The Chalice and the Spear
Amidst the joyful singing of the birds, the daybreak has dawned, a delight of rosy blushful fingers.
The ancient Sage Gurnemanz, accompanied by two youthful Squires are lying profoundly asleep under the enchanted shadow of a leafy taciturn tree…
From the very ancient and ancestral side of the Grail’s castle, a solemn reveille on trombones powerfully sounds, that with its formidable notes, victoriously greets the dawn…
Listening to the glorious and triumphant hymn, the Elder Gurnemanz and his two Squires, filled with infinite veneration, humbly kneel themselves and pray with profound reverence.
When arriving to the sublime part of this present chapter, it is important to remember that beautiful poem of Don Ramon del Valle Inclan:
ASTRAL ROSES
Eternal empires! Golden sacrariums!
Clues from the great wholeness! I pray in its laudes!
Quiet wills! Solemn virtues!
Entrails of the world! Ardent ovariums!
Flaming rites of heavenly poses! Sealed fates of the human chorus!
Suns guarded by the norms of a Demiurgic thesaurus!
Arcane, stellar roses!
Heavenly arcane! Gnostic arcano!
Where enigmas were bound by Trismegistus Opened and read unto thee by the will of Giuliano.
In his empire was discord, thus he became anti Khristus, From a pagan heaven, this Gnostic exegete.
A solar metamorphosis he beheld in the Khristus.
From the Grail’s castle, two Knights arrive with majestic step. In their vanguard they are cautiously exploring the rocky path which Amfortas, the King of such a precious jewel, must follow.
It is ostensible that the great Priest of such a sacred, resplendent gem, suffers the indescribable, ever since that fatal day in which for his own disgrace, Klingsor, the Black Magician, hurt him with a sinister thrust of a Lance.
Thus, the august successor of Titurel comes more early as customary, in order to take his bath in the sacred pool of the lake.
The venerable lord needs with supreme urgency to alleviate the tremendous pains that torture him ever since the moment in which, for his disgrace, the mortal thrust of the Lance was inflicted upon him…
Those who are divine, and human know very well about Klingsor and his ominous, tenebrous arts.
This evil personage of the darkness not only snatched the sacred Lance from the hands of Amfortas, King of the Grail, but moreover, he wounded Amfortas’ side with it.
Ah…! If people would understand all of this… if they would comprehend the profound significance of the Lance…
It is ostensible that within all of this exists pure sexuality, transcendental phallicism, eroticism.
It is unquestionable that the Grail’s gnostic-esoteric Lance and the other one, which is the Lance of the magic pacts displayed by Wotan, are in their depth the same one, meaning, the emblem of the sexual masculine force, the phallus…
A great Sage stated:
“To a certain point, the trunks of the tablets of the Law, upon which Moses wrote by command of Jehovah the precepts of the Decalogue, are nothing else than a double Runic Lance, whose phallic significance we cannot hold back. This can be seen in detail in the second volume of Isis Unveiled.”
It is written with characters of fire in the great book of cosmic wisdom about the double use of the sacred Lance. It is indubitable that this Lance wounded the side of the Lord and that from his wound poured forth blood and water. It is ostensible that the same Lance healed the wound in the side of Amfortas.
Explanations?… Patience, beloved reader, we are now only setting up principles. In our next chapters we are going to delve deeply into them…
Enigmas? Yes, And many… as admirable as the ones of the Holy Grail, the feminine Yoni, the chalice, the woman’s sexual organ…
So many are the traditions about the Holy Grail… Thus, somewhere among the old medieval books, a lyrical strophe exists, which states:
“Father, father of my life, for the one of the Holy Grail, grant Thou unto me Thy license so that the Count may I go to quest for.”
It has been indicated to us that this great Chalice was in the power of Abraham. We learned that Melchisedec, the Genie of the Earth, or Changam (as he is also named) transported it from the Country of Semiramis to the fecund Land of Canaan. This occurred in the epoch when our planetary Regent initiated some enterprises in the blessed place, where much later Jerusalem, the beloved city of the Prophets was found.
Ancient traditions that are lost in the night of times affirm that Melchisedec utilized it liturgically for celebrating the sacrifice of bread and wine of the Transubstantiation. He offered this in the presence of Abraham, and then delivered the Chalice to this Patriarch.
Some very ancient legends emphatically asseverate that this divine Chalice was also in the Ark of Noah.
It is not irrelevant to asseverate that this venerated relic was carried into Egypt and that Moses possessed it.
This Cup was made from a singular matter. It was compact like the matter of a bell yet did not look as if it had been worked like the metals. Rather, its matter looked as if it was produced from a specie of vegetation.
The Queen of Sheba submitted many ordeals to Solomon, before surrendering to him such a sublime relic.
The great Kabir Jesus Christ had it in his power when he celebrated the Last Supper. Thus, he drank the wine of the Holy Eucharist in such a Chalice.
The Roman Senator Joseph of Arimathaea, at the foot of the cross on the Mount of the Skulls, collected within that Chalice the purpurin drops of blood that were flowing from the wounds of the Adorable One.
Traditions state that this mentioned Roman Senator, intelligent and wise as no one, knew how to keep in secrecy such a precious treasure…
The price for his sacred zeal became very severe, because when that nobleman refused to deliver to the Roman police that sacrosanct Cup and the Lance of Longinus, he was then incarcerated…
After many years, the freed Joseph of Arimathaea took the holy relics (Chalice and Lance) and went to Rome in search of the Christians. Yet, when he saw the persecutions that they were suffering there, he continued traveling along the regions of the Mediterranean…
It is stated in the ancient Scriptures that one night, in his dreams, he was approached by an Angel who told him, “That Chalice has a great power, because it contains the blood of the Redeemer of the World. Keep it there.”
This Elder then saw the Temple of Monserrat, in Cataluña, Spain.
Joseph of Arimathaea concluded his outstanding mission by keeping these archaic relics within that Temple.
What happened after… is known by the Initiates. Presently, the Castle of Monsalvat, within which is found the temple and part of the mountain of Monserrat, entered into Jinn state. It became hidden from the sight of the profane.
Uselessly the Crusade Knights were in the quest of the Holy Grail in the Holy Land. The silver cup that presently is delivered to the Olympic champions is preserved as a memory of such quests.
Samael Aun Weor