Sweet brother, I have seen the Holy Grail… The Holy Thing is here again Among us, brother, fast thou too and pray, And tell thy brother knights to fast and pray, That so perchance the vision may be seen By thee and those, and all the world be healed. - Tennyson, Idylls of the King
the “symbol of religious perfection, visible only to the spiritually and morally worthy.”
“Called a chalice… it is taken to be the cup of the Last Supper and the cup in which Joseph of Arimathea caught the blood of Christ on the cross…. the cup of salvation…. In Christianity the Grail is also the Sacred Heart of Christ. The loss of the Grail represents the loss of the Golden Age, Paradise, man’s primordial spirituality, purity and innocence. In Christian legend the Grail was given to Adam but was left in Paradise after the Fall. It is at the centre of Paradise and must be refound…. The quest for the Grail is the return to Paradise… the search for the Lost Word.”
- Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols
The Grail Quest is a "search for God, who reveals Himself only to the pure"
Seeking the Grail: Seeking the Spiritual Ideal
"The Grail cannot be found by seeking, but only those who seek it will find it."
A long adventure seeking alone in the wilderness. Seeking what others do not believe exists
Most do not believe the grail exists Most do not believe there is a need for The Grail Who would be crazy enough to seek for something that is not needed and does not exist?….
To seek the Grail is to quest for something that is not of this world, something eternal - but that can bring healing and restoration to the human being and to this world…
The Goal as Redemption: healing the King, restoring the Wasteland, becoming Sovereign
Redemption, Salvation, Atonement, Deep spiritual healing
The Grail is thought to be many things: a lost and priceless treasure, the chalice cup of the Last Supper, the cup that caught Jesus Christ's blood from the cross on Golgotha, and even a secret royal bloodline.
The Masculine Warrior’s Search for the Divine Feminine….
“The knights on quest are seeking this source of the Divine Feminine, lacking it in their own souls, longing to reach out to the Goddess but unable within the constraints of their religion and their faith.”
The Feminine as Muse of the Quest
Courtly Love as Spiritual Ascent • The Damsel as Temptation, Teacher, and Gateway • The Feminine as Muse of the Quest