{"id":927,"date":"2014-04-06T21:28:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T01:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=927"},"modified":"2014-04-06T21:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T01:28:21","slug":"is-the-quest-for-the-holy-grail-over-margaret-starbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Is the quest for the Holy Grail over – Margaret Starbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mary<\/a>I’ve told you before, Margaret Starbird has been one of my most powerful influences, and I consider her one of my spiritual teachers ever since I met her in 1999. That was the same \u00c2\u00a0time our Mystery School with its Order of Mary Magdala was going online. I had read her seminal work, The Woman With the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen & the Holy Grail<\/em> in 1993 when it was first published, so in a way she became my spiritual teacher even before I started following her around the country attending workshops.<\/p>\n

Our Esoteric Mystery School<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0study programs use\u00c2\u00a0her inspiring books about “the Goddess” hidden in the New Testament, aka Mary Magdalene.<\/p>\n

Margaret posted the following yesterday to our GoddessChristians forum.\u00c2\u00a0Margaret responds to this short quote about the Holy Grail never existing:<\/p>\n

Speaking of the Holy Grail –“its religious significance didn’t arise\u00c2\u00a0until medieval legends entwined ancient Celtic myths with the Christian\u00c2\u00a0tradition of the Holy Chalice used by Jesus at the Last Supper.
\n“The Grail legend is a literary invention of the 12th century\u00c2\u00a0with no historical basis,” Carlos de Ayala, a medieval historian at a\u00c2\u00a0Madrid university, told the AFP news agency. “You cannot search for\u00c2\u00a0something that does not exist.”<\/p>\n

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\nMargaret Starbird writes: As some of you already know, I don’t believe that the “Holy Grail”–\u00c2\u00a0“sangraal” in Old French — was “the Holy Chalice used by Jesus at the\u00c2\u00a0Last Supper.” Describe it another way as “the vessel that once contained\u00c2\u00a0the blood of Christ.” Now, rather than a cup of gold or silver, you have\u00c2\u00a0the hint of an “earthen vessel” — in fact, a woman, bearing a child of whom\u00c2\u00a0Christ is the father. If you divide “sangraal” before the “g”– you have
\n“San graal” — encountered in the “Grail” stories about a “cup” or “chalice.”\u00c2\u00a0But if the same word is divided after the “g” — “sang raal,” it means\u00c2\u00a0“Blood royal” in Old French. You don’t carry the “blood royal” in a jar\u00c2\u00a0with a lid!<\/p>\n

In medieval legend, Joseph of Arimathea is almost always the “custodian\u00c2\u00a0of the Grail” — sometimes shown in medieval paintings holding a chalice\u00c2\u00a0under the wound in Christ’s side as he hung on the cross. But there are also medieval paintings that show Mary Magdalene holding the chalice to catch\u00c2\u00a0blood dripping from the wounds of Christ, so both Mary Magdalene and\u00c2\u00a0Joseph of Arimathea are associated with the “Grail” myth. My own pet\u00c2\u00a0theory is found in the 20-page fictional Prologue of my Woman with the\u00c2\u00a0Alabaster Jar<\/em>, called “Miriam in the Garden” (published in 1993 — the book\u00c2\u00a0that launched Dan Brown’s research for The DaVinci Code<\/em>).\"Order<\/a><\/p>\n

Realizing that Mary Magdalene is nowhere to be found in the Book of Acts,\u00c2\u00a0despite her prominence at the cross and tomb in all four Gospels, I asked\u00c2\u00a0myself, “Why did she disappear so completely?” The only logical answer\u00c2\u00a0I could imagine was that she was perceived to be in danger and taken to a\u00c2\u00a0place of safety when rumors of the Risen Christ began to circulate in Jerusalem. This scenario would have been extremely likely if she had children\u00c2\u00a0or was pregnant….making her “the vessel that once contained the blood\u00c2\u00a0of Christ.” You don’t carry the royal blood around in a jar with a lid…<\/p>\n

Please check out these articles posted on my website about the “Grail”\u00c2\u00a0in Leonardo’s “Last Supper” — \u00c2\u00a0and the webpages about my books Alabaster Jar\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>and Bride in Exile\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>if you haven’t already!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.margaretstarbird.net\/last_supper.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.margaretstarbird.net\/the_woman_with_the_alabaste.html<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.margaretstarbird.net\/mary_magdalene_bride_in_exi.html<\/a><\/p>\n

In memory of Her,
\nMargaret<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve told you before, Margaret Starbird has been one of my most powerful influences, and I consider her one of my spiritual teachers ever since I met her in 1999. That was the same \u00c2\u00a0time our Mystery School with its Order of Mary Magdala was going online. I had read her seminal work, The Woman … Continue reading Is the quest for the Holy Grail over – Margaret Starbird<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,2],"tags":[33,119,243,35,264],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jesus-family","category-mary-magdalene","category-what-sunday-school-wont-teach","tag-christian-goddess","tag-esoteric-christianity","tag-esoteric-mystery-school","tag-margaret-starbird","tag-mary-magdalene"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}