The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal: Book III: Argument BOOK III THE EARLY EPOCHS OF THE QUEST THE ARGUMENT I. THE ANTECEDENTS OF THE LEGEND IN FOLK-LORE.--Old Celtic prototypes of the Graal literature--Some unconsidered specifics of this subject--A position by way of alternative--Elements of the whole argument--The Cauldron of the Dagda--The Cauldron of Bendigeid Vran--Quests which are not of the Graal--Druidic Mysteries--After what manner these mysteries and their doctrine dissolved into the light of Christianity--A catholic conclusion regarding the claims of Folk-Lore The matter which is placed in our hands. II. THE WELSH PERCEVAL.--Presence of early elements in a late form--Value as a non-Graal Quest The root-matter of the story--Comparison with the Graal Quests--Analogies with the Graal Hallows--The Vengeance Legend--Conclusion as to this text. III. THE ENGLISH METRICAL ROMANCE OF SYR PERCYVELLE.--The archaic elements of this Quest and its claims in comparison with those of the Welsh Peredur--The story in outline--Analogies in the Italian Carduino--Conclusion as to this text and generally as to the Proto- Perceval Quest before the Holy Graal arose on the horizon of literature. IV. THE CONTE DEL GRAAL and in the first place--(A) Preliminary to the whole subject--(B) Concerning the poetic romance of Chrétien de Troyes--The state of the story as one of transition from the folk-tale to the true romance of the Graal--Its connections with the mystic side of the legend--The silence of Perceval--The exile and sorrows of the Knight--The speculative intentions of Chrétien // More from Sub Rosa[8 texts]See all >Brother of the Third DegreeCode of the IlluminatiIn the Pronaos of the Temple of WisdomProofs of a ConspiracySecret Societies of the Middle AgesThe Comte de St. GermainThe History of the Knights TemplarsThe Real History of the Rosicrucians// Related TextsAtlantis830 wordsUntitled1K wordsChristian Texts2K wordsThe Classics2K wordsEarth Mysteries1K wordsNew Thought792 words