*& some more Multidimensional food for thought Ashtar Massive. Of course the esoteric significance of 'The Holy Grail' transcends the ongoing quest for the cup itself. When 'one takes into account narratives like: 'The Chalice & The Blade' or 'The Hieros Gamos'... the plot only thickens. Think of Leonardo Da Vinci's 'Last Supper' painting, where there is no Grail on the table... yet clearly sitting to Christ's right is a woman. From this perspective, the woman, Mary Magdalene (the Sacred Feminine Principle) is revealed as the Living Grail... the receptacle for 'the bloodline' of the Christ. & on it goes... nonetheless, these new claims add more intrigue to the mystery. More will be revealed. ~InLight555
April 2 2014 ~In their newly published book “Los Reyes del Grial” (“The Kings of the Grail”), medieval history lecturer Margarita Torres and art historian José Miguel Ortega del Rio claim the Holy Grail rests inside the Basilica of San Isidoro in the northern Spanish city of León. The historians say that a three-year investigation led to their conclusion that the hallowed cup that Jesus Christ supposedly drank from at the Last Supper and that was used to collect his precious blood is a jewel-encrusted goblet that has long been known as the chalice of the Infanta Doña Urraca in honor of the daughter of King Ferdinand I, ruler of León and Castile from 1037 to 1065.
The researchers had been investigating Islamic remains in the Basilica of San Isidoro when they came across medieval Egyptian parchments that mentioned that the holy chalice had been taken from Jerusalem to Cairo and then given to an emir who ruled an Islamic kingdom on Spain’s Mediterranean coast in return for the help he gave to famine-stricken Egypt. The emir then gifted the chalice as a peace offering to the Christian King Ferdinand. The goblet has been in the basilica’s possession since the 11th century and in plain sight in the church’s basement museum since the 1950s.
The chalice, made of gold and onyx and sprinkled with precious stones, is actually two goblets fused together, one turned up, the other down. Torres and del Rio say the upper half is made of agate and missing a fragment, exactly as described in the Egyptian parchments. The co-authors report that scientific dating has placed the origin of the cup between 200 B.C. and 100 A.D. As the Irish Times reports, the co-authors concede they cannot definitively prove that the chalice actually touched Jesus’s lips, only that it is the vessel that early Christians revered as the one used at the Last Supper. “The only chalice that could be considered the chalice of Christ is that which made the journey to Cairo and then from Cairo to León—and that is this chalice,” Torres told the newspaper. Since the book’s publication last week, the basilica has been inundated with visitors, forcing curators to remove the relic from display until they can find a larger exhibition space to accommodate the crowds.
This, of course, is not the first time that the Holy Grail has been “found.” For while the Holy Grail has proven elusive, it is also strangely ubiquitous. From Latvia to Scotland, more than 200 goblets in Europe alone have been posited as being the holy relic. Some claim the cup rests in the sewers of Jerusalem while others believe that the medieval Knights Templar took the goblet from Jerusalem during the Crusades and eventually secreted it away in New World locations ranging from Minnesota to Maryland to Nova Scotia. Some theorize it is even hidden inside Fort Knox...
Even if there is a Holy Grail, proving that it indeed was the goblet used by Jesus would be nearly impossible. One thing that’s all but certain, however, is that in spite of the latest announcement, history’s greatest treasure hunt will continue.
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http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=29642
*Notice that Jesus & Mary's arms form a 'V' shape...
Da Vici's clue to the true Grail?... No doubt from my perspective.
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*As we ALL continue on our 'Heroes Journey'... the mythology of the 'Quest for the Grail' comes into even clearer Light. Here's some additional Multidimensional food for thought from "Joseph Campbell ~ The Power of Myth, with Bill Moyers". For those who haven't engaged the book or the epic interview/documentary... it's well worth the time. Truly transformative.
MOYERS: But aren’t many visionaries and even leaders and heroes close to the edge of neuroticism?
CAMPBELL: Yes, they are... Tête à Tête
MOYERS: How do you explain that?
CAMPBELL: They’ve moved out of the society that would have protected them, and into the dark forest, into the world of fire, of original experience. Original experience has not been interpreted for you, and so you’ve got to work out your life for yourself. Either you can take it or you can’t. You don’t have to go far off the interpreted path to find yourself in very difficult situations. The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience – that is the hero’s deed.
The reference of the metaphor in religious traditions is to something transcendent that is not literally any thing. If you think that the metaphor is itself the reference, it would be like going to a restaurant, asking for the menu, seeing beefsteak written there, and starting to eat the menu.
For example, Jesus ascended to heaven. The denotation would seem to be that somebody ascended to the sky. That’s literally what is being said. But if that were really the meaning of the message, then we have to throw it away, because there would have been no such place for Jesus literally to go. We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the speed of light, Jesus would still be in the galaxy, Astronomy and physics have simply eliminated that as a literal, physical possibility, But if you read "Jesus ascended to heaven" in terms of its metaphoric connotation, you see that he has gone inward – not into outer space but into inward space, to the place from which all being comes, into the consciousness that is the source of all things, the kingdom of heaven within. The images are outward, but their reflection is inward. The point is that we should ascend with him by going inward. It is a metaphor of returning to the source, alpha and omega, of leaving the fixation on the body behind and going to the body’s dynamic source.
MOYERS: Aren’t you undermining one of the great traditional doctrines of the classic Christian faith – that the burial and the resurrection of Jesus prefigures our own?
CAMPBELL: That would be a mistake in the reading of the symbol. That is reading the words in terms of prose instead of in terms of poetry, reading the metaphor in terms of the denotation instead of the connotation.
MOYERS: And poetry gets to the unseen reality.
CAMPBELL: That which is beyond even the concept of reality, that which transcends all thought. The myth puts you there all the time, gives you a line to connect with that mystery which you are.
Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is simply trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.
The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, "The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet."
~Insightful observations Tyler, thanks for sharing. For me, the Grail represents a 'Multidimensional' quest, for us to reclaim our true birthright. For the uninitiated... 'the Second Coming' isn't about the return of 'one' Christed yogi, but rather Humanities return to 'Christ-Consciousness'. In effect, that's what 'drinking' from 'the Cup' is really referencing... activating our true heritage (12-Strand DNA), through Christ's 'blood'line. So yes, it's enmeshed with our collective state of mind... with who we really are... with remembering that duality is merely a fading illusion that we co-created to enhance our levels of Self-Realization... & that Unity-Consciousness, is actually our natural state. Not something we have to continue to suffer for. We are in the final throes of an ancient conflict between the Light & the Darkness... the ongoing turbulence, merely the final birthing pains of the new paradigm. So from a certain perspective, the Grail has indeed, been found! ~TemetNosce247 ;-)
Arthur: I didn't know how empty was my Soul... until it was filled
~Agreed, Feather & Michael... the cup of a humble carpenter, would not be a jewel incrusted chalice. More importantly though, 'the Grail' is symbolic for Humanities 'Quest' to r e m e m b e r it's true origins. Nonetheless, it's certainly fun to ponder the existence of Jesus' actual cup, that was undoubtably present at the Last Supper. One could even imagine if it was actually found by 'the Church', that they would have glammed it up themselves, to essencially help sell their manipulated version of Christ's teachings & message ~InLight555
"The Grail," Langdon said, "is symbolic of the lost Goddess. When Christianity came along, the old pagan religions did not die easily. Legends of chivalric quests for the Holy Grail were in fact stories of forbidden quests to find the lost Sacred Feminine. Knights who claimed to be "searching for the chalice" were speaking in code as a way to protect themselves from a Church that had subjugated women, banished the Goddess, burned non-believers, and forbidden the pagan reverence for the Sacred Feminine." ~The Da Vinci Code
I highly doubt that original hippie, poor man's man would have this golden and materialistic cup in his possesion................another lie.