The Grail

"De una obra de Filaleteo, Magia adámica, entresacamos el siguiente pasaje: “Por mi alma afirmo que la tierra es invisible, y no sólo esto, sino que el ojo del hombre no ve jamás la tierra ni puede ésta ser vista sin arte. El mayor secreto de la magia es hacer invisible este elemento y este cuerpo feculento y grosero sobre que andamos, es un compuesto, y no la tierra, sino que en él está la tierra. En una palabra, que todos los elementos son visibles menos la tierra, y cuando alcancemos la necesaria perfección para saber por qué Dios ha puesto la tierra in abscondito, tendremos una excelente traza para conocer a Dios y saber cómo es visible y cómo invisible”."

(https://oldcivilizations.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/los-sorprendentes-y-esotericos-conocimientos-de-los-antiguos/)


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"Clearly, the Grail had a specific significance for those who listened so avidly to these stories of wonder and marvel. The grail’s significance is simply its connection with the Holy Family.
The Grail suggests in the strongest possible terms that another route to salvation — one that had nothing to do with the Church of Rome — was available around the turn of the thirteenth century."

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"The pattern is clear. Around the turn of the thirteenth century, the Grail Romances offered a direct challenge to the authority of Rome, one that Rome could not answer for fear of exposing her own shaky position. Innocent III felt strong enough, after the fall of Constantinople, to turn the iron grip of Christian chivalry on the most exposed and concentrated group of heretics hoping to quiet the lot of them. Indeed, the fear and horror of the Cathar Crusade did put the fear of the Pope back into the hearts of Christians everywhere."

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"Wolfram says that to know the Grail you must “learn your ABC’s without the aid of black magic.” Robert de Borron’s Joseph is quite explicit. The mystery of the Grail is the inner teaching. Jesus taught Joseph strange words to vibrate over the cup that held the holy blood. This attempt to clear away the underbrush of the Grail texts has shown that the source of the Grail is that strange mixture of Celtic and Christian beliefs that developed in the west of England and Ireland before the Empire crumbled. It was defended by Arthur, and almost brought by him on to the stage of European history at just that juncture when the politics of the Empire would have allowed a completely new direction, a completely new version based on the inner teaching of the Christian mysteries."

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In the Grail, we see, even at this late date, the radiant quality of that early church. The importance of the Grail, for us now, as we plunge into the next cycle of spiritual evolution, lies in its symbolic nature. Within the Grail can be found a synthesis of all western mystical and magical traditions. It is the source of that underground stream of meaning that flows through the occult and esoteric teachings of the last two thousand years.

The Grail is all things to all people, and to all it is The Mystery. Omnia quia sunt, lumina sunt."


by Daniel Roads
(http://www.sangraal.com/histgrail.htm)