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The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit
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The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the SpiritThe Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit

In this important study of the meaning of the Grail, one of Europe's greatest esoteric philosophers discloses the pre-Christian and initiatic sources of this symbolic motif that is so central to Western mythology and culture. He demonstrates how the main features of the legend are from an older tradition analogous to the great heroic sagas and cycles of the North, and that the Grail itself is a symbol of initiation.
 
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Tags: Grail, heroic, sagas, cycles, great, Mystery, Spirit, Quest, Initiation
The Arthurian Handbook, 2nd Edition
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The Arthurian Handbook, 2nd Edition

Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the depiction of Arthur in paintings, the presentation of Camelot on the Broadway stage, the twitting of the legend in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and much more.
 
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Tags: Grail, Arthur, Arthurian, legend, Camelot
Up in the Air [audiobook EN] [mp3@128]
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Up in the Air [audiobook EN] [mp3@128Up in the Air [audiobook EN] [mp3@128

Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls “Airworld,” finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and a wardrobe of wrinkle-free slacks. With a letter of resignation sitting on his boss’s desk, and the hope of a job with a mysterious consulting firm, Ryan Bingham is agonizingly close to his ultimate goal, his Holy Grail: one million frequent flier miles.
 
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Tags: agonizingly, close, ultimate, Grail, Bingham, audiobook, sitting, boss's, mysterious, resignation
TMS - Eternal Chalice: The Grail in Literature and Legend
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TMS - Eternal Chalice: The Grail in Literature and Legend
Professor Monica Brzezinski Potkay (College of William and Mary)
14 lectures [30 minutes/lecture]

The goal of this course is to provide an overview of the many different ways writers of fiction and nonfiction have imagined, and reimagined, the object known as the Grail. We’ll look at how the Grail was invented as a powerful literary symbol in the late 12th and early 13th centuries by a group of medieval romancers who celebrated the Grail as a symbol of perfection.

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Tags: Grail, Eternal, Legend, Literature, Chalice, symbol
The Templar Papers: Ancient Mysteries, Secret Societies, And the Holy Grail
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The Templar Papers: Ancient Mysteries, Secret Societies, And the Holy GrailThe Templar Papers: Ancient Mysteries, Secret Societies, And the Holy Grail

Much has been written about the group of 14th-century warrior monks known as the Knights Templar. Some authors, such as Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code, portray them as folk heroes wrongly accused. Others disagree, saying the Templar story is ultimately one of greed, deception, and idolatry.
 
 
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Tags: Templar, greed, deception, ultimately, story, Grail, Secret, Societies, Papers