Two members of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature--the late Charles Longstreet Weltner and Lee Perry--accidentally stumbled upon a divination mandala (pattern of lines) used by ancient seers to induce visions. Line-form optical illusions which you can see for yourself within this line pattern correspond to all of the word-form images of the biblical stories of Ezekiel's visions, the Tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant, and Solomon's Temple, and to some of the word-form images of the Christ Story.
Those persons who are interested in ancient science will see images within this pattern of lines which define the four classical vaults and the classical dome set upon pendentives that are architectural and engineering features of the sacred geometry of temple, synagogue, and cathedral construction. They also will see within this line pattern a map of the ancient sun-centered universe of the third millennium BCE. And they will see within this line pattern the ancient deity symbol, before which King David danced, in use at Stonehenge, thousands of years before King David, to define the rising and setting directions of the sun and moon during each solar year.
Greek Christians referred to this line pattern as the Katapetasma. Continental and insular Celts called it the Greille, which is a word for "grill" in the Irish-Gaelic and Old-French languages. The Grail chalice or Mass chalice may be seen within this line pattern in Figure 1. The laws of mathematical probability indicate that the Holy Grail (i.e., holy grill) has been rediscovered.
This rediscovery gives Jewish and Christian lay persons, as well as clergy and academicians, a new tool for biblical exegesis (analysis) with which they may draw a bright line between biblical history of visionary experiences and biblical history of actual events and real people.
Adherents and students of Judaism will learn why the Prophet Jeremiah convinced Jews to abandon many ancient cosmic concepts, including the Queen of Heaven and the Ark of the Covenant. They will watch Judaism discard its polytheism and henotheism and grow into the monotheism for which it currently should be proud.
Students of Christianity will learn the origin of the Christ vision, as distinguished from the Jesus history. Christian lay persons will learn what academicians and seminary-educated clergy always have known about the Christ Story, which is that a bright line must be drawn between the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith before Christian fundamentalists, and other biblical literalists, can abandon exoteric Christianity's "believe and obey" dogmas, and can enjoy the spiritual growth offered by esoteric Christianity.
On the theory that pictures are worth thousands of words, compare Illustration 1 with Figure 2. Illustration 1 is a photograph of a statuette of Jupiter Dolichenus or El. El is the Lord-God of the Bible, that is, the God for whom Israel was named. Will you consider whether or not this bronze image of God (which was cast by persons who did not consider themselves bound by Jewish laws against image-making) might have been divined from the optical illusion created in Figure 2 by boldfacing some of the lines of the Holy Grail?
And what do you see in Figure 3? The Grail author Wolfram von Eschenbach suggested that what you see in Figure 3 among the lines of the Holy Grail is an optical illusion of a priest with bell and crozier, summoning the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, to convert the Host over the chalice, and the wine in the chalice, into the actual body and blood of Jesus Christ in real presence. Is this optical illusion the visionary origin of the Mass?
The Docetae, an early sect of Christians, believed that the body of Christ was a "mere optical illusion," and that Christ's body appeared on a cross on the Katapetasma or Greille, a heavenly veil centered on the north pole star, as in Figure 4. Please notice the Chi Rho symbol for Christ above, and the fish-form symbol for Christ below, the crowned man we see on this cross in the sky. Is this optical illusion the source of the Christ vision as distinguished from the Jesus history?
Too much? Not enough? Answer those questions for yourself, or allow your clergy-person to answer them for you, remembering that the Jesus of history promised you spiritual freedom (John 8:32) rather than bondage to the Christian Church's "believe and obey" system of mind-control!
The book titled Jesus Silenced, and subtitled How Christianity's mind-control system destroyed Jesus' promise of spiritual freedom, will be available at this Web Site. No publication date can be promised because additional data is being found almost daily. For instance, the author recently has found the Coena Cypriani, a Medieval document, which surely is the most hilarious biblical parody and satire ever written. In the meantime, you can read Appendix One from that book to compare twenty-first-century Christian fundamentalism with the pre-Nicaean Christianity of the second century CE.
Persons who read Jesus Silenced or the author's other writings will understand why a former Southern Baptist minister once commented that exoteric Christianity, nowadays called Christian fundamentalism or literalism, as distinguished from esoteric or visionary Christianity, is the longest-continuing and most destructive fraud ever perpetrated upon humanity in general and women in particular.
The fraud consists of the clergy's continuing brainwashing of Christian pewsitters so they will believe that biblical histories of visionary experiences are, instead, biblical histories of actual events concerning real people. The fraud consists of the Church's having rewritten the history of a Jewish peasant who was a tireless scrapper for the spiritual rights and responsibilities of individuals, so as to make it appear: (1) that he was, instead, the only incarnation of the Creator; (2) that he intended to create a new, institutionalized religion to provide the only access to the Creator; and (3) that he chose the Church's hierarchy and clergy to be his only successors in that God-monopoly.
The destruction consists of the loss of human life, and the environmental destruction, which were the necessary consequences of the Church's hundreds of years of efforts to terrify its pewsitters into unquestioning obedience of the Church's mandates, and into unquestioning tolerance of the Church's unholy alliances with the power structures of government and commercial enterprise.
Your bookstore may purchase Lee Perry's two published writings, listed below, from New Leaf Distributing Company, 401 Thornton Road, Lithia Springs, GA, 30122-1557, USA. New Leaf's telephone numbers for bookstore orders are 800-326-2665, or 770-948-7845, and their FAX number for bookstore orders is 770-944-2313. Their Web Site is http://www.newleaf-dist.com. Persons whose bookstores decline to place an order for either of these two writings may purchase directly from the author by sending a bank draft in U.S. Dollars to Lee Perry, c/o Saoirse Cainte Press, 3720 Henderson Drive, Cumming, GA, 30041, U.S.A. There are no extra charges for handling and postage worldwide if you order directly from the author.
(1) Perry, Lee. The Holy Grail, Cosmos of the Bible, Philosophical Library, 1991. ISBN Number: 0-8022-2557-8. 365 pages. 70 illustrations. 470 drawings. index. bibliography. Price: $39.95 U.S. Dollars. This book also is available from the world's largest virtual bookstore, at http://www.amazon.com. This book was written to satisfy the most skeptical of enquirers, who have the time and the inclination to explore the raw data in all of its many details.
(2) Perry, Lee. The Holy Grail, Source of the Ancient Science and Spirituality of the Circling Cosmos, Saoirse Cainte Press, 1993. ISBN Number: 1-883321-04-2. 96 pages. 15 illustrations. 23 drawings. bibliography. appendix: The Concilium of San Pietro, by Charles Longstreet Weltner. Price: $12.95 U.S. Dollars. This book is also available from the world's largest virtual bookstore, at http://www.amazon.com. This book provides a brief summary and overview of the data and the author's conclusions. It also contains data newly-discovered by the author between 1991 and 1993. It challenges both the skeptic and the Christian true believer to read the detailed data in the large book.
(3) The newest of the three books, Jesus Silenced, yet to be published, will provide the skeptical enquirer and the Christian true believer a summary of the data contained in the large and small books, then will present data newly-discovered by the author since 1993. You now may read, free of charge, but without its endnotes, Chapter Thirty-one entitled "The Shroud of Turin as Key to the Mind of the Bible-believer." This chapter was written to answer questions repeatedly asked about the Shroud of Turin by readers of the large and small books.
Some other related links are:Arthuriana
http://dc.smu.edu/Arthuriana/
Celtic Christianity
http://www2.gol.com/users/stuart/celtihs.html
Culdee College Netcampus
http://www.culdee.org/college/
Hildegard von (of) Bingen
http://tweedledee.ucsb.edu/~kris/music/Hildegard.html
Iona Island Community
http://www2.gol.com/users/stuart/iona.html
Shroud of Turin
http://www.shroud.com
Gnosis Archive
http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/
Guide to Early Church Documents
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html
Illuminations--the Real Jesus plus underground spirituality
http://home.fireplug.net/~rshand/
Spiritual Movements
http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/networks-mystic.html
Jesus Silenced Home Page prepared by:
Lee Perry