overcame it? God within our hearts, -- God whom we comprehend in the deepest anguish of fellow-suffering!” [709W-{4/14/65}Letter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria: SLRW, p. 641-642]
[710W-{8/19/65} BB, p. 39]
[P. 39] {FEUER} “How shall I feel when I again sit, whole and solitary, at this miraculous loom. It is the only thing that befits me. The world I cannot shape, I must merely forget: this is the only relationship I can stand in towards it. Wholly artificially, like a tropical plant in the winter garden, I must shut myself off against the atmosphere of reality, there is no other way.” [710W-{8/19/65} BB, p. 39]
[711W-{8/28/65}BB, p. 47]
[P. 47] “From its [the Holy Grail’s] votaries it banishes death: he who sets eyes on that Divine vessel cannot die. But only he who preserves himself from the allurements of sensual pleasure retains the power of the Grail’s blessing: only to the chaste is the blessed might of the relic revealed.” [711W-{8/28/65}BB, p. 47]
[712W-{8/28/65}BB, p. 47 – 48]
[P. 47] {FEUER} “Beyond the mountain height, … accessible only to the votary, there lies another castle, as secret as it is sinister. It too can be reached only by magic paths. The Godly take care not to approach it. But whoever does approach cannot withstand the anxious longing that lures him towards the gleaming battlements towering from the never-before-seen splendour of a most wonderful forest of flowering trees, out of which magically sweet birdsong and intoxicating perfumes pour upon all around. – This is Klingsor’s magic castle. (…) The castle is his work, raised miraculously in what was previously a desolate place with only a hermit’s hut upon it. Where now, in a most luxuriant and heady fashion, all blooms and stirs as on an eternal early-summer evening … . (…) [P. 48] {FEUER} It is supposed that Klingsor is the same man who once so piously inhabited the place now so changed: - he is said to have mutilated himself in order to destroy that sensual longing which he never completely succeeded in overcoming through prayer and penance. Titurel refused to allow him to join the Knights of the Grail, and for the reason that renunciation and chastity, flowing from the innermost soul, do not require to be forced by mutilation.” [712W-{8/28/65} BB, p. 47 – 48]
[713W-{8/28/65}BB, p. 48-49]
[P. 48] {FEUER} “[Anfortas] … alone has to suffer dreadful self-reproach at having betrayed his vow [of chastity]. He, the most unworthy of all, must daily – to his fearful punishment – touch the sacred vessel … . … seeing death as his only [P. 49] deliverance, he is now, by the grace of the Grail, condemned to eternal life!” [713W-{8/28/65}BB, p. 48-49]
[714W-{8/29/65}BB; P. 50-51]
[P. 50] {FEUER} “The most indefatigable in quartering the world in quest of succour for Anfortas’ wound is the High Messenger of the Grail, Kundry. Who this woman is and where she comes from,
