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Seekers Notes: Hidden Mystery is a hidden-object mystery game in which you take on the role of the Seeker, an amnesiac mystical detective. You must help the inhabitants of Darkwood find their lost belongings while investigating the curse that hangs over the city. This game presents a variety of different hidden-object puzzles that require you to manage both your energy points and your time effectively.

The fourth and final chapter of Marino's study expands upon the process of re-spiritualization of the Grail, in an age hungry for new forms of spirituality. Following a period of skepticism, New Age spirituality filled a void, or longing, for the mystery and promise of a world beyond our own. Marino traces here the parallel evolution of twentieth-century occult movements--in particular mysticism--and the changing portrayal of the Grail in modern fiction. The chapter begins by considering the association of the Grail with Glastonbury, as studied by scholars like Geoffrey Ashe who sought to reconstruct the events of the Dark Ages and the source of Arthurian legends. In King Arthur's Avalon: The Story of Glastonbury (1958), Ashe proposes that the Grail was connected to an early Marian cult at Glastonbury, descended from a tradition of Celtic (and pagan) goddess-worship. Excavations of Arthurian sites were also undertaken by archeologists such as Frederick B. Bond. When science (and pseudo-scientific methods) failed to yield satisfactory explanations, Bond resorted to mystical and psychic approaches, such as the "automatic writing" of a medium, said to tap into the collective memory and write poetic revelations about Glastonbury's past (119). Esoteric mysticism, influenced by modern individualism, brings to the Grail a profoundly personal dimension: the mysterious object is transformed "from tangible presence to abstraction and flexible symbol for exploration of the inner self outside traditional religious communities" (122). Once again, Marino summarizes and draws upon a multiplicity of modern works--both scholarly and fictional--in order to illustrate the final stage (to date) in the Grail's transformation. Amongst the academic studies presented here are Mary H. Ford's Holy Grail: The Silent Teacher (1897), Francis Rolt-Wheelers' Mystic Gleams from the Holy Grail (1948), Corinne Heline's Mysteries of the Holy Grail (1977), Terry Ravenscroft's Cup of Destiny: The Quest for the Grail (1981), and Gareth Knight's Secret Tradition in Arthurian Legend (1983). Marino then explores the infiltration of esoteric mysticism into Arthurian fiction, drawing upon books such as Arthur Machen's Great Return (1915) and Secret Glory (1922), C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength (1945), Eleanore M. Jewett's Hidden Treasure of Glastonbury (1946), and, once again, Catherine Christian's Pendragon. For all of these authors, and others, the experience of the Grail is highly individualistic and personal. Belief in the supernatural results in Jungian self-exploration. After a brief discussion of secret societies and conspiracies thought to surround the Grail (which also make their way into Arthurian fiction (an approach which Umberto Eco mocks in his 1988 novel, Foucault's Pendulum) Marino concludes his study with a discussion of the Grail in the New Age. To the question "whom does the Grail serve?"--posed by Marino at the end of Chapter Two--the answer becomes "everyone." Building upon the writings of John Matthews, Brian Cleeve, Hannah Closs, and Deepak Chopra, Marino shows that New- Age scholars and authors present a Grail which is available to seekers of all faiths, a vessel which unites traditions and transcends any one distinctively organized form of religion. "Since there is no longer such a thing as one true Grail," adds Marino with post-modernist verve, "since there are no longer any absolute truths, each individual is free to construct his or her own Grail" (145). The Grail legend becomes a tool for self-realization, which appeals to the pluralist spirit of New Age philosophies.