Rudyard Kipling. Author, Poet and Freemason. The Jungle Book. by Travis Simpkins

Rudyard Kipling. British Journalist, Poet, Author and Freemason. by Travis Simpkins

Portrait Sketch of

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

( 1865 - 1936 )

British Journalist, Poet and Novelist

Author of The Jungle Book (1894)

The Man Who Would Be King (1888)

Gunga Din (1890) and other Classics

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907

Freemason, Member of

Hope and Perseverance Lodge No. 782, E.C.

Lahore, Pakistan

United Grand Lodge of England

Initiated April 5, 1886. Passed May 3, 1886

Raised a Master Mason on December 6, 1886

by Travis Simpkins

 The Man Who Would Be King - Masonic Exchange

Rudyard Kipling

 For more info, please visit:

poetryfoundation.org/rudyard-kipling

Rudyard Kipling. Author and Freemason. The Jungle Book. by Travis Simpkins

Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair. Priory of Sion. Holy Grail. The Da Vinci Code. by Travis Simpkins

Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair. Priory of Sion. The Holy Grail. by Travis Simpkins

Portrait Sketch of

Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair

( 1920 - 2000 )

Grand Master of the

Priory of Sion

???

Provided Inspiration for the books

Holy Blood, Holy Grail

and

The Da Vinci Code

by Travis Simpkins

The History of a Mystery - Rennes-le-Chateau

For more info, please visit:

priory-of-sion.com

Pierre Plantard. Priory of Sion. by Travis Simpkins. Holy Grail. The Da Vinci Code

The Grail. From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol. Roger Sherman Loomis

The Grail. From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol. Roger Sherman Loomis

 I'm enjoying "The Grail: From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol" by Roger Sherman Loomis...

The medieval legend of the Grail, a tale about the search for supreme mystical experience, has never ceased to intrigue writers and scholars by its wildly variegated forms: the settings have ranged from Britain to the Punjab to the Temple of Zeus at Dodona; the Grail itself has been described as the chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper, a stone with miraculous youth-preserving virtues, a vessel containing a man's head swimming in blood; the Grail has been kept in a castle by a beautiful damsel, seen floating through the air in Arthur's palace, and used as a talisman in the East to distinguish the chaste from the unchaste. In his classic exploration of the obscurities and contradictions in the major versions of this legend, Roger Sherman Loomis shows how the Grail, once a Celtic vessel of plenty, evolved into the Christian Grail with miraculous powers. Loomis bases his argument on historical examples involving the major motifs and characters in the legends, beginning with the Arthurian legend recounted in the 1180 French poem by Chrtien de Troyes. The principal texts fall into two classes: those that relate the adventures of the knights in King Arthur's time and those that account for the Grail's removal from the Holy Land to Britain. Written with verve and wit, Loomis's book builds suspense as he proceeds from one puzzle to the next in revealing the meaning behind the Grail and its legends.