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Past Interpretations of The Holy Grail

 

The following is a list of previous interpretations of the Grail.  Please note these are all ruled out as possibilities in the video, DVD and book.

 

The Grail as an Ancient Relic, or Other Object

 

The variations on this theme are truly many and varied and trying to eke out some sense from them is a considerable challenge.  Here are just a few of the interpretations of the Grail as an object.

 

A Graal, or Platter

 

This was a dish used to serve food between courses, first described in the mystical tale Perceval, le Cote du Graal (Perceval, The Story of the Grail) by Chrétien de Troyes between 1180 and 1191.  In this story the Graal was used to carry a Communion wafer - this will be important to remember, as we shall see.  In later re-tellings the Grail acquired more holy mystique.  This is the first known reference in literature to a graal, or grail.

 

The Chalice Used by Christ at the Last Supper

 

The first interpretation of the Grail as the “Holy Grail” appears in Robert de Boron’s romance Joseph d’Arimathie, composed between 1191 and 1202. Joseph of Arimathea acquires the chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper, and uses it to collect Christ’s blood when He is removed from the cross.  One legend has it that he eventually took the Grail to England where it was guarded by a dynasty of Grail keepers, including Perceval.

 

This interpretation was told and re-told in numerous later works, each introducing different slants to the overall story.  The chalice has been said to have various mystical powers, these being:

 

-  the ability to heal

-  providing immortality

-  providing communication with, or knowledge of God

-  invisibility to evil or unworthy eyes

-  the ability to feed people

-  the ability to call those to it who are worthy

-  the ability to enlighten the masses

-  the ability to raise the dead

-  the ability to decide the next King

 

It’s exact identity and location has been attributed to a number of places.  These are just a few:

-  a cup in Valencia Cathedral.

-  the Emerald Chalice at Genoa (later found to be glass).

-  a local legend says it is buried in a network of sealed tunnels under Glastonbury Tor, England.

-  at Rosslyn Chapel, near Edinburgh.  It is thought to be inside the Prentice Pillar in this chapel. There are many references to the Grail in its stone work and windows. The pillar has been examined with metal detectors and an object of the correct size seems to be buried in the middle, but Lord Rosslyn refuses to have the pillar x-rayed.

- a terracotta cup inside a gold chalice once guarded in Wales, subsequently destroyed by 19th century occultists.

-  the Narta Monga, Russia.  In the Caucasus a group of people have stories of a magical cauldron called the Amonga. This chalice may provide knowledge and chooses those worthy of it.

-  at the castle of Munsalvaesche (mons salvationis), thought to be the real life sanctuary at Montserrat, Spain (a theory supported by the Montserrat monks).

-  guarded somewhere unknown by a secret hereditary lineage.

-  guarded by the Knights Templar, possibly hidden by them in Oak Island, Nova Scotia’s famous “Money Pit”

-  at the town of Accokeek, Maryland

 

A Celtic Cauldron

 

The origins of the legend of the Grail divide broadly into two camps – those interpretations linked to the story of Christ, and interpretations which derive from ancient Celtic tales of a mystical cauldron.

 

There is much cross over between the Celtic tales and the Arthurian romances.  In one famous ancient Welsh poem, The Preiddeu Annwn, describes King Arthur and his men venturing into the Celtic underworld to steal the Cauldron of Annwn.  It has the ability to restore life to dead warriors.

 

Another cauldron, the Cauldron of Awen was the source of enlightenment. A youth, Gwion, was instructed to stir this by the goddess Ceridwen. When he spilled three drops onto his fingers, he put them into his mouth and gained all knowledge.

 

Most researchers into the origins of the Holy Grail now accept that both Christian and Celtic tales contributed to the legend.

 

A Meteorite

 

A later telling of the story of Percival – Parzival, by Wolfram von Eschenbach, claimed that the Grail was a stone which fell from Heaven.

 

The Thummim and Urim

 

Lady Flavia Anderson claimed in her book The Ancient Secret, that the Grail is the Jewish objects the Thummim and Urim.  Her interpretation claims that this Grail is a glass ball filled with water held in a tree like stand, and was used to light fires from the light of the sun.  Another interpretation is that the Thummim and Urim were part of the breast-plate of an ancient Jewish High Priest, which would function as an oracle when light shined on its twelve gemstones.  

 

Anointing Oil

 

Some interpret the Grail as a special anointing oil which could generate a higher consciousness or enlightenment.  Legend says it contained marijuana, and was banned by the ancient Romans.  It is thought by some that baptism was the ceremony which washed off the oil to prevent the initiate becoming too high.

 

A Mythical Spring

 

Modern Druidry sometimes interprets the Holy Grail as a spring, or well.  Notably, the Holy Well at Glastonbury is associated with the Grail, due to the tales of Joseph of Arimathea bringing the chalice of Christ to the town.  The spring has a red colour from the iron minerals in the water – symbolic of the blood of Christ, and the water has a blood-like after-taste.  It is fairly straightforward to view this as just coincidence which some people have used to make the Grail story fit.

 

The Emerald of Lucifer

 

After a fight with God, legend has it that Lucifer was cast down from Heaven and a large emerald fell from his crown. This emerald is said to have been the source of his power, and is perhaps the Holy Grail.  There is some symmetry with the stone which fell from Heaven in some of the Arthurian tales, but there is not much to go on.

 

The Philosopher’s Stone

 

The goal of alchemy was ostensibly to turn base metals into gold.  But it is also thought that alchemy was a system of spiritual teachings.  As they were heretical, they needed to be kept in code form.  In alchemy, gold was sometimes used as a metaphor for enlightenment:  alchemy was a spiritual path to God.  The philosopher’s stone was the tool used to generate that gold, and this became associated with the Grail – the Grail also being the path to God.  This interpretation is metaphorical; the philosopher’s stone is not thought to be a real stone.

 

The Remains of Mary Magdalene

 

The recent novels Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown both interpret the Grail not as a cup but as the earthly remains of Mary Magdalene, thought to be Jesus’ wife.  It is said this “Grail” was buried beneath Rosslyn Chapel, but later relocated by its guardians to a chamber under the Inverted Pyramid near the Louvre Museum.  There is no mention of either location in Grail lore.

 

The Body of Christ

 

Another group of Grail-chasers believe that the Grail is correctly the body of Christ, which is thought to remain at the village of Rennes Le Chateau in the Pyrenees.  Father Sonnier, in 1891, was allegedly renovating the Church when he discovered parchments in Latin which held secret messages, including descriptions of blood lines of powerful people.  The story goes that the parchment led him to a buried artefact – the body of Christ.  The finding brought wealth to the Church enabling renovation to be seen through, with a new tower built to Mary Magdalene – the patron saint of the village.  The story was later shown to be a hoax, and the parchments were forgeries.

 

The Bloodline of Christ

 

This is discussed in detail in the book, DVD and video from this website, and also on the bloodline of Christ page.

 

 

It is worth noting that this is the tip of an ice-berg of interpretations of the Grail.  And yet, they are simply all wrong.  A fuller description of these interpretations and the new information is provided in the video and DVD from this site and the book The Quest for Truth: On Finding The Grail, by Alex Caldon, again from this website.

 

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