But first we need to know just what the Grail is…

Not quite Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in search of the Grail, but the journey to London provided a couple of significant revelations from Westminster Abbey and the Temple in the United Grand Lodge of England. Our umbrellas just about lasted long enough to protect us from the relentless rain, while we dashed across the City pursued by an albino monk and Jack Bauer trying to take our secrets!

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Before I begin to explain what we found, let’s first wind back the clock… The best visual description of the Grail comes from a scene in an early medieval story about one of King Arthur’s Knights, Percival, which was written by a real crusader knight called Wolfram. In this monumental scene there is a procession, which includes the Grail Queen holding the object that could provide immortality for the knights worthy of completing the Grail quest, the Grail itself. This seemingly strange description of the Grail has eluded scholars and laymen alike to this day for a good reason – as we will see in a moment…

If we now turn to the secret legends, scripture and stories from across the ages dating back to 3500 BC, which describe the quest to regain Paradise, they similarly state that the chosen candidates worthy of completing the quest would also be given access to an object that would give them immortality. Moreover that this object would ultimately be hidden in the final, solemn temple; not Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, but in the original, much older, secret Jerusalem described by William Blake as being built ‘here’, in England’s ‘green and pleasant land’.

So, could the Grail in the King Arthur legend be the same immortalising object described in the quest to regain paradise? In this much older quest, it specifically states that we were cast from Paradise for one reason: we were tricked into stealing the knowledge of the gods. But most importantly, the only thing the gods could do to stop us from going on to take control of Paradise was to cast us out, so that we could no longer eat their immortalising fruit from the evocative Tree of Life. So, again, could the Grail and the Tree of Life be one in the same thing?

Well, if we go back to the description of the Grail in the Arthurian legend, you can decide for yourself. As the Grail Queen slowly makes her way in the procession holding the immortalising object, the following explanation is given:

“She bore the pride of Paradise, root and branch beyond all price that was a thing men call the Grail.”

‘So what about the cypher on the Shakespeare Monument?’ I hear some of you ask. Well, as with the Shugborough Grail Monument all it takes is someone to point out the obvious; in this case Shakespeare, or perhaps Bacon….

More to follow…

Help Us Locate the Holy Grail… When we cracked the Shugborough Holy Grail code, as discussed in The Quest To Regain Paradise, it ultimately led us to the Temple Gateway in York, its final resting place. But still its exact location eluded us; we hit a stone wall, literally – until now. A couple of weeks ago I was mailed a strange shaped cutting of a newspaper (circa 1794) from a source at Shugborough, which had been discovered in one of their loft spaces. I will explain its full significance in a later blog when I have collected together the replies from the various organisations who have offered an opinion on its mysterious nature. But what immediately became apparent from initial investigations was that there was a solid connection between the monument at Shuborough that holds the Grail code and another monument situated in Westminster Abbey; the Shakespeare Monument that reputedly holds a secret cypher. A cursory examination of the two monuments reveals a common theme; in each case both contain individuals pointing to specific words from a passage. On its own this may be considered just an interesting coincidence, but when we discovered that both monuments were carved by the same artisan, the Flemish sculptor Peter Scheemakers, we knew we were on to something. So this bank holiday we will be making our way down to the Big Smoke to crack the cypher… Of course those of you who have read the Quest will be well aware of the Stone of Destiny link between Westminster Abbey and the Temple Gateway in York. Maybe we will see you there…

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