Percival, inscape, instress, and the Grail

So I googled Fisher King and got a story about a King who was wounded so badly that the wound wouldn't ever heal. So, being a crippled king he spent most of his time fishing, but, in the midst of the stories summarization there appeared a gem. The "Holy Grail" which is supposedly the cup that Jesus drank out of at the Last Supper. It is believed that the grail contains mystical powers, that for instance may be able to heal un-healable wounds... So naturally I looked up the holy grail and found an even better story about a man in search of the holy cup. And no it wasn't Indiana Jones, or Monty Python, but instead it was a story about Percival.

He was a innocent boy who was raised in the forest and didn't come into contact with any other people until he was fifteen which is when he saw knights for the first time. In short he became a knight and went in search for the holy grail. Now, what is so important then about that? Well, on the untrustable wikipidia there was a description of his story that goes, "Percival's immaturity prevents him from fulfilling his destiny when he first encounters the Grail, and he must grow spiritually and mentally before he can locate it again. In later telling the Grail is a symbol of God's grace, available to all but only fully realized by those who prepare themselves spiritually, like the saintly Galahad".

The most important part here is the fact that Percival must grow spiritually and mentally to obtain the grace of god. This makes the grail just like the Bible in that they both are trying to persuade people to adhere to the teachings of Jesus. In other words it doesn't matter if the grail is or is not real because it is the pious quest that really matters. Percival's story is kind of like trying to discover our own inscape and his journey would then be his process of instress guiding him to saintly status. Just as we are all trying to find our own way, being as good as we can be (probably not so hot anymore with all these distractions), we might one day find it; but i'm guessing it isn't a holy cup.