen years of being "checked out".

I kept my cool whilst photographing him; these creeps refuse to acknowledge my existence, because they are operating by Jacob Böhme's Martinist tradition.

According to the Martinist Tradition, humanity had not been able to attain a certain stage of spiritual evolution until the advent of the Christ. In effect, the Christ’s mission was not to save people, but to open a cosmic channel allowing humanity to cross certain spiritual spheres, inaccessible until then. Although He had opened the way, it was up to humanity to ascend along the path. The Christ did not save humanity by doing the work it alone has to do, but opened a way and showed the world how to travel along this path. To open this way, the mission of the Christ and His incarnation was that of the Repairer. In effect, he fulfilled the task of “reparation,” of recreating order and purifying Creation. - Repairer Rosicrucian Digest Vol 92 Martinism.

And through "Natural Religion", they psychologically subordinate us as thus:

"The stronger prey upon the weaker, and keep them in perpetual terror and anxiety." - David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 1779

Leaving Jedburgh we visited an antiques auction viewing lots inside a barn conversion, the auction used to be located in Jedburgh.

It's strange how many cars pass through Ancrum, this village only has a population of seven hundred, yet an endless stream of traffic passes through everyday.