The Mysteries of the Holy Grail: From Arthur and Parzival to Modern Initiation

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    • Beyond these popular views of the Grail, there is a darker, alternative side to this holy vessel which shows that its original guardian was not Joseph at all, but John the Evangelist, the Beloved Disciple and writer of the Fourth Gospel, who emerges as the first priest of Christianity, a role usually reserved for St Peter, founder of the Church of Rome.

    In Christian art John is depicted holding a Grail cup, out of which emerges the Gnostic serpent, a symbol of the knowledge and wisdom which comes from communion with the divine Light of God, a matter which profoundly influenced the teachings of the Cathar heretics of medieval times, and through them the Knights Templar and troubadours responsible for the first Grail romances at the end of the twelfth century.

    Following the Ascension, the followers of John the Evangelist established a somewhat revelatory form of Christianity, which, like the service of the Grail described in the romances, emphasised direct communion with the god-head, outside the intervention of a priestly hierarchy stemming directly from the Apostles.

    Indeed, some scholars now consider that his gospel, so prized by the Cathars, Knights Templar and much later Freemasons and Templar revivalists, was the original source book of Gnostic thought, with its heavy reliance on the power of the Logos and the Light of God. The book formed an integral role in the Cathar initiation ceremony known as the consolamentum, in which candidates were chosen to became deacons and priests, known as perfectae.

    Such powerful beliefs developed from Gnostic teachings which held that Adam, the First Man, was bisexual and hermaphrodite before a rib was removed to form Eve, the First Woman. For the earliest Christians drinking for the first time from the original Grail, the cup of communion, known in the Gospels as the Bitter Cup, was a direct path to God, bringing them quite literally within sight of the kingdom of heaven.

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    This powerful initiation ceremony, so institutionalised by the Catholic Church, was practised only once a year alongside nocturnal baptisms at the so-called Paschal Vigil, celebrated on the eve of Easter Sunday. Yet initiation into the Christian mysteries was a double-edged sword - on the one hand it brought the initiate closer to God.

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    The Mysteries of the Holy Grail: From the ancient British tales of King Arthur and his knights through the medieval Central European sagas of Parzival, and right up to today's blockbuster novels and films, the Grail has maintained an enigmatic presence in Western culture. It is thought to be many things: Basing his presentations on far-reaching spiritual research, Rudolf Steiner gave profoundly esoteric, multifaceted insights into the mysteries of the Holy Grail.

    Collected for the first time in a single volume together with commentary and notes, these passages offer vivid tableaux with a multiplicity of meanings: Just as Parzival had to encounter and engage with veils of illusion and valleys of shadow and doubt, Steiner presents us with a similarly challenging path.

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