Meditation on an Artwork

 

I met Frater Bia on Facebook and we were speaking about the Holy Grail and what it means. He showed me this artwork of a golden chalice, and tree with a doorway in the trunk. I had just this week found notes of some meditation work with my long lost, and revered esoteric tutor Yvette (oh you probably know her under another name) where we would meditate in the circle and she suggested my entry through a similar doorway and I reported to her what I discovered inside. So last night, I went through this Facebook friend’s artwork.

Who was there in her 1940s sitting room, Yvette of course, the one who held the chalice for me. 

This is what she revealed last night: To find the Grail is to appreciate “awe and wonder”, and she spoke about how Jupiter was known to the ancient Babylonians and is Father God of expansion and benevolence, inspiration of heroes, and how he always outshines his predecessor, the old father God, Saturn, who was so mean  and greedy that he ate his own children.

Tears entered my eyes as she proceeded to speak of love, charity and service: Who or What doth the Grail serve? It restores the wasteland and provides a bountiful harvest, prevents waste and pollution, ends corruption, pours light on that which is dark and where hidden things fester and poison. It protects the vulnerable and provides for those in need.

She said the cup holds/contains us, keeps us safe because we are precious ‘liquid’, everyone of us - because we all have the ability to do great things with our life and we must ask the question, without fail, as to “What ails thee?”, ask this of ourself, and of our greater society, and world.

The Grail leads us to self knowledge of who we are, and gives us the will to grow in understanding, and gain wisdom to experience life to the fullest, to see the simplest beauty of a leaf, the amazing mystery of life forms in this world, or the extraordinary science that our planet is flying through the Universe, and that we are alive now and will one day, die.

And she spoke about the Grail as what excites, inspires and moves us, and gives our lives purpose and meaning, she said the Grail teaches to find all that is life affirming, that raises our energy higher and higher until we are able to join the deities in their heavenly realms. (Yvette was marvellous at facilitating that comfortable, timeless, transcendental space).

The Grail is about leading a life which is rich - it needs no money to possess it. And then she spoke about the Grail poetry as a symbol of the Messiah, Jesus, who “was despised and forsaken, knew sorrows and was acquainted with grief” and that his innocent life as a healer and teacher and his cruel death, inspires us to fight against injustice and wrongdoing. Just as Moses gave us the 10 Commandments, so the prophecied Jesus gave us something greater. The God of the Old Testament was harsh and vindictive, whereas Jesus taught us God is benevolent, forgiving, and loves us. She said in finding the Grail, we lead the ‘greater’ life, not the petty life of pretense, self congratulation and self interest.

There was lots more within this that I have not included. I have not written well this morning. It was transmitted in few words and I have no idea how long it took. I dearly loved Yvette and had not enough time with her to gain one percent of her teaching. So thank you to my new brother monk and his beautiful artwork that led to my meeting with a very special spiritual teacher.  

With thanks to Frater Bia for permission to use his artwork.