In recent times there have been a number of suggestions that the Templars had encoded the blood line of Jesus within the story of the Holy Grail. The Grail, in this scenario, actually represented the womb of Mary Magdalene carrying Jesus’ child. Previous stories had interpreted it as the chalice of the last supper. It is generally believed that Chretien de Troyes, a Templar who included a chalice in his version of the romances of King Arthur, first wrote the Grail story some time after 1180 CE. Chretien named his story le Conte del Graal and though it gives his version of the search for the Grail, he fails to define what the Grail actually was. As he was a Templar, this is probably a deliberate omission. Although we see the word Grail as the frequent translation of Graal, Chretien wrote it graal with a lower case g. I suspect he did this deliberately in order to show that it wasn’t a significant object that the word represents. In 1190, an anonymous author wrote what has been called the First Continuation, which developed the story where Chretien had left off. In this version too, the Grail is undefined, but it seems to act like a servant, perhaps implying that it was the human shell in service to the spirit.
Ten years later, Robert de Boron wrote another version, which he claimed was from a different source — a book written by Christian clerics — so not surprisingly the Grail was now defined as the ‘Holy Grail’ and became the cup of the Last Supper, which later collected a few drops of Jesus’ blood when he was taken to his tomb. Around 1200 CE, in Germany Wolfram von Eschenbach wrote his version of the Grail story, which he entitled ‘Parzival’. In this tale the guardians were not Arthurian warriors, but the Knights Templar and the Grail was a small stone which had the power to heal and rejuvenate — this sounds very like the Egyptian Benben stone, with its Benben bird/Phoenix, which had the ability to regenerate and whose appearance heralded a new era. Another stone that healed was the Hermetic alchemists’ ‘philosopher’s stone’ and this too was probably based on the Benben.
The Grail story has it origins in Britain, in the region once known as the White Lands, which is now North Wales/Cheshire/Shropshire and allegedly once the heartland of the Druids, later the real historical Arthur and even later still an important site for the Cistercians and the Knights Templar. The Grail stories were exported verbally from here and written down in France, before returning to Britain. There is evidence for a historical Arthur in North Wales and Shropshire, a leader named Owain Ddantgwyn, whose battle title Bear is Arth in welsh. Arth Gwyr, which sounds very like Arthur means Bear Man. The original author of the Perceval Grail story was a descendent of Owain Ddantgwyn, a monk named Blayse from St Asaph in North Wales. Blayse went into the employ of the Peveril family in Shropshire. A thread, which runs through these individuals links things back to very ancient times in Britain.
In Celtic Britain, the magical cauldron of the gods could not only heal but revive the dead and can be viewed as the forerunner of the grail chalice. In the Grail stories, there are several holy items that make an appearance all had their origins with the early Celts — a sword, a spear, a bowl and a stone. Unsurprisingly, Christians contrived to equate these items with the sword that cut off John the Baptist’s head, the spear which pierced the side of Christ, the cup of the Last Supper and the stone on which Jacob laid his head to sleep. The reality is that their origins are in the ancient Celtic legends, which state that when the Danaan gods landed upon earth from the heavens, they brought the supernatural sword and spear of Lugh, the cauldron of Dagda, which revived the dead, and the stone of destiny — Lia Fail. From my research, I have concluded that the ancients put familiar names upon the Danaan’s tools and instruments, which they could not properly define.
The places in North Wales from which the Grail story might have originated present evidence of Templar activity. Quite by chance, I stumbled across a 17th century painting that depicted a father and son of a very influential family in the area. What should have been just an ordinary family portrait showed the young son in a very unusual pose — the identical posture given to John the Baptist, by painters who were reputed to have had Templar/Sion connections.
It will probably never be known for certain just what the Grail was meant to be, but looking at the wider evidence, the most likely answer would be that the Grail was nothing other than a symbol meant to preserve the true Christianity of the Gnostics, the more ancient Egyptian Mysteries and the ideals of the Druids of Britain and Gaul. From research into pre– history and ancient history, which I had undertaken before discovering the truth and lies of the Bible and Christianity, I felt that there was a common ancient heritage shared between the early true Druids and the priests of Ra in Egypt. It also became apparent that there were guardians of esoteric knowledge who passed some of this information on and eventually inspired the formation of the Priory of Sion and then the Knights Templar. What the ancients knew, filtered down to us through the Celtic legends, whilst in the Middle Ages further information was encoded into the Arthurian and Grail legends. From some of the things which I have discovered about the Templars and their activities in strangely remote places, it strongly suggests interests which have nothing to do with either money–making or religion, but it did involve keeping people well away from these areas, some of which have mysterious artefacts whose origins cannot even be guessed at. Hopefully in the future, after more extensive research, I will be able to expand more fully on some of these things.
An intriguing link connects the homelands of the Druids to Canaan. Sacred sites, which include springs, standing stones and stone circles are almost exclusively linked to the lands where Druids were known to have lived. Canaan too had standing stones and some stone circles, often attributed in local legends to the Nephilim and later the Hebrews adopted these places as sacred sites of their own. A stone circle site has been located in Upper Egypt where on the summer solstice the suns rays cast no shadow. The site is located on the Tropic of Cancer, its finding has caused quite a stir amongst academics as until recently it was thought that stone circles only occurred in western Europe. If there is one megalithic structure, then the odds are that there are, or were, more. The problems of finding them in this location are compounded by the vast amounts of sand likely to be on top of them. The Canaanite name for stone circles was gilgal and the Hebrews adopted the same, naming a town near Jericho, Gilgal. It was at this stone circle that Saul was supposedly crowned as the first king of the Israelites. According to Bible expert Professor SH Hooke, early tradition makes this Canaanite stone circle an important Israelite site where the Ark of the Covenant was first installed, the first Passover was celebrated after the entry into the Promised Land and where important Israelites were circumcised.
In Kings 18:30–35, there is a report of Elijah repairing a stone circle. It says that he took twelve stones — possibly an astrological reference to the twelve planets/houses — and built an altar to God, then about the altar he built a trench and filled it with water. This sounds very much like a stone circle with a surrounding henge ditch. This is a unique reference because no stone circles with surrounding henges have been found outside of the British Isles. The purpose of the water filled ditches was to make astronomical measurements from the reflections.
The stone circles present a large and complex subject and their meaning and purpose are as difficult to discern as the origins and methods of those who built them. The Templar links to these and many obscure and remote sites are the subject of a further book. The search for the Holy Grail is much easier to accomplish once we know how to look, we find it where it has always been — within ourselves.
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