A Grail Compendium

The Treasure Path

Not least among Grail Questers, are those who seek the hidden treasure of the Holy Grail, which some believe to have been in the keeping of the Knights Templar. When the Inquisition dissolved the Order and hunted down its members, many fled to Scotland and Roslyn Chapel where they purportedly collected the treasure they had collected while in the Holy Land. Many and conflicting are the accounts of what treasure the Templars held, but a common belief is that they were in possession of the actual cup of Jesus, which was used at the Last Supper. Just where that Cup is now, is open to debate - some believe it was taken to the New World by the Templars and buried on Oak Island in Nova Scotia. Others believe it is in one of the columns at Roslyn Chapel in Scotland. Still others believe the Holy Grail might be in the Piedmont of North Carolina, or even in eastern Massachusetts. Certain individuals have dedicated thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars to recovering this treasure. Hitler, himself, was intent on recovering the Lance of Longinus, which he considered key to his campaign.

To those who hold their attention on the mystical Grail which has its home in the human heart, this identity might seem like a sort of sacrilege - a mundane and coarse point of view. The Grail as a treasure might seem an identity of a lower order, than those already discussed.

But why shouldn't the Grail be earthly treasure? Why shouldn't it consist of invaluable jewels and priceless bounty? If all of life around us is both a creation of our powers of manifestation, and a series of lessons we call to us to elevate us, then doesn't the idea of the Grail being tangible, material, equate with it more symbolic identities? If the material and physical are in fact simply an illusion, then what places the Grail of priceless value in a different order than a state of mind/soul, or an elevation of our consciousness?

Within the symbology of the Grail, we find superlatives for each and every aspect of our being. And in all cases, the quest for attainment - be it successfully excavating Oak Island, or seeing a cup descend from heaven or identifying direct descendants of Jesus Christ - never, ever fails to challenge us to higher and higher expressions of our innate potential. Good thing, then, that the Grail takes so many forms - it's all the more enticing to the broadest range of folks possible.