Andrew Collins

Twenty-first Century Grail

 

Three years ago I was charged with a quest to find a representation of the Grail. As mad as such a venture might seem, it was followed by a series of dreams, visions and revelations which led me, and those around me, ever nearer new answers concerning the true origins of the Grail, the ultimate vision quest of the past. Gradually, it became apparent that the true gnosis of Christianity kept alive by the Gnostics of the first centuries of the Christian era, and later adopted by their medieval counterparts, concerned the intervention into human affairs of the divine, the light of God. This was expressed through the nocturnal rite of baptism and a secret communion meal, the cup of which became the symbol not only of Jesus's Agony in the Garden in Gethsemane, but also for the blood which he, and through him every saint and martyr, would shed in the name of Christianity.

It was a mystical doctrine embraced wholly by the followers of John the Evangelist, Christianity's first priest and the bearer of the original Grail cup, before a schism forced one half of the community to merge with the orthodox Church of Rome, leaving the rest to become outright Gnostics. These same individuals revered Mary Magdalene as Jesus’s successor and an apostle in her own right. Yet very gradually her role in the foundation of Christianity was not only suppressed, but altered into that of her shadow, her male counterpart John the Evangelist. The two individuals became one androgynous figure, which merged with the memory of the Beloved Disciple of John’s Gospel. His dual nature was preserved within the underground stream of occult activity known to the Cathars, the Knights Templar and the renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, who portrayed the Beloved Disciple as distinctly feminine in his famous fresco of the Last Supper.


These discoveries were, however, merely the beginning of an amazing Grail quest across the British countryside, which brought with it revelation after revelation as we were led ever closer towards our goal. Eventually, we were to take possession under mysterious circumstances of a small green stone cup, which becomes arguably the most authentic physical Grail in the world today. It is an extraordinary story, which also throws an entirely new perspective on the mystery of Rennes-le-Chateau. It also initiates a separate quest for a Templar relic, a representation of their idol Baphomet, known as the Head of God, spirited out of Britain following the arrest of the English Templars in January 1308.


This then is the subject of my presentation during the day at QuestCon04. I will initiate delegates into this divine quest, and reveal the identity of the Grail, before providing the very latest evidence towards its authentication as a religious object of incredible spiritual value.

 

Andrew Collins was born in Bedford, England, in 1957, and for the past 16 years has lived in the Essex Thameside town of Leigh-on-Sea. As a young UFO researcher, he investigated Britain’s first ever reported alien abduction experience, which took place at Aveley in Essex three years earlier, before going on to join the magazine STRANGE PHENEMONA, writing on subjects such as ghosts, the paranormal, UFOs, Atlantis, and past lives. He was especially interested in the inter-relationship between mind, landscape and strange light phenomena, and in 1978 proposed that those who underwent genuine UFO experiences were very often psychic in nature. He has written two books on this subject - THE CIRCLEMAKERS (1992) and ALIEN ENERGY (1994). His passion for psychic matters led to him creating a modern-day revival in psychic questing - the use of intuitively inspired information to uncover hidden artefacts, historical enigmas and landscape mysteries. His books on this subject include THE BLACK ACLHEMIST (1988), THE SEVENTH SWORD (1991), THE SECOND COMING (1993) and his new bestseller TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY GRAIL (2004).


Andrew has also authored several internationally acclaimed books on historical subjects, such as FROM THE ASHES OF ANGELS (1996), which explores the origins of the Watchers and Nephilim of Biblical tradition; GODS OF EDEN (1998), which investigates the origins of Egyptian civilisation; GATEWAY TO ATLANTIS (2000), which explores Plato’s Atlantis and identifies Cuba as its flagship, and TUTANKHAMUN: THE EXODUS CONSPIRACY (co-authored with Chris Ogilvie Herald), which uncovers the scandal surrounding secret papyri found in the tomb of the boy king. He is also the organiser of the Questing Conference, Britain’s foremost gathering on forbidden archaeology, alternative history and psychic questing, which annually attracts around 400 delegates.


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