The Holy Grail's Lost Meaning: Symbol of Receptiveness to Truth and Love

By Jake Lyron

Award winning philosopher, author and activist Jake Lyron discovers new evidence on the meaning of the chalice symbol drawn from a range of other spiritualities and beliefs - Kabbalah, Taoism, psychology, genetics, Quakerism, Zen Buddhism, the Grail Romances, Greek mythology, Tarot and more. His elegant new theory of the grail as a symbol of receptiveness to truth and love unites science and spirituality with a radical new solution. Jake shows us the links between the Grail symbol and characters from Greek mythology and the Greek alphabet. More symbols are drawn into the exploration - the cup from the Tarot deck, the heart from playing cards and Cupid's arrow. Jake casts new light on the symbolism in Da Vinci's painting The Last Supper, previously overlooked by Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code. Mary Magdalene's role in the story and the concept of the bloodline of Christ are re-examined and false notions corrected.

Jake's scientific background provides him with an objective approach to the Grail mystery. Cutting through a raft of previous nonsensical theories, this new study will make the skeptics pause to think as much as it will please the mystics.

And now, true to the legend that the Grail is available to all, Jake offers the Grail to the world through this book. As a spiritual leader, Jake shows us how the lost spirituality of the Holy Grail is relevant to all of our lives - for our relationships, for war and peace, for the environment, poverty and the unity of mankind.

Jake maintains his reputation as a writer of great depth and discipline with new ideas which will challenge us to have different lives.

"Very intellectual and technically perfect. I was moved by your work. It requires a lot of research & hard work to finalize such work & I'm glad to be part of it." - Geraldine Jain, Medical Director, Jaipur.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jake Lyron
• Release date: Sep 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9780955740145

Jake Lyron

Jake is an activist for a sane world. His book "The Shrink from Planet Zob: Psychiatry for a Mad World" earned him a Mental Health Hero Award from leading mental health organisations for his contribution to the field. He publishes books which illuminate, creating clarity on reality expounding what Jake calls 'the spirituality of reality', a spirituality which makes sense from a scientific as well as a spiritual perspective. To this end he has also written about his new theory of the Holy Grail symbol in his book "The Holy Grail's Lost Meaning: Symbol of Receptiveness to Truth and Love". Google his author name to find all of the books he has published or find them on this, his Smashwords profile page.

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The Holy Grail’s Lost Meaning:

Symbol of Receptiveness to Truth and Love

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About the Author

Jake Lyron is an award winning philosopher, author and campaigner born and living in England. He has been a published Earth Scientist, a Greenpeace climber, a member of Mensa and a carpenter. Jake won a Mental Health Hero Award for his book The Shrink from Planet Zob: Psychiatry for a Mad World (details at the end of this ebook).

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Contents

Introduction

The Grail in Past Literature

The Spiritual Themes of the Grail

The Holy Grail as an Ancient Relic or Other Object

The Grail as the Bloodline of Christ

The Grail as a Spiritual Path

Christ and Truth

Galileo and Truth

Charles Darwin and Truth

Speed Cameras and Truth

Receptiveness in Belief Systems

Receptiveness in Taoism

Receptiveness in Zen Buddhism

Receptiveness in Quakerism

Receptiveness in Kabbalah

Receptiveness and the Holy Grail

The Holy Grail and War

The Holy Grail and the Environment

The Holy Grail and the Unity of Mankind

The Symbology of the Holy Grail

The Holy Grail and the Spirituality of Reality

More from Philosopher Jake Lyron

References and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Welcome to a completely new look at the ancient mystery of the Holy Grail. This is the story of a few years of research, and a lifetime of wondering. Looking through the histories of the Grail, it appears that the information I am going to reveal here has been previously lost. We are going to embark on a journey, through the steps that I have been through and hopefully by the end of the book you will discover the reality of the Holy Grail, the reality which was known to others who came before us.

The Grail in Past Literature

The story of the Grail is some thousand years old, though it could be much older. Records may have been made and lost throughout history. The story must have been told and retold by word of mouth from generation to generation, over the centuries. The fact that we still have the story with us in the twenty first century is little short of a miracle. Fortunately some written records have survived the passage of time. One of the first recorded stories to feature the Holy Grail that we are aware of was by Robert de Boron which was written some time between 1191 and 1202. In his book, Joseph d’Arimathie, he tells the story of Joseph of Arimathia who, legend has it, first brought the chalice to England.

Joseph of Arimathia with the Grail

The story has it that Joseph of Arimathia took the chalice that Jesus used at the last supper and collected the blood of Christ as he was dying on the cross. Joseph asked Pontius Pilate if he could have Christ’s body after the crucifixion. The wish was granted and with Mary Magdalene and Mary, Christ’s mother, Joseph buried Christ’s body in his own prepared tomb. Joseph then took the chalice and Christ’s blood to England. One legend has it that Joseph found his way to Glastonbury and left the chalice there.

Another early record of the Grail story was Perceval: The Story of the Grail written by Chrétien de Troyes, around 1180 to 1191. In this story Perceval is staying at the Castle of the Fisher King where the Grail is first revealed to him as a graal or platter in a procession of young men and women carrying magnificent objects from chamber to chamber. The graal bears a communion wafer. Afterwards, Perceval returns to the court of King Arthur. However, although the Grail appeared to Perceval, he lost it again as he was not spiritually grown enough to hold it. In time, Perceval continues his quest for purity and the Grail. It’s important to note that this is one of the first associations of the Grail with purity of spirit, a theme which recurs again and again throughout the Grail romances; we are going to find that this spiritual aspect of the Grail has great importance. This Grail was closely linked to the Christian religion but there is also a Celtic strand to the story.

Some versions of the Arthurian