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Talk #2: The Hidden Story of the Repulse of the Spanish Armada.

Talk #2: The Hidden Story of the Repulse of the Spanish Armada.

In 1588, the Spanish Armada threatened England’s shores.
But how could the fledgling navy of a small, misty isle on the edge of mainland Europe repulse the greatest fleet in the world?
Was Queen Elizabeth right when she claimed it was divine intervention, saying, ‘He blew with His winds, and they were scattered!’?
Or was it an entirely different intervention – the extraordinary conjunction of coincidences that Nelan’s astral powers brought to bear on that fateful Midnight of Eights?

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