Download or read book The Hidden Church of the Holy Grail written by Arthur Edward Waite and published by . This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of a Graal Church has been faintly recognised by official scholarship, and seeing, therefore, that there is a certain common ground, the question which transpires for consideration is whether there is not a deeper significance in the claim, and whether we are dealing with mere legend or with the rumours at a distance of that which ?once in time and somewhere in the world? was actually existent, under whatever veils of mystery. It must be acknowledged assuredly that the first matter of the legend is found in folk-lore, antecedent, for the most part, to Christianity in the West, exactly as the first matter of the cosmos was in the TOHU, BOHU of chaos; but my purpose is to show that its elements were taken over in the interest of a particular form of Christian religious symbolism. That advancement notwithstanding, the symbolism at this day needs re-expression as well as the informing virtue of a catholic interpretation, showing how the Graal and all other traditions which have become part of the soul?s legends can be construed in the true light of mystic knowledge.