The founding of the Merrylin Institute is surrounded in mystery - seemingly, the discovery of the Merrylin collection, hidden in London, was planned decades in advance. Alastair Warner, great grandson of Ambrose Warner, who ran the shipping company originally established and run by Edward Merryin, Thomas’s father, and who Thomas would eventually sign over to, when he began traveling the world.

Alastair Warner created a will that would guarantee that the former Orphanage, beneath which the collection would be found, would be bequeathed to his granddaughter, Olga Karlsson. She, along with a disparate group of individuals, would be positioned to take on the mantle of board members, each with an invested interest in the protection, and examination of the collection once it had been discovered. The specimens were shipped to a secure facility, where they remain to this day. The facility is a cutting edge laboratory, and much of their financing is a direct result of patents, created from their research.

The Arkwright Institute of Science was established in 1979 by philanthropist physicist Hendon Arkwright. He had made his fortune through patenting technology, and had invested a great deal of money into explroring the more esoetric spectrum of quantum mechanics, after a supposed supernatural experience in the late sixties, whilst studying at Cambridge. He would spend the next few decades on constructing devices capable of perceiving extra dimensions. His first book, “In case of a haunting’ was something of an overlooked gem in the world of academia, as it posited the concept of using gravity to detect extra dimensions in three dimensional space.

The book ‘An Absence: a scientific approach to a haunting’ is a fictionalised version of a series of events that occurred recently in North London. Written by our custodian, Alex, where many of Hendon’s theories were put to the test.

Cellulosophy is a belief system, based around a pre christian pantheon of nature deities, risen in defence of the natural world. The Increscent - depicted as grotesque entities, are in fact benevolent, celestial shepherds. Hiram Frenk, an 18th century alchemist and prophet, pred’icted the rise of fascism in the 1930’s, and believed that the Increscent were the only means of salvation. He penned the ‘Book of Venym; An Egalitarian Demonology’ - the means by which he hoped the Increscent would be summoned to defeat this tyranny. This book is available to buy here

In the early 20th century a number of archeologists, leftist occultists, anarchists and anti-fascists, rallied around this possible tool against the Nazis. They formed Cellulosophy, a modern order of Increscent worshippers, who, together, aided the resistance. Thomas Merrylin is believed to have been among their ranks, and indeed worked on behalf of the british secret service in infiltrating the Nazis. He went by the Pesudonym of Samuel Abbot, and this name appears in a book titled ‘Cellulosophy, The Order Of The Increscent.’ Available here