no one knows; she must be extremely old for she appeared here in the mountains in Titurel’s day … . (…) [P. 51] … on waking, she believes she has dropped off to sleep for a while, curses herself for letting sleep overcome her … . If there is something difficult to be accomplished, something to be done far, far away, a message or order from the Grail for a Knight of the Grail contending in foreign zones, then suddenly one is aware of Kundry eagerly seizing the task which none can perform so speedily and reliably as she; one then sees her racing off in the storm on a tiny horse with a long mane and tail flowing down to the ground, and before one knows it, she is back.” (…) {FEUER} … all her missions turn out well. Against which, she is greatly missed on the occasions of her mysterious disappearances: then some adversity, some mysterious danger usually befalls the knights, and there is alarm, and, often, the wish for Kundry to come. Because of that, many too are in doubt whether she should be considered good or evil: what is certain is that she must still be a heathen. Never is she seen at any religious act … .” [714W-{8/29/65}BB; P. 50-51]
[715W-{8/30/65}BB, p. 54-55]
[P. 54] {FEUER} [Klingsor] “… is the daemon of hidden sin, the raging of impotence against sin. (…) Kundry is living a never-ending life of constantly alternating re-births as the result of an ancient curse which, in a manner reminiscent of the Wandering Jew, condemns her, in new shapes, to bring to men the suffering of seduction; redemption, death, complete extinction is vouchsafed her only if her most powerful blandishments are withstood by the most chaste and virile of men.” (…) {FEUER} [P. 55] From one state to the next, she carries no real consciousness of what has passed: to her it is like a dream experienced in very deep sleep which, on waking, one has no recollection of, only a vague, impotent feeling prevailing deep down inside.” [715W-{8/30/65}BB, p. 54-55]
[716W-{8/30/65}BB, p. 56-58]
[P. 56] {FEUER} “Parzival has entered Klingsor’s wonderful magic garden: his astonishment at the unutterable charm is mingled with an uneasy feeling of alarm, hesitation and horror. (…) Parzival abandons himself to what he takes to be a childish game without any thought of there being a serious side to the situation. (…) Then he hears the loud, loving sound of a woman’s voice calling him by name. He stops, shaken, believing it to be his mother, and stands, greatly affected, rooted to the spot. (…) [P. 57] Not all that could make him happy was contained in his mother’s love: the last breath of motherly longing is the benediction of the first kiss of love. Bending her head above his, she now presses her lips to his in a long kiss. (…) … the mysterious happening witnessed at the Castle of the Grail claims him entirely; transferred wholly into the soul of Anfortas, he feels Anfortas’ enormous suffering, his dreadful self-reproach … . … he hears Divine lamentation over the fall of the Chosen One; he hears the Saviour’s cry for the relic to be freed from the custody of besmirched hands …: to his innermost being there has been a loud appeal for deliverance, and he has remained dumb, has fled, wandered, child-like, dissipating his soul in wild, foolish adventures! Where is there a man sinful and wretched as he? How can he ever hope to find forgiveness for his monstrous neglect of duty? (…) {FEUER} [P. 58] [Kundry says] ‘For you I have waited throughout eternities of misery: to love you, to be yours for one hour, can alone repay me for torments such as no other being has ever suffered!’ (…) Parzival ‘Madwoman, do you not realize that your thirst is only increased by drinking: that your desire is extinguished only through lacking appeasement?’
