The Grail

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. 

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.