The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal: Book VIII: Argument BOOK VIII MYSTIC ASPECTS OF THE GRAAL LEGEND THE ARGUMENT I. THE INTRODUCTORY WORDS.--The Quest of the Holy Graal considered as a religious experiment--Counsels of Perfection in the Quest--Of poverty, obedience and virginity--Of partial success in their absence--Peculiarities in the election of Galahad--The state of sanctity--The descent of Grace--Perpetuity of conditions for the experiment--Further as regards virginity in respect of the Quest--The mystical idea of union--The term of the Quest--Separation of transubstantiation marvels from the final vision of the Graal--The experience of Nasciens--Collateral experience of the Mystics--After what manner grace manifested through the Eucharist--Of a gate of knowledge in the Eucharist--Declaration of the Graal in its mystic aspects. II. THE POSITION OF THE LITERATURE DEFINED.--A distinction concerning the literature--Of allegory in the Great Quest--A particular form of development in the Graal Legend--The Graal and the Official Church--The case concerning that Church--The implicits of the literature as elements of the mystic aspects--The Recession of the Graal--How this symbol was perpetuated from the beginning--A light from the Quest of Guiot--Meaning of the Stone in the Crown of Lucifer--The Graal and Eucharistic Wisdom. III. CONCERNING THE GREAT EXPERIMENT.--The wonder of all sacredness as the term of Quest--An analogy from Ruysbroeck--Term of the Experiment--External places of the Quest--Of helpers therein // 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 TextsChristian Texts2K wordsThe Classics2K wordsSub Rosa887 wordsChurch FathersHidden Treasures of the Ancient QabalahHymns of the Eastern ChurchThe Hidden Church of the Holy Graal: Book VIII: Argument | DeepTome | DeepTome
