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Article ON THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY OR SAN GRAAL; ← Page 13 of 26 →
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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
Stanza 6 S . * Ein Smaragd zu einer Sekeiben . In mitten drein gefalzet , Mann liess das nicht bcleiben . Darauf ein Lamm von reiner Kunst geschmelzet , Das trug in seiner Klau die Eahn' gerothet :
Das Zeichcn hat uns Heil erstritten , Und Luzifern an seiner Gewalt ertodet . If to all this be added , that the Graal is committed to the care of a community of chaste knights , Avhose very name is conforming , as Tempeleise ( one MS . even gives Tempelhere , the sole German term for Templar ) , it must be admitted that the coincidences are more than accidental .
Aussen war von . braise Ergraben und ergossen , Wie die Tempeleise Taglich verwappnet unverdrossen , Ritterlich , stritten in grossem Herte Zu Dienst dem heren Grale , Damit man ihn von arger Diet erverte . f IndiAdduallysome of these conformities are slight ; but there are
others , particularly the last , undeniable ; and the Avhole are cumulative . They prove , that in the thirteenth century the Order of Knights Templars was chosen by a poet of great discernment and knoAvledge as the watchers and guardians of a jeAvel , sent down by ministering angels from heaven , to be intrusted on earth to the care only of pure and virtuous knights ; that this
Order is selected by the poet at a time when , if ever , it must have been at the height of its impiety and impurity , for it Avas at the height of its prosperity , seems a sufficient ansAver to the monstrous charges brought against it as a body , —many impossible , all improbable and ridiculous . There are , howeA r er , some other circumstances attendant on the Graal , adduced by the French Avriter Douhaire , in his
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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
Stanza 6 S . * Ein Smaragd zu einer Sekeiben . In mitten drein gefalzet , Mann liess das nicht bcleiben . Darauf ein Lamm von reiner Kunst geschmelzet , Das trug in seiner Klau die Eahn' gerothet :
Das Zeichcn hat uns Heil erstritten , Und Luzifern an seiner Gewalt ertodet . If to all this be added , that the Graal is committed to the care of a community of chaste knights , Avhose very name is conforming , as Tempeleise ( one MS . even gives Tempelhere , the sole German term for Templar ) , it must be admitted that the coincidences are more than accidental .
Aussen war von . braise Ergraben und ergossen , Wie die Tempeleise Taglich verwappnet unverdrossen , Ritterlich , stritten in grossem Herte Zu Dienst dem heren Grale , Damit man ihn von arger Diet erverte . f IndiAdduallysome of these conformities are slight ; but there are
others , particularly the last , undeniable ; and the Avhole are cumulative . They prove , that in the thirteenth century the Order of Knights Templars was chosen by a poet of great discernment and knoAvledge as the watchers and guardians of a jeAvel , sent down by ministering angels from heaven , to be intrusted on earth to the care only of pure and virtuous knights ; that this
Order is selected by the poet at a time when , if ever , it must have been at the height of its impiety and impurity , for it Avas at the height of its prosperity , seems a sufficient ansAver to the monstrous charges brought against it as a body , —many impossible , all improbable and ridiculous . There are , howeA r er , some other circumstances attendant on the Graal , adduced by the French Avriter Douhaire , in his