For thousands of years, tidings about the Holy Grail have circulated amongst mankind. Early poetry and legends were followed in later times with serious study and scholarly research. Meanwhile, artistic circles occupied themselves with interpreting the legends of the Grail through a variety of mediums. Yet despite many earthly endeavors and investigations, the question, “What is the Grail?” nevertheless remained without a clear answer. Finally, the Grail came to be regarded as a lost religious artifact, if not a merely symbolic conception.

However, we learn from the Grail Message that the Grail actually exists, although it is not to be found upon the earth. Rather, it is described as a spiritual reality. The following passage is excerpted from Abd-ru-shin’s lecture "The World":

      “Far above the eternal cycle of Creation there floats like a crown in the center an “Azure Island”, the abode of the blessed, of the purified spirits, who may already dwell in the Regions of Light! This Island is separate from the World. Therefore it has no part in the cycle; but in spite of its height above the rotating Creation, it constitutes the support and the center for the outgoing spiritual forces. It is the island that bears on its height the much-praised city with its streets of gold. Here nothing is subject any longer to change. No “Last Judgment” is to be feared any more. Those who can dwell there are “at home”.

But as the last, as the highest on this Azure Island, inaccessible to those not specially called, stands the ... Grail Castle, so often spoken of in poetry!

Encompassed by legends, the object of longing to so many, it stands there in the Light of Greatest Glory and harbors the Sacred Vessel of the Pure Love of the Almighty, the Grail!

The purest of spirits are appointed as guardians. They are bearers of Divine Love in its purest form, which is very different from what men on earth imagine it to be, although they experience it daily and hourly.

Through revelations, tidings of the Castle were brought down stage by stage the immense distance from the Azure Island through the Ethereal World, until finally, through a few deeply inspired poets, they also became known among people of the gross material earth. Passed on downwards step by step, the Truth also unintentionally suffered various misrepresentations, so that the final version could only be an increasingly dimmed reflection, which gave rise to many errors.

If now from some part of the great Creation in dire distress, suffering and ardent appeals rise to the Creator, then a Servant of the Vessel is sent forth as a bearer of this Love to intervene helpingly in the spiritual need. What floats merely as a myth and a legend in the Work of Creation then enters Creation as a living reality!

Such missions, however, do not often occur. Each time they are accompanied by incisive changes and great upheavals. Those who are thus sent bring Light and Truth to the erring, Peace to the despairing; with their message they stretch forth their hands to all who seek, offering them new courage and new strength, and guiding them through all Darkness up to the Light.

They come only for those who long for help from the Light, but not for the scoffers and the self-righteous.”