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Chapter 22 <strong>The</strong> Holy Grail<br />

<strong>The</strong> Didcot Perceval is one of the most authentic romances of the<br />

Holy Grail. Its name originates from an early owner of the manuscript<br />

called Didcot. In the romance, Perceval’s famous make or break question<br />

is:<br />

What is it that the Grail has served and what is it it serves?<br />

Chapter 19 showed the question-name What is it? stands for the<br />

Philosophers’ Stone, sacred manna or dew. Perceval's unusual question<br />

makes little sense without one of these substitutions. <strong>The</strong> question then<br />

becomes a strong statement of the Grail's existence. It has supplied<br />

manna throughout history and still does:<br />

Manna that the Grail has served and Manna it serves.<br />

Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Grail romance Parsifal written in<br />

1220CE identifies the Knights Templar as the protectors of the Holy Grail<br />

and the Grail family. In Wolfram's romance, the Grail is a stone left on<br />

earth by a host of angles. <strong>The</strong> Grail's wondrous properties include the<br />

capacity to heal and rejuvenate. 1433<br />

After their Jerusalem discoveries, the Cistercians and Knights<br />

Templar searched everywhere for more information. <strong>The</strong> Abbot of<br />

Cîteaux, Etienne Harding, was an Englishman credited with formulating<br />

the instrumental Charter of Charity of the Cistercian order. He and St<br />

Bernard committed the whole resources of the Cîteaux to studying their<br />

newly discovered texts. 1434 To assist their work they engaged rabbis from<br />

High Burgundy in return for political protection. It is probably from this<br />

circumstance that the Kabalistic Rabbis conceived the final books of the<br />

Zohar.<br />

In their search, the Knights Templar also discovered Sufi<br />

chivalric Holy Grail imagery with its associated Order of Knights and<br />

lineage of custodianship. This existed long before medieval times. <strong>The</strong><br />

Sufi Master Sohrawardi the Martyr was central in preserving the<br />

endangered culture. Medieval troubadours of the day presented these Sufi<br />

images and stories of the Holy Grail to a thrilled Europe.<br />

With the aid of UNESCO funding, Henry Corbin researched<br />

Sohrawardi's approach to the Holy Grail. 1435 <strong>The</strong> Holy Grail around<br />

which Iranian Knights assembled was the Zoroastrian xvarnah or light of<br />

glory. It is identical to the oriflamme, golden flame or flaming gold. <strong>The</strong><br />

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