02/13/2017
"That the Holy Grail is associated in a manner with the Cauldron of Regeneration of Celtic lore, is a frequent statement among specialists in medieval legend. It is a statement whose profound truth goes far beyond any literary evidence, seeing into the very nature of Adepthood itself. The 'Quest of the Grail' is indeed a distinct and recondite image of the task which lies before the risen Adept, the Knight, the Professed. Here, 'that which he is to seek, he is to become': - the sacred vessel which is to receive the Wine of Inspiration. Nevertheless, this is but one level of the Grail's significance. It is also the specific and sacred symbol of the Goddess in her Binah Aspect, as a receptacle of the power of the Supernal Father. The Grail thus represents a high spiritual reality: one of its co-symbols is the Universe. To raise up a magical instrument, as has been said, is to bring it into manifestation and into operation. He who elevates the Grail in solemn ritual, therefore, is making offering so far as he is able, of the universe itself as a receptacle of Divine Power. Not only that: he is also whether explicitly or implicitly offering himself as an instrument of that Power. {Even thus does the Grand Master make offering of the Order, and of himself its representative before the Gods.}" - Mysteria Magica, Denning &Phillips
The Quest for the Grail
The symbol of the Grail has occupied a place in the imagination since awareness of it first dawned in the European Middle Ages, and it continues to exert a fascination upon all who come within its sphere of influence. As a sacred vessel, the grail has strong links with Celtic myth, with the hermetic vessel and the Philosophers’ Stone of alchemy. Cup stone or jewel, however it is depicted, the grail has remained a symbol of spiritual wholeness leading to union with the divine, which has been the aim of seekers after truth in every land and every century. It is a symbol ‘whose home is properly in the uncharted country of the soul’.
-The temple of mysteries-
The home of the Grail is properly in the uncharted country of the soul; but within the framework of the stories, an externalized form- the temple, or grail castle- came to be recognized as the place where if the quester should reach it, he might find the object of his search. And because such a place must have its guardians. There came into being an Order of Grail Knights, a king and a court, conforming to the mediaeval idea of such a place, but at the same time as remote and mysterious as the ritual object thus housed.
Image: Parsifal by Hermann Hendrich, made for the eponymous opera by Richard Wagner.
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