What is the Holy Grail? Many ask this question - and there are many interesting answers! However, we don't know what The Grail is, as it has never been found to our knowledge. It is described in many ways, and always as something with the greatest of abilities for healing and transformation!
Wolfram’s title of the Grail in his poem is “lapis exilis” - the philosopher’s stone and it bears the inscription “Any Templar appointed by God’s hand to be master over foreign people, must forbid the asking of his name or race, and help him gain his rights”. Dated 1210AD This was a declaration of human rights 5 years prior to The Magna Carta.
The Grail first features in a 1118 poem by Chretien, a name that means Christian so we know he wasn’t a heretic. He was a troubadour (a writer of courtly love and aristocratic or religious devotion), of the ancient town of Troyes in the Champagne region of France. The poem describes several motifs; a knight with a pure heart, a mysterious castle, a lame 'fisher' king, and an enigmatic procession of servants carrying items, such as a lance, a sword, and a woman who carries a dish that holds a communion wafer.
Because the Grail Castle knights and the Knights Templar wore white, there could be be a connection between them. The Champagne region was a rich and important commercial area. Bernard of Clairvaux, the nine original Templars, and Chretien, all came from the Troyes region of which Chartres, once a Druidic grove, was the spiritual centre.
Wolfram’s poem appeared 20 years after the publication of Chretien's poem. He was a Bavarian poet, said to be a Knights Templar, Wolfram describes the grail as a stone which fell from heaven (a meteorite). It is said that the Knights Templar left a legacy of wisdom within this poem. Was the stone an altar stone or a proclamation stone? Is the legacy of this poem an understanding between Christianity and Islam? Some say this is the Holy Grail.
Article for Psychic World. Wendy Stokes https://wendystokes.co.uk
The Grail first features in a 1118 poem by Chretien, a name that means Christian so we know he wasn’t a heretic. He was a troubadour (a writer of courtly love and aristocratic or religious devotion), of the ancient town of Troyes in the Champagne region of France. The poem describes several motifs; a knight with a pure heart, a mysterious castle, a lame 'fisher' king, and an enigmatic procession of servants carrying items, such as a lance, a sword, and a woman who carries a dish that holds a communion wafer.
Because the Grail Castle knights and the Knights Templar wore white, there could be be a connection between them. The Champagne region was a rich and important commercial area. Bernard of Clairvaux, the nine original Templars, and Chretien, all came from the Troyes region of which Chartres, once a Druidic grove, was the spiritual centre.
Wolfram’s poem appeared 20 years after the publication of Chretien's poem. He was a Bavarian poet, said to be a Knights Templar, Wolfram describes the grail as a stone which fell from heaven (a meteorite). It is said that the Knights Templar left a legacy of wisdom within this poem. Was the stone an altar stone or a proclamation stone? Is the legacy of this poem an understanding between Christianity and Islam? Some say this is the Holy Grail.
Some suggest the possibility that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, that they had children, and these children became the carriers of a holy bloodline - the sang real! Some say that Mary, the Mother of Jesus, was the Holy Grail that bore the Christ child in such difficult circumstances and reared him without a father.
The Knights Templar honoured the Holy Sepulchre shrine, and held their administration at Temple Mount (Al Akasha Mosque) in Jerusalem. They learnt much wisdom from the Arabs, who were masters of alchemy, mathmatics and building construction. Soon in Britain and France, there was a massive building programme of cathedrals. Templars had rights to build cathedrals and had much building experience from their castles in the Outremer. The Church demanded ‘relics’ from the Holy Land to encourage pilgrims to visit cathedrals and donate money. The Templar Knights found numerous relics, but not all items from the Bible were found, such as the cup that Jesus drank from at the last supper - that remained missing (as did the Ark of the Covenant, that won the Jews all battles, and was much needed by the Templars in their defence of the Holy Land).
There are as many as 200 old wooden, pottery, stone and other cups that are said to represent the cup that was used by Jesus at the last supper. One such cup is in the cathedral of Valencia and was endorsed by Pope John Paul II. This is thought to be the onyx cup described as being found in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. There is a parchment in Arabic found in Cairo that states ‘Here is the said cup of the Christian Messiah’. The Muslims gave this cup to King Ferdinand in Spain in the 11th century. He gave it to his daughter and a case of gold was made for it. However, it is unlikely any cup used at the last supper would have been anything other than an ordinary vessel used for the Passover at that time. But maybe the Holy Grail is not an object, for instance, some say the Holy Grail was Mary Magdalene who carried the child of Jesus in her womb. Many suggest the Holy Grail is a constant search for truth, inner and outer, that takes place throughout our life and only the most pure of heart, such as Percival or Galahad are able to find it. The correct questions must be asked, about ourself and our service to the world. As a Christian symbol, a cup that held the blood of Jesus represents his teaching to ‘do unto others as we would be done by’. As a symbol for the twenty first century, it represents the land and our duty to protect the planet and its species.
Some suggest that the Ark of the Covenant was the Holy Grail. When the Grail stories were created, the Templars were looking for relics in the Holy Land. Some suggest they found the Ark of the Covenant and wrote about it in their poetry. The Ark of the Covenant was made of acacia wood covered with gold, with two golden winged angels. It was covered with blue cloth and animal skins because it emitted a powerful energy. Between the winged angels, a cloud developed when God wished to make contact. 3000 years ago, Solomon built a temple on Mount Moriah to house the Ark box that contained the two tablets of stone that Moses was given, inscribed with the 10 Commandments. The Ark became lost at the time of the Babylonian attack in 587BC when Solomon’s temple was destroyed.
The Knights Templar honoured the Holy Sepulchre shrine, and held their administration at Temple Mount (Al Akasha Mosque) in Jerusalem. They learnt much wisdom from the Arabs, who were masters of alchemy, mathmatics and building construction. Soon in Britain and France, there was a massive building programme of cathedrals. Templars had rights to build cathedrals and had much building experience from their castles in the Outremer. The Church demanded ‘relics’ from the Holy Land to encourage pilgrims to visit cathedrals and donate money. The Templar Knights found numerous relics, but not all items from the Bible were found, such as the cup that Jesus drank from at the last supper - that remained missing (as did the Ark of the Covenant, that won the Jews all battles, and was much needed by the Templars in their defence of the Holy Land).
There are as many as 200 old wooden, pottery, stone and other cups that are said to represent the cup that was used by Jesus at the last supper. One such cup is in the cathedral of Valencia and was endorsed by Pope John Paul II. This is thought to be the onyx cup described as being found in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. There is a parchment in Arabic found in Cairo that states ‘Here is the said cup of the Christian Messiah’. The Muslims gave this cup to King Ferdinand in Spain in the 11th century. He gave it to his daughter and a case of gold was made for it. However, it is unlikely any cup used at the last supper would have been anything other than an ordinary vessel used for the Passover at that time. But maybe the Holy Grail is not an object, for instance, some say the Holy Grail was Mary Magdalene who carried the child of Jesus in her womb. Many suggest the Holy Grail is a constant search for truth, inner and outer, that takes place throughout our life and only the most pure of heart, such as Percival or Galahad are able to find it. The correct questions must be asked, about ourself and our service to the world. As a Christian symbol, a cup that held the blood of Jesus represents his teaching to ‘do unto others as we would be done by’. As a symbol for the twenty first century, it represents the land and our duty to protect the planet and its species.
Some suggest that the Ark of the Covenant was the Holy Grail. When the Grail stories were created, the Templars were looking for relics in the Holy Land. Some suggest they found the Ark of the Covenant and wrote about it in their poetry. The Ark of the Covenant was made of acacia wood covered with gold, with two golden winged angels. It was covered with blue cloth and animal skins because it emitted a powerful energy. Between the winged angels, a cloud developed when God wished to make contact. 3000 years ago, Solomon built a temple on Mount Moriah to house the Ark box that contained the two tablets of stone that Moses was given, inscribed with the 10 Commandments. The Ark became lost at the time of the Babylonian attack in 587BC when Solomon’s temple was destroyed.
The Grail wasn’t of much importance beyond being a container. It was what was placed within, the wine that was turned into the blood of the unjustly crucified innocent that has the capacity to heal and to transform lives through its miracle. The two angels that sat on the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant protected the message and word of God that issued from between those two angelic figures. The wisdom is the riches, not the article itself.
Some cups suggested to be the Holy Grail:
Sancto Caliz, Valencia Cathedral - the only one recognised by the Vatican:
Sacro Catino, a hexagonal green glass found in Caesarea in 1101 reputed to be the dish of the Last Supper:
Glastonbury Sapphire Blue Bowl of Florentine glass found in a holy well early C20:
Nantes Cup, wooden from Nantes House, Aberystwyth: Onyx Chalice of Donna Urraca, belonged Urraca of Zamor, daughter of Ferdinand I of Leon, in the Basilica of Leon since 11th century.
A mediaeval Egyptian parchment describes a cup taken from Jerusalem to Cairo and given to the Emir who gave it to Ferdinand I. The publication of the book ‘Kings of the Grail’ 2014 by Torres and Ortega del Rio traced the cup from early Christian communities in Jerusalem dating suggests the cup is 200-100BC.
Article for Psychic World. Wendy Stokes https://wendystokes.co.uk
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