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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
have been clearly fixed by the imaginative writers of these poems . Once more the scene is changed , and as the Sacro Catino now at Genoa , it again resumes its character and form , " palpable both to feeling and to sight , " as the sacred paschal dish , to
which is superadded the merit or virtue of being a gift of the Queen of Sheba ( when she came from her distant empire to admire the wisdom of Solomon ) , to the royal treasury of the kings of Judah ; who , in compliance with Solomon ' s command and example , only permitted its rare and solemn use at their annual celebration of the passover . When the line of David
ceased to be regal , it passed to the priesthood and the family of Joseph , who claimed a royal descent , and was by him used when the Saviour condescended to eat his last meal with the disciples under his roof . Being forewarned of the approaching destruction of Jerusalem by Christ's predictions , and troubled in his new belief by the Jews , Joseph , with his friend Nicodemus , and other Christians , carried the sacred vessel to the Roman colony of Cffisarea on the Mediterranean . In their families it remained
to 1101 , when that city was taken and sacked by the Crusaders , and was then transferred , as the most precious portion of the booty , to the Genoese church militants , who had been foremost in the attack . It is evident we have here three distinct and independent fictions , though generally the subject is considered as connected .
It will be interesting to trace the causes of such a prevalent belief , and whilst unravelling the different narratives , to show how each might have been influenced by the other , as well as the points of then' general conformity from hitherto unconsidered facts in very distant countries ; nor Avill the gratification of this inquiry be confined to mere general readersor deep
, scrutinizers into our national antiquities ; there are certain points of the investigation where the search for a lost hoard , and the quest after the Sangreal , connected as it is with the effusion of blood and corruption of the body , will give unlookedfor conformities and . points of contact with the most abstruse mysteries of Masonic Craft , perhaps to the extent of points of
fellowship in fives . We shall find , too , in the investigation of this woven tissue of fiction , ligaments thrown out into the much-abused , the unjustly-vilified Order of the Templars ; its character and credit , at the highest pitch of its prosperity and wealth , described as honourable and pure , and totally inconsistent Avith the horrible charges brought against it . We shall hereby obtain a better scale for the general merit of the Order than the long
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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
have been clearly fixed by the imaginative writers of these poems . Once more the scene is changed , and as the Sacro Catino now at Genoa , it again resumes its character and form , " palpable both to feeling and to sight , " as the sacred paschal dish , to
which is superadded the merit or virtue of being a gift of the Queen of Sheba ( when she came from her distant empire to admire the wisdom of Solomon ) , to the royal treasury of the kings of Judah ; who , in compliance with Solomon ' s command and example , only permitted its rare and solemn use at their annual celebration of the passover . When the line of David
ceased to be regal , it passed to the priesthood and the family of Joseph , who claimed a royal descent , and was by him used when the Saviour condescended to eat his last meal with the disciples under his roof . Being forewarned of the approaching destruction of Jerusalem by Christ's predictions , and troubled in his new belief by the Jews , Joseph , with his friend Nicodemus , and other Christians , carried the sacred vessel to the Roman colony of Cffisarea on the Mediterranean . In their families it remained
to 1101 , when that city was taken and sacked by the Crusaders , and was then transferred , as the most precious portion of the booty , to the Genoese church militants , who had been foremost in the attack . It is evident we have here three distinct and independent fictions , though generally the subject is considered as connected .
It will be interesting to trace the causes of such a prevalent belief , and whilst unravelling the different narratives , to show how each might have been influenced by the other , as well as the points of then' general conformity from hitherto unconsidered facts in very distant countries ; nor Avill the gratification of this inquiry be confined to mere general readersor deep
, scrutinizers into our national antiquities ; there are certain points of the investigation where the search for a lost hoard , and the quest after the Sangreal , connected as it is with the effusion of blood and corruption of the body , will give unlookedfor conformities and . points of contact with the most abstruse mysteries of Masonic Craft , perhaps to the extent of points of
fellowship in fives . We shall find , too , in the investigation of this woven tissue of fiction , ligaments thrown out into the much-abused , the unjustly-vilified Order of the Templars ; its character and credit , at the highest pitch of its prosperity and wealth , described as honourable and pure , and totally inconsistent Avith the horrible charges brought against it . We shall hereby obtain a better scale for the general merit of the Order than the long