King Jesus books · Vol. 4 · 2015
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Why do the Arthurian stories keep a wounded king, a round table, and a Grail? The Grail Cypher is volume 4 of the five King Jesus books. It is not a fourth volume of the trilogy. Ellis reads Arthurian Britain as a Templar and dynastic cipher: the Grail stories, the table, and the British cult of a wounded king as the western afterlife of the Edessan royal house. The Grail, on this account, is a royal object and not only a mystical one. The decipherment is his. It is not an academic history of Arthur. The book is for readers interested in King Arthur, the Knights Templar, the Grail, and a possible historical origin for those traditions.
What you'll explore
- Arthurian legend as displaced first-century history
- Templar custody of the cipher
- The Grail as a royal, not merely mystical, object
In the journal
On Ancient Origins
- The Celestial Snow White: Mary Magdalene, Moon Goddess – PART II — 3 March 2016. Their page, not a chapter pasted here.
- The Celestial Snow White – Ancient Tale, Hidden Cypher- PART I — 3 March 2016. Their page, not a chapter pasted here.
- The Ancient Epic of Gilgamesh and the Precession of the Equinox — 24 September 2015. Their page, not a chapter pasted here.
- The Grail Cypher: A radical reassessment of Arthurian history — 19 September 2015. Their page, not a chapter pasted here.
Explore the research behind this book
- Arthur
- The Estoire del Saint Graal, Joseph’s forty-three years — historical source, not a chapter of the book
Read a Published Excerpt
Ancient Origins published an opening from this book on 19 September 2015. It is an opening, not a separate study, and the page is theirs.
The Grail CypherLecture theatre
Lectures from this book
Lecture 4Essene and Templar communists
43:05. 30 January 2019. 26K views. YouTube.
Shared property, a warrior priesthood, and a through-line Ellis draws from Qumran to the Temple in Jerusalem to the Temple in the West.
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Lecture 10Jesus in England
33:58. 24 September 2019. 41K views. YouTube.
Exile after the Revolt: a Roman prison in Britain, and the seed of the Arthur cycle.
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Lecture 12King Arthura Knights Templar story
1:12:22. 12 April 2020. 26K views. YouTube.
The round table as the last supper table; Arthur as the British name of an exiled Judaean king, kept by a later military order.
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Talk 2Fairytales and secret symbolism
20:21. 15 March 2019. 7.2K views. YouTube.
Nursery narrative as a surviving cipher — the same method Ellis applies to scripture and romance.
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In this series
King Jesus books
The King Jesus Trilogy
Cleopatra to Christ
Jesus, the great-grandson of Cleopatra
The King Jesus Trilogy
King Jesus
Prince of Judaea and Rome
The King Jesus Trilogy
Jesus, King of Edessa
A first-century king in the historical record
