Montsalvat

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On Montsalvat, the Mountain of Salvation, in northern Spain in the Pyrenees, the Grail Castle with the temple for the Holy Grail is said to have been erected by the high initiate Titurel, guarded by the community of the Guardians of the Grail, the Templars. This designation for the Grail Knights is probably not chosen by chance and is closely related to the Knights of the Order of the Temple[1], which was founded later[2]. Munsalvaesche (Occitan: Montsalvasch, "Mountain of Salvation", or Montsauvage, "Wild Mountain") is the name Wolfram von Eschenbach gives to the Grail castle in his Parzival poetry.

„The Knights Templar had brought the initiation wisdom of the Holy Grail from the Orient to the mountain of salvation, Mons salvationis, the place of initiation of Christianity. An initiation ceremony pointed directly to the future of the whole human race. It was said: A time will come when Christianity will experience a new phase. - From immemorial times, the progress of human spiritual culture was consciously designated according to the progress of the Sun. Before 800 B.C., the Sun passed through the constellation of Taurus for about 2200 years. Over in Asia, the bull was worshipped as the divine. Even before that, for the same reason, the twins were worshipped in Persia: good and evil, the duality. Around 800 BC, the Sun entered the sign of the Aries or Lamb. The legend of Jason and the golden fleece points to this. Christ calls himself the Lamb of God because he appeared in this sign. [Today the Sun is in the sign of Pisces.] The Templars point to the next constellation; the Sun will then enter the constellation of Aquarius. That is when Christianity will really rise, when paganism will be united with Christianity. This culture will raise a new John. That time will come when the Sun will be in the sign of Aquarius. John is called Aquarius; he will be the herald of a new age of Christianity. It is said that the Knights Templar referred to John the Baptist, not Christ. But the John of whom they speak is the Aquarius.“ (Lit.:GA 92, p. 156f)

The spiritual disciples initiated by Titurel were all called "Parzival" in a certain sense. In these Gothic Mysteries, as Rudolf Steiner also calls them, the esoteric knowledge of the Mysteries of the Bread and Blood of Christ was to be preserved, which had already been largely lost externally in the 4th century AD and threatened to disappear finally in the early 8th century under the onslaught of Arabism advancing into Spain.

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
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Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.

References

  1. ↑ „Wolfram had been in Jerusalem, had met the Templars and in his epic made them the guardians of the Grail and thus those who knew the secret of the Grail.“ (Lit.: Strelka, S. 52)
  2. ↑ The exact date of foundation is unknown, but is likely to be between 1118 and 1121.
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