The Search For The Grail

The book I read to research this post was The Search For The Holy Grail by Graham Phillips which is an excellent book which I bought from amazon. I have another very similiar book to this which is by Andrew Collins & which I will do soon. According to this book the stories of robin hood & king arthur which are essentially fiction are based on much older stories which are factual. The king arthur name is based on the word arth which is an old english word for a bear. While there was no king arthur there was an ancient briton king from around 500BC whose capital was Wroxeter, a now disused ruin near Shrewsbury Shropshire England. His kingdom was Powys & Wroxeter was the most important city in the UK. At that time there was an offshoot of christianity in england based it's claimed on Joseph of Arimethea's teachings. These teachings were more or less the same as what gnostic christians believed. One of their beliefs was that the soul was trapped inside the human body & that through meditation & prayer we could reach a higher self. The christian church sent an army to england which sorted out these rebels. They also believed that Empress Helena who was Constantine the Greats mother had exhumed Jesus's burial site & found the holy grail or what they thought was it. This then eventually found its way to England. Someone in shropshire in 1600AD claimed to have found the holy grail on his deathbed but died before he could say where it was. What Mr Phillips thinks was the holy grail was found at Whittington Chapel in side a statue. It was identified as an onyx roman perfume jar & it had a missing lid. It was said the Knights Templar looked after it for many years. The King Arthurian tale of Percival searching for the holy grail could be based on the apparently true story of the Earl of Whittington who also happened to have a white castle & didn't live far from Wroxeter which Phillips thinks is Avalon.