Wolfram's Parzival: The Esoteric Metaphysics of the Grail

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In this video I examine the esoteric philosophy of the grail set forth in Wolfram's Parzival. Wolfram from Eschenbach was a prominent 13th century German poet, and his account of the holy grail is the most intricate and intriguing available. His Parzival is not only an account of the mystical theology of the grail, but also an early Bildungsroman, a story of a young man's education. In this video, I argue for the esoteric context of Wolfram's tale by appealing to his own explicit statements, his background sources, and his central narrative metaphor of the bow. I then explain his account by drawing on the background contexts of Alchemy, with its black, white, and red works, and the Bible. I then sketch the development of Parzival's theological education throughout the story and conclude by drawing three important lessons Wolfram's poem can teach us.
The images used in this video are either in the public domain, memes generated on imgflip.com, or were created by me. The image used in the thumbnail of this video is a set design for act III of Wagner's Parsifal by Paul von Joukowsky and is in the public domain. It can be found here commons.wikime...

[@Phorquieu]

Wow, this must have been a labor of love for you, because this discussion of Parzival and Wolfram von Eschenbach (and alchemy and astrology and mythology and inner spiritual truths) is an amazing gift to your viewers. Many thanks for this gift!

[@MichellesMidheaven]

What a gem and what a powerful message. Loud and clear... Thank you!

[@douglasfell4199]

Parsifal / Perseval gets his name from the ancient female greek god Perse and then the latin Villa. Perse was also known as the maiden and known as Cora. Maiden castle was the place where the grail was kept, Perseval was the grail holder. Perseval means maiden's castle.

[@acarrasco]

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[@CO27640B]

Thank you this is brilliant. I am writing something which uses the legend symbolically, and have spent some time researching in Languedoc and the Hermetic library in Amsterdam - also of course read Joseph Campbell's book on the grail myth. However, your video is truly fantastic and informative, and makes many more connections to follow up on. Thank you!

[@IIImobiusIII]

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[@sosu6227]

So awesome :D!!! Have you thought of making essays/videos on other Medieval Esoteric works like the Divine Comedy, Romance of the Rose and the poem Pearl?

[@premieretatphilosophy]

Thanks! I would love working with those topics. I feel that Dante's Paradiso is particularly overlooked today. Most people seem to, at best, start with the Inferno, but then never progress from there.

[@AntaresBottia]

Romance of the rose would be ideal and ties in with this subject. Also the dogon (the rose) the nommos (day of the fish)

[@ArtAbscon]

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[@fethk]

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[@brendantannam499]

I've only watched Wagner's Parsifal. I couldn't understand how Percival could possibly know what question to ask. Also, when he returned to the castle, he didn't ask the question then, either. He simply became king instead of Amfortas. Does von Eisenbach's story explain these things?

[@premieretatphilosophy]

Yeah, the question itself doesn’t seem to play much of a role in Wagner’s Parsifal. The emphasis seems to be more on the underlying virtue of compassion (Mitleid). Wolfram’s use of the question will probably also strike one as strange from a contemporary perspective, since Parzival is blamed for something seemingly beyond his control, given that he didn’t know that there was a healing question to be asked and was actually trying to follow the rules his teacher Gurnemanz had given him when he remained quiet. And similar things can be said about his guilt for killing his kinsman Ither and his involvement in the death of his mother. Wolfram is operating more in the realm of original sin or Aristotelian tragic hamartia than what we would think of as moral responsibility in a contemporary sense.

[@joshuaforeman2611]

1:14:00 by not asking the question Parzival ate and drank damnation on himself

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