Just what is the Turin Shroud? Isn’t actually a medieval fake? Or is it – as some still maintain, Jesus’ burial cloth, another Christian relic along with the mysterious Holy Grail? Can’t we solve the enigma once and for all? Are we even looking at an image of Jesus? Here is were the story gets […]
Who were the Druids? The Mistletoe and the Secret Tradition
Who were the Druids? Well, when Roman armies set about the conquest of Iron Age Britain in AD 43, they later attacked Anglesey under the command of Suetonius Paullinus. The Romans’ Celtic enemies appeared at the shore, among them women in black with torches aflame, resembling mythical Furies. Suetonius – ultimately victorious – took […]
The Knights Templar – Separating Fact from Fiction
The Knights Templar are those medieval warrior monks, that infamous ‘militia of Christ’ of popular imagination. And yet, they were the subject of speculative fantasy long before the more recent spate of books connecting them to secret knowledge about Jesus, or the Freemasons, or the alleged Lost Treasure of Jerusalem. On this latter, the Knights […]
The Quest for the Holy Grail
‘You say you yearn for the Holy Grail. You foolish man, I am grieved to hear that. For no man can ever win the Grail unless he is known in heaven.’ Wolfram von Eschenbach,Parzival The broad outline of the noble Quest for the Holy Grail can be described thus: a young, untutored knight must undertake […]
