Introduction to the TEMPLE of the HOLY GRAIL an Initiatic Mystery School for the New Humanity
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2 Introduction to the TEMPLE of the HOLY GRAIL An Initiatic Mystery School for the New Humanity C. 1999 Grailmaster T:.H:.G:. in Collaboration with Bishop Timothy A. Storlie 3 THE TAPES, LECTURES, AND COMMENTARIES: Prolegomenon Significant new spiritual impulses come into our world through the strivings and invocations of unique men and women who have achieved a close attunement with the invisible guides of humanity known in Hermetic terms as Spiritual Hierarchy. The Temple of the Holy Grail is a new spiritual impulse given in the latter quarter of the twentieth century. It is a mystery school designed to empower spiritually mature women and men with Hierarchical attunement for esoteric world service. This book and the accompanying taped lectures are a revision and abridgment of the original three Teaching Cycles I gave to probationers for Wesak initiation into the Temple of the Holy Grail. Initially, these comprised twenty-two hours of sequential lectures tape recorded in San Jose, California, from September, 1990, through April, 1991, for the first group of T:.H:.G:. candidates, as well as hundreds of pages of privately published teachings. From 1990 to 1998, over seven seasons of initiation, nearly one hundred spiritually mature, carefully selected candidates in Britain, Europe, North America, Central and South America, Australia, and Indonesia undertook probationary studies for Wesak initiation into the First Order of the Temple and its unique program of seven potent Self-Empowerments done on lunar and solar cycles. T:.H:.G:. computer-linked initiatic centers were established by Templar Initiate Bishops of the International Federation of Gnostic Bishops in London, Spain, Montreal, and in eight Eastern, Midwestern, and Western states of the United States. In 1995 Bishop Alberto LaCava and his New York area group began the project of translating T:.H:.G:. materials and tapes into Spanish, which facilitated the addition of many Central and South American probationers and initiates. During this period, T:.H:.G:. initiates were ordained to the Diaconate of the Apostolic Succession so that they could be authorized to work with consecrated elements for the theurgical operations of the Liturgy of the Holy Grail, which facilitates Self- Empowerments done on new and full moons. Many of them were advanced in Holy Orders into Priesthood and even into the Episcopate (Bishop) by their mentor Templar Bishops. In 1998, however, I was guided to establish specific spiritual training for Holy Orders as a program separate from T:.H:.G:. This is now known as the Home Temple Priesthood, which is given an overview in this book and can be found at http://www.hometemple.org. Templar initiates, by virtue of having been screened and accepted for T:.H:.G:., are also qualified to undertake Home Temple training for Apostolic Priesthood. At initiation, all First Order members of T:.H:.G:. are licensed as Subdeacons of the Home Temple, provided with pre-consecrated elements, and taught to celebrate the theurgical Liturgy of the Holy Grail in order to operate the seven Self-Empowerments of the First Order. They may, at their own option, elect to advance in Holy Orders through Diaconate and Priesthood by means of the Home Temple training. In 1998 I was also guided to offer the probationary materials to the general public by revising them and, in collaboration with Bishop Timothy A. Storlie, publishing and 4 distributing a reorganized version of written and taped teachings through the Internet and spiritual book stores. With this method, the people for whom this impulse was brought into the world will be able to find their way to T:.H:.G:., study the probationary materials and, if so moved, make application to the Temple for Wesak initiation. Instead of having to travel to a Templar Bishop for initiation, the accepted candidate will be able to operate his or her own Vigil and Initiation using materials and instruction provided, then to undertake the seven Self-Empowerments of the First Order without necessity of travel. Thus Hierarchy has created an initiatic mystery school based not upon secrecy, but accessibility, and not upon hidden geographical centers, but a worldwide virtual platform. T:.H:.G:. is not dependent upon secret adepts, but upon self-empowerment. It is focused not merely upon the spiritual achievements of the past, but upon the coming generation of spiritually gifted individuals who are attuning themselves to Divine Will and Hierarchy. T:.H:.G:. exists to facilitate the empowerment of those spiritually talented individuals who have the potential to contribute wonderful new achievements of soul and spirit for the sake of the New Humanity. It is a tool to be used by such people. I express my profound appreciation to Bishop Boyer for his invaluable spiritual guidance; to my extremely talented wife and Grail Mother, Bishop Willa Esterson +GM+, for the powerful new esoteric force she has brought into the Temple; to Bishop Storlie for offering to edit, co-author, publish, and distribute these materials; to Bishop Alberto LaCava, whose New York group has developed into a world-wide center for both English and Spanish speaking initiates in T:.H:.G:. and Martinism; and to all other Templar Bishops who have assisted in the development of the Temple. For this publication, I have chosen to use the anonymous title +GM+. The official T:.H:.G:. web site has been established at: http://www.hometemple.org/THG.htm Grailmaster (+GM+) February 20, 1999 5 CONTENTS THE TAPES, LECTURES, AND COMMENTARIES:............................................................................ 3 PROLEGOMENON..................................................................................................................................... 3 CONTENTS .............................................................................................................................................. 5 PART ONE: THE FOUNDING AND THE FOUNDER.......................................................................... 8 CHAPTER 1 - RENEWAL OF THE GRAIL BLESSING ....................................................................................... 9 The 19th Centennial Outpouring of the Grail................................................................................ 9 The 20th Centennial Outpouring of the Grail................................................................................ 9 Building the Eggregore of the Temple....................................................................................... 10 CHAPTER TWO: THE EGGREGORE OF THE TEMPLE................................................................................... 12 The Sacred Temple Talisman..................................................................................................... 12 Apostolic Lineages of the Temple ............................................................................................. 12 Esoteric European Lineages of the Temple................................................................................ 13 Spiritual and Sexual Equality..................................................................................................... 14 CHAPTER THREE: THE FOUNDER ............................................................................................................. 15 Who is Bishop +GM+? .............................................................................................................. 15 The Stigmata of Master Hilarion: PHOTOS .............................................................................. 17 The Temple in the 21st Century.................................................................................................. 17 PART TWO: METAPHYSICAL TEACHINGS.................................................................................... 18 CHAPTER FOUR—THE GRAIL MYSTERIES................................................................................................ 19 Roots of the Western Grail Mysteries ........................................................................................ 19 Europe, the British Isles, and Merovingian “Holy Blood”......................................................... 19 Ancient Masonic Initiatic Tradition ........................................................................................... 22 Image From Rosslyn Chapel: PHOTO....................................................................................... 24 Johannite and Monastic Traditions ............................................................................................ 25 Christian Gnosis and the Graal in European History................................................................. 27 The Early Medieval European Grail Mysteries.......................................................................... 28 The Pactio Secreta and the Chivalric Grail ................................................................................ 29 The Knights Templar ................................................................................................................. 30 Clandestine Grail Traditions During the Inquisition .................................................................. 33 Hermetic Science ....................................................................................................................... 34 The Illuminist Movement........................................................................................................... 34 Populist Gnosis .........................................................................................................................