The Grail

The Tradition: The Holy Grail was a vessel used by Christ at the Last Supper. Given to his grand-uncle, St. Joseph of Arimathea, it was used by him to collect Christ's blood and sweat while Joseph tended him on the Cross. After Christ's death, Joseph was apparently imprisoned in a rock tomb similar to the one he had given for the body of his grand-nephew. Left to starve, he was sustained for several years by the power of the Grail which provided him with fresh food and drink every morning. Later, St. Joseph travelled to Britain with his family and several followers. He settled at Ynys Witrin (Glastonbury), but the Grail was taken to Corbenic where it was housed in a spectacular castle, guarded always by the Grail Kings, descendants of Joseph's daughter, Anna (Enygeus) and her husband, Brons.

I asked dad this afternoon if he wanted to get a movie for tonight and if yes then which one. For some reason he mentioned the Da Vinci Code, which I promptly went to get. I love that story. The Da Vinci Code is one of the few books I have read more than once. I love history, art and mysteries which the Code has loads of.

Because of my background, I grew believing that Jesus had a wife and child, my mom taught me of that fairly early on, and why not? Jesus was human after all, why couldn’t He have loved a woman and fathered a child with her? Well one thing, the world’s most reliable historical source ever found to date, the Bible, never mentions it. Other authoritative historical sources, not alleged gospels written under the aliases of someone else 200-300 years older than the closest eyewitness, do not mention Christ’s alleged family either. Also another of the many problems that particular theory has is that it assumes that Christ is only fully man, it disregards His dual nature. Christ is also fully God. Being fully God, and so the father of humanity, He would have viewed all humans, men and women alike, as His children. To me it seems like a twisted kind of love where a father falls in-love with his daughter.
I personally believe that because people couldn’t grasp the reality of God, and therefore grasp the divinity of Christ, it was easier to undermine Him. It was easier, for all purposes along with their consciences, to make Him out to be fully man and not even remotely divine but made so by His human counterparts. Enter the quest for the grail. Why the quest, what is its purpose? To what does it lead? Does it lead to some enchanted chalice, the heir of Christ through His bloodline or to something completely different? Who started it?
I want to start a mini series where I want to attempt to answer these questions. I’ve always been fascinated by the grail stories. There is such an air of mystery surrounding them with the Nights Templar and the Priori de Sion, the secret societies allegedly charged with hiding a big secret. I first heard of the Priori de Sion and the Nights Templar in France with my grandparents. They live in the south and in the part of France that has the most Templar and Sion lore, apparently a lot of the story after Jerusalem and their fall happens there.

Anyway it’s an interesting story that has always fascinated me and I hope to dig in deeper.