Israel possessions. King of the South. King of the North.
- Title:
- Israel possessions. King of the South. King of the North.
- Alternate Title:
- Israel possessions
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Bayley, D. & Leslie Furze-Morrish
- Date:
- 1931
- Posted Date:
- 2024-04-25
- ID Number:
- 2541.01
- File Name:
- PJM_2541_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Not So Persuasive
Politics & Government
Religion - Measurement:
- 20 x 31 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This strange map illustrates a 1931 book setting out the views of the British Israelism movement. The movement has been described as a melange of "Protestant apocalypticism, British nationalism, New Age belief, and racial pseudo-science." Cottrell-Boyce 2021. According to the British Israelites, the white, Protestant people of Britain - including the British royal family - are directly descended from the Lost Tribes of Israel, specifically the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. As such, these Protestant "Anglo Saxons," including Americans and others from the British Colonies, are divinely blessed and the inheritors of the biblical prophecies and promises bestowed on the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. From the end of the 19th century until World War II, the movement flourished in Britain and spread to the United States and Canada. See generally Kidd 2006, 43-44 & ch. 7. In the view of many historians and religious scholars, British Israelites "propagated a religious justification for white superiority," and "served to sanctify the British imperialist enterprise," as well as American Manifest Destiny and sometimes virulent anti-Semitism. Ibid 213-14, 220.
The map appears in "A People No One Knew" by D. Bayley and Leslie Furze-Morrish (London: Covenant Publishing Co. Ltd., 1931). The first three-quarters of the book are devoted to the purported historical support for the favored role to be played by the modern Anglo-American world. That world is shown on the map in pink, as "Israel - possessions." It includes all of the British Empire and the United States, including the Philippines, as well as the British Mandate in Palestine. (It is not clear why Japan and coastal portions of Greenland and Antarctica are also in pink.) This is a traditional British Israelist view of the world, with most other countries shown in grey.
The final quarter of the book deals with Present Events and Future Considerations as seen in the early 1930s. As part of this analysis, the authors propose that "three chief powers, each at the head of a distinct system, have begun their struggle for supremacy." One is the "Anglo-Saxon-Celtic Commonwealth of Nations," the "Israel-system in earth." The second is the "Latin confederacy under the Roman Political Church system," with "control by the Upper Class . . . whether priest or tyrant, pope or dictator." The third is the "Bolshevist Communistic system with its headquarters in Moscow, advocating Rule of the Proletariat or Lower Class." Bayley 1931, 246.
Urging readers to "consider the map of the world," the authors point to chapter 11 of the Book of Daniel, which prophesies battles between the "king of the north" and the "king of the south" as the "end times" approach. By their analysis, the kingdom of the north is the Soviet Union, shown in Brown on the map, and the kingdom of the south is fascist Italy, shown in green (along with Libya). Ibid. 247-253. In accordance with the prophetic writings, Anglo-Israel is not to engage in this "last great fight," but to "withdraw" until "the storm is over" and "the theocratic system once more restored." The authors are particularly encouraged that Britain is following just that course, by disarming and electing a Labor government, "with its tendency against imperial expansion." Ibid. 259-260.
I have been unable to find any information on one of the authors, "D. Bayley." This and a similar work the following year appear to be his or her only writings. Leslie Furze-Morrish, an Australian, was a British artillery officer in his youth, a mystic, theosophist, and for forty years a professional astrologer. In addition to his books with Bayley, he published works on astrology, astro-psychology, metaphysics, and the occult. Valentine 2018, 157, 161.
The collection includes other British Israelite materials; Search > "Israelite."
For other examples of geographic and cartographic pseudo-science in the collection, Search > "pseudo*".
For other religious charts and timelines in the collection, Search > "Religious Charts."
Cornell University Library is pleased to present this digital collection of Persuasive Maps, the originals of which have been collected and described by the private collector PJ Mode. The descriptive information in the “Collector’s Notes” has been supplied by Mr. Mode and does not necessarily reflect the views of Cornell University. - Source:
- Bayley, D. & Leslie Furze-Morrish. 1931. A people no one knew: London: Covenant Publishing Co. Ltd.
- Format:
- Image
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