King Arthur Q: What is the real story behind Holy Grail, Camelot, Arthur, etc.? RK: Yes, there was a real person called Arthur Camelot was not as grand as you see in the movies. Actually, there is a mix-up, the time of Arthur nobody was concerned with the Holy Grail or knew anything about that terminology. The Holy Grail was something that arose about in the nine-hundreds A.D. Arthur was around about, if I recall correctly, four- or five-hundred A.D., somewhere in that range. The two are not even at the same time. Arthur is really more the story of Merlyn. Merlyn is really the hero of the whole thing. Arthur kept having problems like all human beings seem to have such as learning how to rule, learning how to deal with his wife and with his friends. His mistakes he made that caused the whole country to suffer that he had rulership over. Yet they were striving for higher levels of understanding, with the crude beginnings of ideas of chivalry. But chivalry really came into its greatest time—I guess its hard to absolutely pinpoint it—I would say somewhere around the 12^th or 13^th century, somewhere in that era. The Holy Grail was popular in the nine-hundreds. The person who put all of this stuff together into a story—I think, probably the best interpretation was, Morte D’Arthur” That was the name of the book—really compounded a bunch of things across the time they occurred and combined things from different centuries into one story, which is okay. It made a better story out of it than reality. The Holy Grail is really—it ended up being a confusion in terms. Some people think that the grail and the chalice, that was used in the Last Supper, was the same thing; they really are not. The Holy Grail is the pineal gland. There are certain things which an enlightened individual has in the way of powers and perceptions, which is not great powers like an Angel has, but more human insight, clairvoyant ability and things of that sort. That is the thing that people were seeking in those days, beginning around the Tenth century. It was very popular for about two centuries. A whole bunch of people got into trouble over it trying to find something. They did not know exactly how to go about it, but, at least, the ideal was there. As a matter of fact, the Catholic church was having a great deal of difficulty with this more-or-less cult of people who were seeking the Holy Grail because they were talking about metaphysical mysteries. Most of those ideas were introduced from rumors and stories and ideals from the Arabian empire, which was existing at that time in another part of the world. There was a lot of beautiful confusion there. (12-1982)
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