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Introduction<br />

Finally, just prior to World War II, John D. Rockefeller,<br />

Senior, a well known eccentric and thirty-third degree<br />

Freemason, made claims for the Antioch Chalice, a<br />

beautiful silver and gold filigreed goblet now in the<br />

Cloisters in New York, but this cup is also suspect.<br />

If any of these contenders were proven to be the real<br />

chalice used by Christ it would be nothing more than a<br />

curiosity piece. It would certainly not be the Grail mentioned<br />

in Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, who defined<br />

it as a red stone. Nor could it be the Graal mentioned<br />

in the works of Chretien de Troyes, who defined it<br />

as a book, possibly a book titled <strong>The</strong> Holy Grail. No, like<br />

all voodoo objects, a chalice, no matter how authentic,<br />

would only be vested with magical powers for those who<br />

believe in such things. Still, most people persist in the belief<br />

that the Grail is the chalice of the Last Supper. So the<br />

elusive object remains hidden from view. But we must<br />

define it before we can find it. Calling it a mere chalice is<br />

missing the point. It may prove to be more than a chalice,<br />

it may turn out to be a ceremony of unequalled spiritual<br />

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