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According to an account by Giraldus Cambrensis, who was present when the grave was opened at the command of Henry II about the year 1150, the grave contained the bones and [[Excalibur|sword of King Arthur]]. It also contained a leaden cross which contained the following inscription: Here lies buried the famous King Arthur, in the island of Avalon. | According to an account by Giraldus Cambrensis, who was present when the grave was opened at the command of Henry II about the year 1150, the grave contained the bones and [[Excalibur|sword of King Arthur]]. It also contained a leaden cross which contained the following inscription: Here lies buried the famous King Arthur, in the island of Avalon. | ||
== Camelot == | |||
At Camelot, King Arthur called together men and women of the highest attainment from throughout the realm and formed the Order of the Knights of the Round Table. Their raison d’être: the quest for the [[Holy Grail]], the defense of the Mother principle, eternal brotherhood under the Eternal Father, the restoration of Christ’s kingdom on earth, the protection of the flame of the Holy Spirit in the community of Arthur’s court and its extension throughout Britain, and the ennoblement of the soul through devotion to the Christ in individualized community action. | |||
The knights of the Round Table and the ladies of the court at Camelot were initiates of a mystery school of the [[Great White Brotherhood]]. In the tradition of the Pythagorean school at [[Crotona]], the [[Essene community]] at Qumran, the mandala of Christ and his apostles, as well as the guilds of medieval Europe that would succeed them, the knights and ladies guarded the inner truths of the Brotherhood revealed to them by Saint Germain, who was embodied as the beloved [[Merlin]], the court magician and counselor to the king. The jousting and competition of the knights in their tournaments was the measuring of levels of inner soul attainment. | |||
The devotion of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere in their soul relationship of guru and chela was the focus of the flame of the Father-Mother God in the center of the court. The coming of [[Launcelot|Launcelot du Lac]], also a chela of Arthur, to the Order of the Knights of the Round Table was the drawing together of the three persons of the Trinity, the threefold flame in the heart of Camelot. The soul relationship of Launcelot and Guinevere was that of [[twin flame]]s. Together Arthur, Guinevere, and Launcelot laid the foundation of the Christian/Piscean dispensation for the English-speaking peoples. | |||
Arthur led his knights in the quest for the Holy Grail, the cup from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper. After his ascension, the Grail cup was deposited in a well at Glastonbury by a group of disciples who, together with Mary the Mother and [[Joseph of Arimathea]], journeyed by boat from the Holy Land to establish shrines on the European continent and in the British Isles for the expansion of western Christendom during the next two-thousand-year cycle. | |||
Thus El Morya, anointed by God (through Merlin, the reincarnated Prophet [[Samuel]], anointer of kings and prophets unto the people Israel), attuned with the Grail focus and by his noble ideals and spiritual genius, built the platform for the dissemination of the Christic light throughout the globe wherever the British went forth by its impetus to discover and settle new worlds. The inner significance of the knight initiates of the brotherhood of the quest was seeking and finding the Christ consciousness through the law of self-disciplined service to life. | |||
[[File:The_Death_of_King_Arthur_by_John_Garrick.jpg|thumb|alt=Arthur near death, a shadowy boat approaching the shore|''The Death of King Arthur'', John Garrick (1862)]] | [[File:The_Death_of_King_Arthur_by_John_Garrick.jpg|thumb|alt=Arthur near death, a shadowy boat approaching the shore|''The Death of King Arthur'', John Garrick (1862)]] | ||
== Arthur’s passing == | == Arthur’s passing == | ||
Among the knights of the Round Table, Sir Modred (said to have been Arthur’s son sired prior to his marriage) harbored intense jealousy and hatred for the king. Knowing that the military strength of Arthur was unsurpassed, he contacted the sorceress, Morgana le Fay, and together Modred and Morgana used the subtle entrapments of witchcraft, treachery, and intrigue to destroy the sacred trust of king, queen, and knights of the Round Table. | |||
According to Arthurian legends, after King Arthur was mortally wounded at Camlann by his bastard son (or nephew), Mordred, he was placed on a barge with three queens which drifted toward [[Avalon]], an “island valley,” where, as Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote in ''Idylls of the King'', “falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies deep-meadow’d, happy, fair with orchard lawns and bowery hollows crown’d with summer sea.” Some accounts say that Arthur would be healed of his “grievous wound” at Avalon and would return to rule over his people. | According to Arthurian legends, after King Arthur was mortally wounded at Camlann by his bastard son (or nephew), Mordred, he was placed on a barge with three queens which drifted toward [[Avalon]], an “island valley,” where, as Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote in ''Idylls of the King'', “falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies deep-meadow’d, happy, fair with orchard lawns and bowery hollows crown’d with summer sea.” Some accounts say that Arthur would be healed of his “grievous wound” at Avalon and would return to rule over his people. | ||
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== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
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