Has the mystery of the Holy Grail been solved?

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Has the mystery of the Holy Grail been solved?

Wartime Bletchley codebreakers assess American's claim to have found answer in Staffordshire motto

Steven Morris
Friday November 26, 2004
The Guardian

For centuries the whereabouts of the Holy Grail, supposing it exists at all, has exercised the minds of scholars and tested the endurance of treasure hunters.

Unsurprising, then, when the codebreakers of Bletchley Park announced they were going to give details of a cryptic inscription said to point to the location of the vessel which Christ reputedly used at the Last Supper, the world's press turned out in force.

War veterans who helped crack the Nazis' enigma code during the second world war were back at Bletchley yesterday to explain the theories which might, just might, lead to the unearthing of the holiest of relics. Cryptographers explained the intricacies of methods used to try to work out the inscription to be found on a monument in the grounds of society photographer Lord Lichfield's ancestral home in Staffordshire.

The favoured solution turned out to be more convoluted even than the plot of Dan Brown's blockbuster The Da Vinci Code, a modern fictional hunt for the grail, and without - for the moment at least - a neat denouement.

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1. Thought that was solved long ago -- it doesn't exist

The whole story is a metaphor for the path of spiritual growth. There is no physical 'Grail'. The whole thing is a case of mistaking the map for the territory.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.