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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
memoir on this myth . I lament that from its absence from our National library I have not been able to consult the original , and I take , therefore , a notice of it b y the able archaeologist M . de Caumont , of Caen , given in the eighth volume of " Bulletin Monumental , " p . 129 . " Les poefces du xni . et siv . sieclequi composaient les romans de la
, Table Ronde , flrent de Joseph d'Arimathee le chef d ' ime Erancmaconnerie guerriere et pieuse . A les en croire , il aurait kerite apres la Passion , de la coupe dans laquelle le Sauveur aurait fait la Cene . Cette coupe , qu'ils appellent du nom de Graal , etait donnc des vertus les plus merveillcuses . D ' abord il y avait dans la forme quelque chose de mysterieux et d ' meflablc que le regard humain ne pouvait bieu saisir , que la langue humaine ne saurait decrire completement . Pour jouir de sa vuememe imparfaite
, , il fallait etre baptise . Le Graal rendait lui-m 6 me des oracles par iesquels il prescrivait toute ce que dans les cas imprevus devait etre fait pour l'honneur do son culte . Ces oracles etaient merveilleitsement figures a la , vice en caracteres ecrits stir la surface de la vase , et disparaissaient aussildt qu'ils avaient ete his . "
For the present I content myself with this portion of the curious passage , and refer more especiall y to the latter sentence in Italics . Wherever in antiquity a priesthood had been able to gain credit for immediate communion with its deities , the ansAver Avas feigned to be given in a manner more or less adapted to shield the fraud : the brazen kettles at Dodona allmved in
their dissonant clattenngs a liberal latitude of interpretation ; the virgin " rapt inspired" on the tripod at Delphi , could accommodate her responses to the wishes of the votary ; and the troubled dreams of the Hole of Trophonius could be induced by the narcotics given to promote sleep : but it Avas left to the invention of our Graal myths to devise a method by Avhich the
AAT . 11 of Heaven could be communicated on earth , at once novel , pjerspicuous , and poetical ; Ave see the answers to the A otaries of the Graal Avere given by characters in characters shining upon its paler tint of green , in all the brilliancy of the deepest emerald , and vanishing as soon as read . I again lament that I am not cognisant of the authority of Douhaire for this
statement ; I should wish to find it French , since it Avould be then corroborative in such a very remarkable and curious particular Avith the poem before us ; for there , in the following stanza , Ave find a medium of response exactly similar . *
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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
memoir on this myth . I lament that from its absence from our National library I have not been able to consult the original , and I take , therefore , a notice of it b y the able archaeologist M . de Caumont , of Caen , given in the eighth volume of " Bulletin Monumental , " p . 129 . " Les poefces du xni . et siv . sieclequi composaient les romans de la
, Table Ronde , flrent de Joseph d'Arimathee le chef d ' ime Erancmaconnerie guerriere et pieuse . A les en croire , il aurait kerite apres la Passion , de la coupe dans laquelle le Sauveur aurait fait la Cene . Cette coupe , qu'ils appellent du nom de Graal , etait donnc des vertus les plus merveillcuses . D ' abord il y avait dans la forme quelque chose de mysterieux et d ' meflablc que le regard humain ne pouvait bieu saisir , que la langue humaine ne saurait decrire completement . Pour jouir de sa vuememe imparfaite
, , il fallait etre baptise . Le Graal rendait lui-m 6 me des oracles par iesquels il prescrivait toute ce que dans les cas imprevus devait etre fait pour l'honneur do son culte . Ces oracles etaient merveilleitsement figures a la , vice en caracteres ecrits stir la surface de la vase , et disparaissaient aussildt qu'ils avaient ete his . "
For the present I content myself with this portion of the curious passage , and refer more especiall y to the latter sentence in Italics . Wherever in antiquity a priesthood had been able to gain credit for immediate communion with its deities , the ansAver Avas feigned to be given in a manner more or less adapted to shield the fraud : the brazen kettles at Dodona allmved in
their dissonant clattenngs a liberal latitude of interpretation ; the virgin " rapt inspired" on the tripod at Delphi , could accommodate her responses to the wishes of the votary ; and the troubled dreams of the Hole of Trophonius could be induced by the narcotics given to promote sleep : but it Avas left to the invention of our Graal myths to devise a method by Avhich the
AAT . 11 of Heaven could be communicated on earth , at once novel , pjerspicuous , and poetical ; Ave see the answers to the A otaries of the Graal Avere given by characters in characters shining upon its paler tint of green , in all the brilliancy of the deepest emerald , and vanishing as soon as read . I again lament that I am not cognisant of the authority of Douhaire for this
statement ; I should wish to find it French , since it Avould be then corroborative in such a very remarkable and curious particular Avith the poem before us ; for there , in the following stanza , Ave find a medium of response exactly similar . *