It is usually believed that the cult of the Holy Grail developed in medieval Britain has entirely Christian roots. However, the cult of the sacred and at the same time magical bowl of heavenly origin is much more ancient. This is an Iranian idea and Iranian motifs are quite noticeable in the Arthurian cycle.
In 2000, Scott Littleton and Linda Malcor published in New York and London a book which caused a real sensation “From Scythia to Camelot: Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and the Holy Grail“. The authors explored the parallels between the legendary epics about a certain sacred bowl of the ancient Britons and the Narts, which researchers trace back to the ancient inhabitants of the Black Sea steppes: the Scythians, Sarmatians and Alans, and convincingly proved the Scytho-Sarmatian basis of most of the main elements of the Arthurian cycle.
Echoes of the Iranian and Scythian legends that an energy bowl – the Grail – was given to mankind to maintain life are rather a pronounced picture, a kind of first picture of all the theories of the grails.
According to understanding, the Holy Grail – or the Tree of Life, or the White-combustible stone – is that energy umbilical cord that connects the Earth with Heaven.
The Grail is indeed an item. Quite tangible and material. And the best minds of all time have indeed been captured by the search for it. Many believed that the Holy Grail was the chalice into which the blood of Jesus flowed on the cross. Others say that this is the cup from which Jesus drank – and gave to the disciples to drink, the Cup of life.
But at the same time, many – if not all – of these great minds and adventurers of all times and people forget that in ancient legends we are talking about a miraculous object not created by the hands of people, but of God. This is the Holy Grail that generations of seekers have been searching for.
There are theories that this stone grail is the Great Underwater Wall – the Wall of Ephraim.
This “ancient stone structure”, as scientists reluctantly call it, could be the Cornerstone of the Earth, and is its sacred Grail, about which God spoke to Job, consoling him in grief.
The Grail is not necessarily a bowl that can be hidden in a bag and dragged somewhere. It can be found – but it cannot be stolen. You can try to hide it – but you can’t hide such an awl in any bag. In it, in this Grail, in this stone Altar, like a sword in a stone sheath, is the Sword of the Wall. A sword about which everything will break, but which no one can break.
Here it is, the real sword of the last king Arthur. In some places, the bowl, these stone sheaths, were destroyed – but the sword was not removed. No one can lift it, no one can extract it from a stone, from a stone scabbard, except for the chosen one.
To extract this last sword means to reveal it to the people
At the end of time, as stated in the book of Revelation, it will be so loudly announced that there is a Creator that it is compared to the deafening cry of an angel from Heaven to everyone:
“dwelling on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people; 7. and he said with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment has come, and bow down to him that made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and sources of water.” Revelation 14:6-7
This happens when people are literally “backed to the Wall” – when they can no longer hide the White Holy Grail, not created by the human hand.
Interestingly, it is the Great Underwater Wall that fulfills all the criteria associated with the legends of the Holy Grail. The Grail, or sacred Cup, according to the legends, was the cup that Jesus Christ gave the disciples to drink at the Last Supper, and also the cup into which part of the blood of Jesus Christ hanging on the cross was glassed.
The fact is that the Great Underwater Wall is closely connected with the biblical symbolism of the Altar as a sacred bowl, on which sacrificial wine was poured onto the Altar of the Sanctuary at least twice a day, in the morning and in the evening, in connection with the sacrifice Lamb:
“Offer one lamb in the morning, and bring another lamb in the evening.”
“And its drink offering shall be one-fourth of a hin for each lamb; in a holy place you shall pour out the drink to the Lord as an offering.”
“Offer another lamb in the evening, with the same grain offering as in the morning, and with the same drink offering with it, offer it as a sweet savor to the Lord.”
It should be clear to all that the sacrifice of the lamb, which was offered daily, morning and evening, represented the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. And this sacrifice was offered on the Altar, which symbolically represented the Cornerstone of the earth. Wine was poured out on the same Altar every day as a symbol of the blood shed by Jesus Christ.
The biblical concept of the foundation stone of the world – Eben Shetiya – as a real long foundation stone of the world, is symbolically represented by the stone of the temple Altar. In the Jewish Book of Zohar I.231, the foundation stone of the world is described as follows:
“The world was not created until He took a certain stone – a stone called Eben Shetiya, the Foundation Stone of the world. The Blessed Holy One (God) took it and threw it into the abyss (sea), and it settled from top to bottom, spreading out from that point. This is the center of the whole world, and on this center rests the Holy of Holies, as it is written: or who laid the cornerstone of it? (Job 38:6). Its cornerstone is, as it is written: the tested stone, the cornerstone, the precious one (Isa. 28:16), or in a similar way: He became the head of the corner (Ps. 119:22).“
Come and comprehend: This stone was created from water, fire and air, crystallizing from all of them and becoming a single stone. This stone stands over the abyss; sometimes waters flow from under it, filling the abyss. This stone stands as a symbol in the center of the world.“ Matt, The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, 3.396–7.
But someone will say that Jerusalem, in which the Temple was located, is far from the place where the Great Underwater Wall passes. It’s right. But God arranged the world in such a way that wherever the Altar was placed, two main deeds of God were commemorated at that place: the creation of the world and the salvation of the world in Jesus Christ on the cross.
Recall that already in the earliest regulations on the altar, even before the construction of the sanctuary and the temple, the patriarchs were ordered to offer their sacrifices and pour wine, as into a cup, onto unhewn stones. Interestingly, immediately after the appearance of the Ten Commandments of the Law of God to the people, the Lord reminds Moses of what He repeatedly said to the patriarchs:
“But if you make me an altar of stones, then do not build it from hewn, for as soon as you put your adze on them, you will defile them”. Exodus 20
Pay attention to the fact that people “laid their adze” on the Great underwater Wall – numerous potholes, traces of artificial destruction are evidence of this. But the core of the Wall remains indestructible.
Conclusions
In the Holy Scriptures, Altars were built of stones in a variety of places, but they could all symbolize the Great Wall, and were mysteriously, but in a real way, connected with the Holy Grail of the Earth. Only sacrificial wine and sacrificial water was poured onto the Altar as a foretaste of the blood and water that came out of the pierced side of Jesus Christ.
From what has been said here, it becomes clear that it was the Altar that served as the only cup on which sacrificial wine was poured, symbolizing the blood of the Lamb – Jesus Christ, who died for creation.
Thousands of people have been looking for the Holy Grail for almost two thousand years – since it was with the possession and appearance of this cup that the acquisition of the kingdom, happiness and faith was associated. It is interesting that according to most legends about the Holy Grail, it will be unveiled only at the end of time and it is its discovery that will lead to great changes in the world – to the coming of the “kingdom of the people of the saints,” as the prophet Daniel calls this time. So it will be.
