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the grail itself. The theory seems to be that if you can figure out who Arthur really
was, then you might be able to track his movements in history and discover the
hiding place of this great object of power. In the numerous books I have on King
Arthur, each one claims to have the one and only answer as to who he was and
when he lived and where. Most of them are quite convincing with careful research
and scholarship. And they all have a slightly different answer.
Does this mean that no actual object—such as the Holy Grail or the Ark of the
Covenant, which, by the way, seem to often be confused as one and the same
“item”—does not exist? My personal opinion is that, yes, it is possible that there is
an “object of power”. But based on the frantic searching going on, either it was
lost, or it was hidden, and it seems that even the hyperdimensional beings are
helpless to find it. Assuming, for the sake of the hypothesis we are playing with,
that this is true, my theory is that they cannot SEE it because it is “occluded” by a
frequency that is impenetrable to them for some reason. In fact, this idea seems to
be another key element of the Grail Stories - the theme of the Sword in the Stone.
Only the Heir can withdraw it and wield it. And so, the current craze for “finding
the grail” seems to be promoted by those who are anxious to find this object in
hopes that the “right person” will discover it and lead them to it.
From Scythia to Camelot
The important point at the moment regarding “Who is Arthur” is that it seems
that the Arthur of the Grail Quest is not, in a certain sense, a real flesh and blood
man, but is rather an archetypal complex of images. Arthur is other and more than
the sum of his appearances in literature, and he is present in myths, stories and
images that have NO direct mention of him. Arthur is present in the myths of all
the sacrificial kings, dying saviors, and heroic slayers of dragons from time
immemorial. His story grows with every episode we study, and after a time, we
realize that Arthur, himself, is only a clue.
Orion, Arthur, Arca, Arcadia (Ark of God), Ark are all clues to the mythology of
Fall and Redemption: The Once and Future King. He is the symbol of the Lost
Eden and the New Jerusalem, the antediluvian world and the passage to the postflood
reality. His story has branches that reach out to embrace all the ideas of
cyclical changes and all attempts to exert power over the environment as opposed
to interacting with Nature.
There are two books out of this entire morass that I consider to be outstanding in
terms of combining scholarship with thinking “out of the box”. The first one is
From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur,
etc., by C. Scott Littleton and Linda A. Malcor, and The Keys to Avalon: The True
Location of Arthur’s Kingdom Revealed, by Steve Blake and Scott Lloyd.