The original Grail story was written by Chretien de Troyes in the late 12th century. He never finished it (he died in 1191). In the story, Perceval, a young inexperienced knight out on his sojourn, stumbles into an invited entry into an enchanted castle. He is welcomed to a sumptuous meal of many courses by the wounded Fisher King. Between each course a strange procession passes through the dining hall and goes into an adjacent room. Perceval notices but says nothing. The Grail is the highlight of the procession.
No Christian symbology is presented by Chretien in this original description of the Grail procession. He adds it later in the story after Perceval meets a Christian hermit who retells the story according to his own world view. So it has been ever since, from Wolfram von Eschenbach to Monty Python. I will be no different.
My world view shines out from what has been termed “cosmic consciousness,” a consciousness that does not adhere to any fixed dogmatic standard, a consciousness that knows no bounds, where “God is a circle with no circumference whose center is everywhere,” a consciousness that continues unfolding out of this eternal now.
[END NOTE -- Studying the original Grail story off and on during the night and seeing that it has no Christian or Celtic or Pagan or other popular point of view allusions. These are all added in later by those with such viewpoints. The original Grail story is like a Rorschach test in which viewers reveal their own psychological frame.]
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