More Holy Grail

The book I read to research this post was The 21st Century Grail by Andrew Collins which is a very good book which I bought from amazon. This book is a kind of sequel to the book on the same subject I reviewed the other day. Collins tends to write about psychic questing whereby using mediums & friends who are psychic they find historical artefacts. That doesn't strictly happen in this book where the holy grail the book is about was discovered behind a statue at Hawkstone House in 1917 but they try to verify it. Incidently the scientific community that Graham Phillips had found the Holy Grail one argument being it's not mentioned as being in britain until the 12th century. At the end of this book they do tests on the Holy Grail & discover it's made of alabaster & does appear to be a roman scent jar from that period so as Collins says it does appear that out of all the artefacts that claim to be the Holy Grail & there are rather a lot, this jar probably has the best claim. Something it says in the book is the early christians especially the gnostics & later the cathars & the albigensions focused on spiritual development. They used meditation & prayer to achieve this. I've read books on wicca although I have never been practised it & I'm not a wiccan. Apparently a lot of the wiccan beliefs come from these groups like the gnostics. When Aleister Crowley was developing his own version of wicca, he used psychic questing to find long forgotten beliefs. Someone even accused him of giving away the cathars secrets & Crowley because he didn't know where his beliefs came from, didn't have a clue what the chap was on about & they had a big argument. The knights templars kept these beliefs.