The Holy Grail and St Maries-de-la-Mèr

23.8.1999

Autor: D. Harald Alke

A standpoint, not an encyclopedia entry. This is an expressly subjective, open trace-seeking by D. Harald Alke – research with an open outcome, no assertion of fact. Neutral background knowledge on faith and religions stands in the encyclopedia entry Religion. Here we share a personal view.

Where did the Grail come from?

Let us try to clarify where the Grail really came from. There are conjectures that it was brought from the Orient to Europe, and there is a connection to Jesus and his Gnostic followers. If we go into such an old matter with spiritual sensitivity, then we can find a connection to the vibrations stored in the Akasha. On my numerous journeys through southern France, above all in my time as a Kundalini yoga student between 1976 and 1988, I was again and again drawn to St Maries-de-la-Mèr.

Legends, Akasha and the inner eye

All medieval legends were woven from historical, mystical and biblical persons and events. The tangle is well-nigh impenetrable. But if we descend deep into it emotionally, then events and figures appear before our inner eye that seem to have a much higher truth content than others. Some stories are simply fairy tales, and others have a real core of historical figures who, through their life processes, have left a wholly personal signature in the fabric of time. In the Akasha, truly everything is stored. However, intensive fantasies and dreams over a long period can also let structures arise in the Akasha that make it hard to keep past reality and dreams apart. That is the reason why I must express myself reservedly here.

The three Marys of St Maries-de-la-Mèr

The story of the three Marys of St Maries-de-la-Mèr is such a story. Much speaks for it that the three Marys – Jesus’ widow Mary Magdalene, Mary Jacobus and Mary Salome (a Black woman) – landed there with a few companions, fleeing before the organised followers of Peter. They came from Egypt. Their stories about the holy man Jesus, Son of God, were understandable to the native Celts, for they prayed to Belenus, the god of light, represented by the sun itself. Here a circle closes for me, for Horus too is already depicted in ancient Egypt as the son of the sun god Ra and as Re-Herakhte. In other mythological traditions, Horus is the son of Osiris, god of the underworld, and his wife Isis, a moon deity.

I succeeded in establishing a connection to the vibrations from old times. My sensations were in part so real that I even saw the boat coming that went ashore there back then. I assess it thus: that striking events can keep their vibration constant in space and time. Until about 1994 this vibration could still be felt very clearly, and some of my students could follow it on the spot. Then, however, the small shore road in St Maries-de-la-Mèr began to be paved, a wall towards the sea to be erected, and for some years now the whole thing is a tourist fortress in which one still finds the old pilgrimage church, but no spiritual vibrations. Meanwhile everything has vanished under concrete and heaped-up strips of sand.

I still have a box full of fine, grey, not technically processed sand from the coast of St Maries-de-la-Mèr. If we place a little of it in a small crystal rod inside a Horus energy pyramid, the old energy unfolds again.

The Grail – a mystical source of energy

The Holy Grail had nothing to do with Jesus’ blood from the cross; it is a mystical source of energy. It reached the Occident through Mary Magdalene. It was soon brought into the sun temple of the Celts on the Montségur. There it was much safer than on the coast threatened by pirates. Its origin is not certain. If we take seriously the running script circling the chalice, it can only be an extraterrestrial artefact, for a person in the dark Middle Ages could not even imagine this technology, unless they had seen it themselves with their own eyes!

In India there are many indications of visits by extraterrestrials, by gods who descended from the sky and visited the people, influenced their development and mated with human women in order to improve our race. They brought along various practical devices that became for the people the centre of religious worship and conveyed to them a cultural surge of development.

And if that is true, then it is probably natural that Jesus was not only in India in order to receive a training as a yogi there, but that he then also brought this chalice along from there. It was the chalice from which one drank the wine at the Last Supper together. According to my insights, it is natural that Jesus was in Shambhala and brought the chalice along from there. Presumably he was chosen and fostered by the 8 sages of Ashonka. I do not know whether there are various such controlling bodies for the development of humanity. The 8 masters of Ashonka could very well also be the executive body of Shambhala.

When spirituality becomes a club

What then became of this matter rather backfired. Perhaps it is also normal that, after the initiation of a new religion by an enlightened one, worldly-oriented people increasingly take hold of the new methods. The “ordinary people” are presumably better suited for marketing and propaganda. But with that the spiritual content is then watered down. Out of the new spiritual approach became a new club, a sect, a religion, a business.

From my point of view, wherever faith, sensitivity and foresight are regulated or wholly suppressed, spirituality has turned into an institution. It is hard, but in my view true: the more strongly a community organises and dogmatises itself, the more it tends towards authoritarian and dogmatic behaviour – “I am the greatest!”. In such a structure, an office-holder easily comes to feel like the sole representative of the higher on earth. If there is only one, they get a feeling of uniqueness. The larger such a body becomes, the more representatives are needed on earth. They cannot all automatically be spiritual. And so a spiritual initiative increasingly comes under worldly control. Perhaps that is quite normal, simply human.

In any case it is worth searching further in this direction. The Grail is a mystical source of energy, and you can let yourself be inspired by it.