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      Author Topic:   Parcifal 
      Harla Quinn
      (Moderator) posted 12/28/00 0:54 AM        

      [Another one "gone missing" from DP.]


      The myth of Parcifal is about young heroes who are brought to a test or 
      trial. The hero has to take the correct action or make the correct 
      response instinctively. Passing the test may bring a kingdom, riches or 
      some gift; failing the test may bring death or exclusion. Usually, the 
      hero only gets one chance. The unasked Question is the opposite of a 
      riddle and therefore a more difficult test.

      Thus, the idea of "Grail Consciousness," is the "asking of the question." 
      To ask a question with NO assumptions about the answer is the key to being 
      able to more fully SEE the universe as it is.

      "Who is the Grail?", he asks.

      Gurnemanz laughs. "That cannot be spoken", he says, "but if you are called 
      to its service, the knowledge will not be hidden for long." 

      "The Question and the Fisher King", Monsalvat.



      The story of the Grail is the story of the creative potential of the human 
      race in very real, though esoteric terms - the power to re-create the 
      Golden Age - a pathway to knowledge - - a power that has been hidden from 
      us for ages past.

      Parcifal can be ANYONE - that one must discover the place between the 
      worlds where he/she can reestablish the connection between Feminine 
      Creative Sovereignty and the kingship of the material realm.



      The critical stage comes when Parcifal renunciates "the world" of lust and 
      misuse of sexual union and finally, gazing upon the lance, perceives 
      "ecstacy" in discovering the ultimate secret of the Grail.

      "Central to the Grail legend is that renewal must be preceded by a 
      ceremonial cleansing, a purging, rather than just a purification. There 
      must be a radical departure from what was past. The old world dies in 
      order for the new one to be born. The principle is 'The King is dead, long 
      live the King.' 

      But, one of the most important aspects that wannabe Parcifals overlook is 
      this:
      "The essential theme of the Grail, repeated in all the Celtic accounts, is 
      that of a union of the two principles of the Goddess and the Hero King. 
      This is the foundational condition of paradise."

      "When we come to the Lovers in the Tarot, the whole underlying message of 
      the Gnostics, the Cathars, and the Grail finally fits into place. The 
      Lovers is the card of BALANCE and HARMONY and wholeness reflected in its 
      twin card: Temperance." The Holy Grail, Malcolm Godwin, 1998.
      "Oh, what miracle of greatest Fortune! 

      That which may close your wound, I see the holy blood flow out 

      In longing of the relative source, 

      Which there flows in the wave of the graal!

      Wagner


      Parsifal posted 12/28/00 6:56 PM        

      Parsifal , figure of Arthurian legend also known as Sir Percivale, who is 
      in turn a later form of a hero of Celtic myth. The name originally occurs 
      as Pryderi, an alternative name of Gwry in Pwyll Prince of Dyved, a tale 
      in the Mabinogion. Gwry is the original of Gawain, and in the later 
      Percivale stories Gawain appears, often fulfilling the same role as the 
      hero. The great feature of the Percivale cycle is the Holy Grail, and 
      Welsh sources connect this sacred talisman with Percivale, who finds the 
      Grail. Chrétien de Troyes is the author of the first great artistic 
      treatment of the theme; in Chrétien's unfinished poem Percivale finds the 
      Grail at the Fisher King's castle and heals the king. The Parzival of 
      Wolfram von Eschenbach is one of the greatest medieval poems. Drawn 
      largely from Chrétien, von Eschenbach's story is highly spiritualized and 
      appears essentially in the form used by Richard Wagner in his music drama 
      Parsifal. In the Morte d'Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory, Percivale is 
      admitted to the Grail with Galahad and Bors.
      See R. S. Loomis, Arthurian Tradition & Chrétien de Troyes (1949) and 
      Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages (1959); R. Cavendish, King Arthur 
      and the Grail (1985).
      http://lycos.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0837726.html

        




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