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Chapter 9: Percy-ing the Veil 343
actually carries a chalice at the same time he carries a sword and a bull’s head on
the end of a long pole! 242
These ancient cults that we suspect to be representations of an archaic
technology consistently refer to the same symbols, or objects of cultic value.
These mysterious objects form the central theme of the action of the story of the
quest, and it seems that a true understanding of these objects is as essential to the
hero himself as it is to the modern day “seeker of mysteries”. The objects, the cup
or dish, the lance or sword, and the stone, when reassembled, bring us to some
idea of the rites of the Temple of Apollo where the god “danced all night” until the
heliacal rising of the Pleiades.
We see that the symbols of the ancient technology are often separated from each
other - some in a rather haphazard way. They no longer form a complete
ensemble, and even the dates of the performance of the action have shifted. But
careful research shows that they were all originally part of a whole, and at some
point, whatever they represent was all utilized in a single process.
At the same time, we see in the dancers the original formation of the Grail
Knights - warrior priests whose duty was to not only protect society, but to ensure
abundance. And so we move from Maruts to Kouretes to Salii to Templars - and
Gothic architecture.
Chartres Cathedral, begun in 1194, is the epitome of Gothic architecture. Prior to
the cathedral, a Christian church had stood on the same site since at least the 4th
century. Long before, by hundreds of years, an oak grove stood on the same site
where Druids held their ceremonies.. 243 Speculation on the origins of Gothic
architecture has produced many references to the Gothic cathedral as being a
simulation of a forest glade with the nave, transepts and choir, with their ribbed
vaults, likened to trees. It is a compelling image and in the 18th and 19th centuries
much was written about the sylvan origins of Gothic architecture. In 1792, Sir
James Hall, using posts of ash and pliant willow rods, demonstrated to his own
satisfaction the timber construction foundation of Gothic architectural forms. 244
Today these ideas are generally dismissed, but they are important to us here
because it was from the forests of the North that the original ideas of the Ark and
the Grail originate, though it was in the South, in Mesopotamia, that it was last
“seen”.
242 Weston, op. cit.
243 Charpentier, Louis, The Mysteries of Chartres Cathedral, translated from the French by Ronald
Fraser (New York: Avon Books, 1975) (first published 1966; English translation first published 1972).
244 Hall, Sir James, Essays on the Origins, History and Principles of Gothic Architecture, London, 1813.