The Grail Land of Europe

The Grail Land of Europe embraces a large part of Western Europe and is a landscape temple of unique significance in the world, whose geomantic spine (the Grail Line) stretches from the Golfe du Lion in the south to the Assynt/Cape Wrath area of northern Scotland. Because this spine passes through the focus of Europe's throat chakra (Bourges), it could also be referred to as the Throat Line of Europe.

The Grail Line forms the main axis of the central pentagonal geometry of the Taurean face of the Planetary Dodecahedron, the geometric matrix of the Planetary Light Body. The circumscribing circle and pentagon of this central area more or less defines that part of Europe most involved with the Arthurian and Grail legends, hence we refer to it as the Grail Land of Europe.

The root chakra of the Grail Line and Grail Land lies in the Golfe du Lion. Its nearest land focus is at Les-Saintes-Maries de-la-Mer, which clearly marks and acknowledges the chakric function. Le Puy de Dome near Clermont Ferrand marks the sacral, Chartres the solar plexus, London (Kingston) the heart, Great Whernside the throat, Edinburgh the brow and Ben More Assynt the crown chakra.

The ‘hara’ of the Grail Land is Bourges, the heart of France and centre of the Taurean face of the Planetary Dodecahedron. The English Channel lies in the position of the etheric ‘veil’ between the solar plexus and heart chakras (manifested in the human physical body as the diaphragm between abdomen and chest), such that the ‘abdomen’ of the Grail Land is clearly defined by the inner pentagon of the Grail Land pentagram, and the 'chest' and ‘head’ of the Grail Land by the northernmost triangle of the Grail Land pentagram. This archetypal geometry works so strongly in the landscape that the very shape of France is defined by the inner pentagon and that of Great Britain (i.e. Britain and Scotland) by the northern triangle of the Grail Land pentagram.

The original source of the Grail legends is in Britain, as part of British (Celtic) mythology. The Grail Land is the Grail Kingdom of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere. Essentially they are names for divine intelligencies – a sun-god and goddess – but have their manifest outworking in the lives of certain extraordinary people at extraordinary times. The Grail Land therefore has a historical reality as well as a geocosmological one. 

© Peter Dawkins