Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences (May 2014)
TEMPLARS AND THE HOLY GRAIL. A CROSS-REFERENCE RELATIONSHIP IN AN ONTOPOIETIC PERSPECTIVE
Abstract
The order of Templars has always been seen as a complex and interesting phenomenon in many different fields, that’s why it is difficult to define its nature exactly. Similarly, the Holy Grail can be considered a particularly fascinating subject, which otherwise appears to have an interesting connection with Templars. As a matter of fact, it can be seen as a medley of various themes and topics which take origin in man’s inner needs and dreams and above all in his continuous research for the infinite and the supernatural world. From one side, it can be seen as a material object, associated to Jesus Christ’s Holy Shroud; its origin is still discussed, but we can say that it refers to a mysterious energy linked to human body and to the forces of the cosmos. At the same time, it can assume the function of a real myth, that is to say a representation on unconscious contents, a creation of human psyche which can become a sort of fantastic knowledge, or a real teleological factor, as it emerges in the perspective worked out by psychology of depth (particularly by Jung’s analytical psychology). In this sense it appears also as an expression of the development of “forming spontaneity” which is rooted in the wide field of phenomenology of life, that is to say “the universe of human existence within-the-unity-of-everything-there-is-alive”.
