Holy Grail

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The Holy Land of Scotland: Is it conceivable that two thousand years ago Jesus and members of His family came to ancient Caledonia, now Scotland. This extraordinary possibility is examined in detail by Scottish based author Barry Dunford, after having extensively researched this fascinating and intriguing scenario. This book reveals that there has been a monumental historical cover up surrounding the real Jesus story and the true purpose behind His spiritual mission.

The English visionary poet William Blake claimed that the real and original Holy Land of Christ was to be found within the ancient British Isles rather than Palestine in the Middle East, and there are certainly grounds for giving some credence to such an intriguing notion. There is reason to believe that the forbears of Jesus may have been of Celto-Hebraic origin and that while His immediate family came from gentilic Galilee, their earlier roots may well have originated in the British Isles, specifically ancient Caledonia, now Scotland. Related to the foregoing is a possible link between the Jesus family lineage and the Celtic Royal household of ancient Britain, which is suggested in documents found in the English College of Arms (the Heralds Office) and elsewhere. This appears to have had a direct bearing on the presence of Joseph of Arimathea and a key Apostolic mission in ancient Britain.

The ramifications behind this Christic movement in the British Isles are far reaching indeed. There have been a number of inferences from various ecclesiastical sources, together with many localised legends, encompassing the past two millennia, to the effect that during the first century A.D, an Apostolic mission in the British Isles, was at the root of the development of the Church of Christ in Britain. Several contemporary historians, including Tertullian, the first of the Latin Church Fathers, and later such authorities as the Roman Catholic Cardinal Baronius and Sir Henry Spelman, an English antiquary, may be cited in support of this historical contention. Legends trace the origins of this British Church of Christ, at least in part, to the presence of Joseph of Arimathea, the uncle of Jesus Himself, in ancient Britain and at Glastonbury in particular...

Dan Green: In the small town of Royston, Hertfordshire, there stands a stone that signifies the intersection of two straight roads orientated to the cardinal directions. This ‘Roi Stone’ or ‘Rose Stone’ has been moved a short distance to rectify hindering traffic, but what remains in the same place is the artificial cave below it, a circular beehive-shaped chamber some 26’ high, with a 17’ diameter, discovered accidently in 1742 by workmen who dug around the curious stone and discovered a shaft leading below into the chalk. It was more than half buried beneath soil, similar one might say to a time capsule, and when emptied revealed medieval carvings of the KnightsTemplar, who founded nearby Baldock.

To this day the carvings, suspected to tell a story best kept secret, remain open to interpretation, apart from a singular and reservedly conventional attempt. More excited devotees of the KT, who prefer to view the Order as one who were custodians and guardians of a great secret and who had somehow gained an access to knowledge way ahead of their time - ‘a complete and absolute knowledge’(obviously related and allied to the explosive secret they kept) - still await an induction into the ancient hieroglyphic language of the ‘Rabbit’ and how Druids and the Templars used this veiled and coded language to communicate. Perhaps, employing what amount I do know of this codex, the time to brave a wider scope attempt to have the story of this wellpreserved frieze at the Royston cave, is now. We are going to see how the Templars code hid the very thing that the Roman Catholic Church feared discovery of the most – the workings of the female body, and a sacred marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, the woman they character assassinated to paint as a ‘whore’, and in doing so desecrate the concept of the sacred feminine and the spiritual act of the Heiros Gamos. To initiate us into how the Rabbit language works, we shall look at the symbol of the Templars, two knights sharing one horse.

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Anthony North: The Holy Grail is an enduring mystery. However, it is often difficult to define just what it is. Traditionally, it is thought to be the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper, but its meaning has gone far beyond this physical artifact. Rather, it is often seen as symbolic of enlightenment in the mind. It is the quest for the mystical experience, and a connection with the God-head. By connecting, you reach a state of purity. Many myths have gathered around the grail.: Typical are those concerning King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. In this respect, the Grail Quest becomes one of aspiration, purity and bonding. Of course, such myths and ideals are saidnot to play a large part in our lives.

After all, it is just make-believe. But could it be that the purpose of Grail myths was to form a distinct mentality within society? The grail became synonymous with chivalric purity.: This was the ultimate way to be in Medieval times. The whole lifestyle of the Knight was geared around it. In this sense, it was a specific politicism. Arguably, this was the purpose behind the writing of the Grail romances, such as those by Chretien de Troyes, slowly changing the original legends to represent the Medieval Knightly purpose. In a way, this is quite worrying. : One of the most beautiful mythologies of Christianity actually turned into a form of social control. But then again, it could well have been remebered for this reason in itself. The important pointabout the Grail quest is the idea of ‘purity" or ‘perfection". It is something to aim for in life. But there is a simple fact about perfection. It cannot ever be attained. We are human, and always have faults. Icons have always appeared displaying perfection. : Typical is the ‘saint". Such an icon was lauded in Medieval times to show what the person should aim for. Knowing it was impossible, this confirmed in the person the idea that he was a sinner. In this way, the person at least tried to better himself.

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Patrick Barkham: The accountancy firm that looks after children's entertainers the Wiggles is not an obvious place to search for the Holy Grail, but that's where the trail led last night. It started with a simple quest - what on earth is a large advertisment headlined "The Ancient and Noble Order of The Knights Templar" doing in the Daily Telegraph? - and it led your intrepid investigator to the wilds of west London and then all the way back to the 12th century.It was around 1118 when the order of the Knights Templar was founded in the Holy Land by Hughes de Payens and eight other French knights to protect pilgrims and defend Jerusalem, which hadbeen captured by the Crusaders in 1099.

Over almost two centuries, the order grew into one of the most rich and powerful institutions of the era. It all came crashing down when the Pope burnt the Templars' last grand master at the stake in Paris in 1314. The order seemed to have disappeared - until yesterday, when this tantalising advertisement appeared.Apart from the odd misplaced apostrophe and various arcane references to "annulling the bull", the advert gravely announced that the Knights Templar would petition the Pope to "restore the Order with the duties, rights and privileges appropriate to the 21st century and beyond". It called on all Templar groups and "brothers in arms" around the world to get in touch, either via its website,www.theknightstemplar.info, or an address in west London, which could clearly become a mecca for long-lost Templars and baffled Telegraph readers alike.My quest was to decipher this advertisement and find out why someone would pay several thousand pounds to place it in the press.Historians agree that the Knights Templar were a powerful military order of warrior monks charged with defending the Holy Land. They amassed great wealth, although their prestige was damaged when the Christians were driven out of Jerusalem in the 13th century.

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