What the Holy Grail is. How the Holy Grail was rediscovered. Copyright © Lee Perry 2005.
What follows is evidence provided to news bloggers, to print and electronic news media, and to various academicians by two members of the
American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. I contend that this data proves beyond a reasonable doubt, in accordance with God's mathematical laws of probability, that Christianity is a myth.
Pope Leo X has been quoted as saying: "It has served us well, this myth of Christ." Be prepared to discover that he was correct. One of those two researchers was my mentor, Charles Longstreet Weltner, who was the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia at the time of his untimely death from cancer. Charles was a recipient of the Profiles in Courage Award of the Kennedy Library Foundation because he had been the only
Southern-states Congressman who had voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Charles was well-known as a scholar of at least twelve Bible-era languages, but only a very few of us knew that he also was a scholar of ancient
mathematics, particularly Greek and Babylonian geometry. I was graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology as well as Emory University Law School. Having grown up in a family of engineers and construction
contractors, I had worked in the construction industry as a teenager, and again after being graduated from Georgia Tech, to help to put myself through law school. I had been Charles' Legal Assistant at the time of our
rediscovery, but later had been hired by all of the Justices as Court Counsel. Charles was delighted to have a Legal Assistant (me) who could understand his interests in ancient geometry. One day, we were amusing
ourselves during lunch hour by working an Old Babylonian algebraic-geometry problem from a clay tablet now housed in the British Museum in London, England. After solving the problem using mathematics known to the Babylonians,
Charles told me that he had published an academic paper about the problem in the Congressional Report, and that in a footnote in that paper he had questioned whether or not the problem might have been related to the first-chapter
and tenth-chapter visions of the Prophet Ezekiel because the pattern of rings on the ancient clay tablet, defining the geometry problem, includes rings or wheels whose diameters or rims are inscribed with four eye-forms. [Ezekiel
1:18, and 10:42] I later read that paper and asked him whether he ever had answered that question. He responded that he had not because he had not devised a method by which to do so. I asked him whether I might "take a
shot at it." He responded, "Certainly." During our next lunch-break at his desk, I proposed the following procedure by which we might be able to answer the question of whether or not the lines and circles on the
clay tablet were related to the Prophet Ezekiel's first-chapter and tenth-chapter visions. Charles and I agreed that the Prophet Ezekiel was attempting to describe something tangible in words instead of with a
line-drawing, most probably because he was of the opinion that the "No images Commandment," one of the Ten Commandments, prevented him, as a devout Hebrew, from describing the object by a line-drawing as on the clay tablet. I
had spent the previous night at home listing the verbal images contained in the Prophet Ezekiel's first-chapter and tenth-chapter visions. I proposed that we should see if the clay tablet contained line-form images
corresponding to each and every one of the verbal images I had listed from the two visions. I suggested that under one or more of the several standard formulae of the mathematics of probability, that if we found a line-form
image on the tablet corresponding to each and every one of the many dozens of verbal images from the two visions, we would have established a probability of error of our work which was so slight as to amount what persons who are
not numerate would call "certainty." Charles recoiled in absolute horror, stating that only a few scholars of Judaism would be sufficiently numerate to understand that procedure. He stated that
academicians debate fine points about Judaism endlessly, being unable to resolve their various opinions because their opinions cannot be subjected to the rules of the mathematics of probability. That they would not understand
what we were doing, although in this one situation, the mathematics of probability properly could be invoked by us to test the probability that our analysis might be correct. The passage of time has proven Charles was wrong
about scholars of Judaism but correct about scholars of Christianity. That discussion took place during lunch hour on a Friday. Over the weekend, I applied the procedure to the data. I was trained
and was practiced in engineering drafting or drawing, having studied it not only in college but in high school, and formerly having earned my living as an engineering draftsman. I quickly found a line-form image from the clay
tablet corresponding precisely with each and every one of the verbal images within the Prophet Ezekiel's first-chapter and tenth-chapter visions. If you are numerate as well as literate, your flesh probably is crawling just
as was mine by the time Charles and I were discussing my findings during lunch hour of the following Monday. Charles immediately realized that we had rediscovered something of statistical significance. But
what? He did not know. But he suggested a procedure by which we might be able to find out. He suggested that I use his Biblical concordance to find each and every verse in the Bible containing the words "cherub"
or "cherubim," those being words found in the first-chapter and tenth-chapter visions of the Prophet Ezekiel. Which led me to the Old Testament narratives about the Tabernacle, Tent of the Presence, Ark of the Covenant, and
Solomon's Temple, where we found dozens more verbal images corresponding precisely with line-form images we found within the pattern of lines and circles from the clay tablet. We did not have the clay tablet itself. But
we had excellent photographs of it taken by and authenticated by personnel of the British Museum. Our work determined that the foregoing Old Testament narratives were divined from our pattern of lines. Instead of
dozens of correspondences, or what mathematicians call "hits," we then had hundreds, producing a probability that we were "onto something" of statistical significance which was so "certain," to use a street-talk word eschewed by
mathematicians, that we simply had to find what was "going on." The Book of Daniel also responded to this analysis. But we soon had run out of Biblical verses to subject to the analysis. Where would
we go next? Charles suggested that I read every verse of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, those two works containing narratives excluded from, or bound with, some but not all canons of the Bible. Those being religious
writings which this former Baptist raised on the Buckle of the Bible Belt never had heard mentioned by any preacher. Charles referred me to the library of the Candler School of Theology of Emory University, or to the library
of the Columbia School of Theology in Decatur, Georgia. Or, he suggested that I buy both of those collections of Hebrew and/or Christian literature in paperback, for just a few dollars, from a Barnes & Noble bookstore. Fortunately, I bought the paperback, thereby finding in the translations of a former Archbishop of Canterbury, whose surname was "Charles," the "Story of the Table," which Professor Charlesworth had omitted without
comment from his modern translation found in the libraries of the two schools of theology. Just in case you do not know, religious literature is rewritten or "lost" entirely. Sorry, but that is only a small bump on the
road ahead of you if you dare to read the remainder of this writing. Springtime had arrived, and I was roto-tilling my vegetable garden when a line-form image suddenly popped into my memory. I am a Gaelic-speaker
albeit my spoken use of na Gaeilge can be somewhat rusty when I recently have not traveled in the Irish or Scottish Gaeltachts. But that "hearth language" is not decayed from want of use, as are my high-school Latin and
French. As a teenager, I read Irish literature unknown to most Irish-Americans, including the "Story of the Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel," a parody and satire upon the various forms of Christianity which invaded Ireland
over the years. No living woman ever looked like the line-form woman who can be seen within the pattern of lines of the ancient Babylonian geometry problem. But the "Churl's Woman," from that ancient Irish story, is the
"spitting image" of that line-form image. And as a Gaelic-speaker, I was aware that the "Churl's Woman" is a "soul-sister" of "Cundrie la Sorcerie" of the Grail literature. And she is distantly-related to at least one
character from ancient East-Indian literature. Some Celts migrated down into India, whereas others walked across what now is Russia and finally made it to the West coast of what now is Ireland. To make a very
long story very short: Charles and I found correspondences between verbal images and line-form images were happening in the literature not only of Judaism and Christianity, but, as well, of Islam, Buddhism [a philosophy, not a
religion], Hinduism, and of several shamanistic religions of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Why? We still did not know. At that point in this story, my knowledge of Irish Gaelic came to the fore. While
Bearla-speakers (English-speakers) have been looking for the Holy Cup or Holy Chalice, which they think is the Holy Grail, we Gaelic-speakers have been wondering which of us might accidentally stumble, fumble, or fall into a
rediscovery of the Holy Pattern of Lines. The Irish-Gaelic word "greille," pronounced sorta like "Grail" is pronounced in English, means a line pattern as in a grill, grille, gridiron, or lattice. And, what, pray tell,
is wrong with giving a Celtic word appearing in Celtic stories not only a Celtic pronunciation but a Celtic meaning? I previously had showed my work to my wife, who is highly skilled in arts and crafts.
She explained to me that the pattern of circles minus the pattern of lines from the Babylonian clay tablet is known in American-style quilting as "Double Wedding Ring." Further, that when both the pattern of circles and the
pattern of lines from the tablet are sewn into an American-style quilt, the result is known as "Cathedral Window." As a graduate of an engineering college, who had worked in the construction industry as a teenager and later
to help to pay for law school, I soon realized that the pattern is the construction drawing for the Rose Windows of European Cathedrals. But my wife "dropped the bomb" when she told me that the pattern is known in
American-style weaving as "Arthur's Flowers," that "Arthur" being King Arthur. We lawyers refer to such coinciding data as "corroboration." Christian academicians often chide me for not being a graduate of
a Bible college or religious seminary. They insist that my opinions are worthless because I do not have the correct academic certifications. But it is they, not I, who are lacking the certifications and skills necessary
to rediscover these data and to express opinions about them. How many courses in the mathematics of probability, and in engineering drafting, did they take in seminary? Did they ever work in engineering design or
construction? And they prefer to forget the skills of my mentor, Charles, who read more Bible-era languages fluently than they do. And what do they know about Babylonian algebraic-geometry? Enough said about
such silly assertions? Additional research established that this holy mandala (pattern) was known to the ancient Hebrews as the "Pargod" or "Bar Goda." That it was known to the ancient Greeks as the
"Katapetasma." And that it was known to the Goidelic Celts (the ancestors of we modern Irish) as the "Greille." Finally, that among the early Christians, it was known as the "Heavenly Veil." Further
research indicated that all of the foregoing ancient people believed that the Grail mandala or pattern appeared on a veil or curtain hung by the Creator between Heaven and Earth, upon which veil or curtain the Creator drew
line-form optical illusions of objects which He later would create during His Creation on Earth. If you doubt that, send each of those quoted words, or groups of words, into your browser and see what you dust up. Also,
if you doubt the foregoing, please look up the word "Docetae" in the Compact Edition of the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language, Volume 1, at page 779, where you will be told that some early Christians believed that the Body
of Christ was an "optical illusion." After much research, Charles and I reached the following conclusions about the Grail pattern or mandala: (1) The Grail mandala is the pattern for the Irish and Scottish
Ring Crosses. The pattern can be seen in rainbow-colors within a clear quartz crystal which has been struck by sunlight at the proper angle, and is known in modern mathematical crystallography (not New Age crystallomancy) as
the "Interference Pattern." (2) The algebraic-geometry of the Grail pattern also was used by ancient mathematical astronomers to measure the periodicities of the "circling lights of Heaven," and thus to discover the
eight-year Venus cycle, which still is used to calibrate atomic clocks, the best timekeepers ever invented by humankind. (3) The Grail mandala contains the line-form patterns of the four classical vaults and of the
pendentive as solution for the engineering problem of how to set a round dome (representing the "dome of Heaven") on a square foundation (representing the Biblical "four corners of Earth"), which architectural or
structural-engineering constructs enabled master masons to build the great cathedrals of Europe. (4) The Grail pattern also was the inspiration for some of the visions of the following religions or philosophies:
Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and various shamanistic religions of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. (5) And the Grail pattern or mandala was/is an ancient line-form representation of our
sun-centered cosmos, and of our green earth, fructified by the golden rays of the sun, from which green earth humankind receives the food and drink which sustains us. The original authors of Grail literature, as
distinguished from later commentators, described the Grail as an "achmardi," that is, a precious piece of green silk, onto which lines and circles had been sewn in golden threads. The Grail achmardi symbolized our green
earth fructified by the golden rays of the sun. In one Grail story, the Piebald Knight, whose parents were Christian and Islamic, is dining with the Grail King in the Grail Castle. As the meal progresses, the knight notices that
the platters, bowls, and pitchers mysteriously refill. He asks the Grail King the source of that miracle. The Grail King replies that the Grail is the source of the food and drink. The knight asks where the Grail may be found. The
Grail King replies that it is lying on the table, right before the very eyes of the Piebald Knight. The knight replies that he does not see the Grail. Rather, that he only sees an achmardi. Please see, Eschenbach, Wolfram
von. "Willehalm." Translated by Gibbs, Marion E., and Sidney M. Johnson. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1984, at pages 208, 292, where we are told that an "achmardi" is a "precious green
silk interwoven with gold thread." The story of the Piebald Knight dining with the Grail King, in which the King says, "Sir, do you see the Grail lying there before you?" and in which the knight replies, "I
don't see anything but an achmardi." is to be found in Eschenbach, Wolfram von. "Parzival." Translated by Mustard, Helen M., and Charles E. Passage. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and Random House, Inc., New York, 1961, page
422. The Grail achmardi or green tablecloth also appears in a Scottish myth regarding the production of food. Mackenzie, Donald A. "Scottish Wonder Tales from Myth and Legend." Dover Publications, Inc.,
Mineola, New York, 1997, at pages 199-201. In the Scottish tale, the hero tells the Old Man, "I wish I had food to carry to my wife." The Old Man replies, "What will you give me for this green
table-cloth? When you want food all you have to do is to shake it three times and lay it down. As soon as you lay it down you will get all the food you need." At page 200. The hero takes the green
tablecloth to his wife and tells her, "I have brought food for you." We are told that as the hero spoke, he "shook the green cloth three times, and laid it on the floor of the cave beside the fire. As
soon as he did that, two dishes of hot, steaming food appeared before their wondering eyes." At page 201. Lest the most demanding of skeptics among my readers complain that no mention so far has been made in the
story of precious silk, I refer them to pages 211-213, where a "cargo of fine silk" enters into the story! Perhaps you are beginning to understand that the only way that Christian fundamentalists can avoid the
impact of these stories upon their faith is to close their eyes and ears, and then to do everything within their power to keep other Christians from having a chance to read this data! The suggestion that the Holy
Grail, a generator of line-form optical illusions, appears on a piece of cloth also is supported by the Norse Sagas, where we are told that the vessel Skidbladnir, which "ship" I have illustrated as a line-form optical
illusion within the Grail mandala, is large enough to hold all of the Norse gods fully armed, but that when the boat is not needed it can be folded up no larger than a piece of cloth and put into your purse. Crossley-Holland,
Kevin. (Translator.) "The Norse Myths." Andre Deutsch Limited, London, 1980, at page 51. We also are told that Thor's mighty hammer, Mjollnir, can be made small enough to be tucked inside of your shirt. Crossley-Holland,
at page 52. See, Perry, 1991, pages 174-183, where the Norse gods, their symbols, a bronze statuette of Thor and his hammer, and line-form optical illusions within the Grail mandala of Thor's hammer and the "great ship"
Skidbladnir are illustrated. Those of you who are numerate may wish to count the number of "hits" indicated by those stories, alone, when calculating, under the mathematical laws of probability, the insignificant
probability that I may be in error! And in regard to the defeat of the Cathars at Montsegur, we are told that a piece of green cloth was brought down from the mountain by the night-time cliff climbers, and was spirited
away to some unknown destination. Oldenbourg, Zoe. "Massacre At Montsegur." Dorset Press, New York, 1990, at pages 359-62. We are told further that Bishop Bertrand Marty, a Cathar bishop who soon would be burned at the
stake, gave Pierre-Roger, inter alia, "a piece of green cloth." Oldenbourg, at page 359. Moreover, a recent television program stated that Joseph of Arimathaea and his companions sailed to England on a
"boat" or "ship." But the able Grail literature scholar Norma Lorre Goodrich corrects that error for us by telling us that Joseph and his companions sailed to England not on a "boat" or
"ship" but on a "linea," that is, a linen, sail, canvas or shirt! She concluded that the storysmith was employing a figure of speech, a rhetorical device known as synecdoche, that is, he was referring to a
ship by referring to one of its parts, i.e., a sail. Goodrich, Norma Lorre. "The Holy Grail." HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1992, at pages 78-81. However, by telling us that the word actually used by the mythsmith
was "linea" not "ship" or "boat," she has allowed us to reach another conclusion, provided that we are able to accept the reality that the voyage of Joseph of Arimathaea to England was fiction inspired
by the Grail mandala! Grail literature is derived from the ancient legends of the continental and insular Goidelic Celts (including the Irish, Manx, and Scots) and the Brythonic Celts (including the Welsh, Cornish,
Pictish, and Breton) as well as from the legends of the Sarmatian Cavalrymen who served in the Roman Army in Britain. The Sarmatians described the Grail as a halo, nimbus, or glory, all of which line-forms appear on the Grail
mandala as seen in the pattern for the Irish and Scottish Ring Crosses. From thence the Grail migrated into the tales of other continental people, including the French and Germans, where it was thought, by later commentators, to be
the cup or chalice which may be seen within the Grail pattern of lines and circles, instead of the pattern or mandala itself. Dan Brown recently has written in his popular mystery novel "The Da Vinci Code,"
at pages 236-238, and at pages 242-255, of the English-language hardbound copy, that the vessel known as the "Holy Grail" was the womb of Mary Magdalene, the New Testament's equivalent of the ancient pagan goddess, and
that Mary Magdalene carried the "Royal Blood" of Jesus (their child) in her womb. The actual Christian heretics of France to whom Dan Brown refers in "The Da Vinci Code" believe that Jesus did not die on the
Cross, as stated in Islam's Holy Koran, and that Jesus and his wife, Mary Magdalene, moved to France with their child or children, or where they had a child or children. Which necessarily would mean that thousands of living French
persons are direct descendents of Jesus and Mary Magdalene! And which would mean that there can be no Christian salvation from sins resulting from Jesus' death on the Cross because Jesus ultimately died of old age in France instead
of dying a sacrificial death on the Cross of Calvary! Dan Brown's Holy Blood theory about the Holy Grail is a twist on, or a version of, what Grail scholars call the "Fescamp Theory" of the Holy Grail. The
French Abbey of Fescamp contended that it had a vial of the blood of Jesus, which blood it contended was the Holy Grail. The English Glastonbury Abbey claimed that it had the cup from which Jesus drank during the Last Supper, and
in which the alleged first priest of the Catholic Church, Joseph of Aramathaea, caught blood falling from the lance wound to Jesus' side during the Crucifixion. Glastonbury's monks contended that their cup was the Holy Grail. The
Church finally put its foot down, more or less, when the "Cult of Relics," a device for getting pilgrims to come to an institution and to leave money when they left, got so badly out of control that Saint So-And-So must
have had three left hands, and Mother Mary must have had an entire closet full of cloaks, if the various claims of Catholic establishments were true. The eminent Grail literature scholar, Jessie L. Weston, wrote about
the Holy Blood theory of the Grail, that it was "eminently satisfactory, so long as the original texts were unknown or ignored." Weston, Jessie L. "The Quest of the Holy Grail," Dover Publications, Inc.,
Mineola, New York, 2001, at page 63. [The Dover edition is an unabridged republication of the standard edition of that work originally published in 1913 by G. Bell & Sons Ltd., London.] The problem for writers of
highly popular pulp fiction like Dan Brown is that the original texts of the Grail literature are not unknown to, or ignored by, present-day Grail literature scholars. The problem for serious Grail scholars is that the common
pewsitters of the Christian Church nowadays usually get their "history" from books of fiction, and from Hollywood movies, instead of from sources of serious scholarship. I wrote to the officers of Sony
Pictures Entertainment, which currently is making "The Da Vinci Code" into a movie. I explained all of the foregoing, but chances are slim that my letter will get past the "gatekeepers" of that studio. My voice
probably will be drowned out by the high-priced advertising clamor about the impending movie--unless news bloggers help me to communicate the contents of this e-mail to the general public. With but three exceptions, the print and
electronic news media in the United States have refused since 1991 to publish this evidence and
conclusions,
usually for entirely selfish reasons. Their business managers were afraid that true-believing Christians might punish the news media for publishing the data and conclusions by mounting economic boycotts against the media. The bottom line of all of the foregoing: The birth, death, and resurrection narratives of the Christ Story are accurate history of visionary experiences instead of being "inerrant" history of actual events
which transpired between real persons in real time and real space. On the other hand, the life narratives of the Christ Story contain both actual history of the historical Jesus as well as Grail cosmology and cosmogony derived from
visionary experiences. My readers can separate Jesus fact from Risen Christ fiction. See, http://www.jesussilenced.com/ for a summary of the research and writings of Weltner and Perry, members of the American Academy of Religion
and the Society of Biblical Literature. Several examples of Grail mandala line-form optical illusions relating to the guts of Christian dogma are illustrated on those web pages. The only way a skeptic ever will
convince himself/herself that the foregoing e-mail is true and correct is to read Lee Perry's book entitled "The Holy Grail, Cosmos of the Bible," Philosophical Library, New York, 1991, which can be purchased from
Amazon.com, and perhaps from other Internet booksellers, but certainly directly from the author. Sources of that book are listed at the web site last mentioned. Only by comparing the words of a biblical verse with a line-form image
corresponding to that verse, and by going through the long list of Biblical narratives in that fashion, will the skeptical reader actually be faced with Christian reality. Problem: I believe that many, if not most,
true-believing Christian pewsitters will prefer to close their eyes and ears to protect their beliefs because of their clergy-induced fears of the consequences of disbelief. However, as Will Rogers once quipped: "The human
mind is like a parachute: useless, unless open." Will Rogers also suggested: "The surest way toward perpetual ignorance is to scoff at a suggestion which is contrary to popular knowledge and experience instead of
investigating it thoroughly." Is institutionalized Christianity a fear-induced, mass ignorance of the common folk? Is it a narcosis of the minds of poor and downtrodden masses of humanity, as has been claimed by
some of its critics? If so, why do my highly-educated neighbors cling to the notion that the Resurrection was a physical fact, although their "inerrant" Bibles indicate that the "flesh" of the "Risen
Christ" was spiritual flesh instead of corruptible human flesh? Whereas my lesser-educated, blue-collar neighbors quickly grasp the reality that Christianity is a visionary faith? Are the blue-collar workers among us not
surprised that they have been "conned" one more time by the Unholy Trinity of Power Structures, that is, Church, State, and Commercial Enterprise? Whereas the "highly-educated" (read highly-indoctrinated) among
us are unable to acknowledge that they have been "conned"? Many of the hierarchy and clergy of all but a few modern-day Christian denominations believe that the only way to maintain and to protect
Christianity from drying up and blowing away in the winds of modern rationalism is to keep their true-believing pewsitters ignorant of the visionary origins of narratives within the Christ Story, and elsewhere in the New Testament,
about the Church's visionary "Risen Christ," as distinguished from the Jesus of history. Most educated Christians these days realize that Saint Paul was "the architect of Christianity," that Saint Paul never met
the man we call "Jesus" during His (Jesus') lifetime, and that Saint Paul knew his (Saint Paul's) "Risen Savior" only through his (Saint Paul's) visionary experiences. Why, then, are my data and conclusions that
Christianity is a visionary faith so shocking and controversial that the American print and electronic news media, and even the news bloggers, dare not to publish them in fear of economic retaliation by raging Christian mobs
emulating the Islamic mobs we see so often these days on television? Perhaps I may be pardoned for questioning how an institutionalized religion which knowingly and intentionally tells untruths about God Almighty
rightfully may claim that it provides a way--much less the only way--toward God Almighty? More Data Added in 2007
In the year 2005, the document HOW
was added to these web pages. It mentioned a Scottish
myth about a green tablecloth which provides food if a person shakes it three times. MacKenzie, Donald A. Scottish Wonder Tales from Myth and Legend, Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, 1997, at
pages 199-201. I suggested that tale about the Scottish, food-providing tablecloth is another version of the tale about the achmardi, food-providing tablecloth told by Wolfram von Eschenbach in his story about the Grail
knight Parzival. Eschenbach, Wolfram von. Parzival. Translated by Mustard, Helen M., and Charles E. Passage. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and Random House, Inc., New York, 1961, at page 422. As
to the meaning of the word "achmardi," please see Eschenbach, Wolfram von. Willehalm. Translated by Gibbs, Marion E., and Sidney M. Johnson. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1984, at pages 208,
292, where we are told that an "achmardi" is a "precious green silk interwoven with gold thread." The value of electronic writing, i.e., the ability easily to make additions to the text, again was proven when I
first discovered a Breton version of the tale about the food-providing cloth. Spence, Lewis. Legends and Romances of Brittany. Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, 1997, at pages 164-65. The
relevant portion of the tale reads as follows: "This is no common napkin which I give you. You have only to say, 'Napkin, unfold thyself,' to have the best spread table in the world standing before you." At page
164. "The goodman took the napkin with a grumble, descended the mountain, and there, only half believing what Norouas had said, placed the napkin before him, saying, 'Napkin, unfold thyself.' Immediately a table
appeared spread with a princely repast. The odor of cunningly cooked dishes arose, and rare wines sparkled in glittering vessels. After he had feasted, the table vanished, and the goodman folded up his napkin and went
back to the inn where he had slept the night before." At page 164. Breton tales of Armorica (Brittany), told in Brezonek (Breton) Brythonic Celtic, often involve shape-changing, a subject familiar to my
readers. See, Legends and Romances of Brittany, at pages 13, 15, 64, 83-84, 94-95, 246. An Irish version of the tale about the food-producing cloth is found in Curtin,
Jeremiah. Irish Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World. Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, 2000, at page 74, in the following words: "The brother and sister went on their knees and thanked
Saint Martin. He blessed them and told them to rise, and taking a little table-cloth out of his bosom he said to the brother: 'Take this cloth with you and keep it in secret. Let no one know that you have it. If
you or your sister are in need go to your room, close the door behind you and bolt it. Spread out the cloth then, and plenty of everything to eat and drink will come to you.'" Another Irish version of the tale
about the food-producing cloth is found in Curtin, Jeremiah. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland. Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, 1975, at pages 28, 30-31, 36, as follows: "[W]henever you are
hungry or dry, all you have to do is to spread the cloth and ask for what you'd like to eat or drink, and it will be there before you." At page 28. "He traveled till hungry and tired, then he sat down . . . spread the
cloth of plenty, and asked for meat and drink. After he had eaten and drunk his fill, he took up the cloth. . . ." At page 30. "Then he sat down. . . spread the cloth of plenty, and ate his fill; when he had
eaten, he went on again. . . ." At page 31. "Then he spread the cloth of plenty, asked for every good meat and drink, and called the red-haired man. He came. The three sat down, ate and drank with
enjoyment." At page 36. The last-mentioned collection of Irish tales also includes references to a bottomless cup, at pages 116, 172-173, and 196, and to a bottomless "pot of plenty." At page
169-170. And to men and women seen as line-form optical illusions on the Grail Mandala. At pages 198, 218, 221. For instance, at page 198, we are introduced to a Grail-form woman in these words: "[H]e rose up,
looked at her, and wondered at the bulk of her body." Surely, you agree! See, The Irish-Gaelic name of another male character in a tale from the last-mentioned collection, "Crochtha na g-cros," transliterates and translates into the English
language literally as "hung on the crosses." See, Notes, at page 1. Arguably, true-believing Pauline, Nicaean, Augustinian Christian pewsitters are faced with a choice. Either that tale from that collection
predates Christianity, in whole or in part, or it is a parody and satire upon later Christian beliefs about Christ's being hung on the Cross of Calvary. All of the foregoing tales which describe
food-providing cloths and utensils are set here on Planet Earth. In contrast, the tale entitled "The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island," Curtin, Jeremiah. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland,
Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1975, at pages 47-64, is set here on Earth and among the lines and circles of the Grail Mandala in the Sky. "The whole place, enormous in extent, was filled with sleeping giants and
monsters of sea and land,–great whales, long slippery eels, bears, and beasts of every form and kind." At page 58. The hero climbs a great stairway to twelve chambers, each with "a woman more beautiful than the one
before." At page 59. In the thirteenth chamber, he encounters "a golden couch, resting on wheels of gold. The wheels turned continually; the couch went round and round, never stopping night or day. On the
couch lay the queen of Tubber Tintye; and if her twelve maidens were beautiful, they would not be beautiful if seen near her. At the foot of the couch was Tubber Tintye itself,–the well of fire. There was a golden cover
upon the well, and it went around continually with the couch of the queen." At page 59. What is the probability that the Ecliptic, that is, the Circle of the Zodiac, is being described? Any
doubts? "In the golden chamber was a table of gold, and on the table a leg of mutton with a loaf of bread; and if all the men in Erin were to eat for a twelvemonth from the table, the mutton and the bread would be the same
form after the eating as before." At page 59. Not the Grail Mandala, itself, but our green Planet Earth, which the Grail Mandala signifies, provides the food and drink which sustain humankind.
In two additional collections of Celtic tales, we are told that Nuada, who arguably was an Irish, pagan, god, "[S]at in his royal seat. There was a white light about him . . . and round his head a wheel of
light pulsed and beat with changing colours." Young, Ella. Celtic Wonder-Tales. Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1995, at page 82. Also, in Rolleston, T.W.
Celtic Myth and Legends, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1990, at pages 346-347, we are told that a bronze plaque honoring the Welsh, pagan, god Lludd, a cognate of the last-mentioned Irish, pagan, god, Nuada,
illustrates the Welsh Lludd as being "encircled by a halo." Which should come as no surprise to my readers who have seen the rainbow-colored Uniaxial Interference Pattern as the origin of the halo, nimbus, or glory later
adopted by Christianity. In the last-mentioned collection of Celtic tales, we also are told that, among other
possibilities, "the abode of Merlin was a house of glass . . . or a sort of smoke or mist in the air, or 'a close neither of iron nor steel nor timber nor of stone, but of the air without any other thing. . . .'" At pages
354-355. Merlin's abode is on the Grail Mandala in the Sky. Our Grail humanform once-upon-a-time was known as Merlin. However, no amount of this evidence seems sufficient to convince true-believing
Christian pewsitters that Pauline, Nicaean, Augustinian Christianity is, in some measure, large or small, a restatement of ancient Celtic sky myths! My readers often ask why I often cite to Dover
Publications. Answer: Many of the original publications are unavailable to anyone but accredited scholars in well-protected collections located many miles away. On the other hand, Dover Publications are available
to everyone in their homes or offices at very reasonable prices. Most of my readers apparently are interested in the use of the Grail Mandala to divine narratives of various religions--including Judaism,
Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and several shamanistic religions of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Evidently, the vast majority of my readers are not interested in uses by the ancients of the
Grail mandala as a scientific, mathematical device. Detailed discussions of mathematics apparently cause almost all of my readers who are literate, but not numerate, to say to themselves, and to others, something like, "This
information is not for me. I shall read no further." In the process of trying to please the vast majority of my readers who are literate but not numerate, I apparently have succeeded in displeasing the very few
of my readers who are numerate, or numerate as well as literate! For instance, in paragraph (3) on page 6 of the document entitled My computer programmer is moving away. This may be my last entry to these web pages. In 1811, Sir William Drummond condemned humankind to self-destruction, and to the destruction of all
living creatures and their support systems, by penning the following words: "Ignorance bears ill being told that it has much to learn; and to instruct Pride is to affront it." Drummond, Sir William.
Oedipus Judaicus. First published privately in 1811. Recently published in 1986 by Research Into Lost Knowledge Organization. B. & J. Hargreaves, 10 Kedleston Drive, Orpington, Kent BR5 2DR, United
Kingdom, and distributed by Thorsons Publishing Group Limited, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. Those words are out-of-date but still understandable to thinking persons. And they still are as true as when
first published. Throughout that work, Sir William repeatedly opined that the biblical narratives about the Tabernacle and the Temple were allegories about the Universe, and that many Old Testament stories are not
about events which happened here on Earth but about events seen by the ancients within the Zodiac in the sky. In short, that many biblical narratives are memory jacks by which the ancients recorded in their memories the apparent
movements of the great lights of the heavens before they had writing and mathematical notation by which to record such mathematical, scientific data. For instance, see pages 123-126. Sir William wrote:
"[I]t seems to me inconceivable, that men in an age like this [He wrote in 1811 A.D. or C.E.] should seriously believe, that the sacred writers meant literally, that the God of the Universe was cooped up in a Temple at Jerusalem,
or any where else." [Dating in square brackets added.] At page 124. Sir William confirmed as correct my analysis of His views about the three power structures (Church, State, and Commercial Enterprise)
which control the persons and purses of the common folk were as follows: "[S]ome affect to reason and persuade; while others seek to terrify and dismay. In their hands is the Press,–that guardian of civil liberty in the
state–that tyrant over free opinion in the Church. With them is the cry of the multitude–with them the silent sanction of the laws. . . . But their strength, and none can know it better than themselves, lies not in reasoning;
and hence the scurrilous invective, or the bitter taunt–the opprobrious epithet, or the scornful sneer,–so often supplies the place of the forgotten argument." At page 123. He strongly was of the opinion
"that science can never be the portion of the vulgar, and must always be confined to the few. . . ." At pages 163-167. This apparently is true, even today, in the twenty-first century, when clergy like to pretend
that scientists dominate the thinking of our modern societies, whereas the uncomfortable truth lies elsewhere–and not alone in Islamic countries. In the United States, persons whose employments require them to think
freely, too often park their brains, as well as their motor vehicles, before entering the Church sanctuary. Persons here in the United States too often do not think about their religious beliefs for themselves but, instead,
merely parrot their clergy-persons, whenever the topic under discussion is their clergy-mandated, religious beliefs. A reader of my musings found in these web pages asked me whether I know of one writing
which, if read by unthinking, true-believing, adherents of the four, major, warring religions of these days (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism) would have some slight chance of convincing true-believers
of those religions that their religion is naught but a collection of visionary experiences originally used as mathematical, scientific notations of the apparent movements of the great lights of the sky, but now
converted by the three power structures (Church, State, and Commercial Enterprise) into belief systems, that is, institutionalized religions, structured by the three power structures to control the persons and purses of the common
folk. The reader was struck by the admission of Pope Leo X, quoted above on the first page of I suggested a reading of the Oedipus Judaicus
, by Sir William Drummond. He next asked, "How do we get that information past the print and electronic news media?" My response: "We cannot. I have tried constantly but failed since the publication
of my first book in 1991. So humankind is doomed to self-destruction in the Name of the God of Us All, as actually hoped-for by some of the clergy of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism." The best I
can hope for is that my family makes it to the green fields and the relatively-clean waters of the West of Ireland, the Gaeltachts, where the hard-headed Irish traditionally have accorded to the clergy nothing more than
their due. There to survive the world-wide nuclear, chemical, and germ Holocaust apparently soon to be perpetrated upon humankind, and the rest of God's Creation, by true-believers of the world's four "great"
religions.
Lee Perry
e-mail: cainte@mindspring.com
Internet: http://www.jesussilenced.com/
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