IlluminAnX: Rosicrucianism Reawakened by Michael Aquino

Author:Michael Aquino [Aquino, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-12T08:00:00+00:00

2. The Grail

The power and symbolism of the Grail extends

far beyond, and historically in greater antiquity,

than in Arthurian legend. In the words of Dr. Franz

Winkler:

110 The author’s book MindStar proposes this term to more

accurately encompass the Egyptians’ eightfold emanations of

sentient identity, which later cultures would coarsely imagine

as a single “soul”.

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When we think of the origin of man, we insist

illogically on confusing the history of his purely

biological being with the history of his spirit; the latter

defies any attempt at investigation by methods we now

call scientific. Darwin and his followers deal with the

emergent evolution of visible man, while on the other

hand religion and mythology deal with the evolution of

his invisible soul. In his cycle of the Ring and Parsifal,

Wagner uses the magic power of music, words, and

scenery to open man’s heart to the history of the

hidden essence of his own self, and to the changing

forces that are active behind the sensory phenomena of

man and Earth. 111

And further, between others:

Well aware of Himmler’s fascination with ancient

Germanic paganism, and antipathy for anything

Christian, Hitler looked at him quizzically; he saw that

the Reichsführer had anticipated his question.

“I don’t think that either of us holds to the

superficial interpretation of Parsifal. That is just there

for audiences incapable of sensing its deeper

symbolism, and numbed by generations of Christian

indoctrination.

“It was Wagner’s music itself that first opened my

eyes, or in this case my ears. The vistas it unfolds are

anything but Christian; they reach to the majesty of the

soul itself. The music not only thrills one’s inner

consciousness; it orders, indeed dictates the operatic

sets to visually complement its sonic revelation.

“That is what I seek to do here, but without even

the pretense of fantasy or entertainment that

constricted Wagner - and which he loathed, causing

him to insulate at least this, his final and greatest

single opera, against it by forbidding its performance

except at Bayreuth. Here at the Wewelsburg it will all

be real, not imaginary.”

Himmler was clearly transfixed by the passion and

intensity of his confession. He was, Hitler realized,

utterly oblivious to the world they had just left, as

111 Winkler, Franz E., For Freedom Destined: Mysteries of

Man’s Evolution in the Mythology of Wagner’s Ring Operas

and Parsifal (Garden City, NY: Waldorf Press, 1974).

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though the door to the Tower were rather a gateway to

a higher, more potent reality. His statement, Hitler

perceived, had been as much an incantation to himself

as a response to his guest.

“You are most prescient, Heinrich. Music and

architecture - Is it not in these disciplines that we find

recorded the path of humanity’s ascent? When I hear

Wagner, it seems to me that I hear rhythms of a

bygone world. I imagine to myself that one day science

will discover, in the waves set in motion by the

Rheingold, secret mutual relations connected with the

order of the world. The observation of the world

perceived by the senses precedes the knowledge given

by exact science as well as by philosophy. It is insofar

as percipient awareness approaches truth that it has

value.” 112

For those not Questing the Grail, however, there

are three emotional stimulants driving him beyond

animalistic complacency: curiosity, fear, and

allure. We may instructively examine each in turn:

B.

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