The core story of Christianity is the journey of a sojourning people to the idyllic Land promised to them by God, even as the Lord walks with his people in the person of Christ Jesus.
This common Story thread has been written on the hearts of Christians and pagans alike. For pagans, it is usually an ethnic narrative and the establishment of an ancient kingdom. For Christians, this Story is recapitulated in either historical myth-settings, or in the unseen Spiritual Realm via dream-visions.
Readers will take up the pilgrimage through either Homer’s The Iliad & The Odyssey plus Virgil’s Aeneid, the favorite work of Saxon reformer, Martin Luther, that tells of a Trojan remnant searching for a new land across the sea to re-establish their people; or deBoron’s Grand History of the Grail cycle, telling of Joseph of Arimathea’s coming to British Isles with the Holy Chalice of our LORD and establishing the ‘Matter of Britain’, along with the anonymously-written, The High-Book of the Grail—Pelesvaux, that recounts the fate of the Grail & its dwelling place, Castle Corbenic; or selections from Tolkien’s Middle-Earth saga, including The Hobbit; or by way of Dante’s Divine Comedy, where Virgil returns as the reader’s guide, and Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, Part I.
The Church is not a nomadic kingdom. She does not wander without purpose or goal. We dwell in the wilderness for a time, journeying upon the Vales of Tears until each is called down the slopes into the cloven Valley of Death. The stories that God’s Spirit has inspired—even among the unbelieving cultures—reminds us of this, and edifies our hearts to continue the Grand Adventure to the Son-lit Horizon.
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