Fragment

just a snippet of writing that might be included in a larger work

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Comments on the Grail

I found this post on a really interesting blog discussing some different ideas regarding the Grail:
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I have not had a chance to really take a good look at the beyondtheblog site yet, but intend to as it seems to have a wide ranging subject area and what I have read has been very thought [...]

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Old essays

Well, I finally got round to uploading a few old pieces I had written as part of my degree. It was a case of transferring them into a format the PC could cope with. I have added one on The Imagery of the Holy Grail in cinema here

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conversation

“The Grail holds the most precious thing of all”
“But it is empty”
“Precisely”

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Aspect number 3

In the original Celtic version the “grail” (though not named this) is a severed head on a platter.
A severed head? Quite a grizzly image if taken literally, but what about metaphorically?
The Celts saw the head as the seat of the soul, so from this perspective it could be read as the soul being seperated from [...]

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Aspect number 2

2-It is everywhere. Indeed, it is right next to the seeker but he does not see it…until he is ready to see it or as asked the right question of it.
It is an interesting development within quantum theory. The work of Einstien, and later, the quantum and particle physicists have explored this area.
One aspect of [...]

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Aspect number 1

…so, the Grail offers unlimited supply. It does not impose or decide what “food” you receive.
You get what you wish for and you receive it in unlimited abundance.

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Some aspects of the original Grail Mythology that are of interest.

1-It provides a person whatever food one desires of it and never runs out of provision.
2-It is everywhere. Indeed, it is right next to the seeker but he does not see it…until he is ready to see it or as asked the right question of it.
3-In the original Celtic version the “grail” (though [...]

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A quick intoduction concerning The Grail

To me the Grail is not, solely, a Christian symbol or a Christian symbol at all. Indeed, it predates it in Celtic legend and ancient Welsh texts and I am pretty certain that it or very similar concepts are present in every major religion and a good deal of those
spiritual traditions that now get called [...]

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