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This book is a report of the 'miraculous' discovery of two chapels, the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury and the Loretto Chapel in 1919, whose sites were unknown, by means of communications largely obtained through automatic writing. John Alleyne, the medium through whom these communications were received, died shortly before the publication of the book. The Gate of Remembrance is a mixture of very precise drafts and plans, detailed facsimiles of the automatic writing, photographic views of the ruins, conjectural reconstructions of the Abbey and Chapels, poems by John Alleyne (obviously out of place in a scientific record), religious devotion and philosophical speculations. The report of the automatic writing which led to the discovery of the first chapel was not published until some time after the foundations had been excavated. The report which led to the finding of the second chapel, however, was published before the 'fulfilment'. The theory the author offers reads as follows: '… the embodied consciousness of every individual, in spite of its seeming isolation, is in very truth a part—and an integral part—of a vastly greater Unit of mind and being sympathetically united with himself in ever-enduring association of Idea, Will and Purpose. … That such association of mind and soul of those incarnate on earth with the great Company of those others who have passed on is a living Reality, is the constant theme of the Brethren who speak through the mind and body of