The Rosslyn Chapel is said to be the house of the Holy Grail. Although it sounds like a prop for an Indiana Jones flick, the holy grail was mentioned in the bible and is thought to be a cup used to collect the blood of Christ after he got nailed by Pilate. It possesses certain divine powers. Located in Scotland, is the actual chapel found in Dan Brown's novel cum film The Da Vinci Code. Regardless of Dan Brown's scenario, there is another fellow who has discovered the shapes in the ceiling are in fact another code, a musical code, and he's spent the better part of his adult life trying to crack it. Whilst it makes pretty music, the idea is that the frequencies of sound, if hit just so, will actually make the great chambers of stone shift and slide about to reveal, well, who really knows. So far, the music has left the stone still. Was William St. Clair, the creator of the chapel, capable of such otherworldly technical skills? That is the question.
It might be that there is a lust to "read in" this particular chapel, as Dan Brown did and his over twenty million readers (books in print) have, from the Star of David to said Holy Grail and musical code. Would he have spent the time and technology on the musical code and not even finish the building as it was originally designed? Truth is, the eccentric, lousy with flying buttress artifact created by St. Clair is only one piece of grand plan that never reached fruition. Perhaps it is the unfinished portions, the unspoken skeletons that have danced about since 1446, that draw us all in to examine the mystery of the Rosslyn Chapel.