Welsh - wait for it - Israelism?!

Can´t help sharing this little gemstone from John Michael Greer´s blog. I never heard of this particular sect before, probably a sub-set (or sub-sect?) of British Israelism or Christian Identity. (There used to be a group in Sweden which claimed that the Swedish working class specifically was the lost tribe of Ephraim, but that´s another show!) 

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Copper, good heavens — now there’s a blast from the past. My wife’s maternal grandfather was a Welsh Israelite of the old school, who insisted that the Welsh were one of the lost tribes of Israel — I forget which one — and made a living during the Depression preaching at Welsh-language churches in upstate New York. I didn’t know the movement was still around. Raymond Capt is a name I know from a different context: he wrote a book purporting to prove that Stonehenge was built by ancient Freemasons, which most Masons find very funny. As far as I know, there’s zero basis to any of it — a lot of European cultures have fringe groups claiming “We’re the Chosen People, and the Jews aren’t!” I’ve always put that down to a kind of spiritual status envy.

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