What does Professor Henry Jones Sr mean of "illumination"?

In Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, Professor Henry Jones Sr is working on his grail diary for the Holy Grail, and he says, "May he who illuminated this... illuminate me." What does that mean?

Also, at the end, he tells his son Indiana, "Elsa never really believed in the grail. She thought she had found a prize." Indy says, "What'd you find, Dad?" He replies, "Me? Illumination." What does that mean and what was the illumination he found?

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It doesn't mean anything. Tobasco below probably is correct with the response of "enlightenment". I love the Indiana Jones movies, but these movies try to tie in to western beliefs without actually getting into them.

Maybe the enlightenment is in the finding of great historical artifact, but as you can see by the fates of the those involved in that last scene - it's honest appraisal, not the search for gold - that is the most important thing.

The thing about the Holy Grail is, that it's irrelevant. Finding it would be an interesting historical and archeological find, but there's no spiritual power in the cup that Jesus used for the first Communion. The power of salvation is through faith in him - the relics are just relics. Interesting, worth the effort, but only so.