Secret_History

84 The Secret History of the World
collecting data. I had no idea what data would prove to be important, and the
Cassiopaeans stressed from the beginning that it was better to assume NOTHING
and just collect and sort and see what patterns emerged of themselves from the
sorting process. It was rather like the preparations made to put a large, complicated
jigsaw puzzle together. One begins by sorting the pieces by color into piles. At the
same time, if one comes across fragments that are clearly the “border” pieces, one
then puts them in an altogether different pile. Once in awhile, while sorting,
serendipity brings two pieces together, and those are put in little “sub-piles”. After
this process is completed, it is done again in a more refined and exact way.
However, the Grail Problem has certain complications. It is like having the
puzzle; only someone has hidden half or more of the pieces. Not only are we going
to have difficulty getting a full outline, even if we DO assemble the pieces we
have accurately, we may not be able to determine what the picture truly portrays.
Add to this the fact that someone may come into the room and drop pieces into
your pile that do not even belong to the puzzle!
Yes, it is that bad, if not worse.
As the reader may guess after thinking about the problem of “putting the puzzle
together”, the process of gathering and sorting the pieces as well as the details of
the discoveries along the way was lengthy and tedious, but the conclusions arrived
at were, to the mind of the present writer, nothing short of shattering. In fact, if an
individual CAN fully outline ALL the steps taken to solve so complex a problem
as the Grail, he or she probably doesn’t have a clue!
Of course, in the broadest of terms, the Grail Quest is always personal to each
and every one who is inspired to undertake it. But, in my case, I was not exactly
on the track of the “Holy Grail”, per se. I was simply a seeker of truth - the purest
and most objective I could find. After years of collecting puzzle pieces and sorting
them, I began to realize that everything became dense as it coalesced around the
Grail problem. It is not just a symbol in a story about knightly quests and their
performance of feats of derring-do along the way! At some point I realized that
this is the Secret of Secrets; the Grand Destiny; the gnosis of the means of uniting
Science, Philosophy and Religion, as well as Mind, Matter and Time.
It took me a long time to come to this realization because my nature is
fundamentally skeptical. I am constitutionally incapable of taking anybody’s word
for anything - I have to “see for myself”. If I read a quoted source in a book, I have
to read the source from which the quote is taken. If that source quotes someone
else, I am driven to find the original. And, if I ever finally get to the originator of
an idea, I am driven to study the life and methods of that person and to discover, if
possible, the observations they made which led them to a particular conclusion.
This is time-consuming and tedious, no question about it; but it is the only way
that satisfies me; and it has certainly borne valuable fruit in the long run. Many
ideas and teachings that other seekers accept at “face value”, I have long ago
discarded as useless after investigating them deeply and finding they are built on
foundations of lies and deception.
Skepticism, the ability not to be fooled, is important; but skepticism can also be
“cheap”. It is easy to disbelieve everything, and some scholars seem to take this
approach. A better approach is to initially consider nothing absurd, and spend the
necessary time to examine it closely and minutely. If you throw away puzzle