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Breck, Berech, Brach, Brec or Berach. He seems to merit special<br />

importance as the person who originally set down Jeremiah’s story. One<br />

legend says he was son of the Spanish King and a descendant of the<br />

Pharaoh’s daughter, Scota.<br />

Jeremiah reputedly brought other remarkable things to Ireland<br />

including a harp, an ark, and a wonderful stone called lia-fail, or the Stone<br />

of Destiny. <strong>The</strong> Israelites crowned their kings either standing upon or<br />

next to such a pillar of stone. 643 Many European countries such as<br />

Sweden and Denmark also crowned their kings on a coronation stone or<br />

within a circle of twelve stones.<br />

King James I of England expanded his Royal Standard to include<br />

Ireland’s harp of Tara. He also combined the flags of England, Ireland<br />

and Scotland to become the Union Jack. King James VI of Scotland<br />

ascended to the English throne as King James I on the death of his cousin,<br />

Queen Elizabeth I in 1603. <strong>The</strong> British struck a gold sovereign (called a<br />

unite) to celebrate the United Kingdom of England, Ireland and Scotland.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Latin motto on the reverse side of the sovereign reads Faciam eos in<br />

gentem unam, or I will make of them one people. This is a quote from<br />

Ezekiel, where God spoke of uniting the lost tribes of Israel under the<br />

throne of David. 644<br />

<strong>The</strong> British also struck a special medal to commemorate Queen<br />

Elizabeth II’s coronation on 2 June 1953. It depicts the arrival of the<br />

throne at the British Isles. <strong>The</strong> English kept this Coronation Stone, Stone<br />

of Scone, or Stone of Destiny, in the base of the coronation chair in<br />

Westminster Abbey. <strong>The</strong> official Westminster Abbey guide labels the<br />

Coronation Stone as Jacob's pillar-stone. Jacob laid his head on this<br />

Stone when he had the famous dream of a ladder reaching to Heaven. 645<br />

<strong>The</strong> Coronation Stone, which is a six hundred and seventy<br />

millimeter long block of dull reddish sandstone weighing 152 kg, may<br />

come from near the Dead Sea where such sandstone exists in Petra,<br />

Edom. However, the Dead Sea is one hundred miles from the white<br />

limestone at Bethel, where Jacob had his dream. This type of reddish<br />

sandstone exists within a few miles of Scone in Perthshire.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Irish crowned Tea-Tephi’s descendants sitting over the<br />

Coronation Stone until the 5 th century CE, when Fergus MacEarca of the<br />

same royal line took the stone to Scotland. His army invaded Scotland<br />

from its landing on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland. Scotland then<br />

crowned its kings sitting over the stone until 1296 when King Edward I of<br />

England placed it beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey.<br />

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