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 […]
