books about the Holy Grail quests and the mysteries of the San Graal – page 1

Below are a small selection of books that will give you a background in understanding some of the mysteries surrounding the San Graal, or Holy Grail. In all celtic lands there are Holy Grail, San Graal or St. Greal traditions, and more often than not these are interwoven with tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

Some traditions maintain that the Holy Grail was the cup, or chalice of the ‘last supper’ story in the new testament of the christian Bible. Others maintain that the san graal was the Cauldron of Caridwen of the ancient Welsh tradition, and that these had been christianised, and deliberately mystified, in order to break the link with the ancient druidic traditions and rituals that were still in daily practice well into medieval times

– practices that the christian church in it’s many manifestations were very determined to stamp out.

Seen as a challenge to the ‘authority’ of the christian church, the suppression of the ‘old ways’ resulted in the appalling brutality of the ‘witchcraft’ hysteria that historical records tell us was whipped up by catholic and

protestant priests alike – hysteria which culminated in the ‘burning at the stake’ of countless unfortunate souls over many centuries in many lands. What has been uncovered in more recent times about the grail is that numerous ‘secret societies’ and ‘orders of fraternity’ have existed at various periods throughout the past 1500 years, each claiming

to be the rightful ‘guardians of the grail’, and each claiming some form of ‘divine authority’.

Institute takes the simple view that the various grail legends

most likely originate within the bodies of ancient knowledge that were

passed down through the generations in oral traditions in the celtic lands.

That in line with common practice they were ‘encoded’

in the form of stories, or riddle-poems, and that what survives today

is an odd mixture of these interwoven with half-forgotten historial facts

purposes of a christian priesthood of dubious integrity wishing to attract

devout but gullible pilgrims to various shrines, many grail legends were

embelished, and ‘localised’

in areas such as the town of Glastonbury in south-west England, where

the false claim of the grave of King Arthur still persists to this day.

In ancient Welsh tradition the Holy Grail, or San Graal, was just the

christianised version of the ancient and mysterious Cauldron