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	[[File:1912.5.1 1a.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.4\|alt=Knight in a boat, looking up to see three angels, one holding the Holy Grail\|''The Knight of the Holy Grail'', Frederick J. Waugh (c. 1912)]]		<languages />
			[[File:1912.5.1 1a.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.4\|alt=Knight in a boat, looking up to see three angels, one holding the Holy Grail\|<translate>''The Knight of the Holy Grail'', Frederick J. Waugh (c. 1912)</translate>]]

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	According to [[King Arthur\|Arthurian legend]], the '''Holy Grail''', the cup from which [[Jesus]] drank at the Last Supper, was brought by [[Joseph of Arimathea]] to [[Glastonbury]], which was then an island in southwest England. The focal point was thus set for the [[dispensation]] of [[Camelot]], a [[mystery school]] founded on the concept of the quest for the Holy Grail as a path of discipline and [[initiation]].		According to [[King Arthur\|Arthurian legend]], the '''Holy Grail''', the cup from which [[Jesus]] drank at the Last Supper, was brought by [[Joseph of Arimathea]] to [[Glastonbury]], which was then an island in southwest England. The focal point was thus set for the [[dispensation]] of [[Camelot]], a [[mystery school]] founded on the concept of the quest for the Holy Grail as a path of discipline and [[initiation]].

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	Whether fact or fantasy, the Holy Grail has been a persistent thread in our psyche, an archetypal image finally ensconced as a modern-day metaphor. It is worth our while to trace the concept of the fabled cup back to its earliest origins.		Whether fact or fantasy, the Holy Grail has been a persistent thread in our psyche, an archetypal image finally ensconced as a modern-day metaphor. It is worth our while to trace the concept of the fabled cup back to its earliest origins.
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	[[File:Rossetti Percival.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.3\|''How Sir Galahad, Sir Bors and Sir Percival were Fed with the Sanc Grael; But Sir Percival’s Sister Died by the Way'', watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1864)]]		[[File:Rossetti Percival.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.3\|<translate>''How Sir Galahad, Sir Bors and Sir Percival were Fed with the Sanc Grael; But Sir Percival’s Sister Died by the Way'', watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1864)</translate>]]

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	== Arthurian legend ==		== Arthurian legend ==

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	The mystic vessel of great sanctity played an important role in the stories of the [[Round Table\|Table Round]]. It flickered in and out of myriad tales—now clothed in white samite, now veiled in shining mist. It appeared only to those who had most closely attained the ideal of the fellowship—Galahad, Bors, Lancelot, and Percival. It provided the spiritual raison d’être of Arthur’s kingdom.		The mystic vessel of great sanctity played an important role in the stories of the [[Round Table\|Table Round]]. It flickered in and out of myriad tales—now clothed in white samite, now veiled in shining mist. It appeared only to those who had most closely attained the ideal of the fellowship—Galahad, Bors, Lancelot, and Percival. It provided the spiritual raison d’être of Arthur’s kingdom.
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	[[File:Holy-grail-round-table-bnf-ms fr-116F-f610v-15th-detail.jpg\|thumb\|King Arthur and his knights see a vision of the Holy Grail]]		[[File:Holy-grail-round-table-bnf-ms fr-116F-f610v-15th-detail.jpg\|thumb\|<translate>King Arthur and his knights see a vision of the Holy Grail</translate>]]

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	== The appearance of the Grail ==		== The appearance of the Grail ==

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	<blockquote>Woe is me, my knights!... Go, since your vows are sacred, being made. Yet—for ye know the cries of all my realm pass thro’ this hall—how often, O my knights, your places being vacant at my side, this chance of noble deeds will come and go unchallenged, while ye follow wandering fires lost in the quagmire! Many of you, yea most, return no more.</blockquote>		<blockquote>Woe is me, my knights!... Go, since your vows are sacred, being made. Yet—for ye know the cries of all my realm pass thro’ this hall—how often, O my knights, your places being vacant at my side, this chance of noble deeds will come and go unchallenged, while ye follow wandering fires lost in the quagmire! Many of you, yea most, return no more.</blockquote>
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	[[File:Arthur Hughes - Sir Galahad.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.3\|''Sir Galahad, the Quest for the Holy Grail'', Arthur Hughes (1870)]]		[[File:Arthur Hughes - Sir Galahad.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.3\|<translate>''Sir Galahad, the Quest for the Holy Grail'', Arthur Hughes (1870)</translate>]]

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	Of the 150 knights of the Round Table who went forth to quest the Grail, only four saw it—Galahad, Percival, Bors, and [[Lancelot]].		Of the 150 knights of the Round Table who went forth to quest the Grail, only four saw it—Galahad, Percival, Bors, and [[Lancelot]].

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	Elizabeth Clare Prophet, July 4, 1978.		Elizabeth Clare Prophet, July 4, 1978.
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	[[File:1912.5.1 1a.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.4\|alt=Knight in a boat, looking up to see three angels, one holding the Holy Grail\|The Knight of the Holy Grail, Frederick J. Waugh (c. 1912)]]		[[File:1912.5.1 1a.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.4\|alt=Knight in a boat, looking up to see three angels, one holding the Holy Grail\|''The Knight of the Holy Grail'', Frederick J. Waugh (c. 1912)]]

	According to [[King Arthur\|Arthurian legend]], the '''Holy Grail''', the cup from which [[Jesus]] drank at the Last Supper, was brought by [[Joseph of Arimathea]] to [[Glastonbury]], which was then an island in southwest England. The focal point was thus set for the [[dispensation]] of [[Camelot]], a [[mystery school]] founded on the concept of the quest for the Holy Grail as a path of discipline and [[initiation]].		According to [[King Arthur\|Arthurian legend]], the '''Holy Grail''', the cup from which [[Jesus]] drank at the Last Supper, was brought by [[Joseph of Arimathea]] to [[Glastonbury]], which was then an island in southwest England. The focal point was thus set for the [[dispensation]] of [[Camelot]], a [[mystery school]] founded on the concept of the quest for the Holy Grail as a path of discipline and [[initiation]].
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	Whether fact or fantasy, the Holy Grail has been a persistent thread in our psyche, an archetypal image finally ensconced as a modern-day metaphor. It is worth our while to trace the concept of the fabled cup back to its earliest origins.		Whether fact or fantasy, the Holy Grail has been a persistent thread in our psyche, an archetypal image finally ensconced as a modern-day metaphor. It is worth our while to trace the concept of the fabled cup back to its earliest origins.

			[[File:Rossetti Percival.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.3\|''How Sir Galahad, Sir Bors and Sir Percival were Fed with the Sanc Grael; But Sir Percival’s Sister Died by the Way'', watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1864)]]

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	According to legend, each year at the feast of Pentecost the knights of the Round Table returned to Camelot and rendered to the king and queen the reports of their deeds during the year. One [[Pentecost]] as the knights were gathered at the Round Table they saw a vision of the Holy Grail “so filled with glorious light that none might behold it.” Sir Gawain and many of the others made the vow never to return again to the court until they had seen the Holy Grail more openly.		According to legend, each year at the feast of Pentecost the knights of the Round Table returned to Camelot and rendered to the king and queen the reports of their deeds during the year. One [[Pentecost]] as the knights were gathered at the Round Table they saw a vision of the Holy Grail “so filled with glorious light that none might behold it.” Sir Gawain and many of the others made the vow never to return again to the court until they had seen the Holy Grail more openly.

	Alfred Lord Tennyson in ''Idylls of the King'' records that upon hearing their vow King Arthur cried~~, “Woe~~ is me, my knights!... Go, since your vows are sacred, being made. Yet—for ye know the cries of all my realm pass thro’ this hall—how often, O my knights, your places being vacant at my side, this chance of noble deeds will come and go unchallenged, while ye follow wandering fires lost in the quagmire! Many of you, yea most, return no more.”		Alfred Lord Tennyson in ''Idylls of the King'' records that upon hearing their vow King Arthur cried:

			<blockquote>Woe is me, my knights!... Go, since your vows are sacred, being made. Yet—for ye know the cries of all my realm pass thro’ this hall—how often, O my knights, your places being vacant at my side, this chance of noble deeds will come and go unchallenged, while ye follow wandering fires lost in the quagmire! Many of you, yea most, return no more.</blockquote>

			[[File:Arthur Hughes - Sir Galahad.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.3\|''Sir Galahad, the Quest for the Holy Grail'', Arthur Hughes (1870)]]

	Of the 150 knights of the Round Table who went forth to quest the Grail, only four saw it—Galahad, Percival, Bors, and [[Lancelot]].		Of the 150 knights of the Round Table who went forth to quest the Grail, only four saw it—Galahad, Percival, Bors, and [[Lancelot]].

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	Whatever else there may be, there is always the questing knight championing the cause of justice, slaying dragons in the woods of course, seeking romance or adventure, but more often something higher—the Holy Grail. He is immortalized in our collective memory—the pure knight who had “the strength of ten.” Searching, ever-striving, overcoming obstacles in pursuit of his goal.		Whatever else there may be, there is always the questing knight championing the cause of justice, slaying dragons in the woods of course, seeking romance or adventure, but more often something higher—the Holy Grail. He is immortalized in our collective memory—the pure knight who had “the strength of ten.” Searching, ever-striving, overcoming obstacles in pursuit of his goal.

	The mystic vessel of great sanctity played an important role in the stories of the Table Round. It flickered in and out of myriad tales—now clothed in white samite, now veiled in shining mist. It appeared only to those who had most closely attained the ideal of the fellowship—Galahad, Bors, Lancelot, and Percival. It provided the spiritual raison d’être of Arthur’s kingdom.		The mystic vessel of great sanctity played an important role in the stories of the [[Round Table\|Table Round]]. It flickered in and out of myriad tales—now clothed in white samite, now veiled in shining mist. It appeared only to those who had most closely attained the ideal of the fellowship—Galahad, Bors, Lancelot, and Percival. It provided the spiritual raison d’être of Arthur’s kingdom.

	[[File:Holy-grail-round-table-bnf-ms fr-116F-f610v-15th-detail.jpg\|thumb\|King Arthur and his knights see a vision of the Holy Grail]]		[[File:Holy-grail-round-table-bnf-ms fr-116F-f610v-15th-detail.jpg\|thumb\|King Arthur and his knights see a vision of the Holy Grail]]

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	== Origins of the Grail legends ==		== Origins of the Grail legends ==

	According to the legacy of Arthurian tales, Joseph of Arimathea travelled from Jerusalem to Glastonbury soon after the crucifixion, carrying the Holy Grail. Joseph is something of a mystery man in the New Testament. After the crucifixion of Jesus he suddenly appears on the scene, boldly asks Pilate for Jesus’ body, winds it in linen cloth, lays it in what may be his own tomb, and disappears. There are stories about him, not found in the Gospels, that only add to the mystery. Legend has it that Joseph took the cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper and brought it to Glastonbury, which was then an island in southwest England.		According to the legacy of Arthurian tales, Joseph of Arimathea travelled from Jerusalem to Glastonbury soon after the crucifixion, carrying the Holy Grail. Joseph is something of a mystery man in the New Testament. After the crucifixion of Jesus he suddenly appears on the scene, boldly asks Pilate for Jesus’ body, winds it in linen cloth, lays it in what may be his own tomb, and disappears. There are stories about him, not found in the [[Gospels]], that only add to the mystery. Legend has it that Joseph took the cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper and brought it to Glastonbury, which was then an island in southwest England.

	There is little explanation for the fact that the earliest surviving versions of these stories date from the twelfth century. To some, this sudden appearance sounds like a simple invention by medieval bards, just another romanticization attached to King Arthur. While this may be true, there is a body of evidence—archaeological fact, ancient legend, and tradition—which is hard to dismiss as pure make-believe. Even if this material be only partially true, the questions it raises, the assertions it makes, are hard to ignore.		There is little explanation for the fact that the earliest surviving versions of these stories date from the twelfth century. To some, this sudden appearance sounds like a simple invention by medieval bards, just another romanticization attached to King Arthur. While this may be true, there is a body of evidence—archaeological fact, ancient legend, and tradition—which is hard to dismiss as pure make-believe. Even if this material be only partially true, the questions it raises, the assertions it makes, are hard to ignore.

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	== The significance of the Grail today ==		== The significance of the Grail today ==

	]]El Morya]] speaks of the mystical significance of the Holy Grail today:		[[El Morya]] speaks of the mystical significance of the Holy Grail today:

	<blockquote>Oh, there is a Holy Grail indeed! and long ago it was placed at Glastonbury. But, precious ones, today it has been spiritually amplified until replicas of that Holy Grail are placed as a filigree radiance of light around each human heart who aspires to become a chalice of Christed opportunity. And so tonight I tell you that the Holy Grail is within your own heart, and you are knights to guard that Grail against impure thoughts, impure motives, impure desires, impure ideas of every type and kind.<ref>{{MR1}}, p. 185.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Oh, there is a Holy Grail indeed! and long ago it was placed at Glastonbury. But, precious ones, today it has been spiritually amplified until replicas of that Holy Grail are placed as a filigree radiance of light around each human heart who aspires to become a chalice of Christed opportunity. And so tonight I tell you that the Holy Grail is within your own heart, and you are knights to guard that Grail against impure thoughts, impure motives, impure desires, impure ideas of every type and kind.<ref>{{MR1}}, p. 185.</ref></blockquote>

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	[[File:1912.5.1 1a.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.4\|alt=Knight in a boat, looking up to see three angels, one holding the Holy Grail\|The Knight of the Holy Grail, Frederick J. Waugh (c. 1912)]]		[[File:1912.5.1 1a.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.4\|alt=Knight in a boat, looking up to see three angels, one holding the Holy Grail\|The Knight of the Holy Grail, Frederick J. Waugh (c. 1912)]]

	According to [[King Arthur\|Arthurian legend]], the '''Holy Grail''', the cup from which [[Jesus]] drank at the Last Supper, was brought by [[Joseph of Arimathea]] to [[Glastonbury]], which was then an island in southwest England. The focal point was thus set for the [[dispensation]] of [[Camelot]], a [[mystery school]] founded on the concept of the quest for the Holy Grail as a path of discipline and initiation.		According to [[King Arthur\|Arthurian legend]], the '''Holy Grail''', the cup from which [[Jesus]] drank at the Last Supper, was brought by [[Joseph of Arimathea]] to [[Glastonbury]], which was then an island in southwest England. The focal point was thus set for the [[dispensation]] of [[Camelot]], a [[mystery school]] founded on the concept of the quest for the Holy Grail as a path of discipline and [[initiation]].

	== Origins of the Grail legends ==		== Origins of the Grail legends ==

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	It is not clear from the mass of conflicting legends what exactly the Grail was or is. It was variously described as a chalice or cup, a stone, a serving dish, or even Christ himself. Most probable is that the mystical Grail presence takes on different forms in the minds of those who see it, or desire to, according to their capacity for understanding.		It is not clear from the mass of conflicting legends what exactly the Grail was or is. It was variously described as a chalice or cup, a stone, a serving dish, or even Christ himself. Most probable is that the mystical Grail presence takes on different forms in the minds of those who see it, or desire to, according to their capacity for understanding.

	Other cultures also have heroes who quest grail-like objects. China, India, Tibet, Egypt, Wales, and Ireland are among the nations which preserve legends paralleling the search for the Holy Cup.<ref>For example, the Mahabharatha speaks about the ''Akshaya Pathram'', a vessel or bowl capable of creating food.</ref> The coincidences between sets of legends are striking. These outcroppings of the Grail theme are hard to explain merely as versions of the same story transferred by migration. Rather, they seem to take root, flourish and enthrall civilizations around the world because they are an essential element in man’s nature.		Other cultures also have heroes who quest grail-like objects. China, India, [[Tibet]], Egypt, Wales, and Ireland are among the nations which preserve legends paralleling the search for the Holy Cup.<ref>For example, the Mahabharatha speaks about the ''Akshaya Pathram'', a vessel or bowl capable of creating food.</ref> The coincidences between sets of legends are striking. These outcroppings of the Grail theme are hard to explain merely as versions of the same story transferred by migration. Rather, they seem to take root, flourish and enthrall civilizations around the world because they are an essential element in man’s nature.

	Emma Jung, psychologist and wife of Carl Jung, explains in her book ''The Grail Legend'' that this phenomenon results from the universal archetypal basis of the theme. She explains that “the fascination and vitality of myths and fairy-tales lie precisely in the fact that they depict basic forms of human experience. For this very reason the same motifs are found the world over, not only as the result of migration but also because the human psyche which produces them is everywhere the same.”<ref>Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, ''The Grail Legend'' (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998), p. 37.</ref>		Emma Jung, psychologist and wife of Carl Jung, explains in her book ''The Grail Legend'' that this phenomenon results from the universal archetypal basis of the theme. She explains that “the fascination and vitality of myths and fairy-tales lie precisely in the fact that they depict basic forms of human experience. For this very reason the same motifs are found the world over, not only as the result of migration but also because the human psyche which produces them is everywhere the same.”<ref>Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, ''The Grail Legend'' (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998), p. 37.</ref>
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	== The significance of the Grail today ==		== The significance of the Grail today ==

	El Morya speaks of the mystical significance of the Holy Grail today:		]]El Morya]] speaks of the mystical significance of the Holy Grail today:

	<blockquote>Oh, there is a Holy Grail indeed! and long ago it was placed at Glastonbury. But, precious ones, today it has been spiritually amplified until replicas of that Holy Grail are placed as a filigree radiance of light around each human heart who aspires to become a chalice of Christed opportunity. And so tonight I tell you that the Holy Grail is within your own heart, and you are knights to guard that Grail against impure thoughts, impure motives, impure desires, impure ideas of every type and kind.<ref>{{MR1}}, p. 185.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Oh, there is a Holy Grail indeed! and long ago it was placed at Glastonbury. But, precious ones, today it has been spiritually amplified until replicas of that Holy Grail are placed as a filigree radiance of light around each human heart who aspires to become a chalice of Christed opportunity. And so tonight I tell you that the Holy Grail is within your own heart, and you are knights to guard that Grail against impure thoughts, impure motives, impure desires, impure ideas of every type and kind.<ref>{{MR1}}, p. 185.</ref></blockquote>

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	[[King Arthur]]		[[King Arthur]]

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	== Sources ==		== Sources ==

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	[[File:1912.5.1 1a.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.2\|alt=Knight in a boat, looking up to see three angels, one holding the Holy Grail\|The Knight of the Holy Grail, Frederick J. Waugh (c. 1912)]]		[[File:1912.5.1 1a.jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.4\|alt=Knight in a boat, looking up to see three angels, one holding the Holy Grail\|The Knight of the Holy Grail, Frederick J. Waugh (c. 1912)]]

	According to [[King Arthur\|Arthurian legend]], the '''Holy Grail''', the cup from which [[Jesus]] drank at the Last Supper, was brought by [[Joseph of Arimathea]] to [[Glastonbury]], which was then an island in southwest England. The focal point was thus set for the dispensation of [[Camelot]], a [[mystery school]] founded on the concept of the quest for the Holy Grail as a path of discipline and initiation.		According to [[King Arthur\|Arthurian legend]], the '''Holy Grail''', the cup from which [[Jesus]] drank at the Last Supper, was brought by [[Joseph of Arimathea]] to [[Glastonbury]], which was then an island in southwest England. The focal point was thus set for the [[dispensation]] of [[Camelot]], a [[mystery school]] founded on the concept of the quest for the Holy Grail as a path of discipline and initiation.

	== Origins of the Grail legends ==		== Origins of the Grail legends ==