The Shell Guide to England tells us:

"Woking has the biggest mosque in England, founded by Dr. Leitner, an accomplished linguist and Orientalist. In 1885 he founded an Oriental Institute in a building which had previously been a drama school. A few years later he erected a mosque in the grounds. After the doctor’s death the institute ceased to function but the mosque continued to fulfil its role and became a centre of Islamic religion and life in this country."

The mosque is an unusual building with a large green sphere above it, topped by the crescent which is the symbol of Islam. What interested me most, however, was the clump of Scots pines just behind it. There is another nearby at the end of Oriental Road, the significance of which was to become clear shortly after my visit to the site. There is also a small clump at the entrance to the path leading to the mosque; this clump is on one of the leys and was found after the line was drawn.

I had previously found two leys passing through the mosque; the first came through an earthwork on Chobham Common and a standing stone on Horsell Common not marked on the map - I found it some years ago when following another ley on the ground. A picture of it is in an earlier edition of Touchstone. (When drawing this present line I did not notice the stone was on it until after the line was drawn). From here the line continues to pass through the mosque, the large multijunction at the bottom of Maybury Hill, a moat at Boughton Hall and a cross-roads (now a roundabout) on the A247 near West Clandon. This is the line passing through the small clump at the mosque entrance.

The second ley goes through St. Nicholas church, Pyrford - a Norman building in a circular churchyard; a striking hilltop site which even conventional archaeologists have said is likely to have been a prehistoric one. It just misses the chapel of the Anglican convent in Sandy Lane, but when visiting the site I found it goes directly through a huge Scots pine clump on the hill only about a hundred yards from it.

The line then passes through St. Paul’s - a small nineteenth century church across the road from the mosque, before meeting the Islamic building. It then continues through a church at Bagshot and "The Roman Star" - a junction of several tracks on a Roman road ("The Devil’s Highway" - the road from London to Calleva Atrebatum, or Silchester as it now is).

Having found these two lines previously, I decided after visiting the area and finding the two clumps, to see if there might be a line through the Oriental Road clump and the mosque. Continuing this alignment roughly westwards I found it passed through Christ Church near Woking station and the crematorium chapel (the subconscious siting influences did not even reject this - consider Highgate Cemetery catacombs mentinoned in the last chapter). It passes very close to Brookwood church (this could do with investigation in case there are other circumstances such as with the convent clump, or the church being slightly misplaced as it is adjoining a road. This sometimes happens as the width of roads on maps is much more than their scale width). Then it goes through an unmarked centre on the A325 at Farnborough, and a prominent-looking road junction at Crookham Village. I decided to draw the line on the strength of these points, then when examining it my heart seemed to miss a beat - for the line went directly through Odiham Firs, the prominent beacon site we visited on Chris Hall’s ecology field trip with Surrey and London Earth Mysteries Groups in April 1990. This is an ancient beacon site said to have been used at the time of the Spanish Armada. Two further points are a hilltop wood on a sharp bend in the road at Bidden, and a cross-roads at Tunworth.

When I tried an alignment through St. Paul’s church, Addlestone I found the line also passes through Peper Harow church (also on a good ley passing through Byfleet church and Newark Priory investigated by our group some years ago). Other points on the Addlestone line include a small church at Mayford and mean-following road nearby, and a cross-roads near Pitch Place.

There is an interesting alignment linking the ancient church of St. Martha-on-the-Hill, Guildford with the mosque. It goes through the cross-roads (roundabout) where the A320 crosses the A245 near Sheerwater, the mosque, two cross-roads/tracks, a small church at Merrow, St. Martha’s, and a church with aligning stretch of road at Shamley Green.

When walking around Woking following these points, I came across the Friends’ Meeting House, a twentieth-century bungalow used for Quaker worship, mentioned in a previous chapter. Aligning this with the mosque later I found the line also goes through a church at Sheerwater, very close to a tumulus near there (which is adjoining a road so could be slightly misplaced as mentioned before - but it could be taken in if the line is as wide as the E-line we are following on the Pitch Hill project). Continuing on the line goes through the mosque and the Friends Meeting House, then on to the tower on Chinthurst Hill (south of Guildford), a spotmarked junction at Scotsland Farm near Hascombe and a coincident track at Plaistow.

The finding of the two significant points, as well as the mosque entrance clump, after drawing their leys indicated, to me at least, that there was some subconscious influence even in the drawing of the lines - that they were being shown to me to illustrate some important point. What these lines seem to show us is that the leys make no distinction whatsoever between the buildings of different religious faiths. This seems to demonstrate that there is a higher truth behind all religious observance which transcends particular doctrines and to some extent makes them irrelevant, except by virtue of the fact that they bring people together to worship the creator, and somehow by so doing activate the life-giving grid of leys which covers the earth. This throws into sharp relief the absurdity of the quibbles and the atrocities that take place between members of the various faiths and sub-faiths.

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