King Arthur and the Pendragons

Much has been made of the story of King Arthur and the quest for the Holy Grail.  As I will explain in the chapter, "The Holy Grail Family,"  the actual quest was not for a goblet that Jesus drank out of at the Last Supper.  It was instead a quest for the Sangreal, or the Blood Royal of the kingly line of Judah, the descendants of Jesus and his brother James.

In his book, "Bloodline of the Holy Grail," Sir Laurence Gardner addresses the question that was posed to the fabled knights on the Grail Quest in the Middle Ages:  "Whom does the Grail serve?"  Sir Gardner writes:  "Following the Jewish Revolt in Jerusalem during the 1st century AD, the Roman overlords were reputed to have destroyed all records concerning the Davidic legacy of Jesus the Messiah's family.  The destruction was far from complete, however, and relevant documents were retained by Jesus' heirs, who brought the Messianic heritage from the Near East to the West.   As confirmed by Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, the 4th-century Bishop of Caesarea, these heirs were called the Desposyni (ancient Greek for "of the Master"), a hallowed style reserved exclusively for those in the same family descent as Jesus.  Theirs was the sacred legacy of the Royal House of Judah--a dynastic bloodline that lives on today."

Sir Gardner continues:  "The definition, Holy Grail, first appeared in the Middle Ages as a literary concept, based (as will be later discussed) on a series of scribal misinterpretations.  It derived immediately as a translation from Saint Grail, and thence from the earlier forms San Graal and Sangreal.  The Ancient Order of the Sangreal, a dynastic Order of the Scots Royal House of Stewart, was directly allied to the continental European Order of the Realm of Sion.  The knights of both Orders were adherents of the Sangreal, which (as given above) defines the true Blood Royal (the Sang Real) of Judah:  the Bloodline of the Holy Grail."

"Quite apart from its dynastic physical aspect, the Holy Grail also has a spiritual dimension.  It has been symbolized by many things, but as a material item it is most commonly perceived as chalice, especially a chalice that contains, or once contained, the life-blood of Jesus.  The Grail as additionally been portrayed as a vine, weaving its way through the annals of time.  The fruit of the vine is the grape, and from the grape comes the wine.  In this respect, the symbolic elements of the chalice and the vine coincide, for wine has long been equated with the blood of Jesus. Indeed, this tradition sits at the very heart of the Eucharist (Holy Communion) sacrament, and the perpetual blood of the Grail chalice represents no less than the enduring Messianic bloodline."

King Arthur and the Pendragons
Part Two