GRAIL, THE - QUEST FOR THE ETERNAL (ART AND IMAGINATION)

Here begins the Book of the Sangreal, Here begin the terrors, Here begin the miracles.’

The scene is set for the quest of the Holy Grail, to which all the knights of King Arthur’s Round Table (but particularly Galahad, Perceval and Bors) pledge themselves.

As a sacred vessel, the Grail has strong links with Celtic myth and with the Hermetic Vessel and Philosophers’ Stone of alchemy. Cup, stone or jewel, however it is portrayed, the Grail has remained a symbol of spiritual wholeness leading to union with the divine, which has been the aim of seekers after truth in every land and every century. It is a symbol ‘whose home is properly in the uncharted country of the soul.’