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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
lists of accusations brought against it by its enemies , the monks , in the still subsisting interrogatories which they framed , or even in the admissions of many of the knights themselves , enticed by promises of immunity and pardon , or extorted , if not by the most severe torture , by at least the imminent fear and precedents of a dreadful and ignominious death ; for these , however ,
it will be necessaiy to adduce foreign evidence and undeniable testimony , which the most exact historians of the Order , both condemning and exculpatory , have hitherto overlooked . From the above it will be seen , that the subject necessarily branches out into three divisions , which we shall treat separately and seriatim , under the following heads : —
The first embraces the earliest and our own legends of the San Graal , from its exit from Palestine to being interwoven into the Lays of the Troubadours , and the metrical romances of Arthur and the Round Table . The second will embrace the visionary reveries of those old Troubadours and Minne-Sangerwild and fanciful in ideabut
, , rich in imagery , easy in diction , and often fraught with sentiments drawn from the deepest insight into our common humanity . The principal of these foreign singers of love , Wolfram von Esclienbach , who flourished early in the
thirteenth century , was declared , even after Schiller and Gothe had produced some of their most admired works , by no mean judge of the literature and poetry of his countrymen , F . von Schlegel , to have produced in his " Titurel" and "Parzival " two of the finest poems in the German language . Under the third head we shall examine the more practical ,
certainly less poetical legends of the monks , on the existing Sacro Catino at Genoa , perhaps with a rival or a duplicate at the rich Benedictine Abbey of Reichenau , an island in the Boden See , or Lake of Constanz . These cloistered scribes imagined , no doubt , that they were surer of the approbation of posterityand entitled to full credence for their reveriesfrom
, , the ocular demonstration they could bring of an existing vase of inestimable value , and whose authenticity they believed proved beyond the possibility of a doubt by a long chain of tradition ; by its monetary value beyond the possibility of purchase ; by its long preservation , and the attested miracles of which it was the immediate sphere . Under this headalsowill be found
, , some clue why the sacred Graal was supposed to have chosen a lodgment for some time in Britain ; in this the readers of the Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine are principally concerned , and if proved , it may , on the principle of nullum tempus regi et ecclesim , give the Bishop of Bath and Wells , as ordinary of Glastonbury ,
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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
lists of accusations brought against it by its enemies , the monks , in the still subsisting interrogatories which they framed , or even in the admissions of many of the knights themselves , enticed by promises of immunity and pardon , or extorted , if not by the most severe torture , by at least the imminent fear and precedents of a dreadful and ignominious death ; for these , however ,
it will be necessaiy to adduce foreign evidence and undeniable testimony , which the most exact historians of the Order , both condemning and exculpatory , have hitherto overlooked . From the above it will be seen , that the subject necessarily branches out into three divisions , which we shall treat separately and seriatim , under the following heads : —
The first embraces the earliest and our own legends of the San Graal , from its exit from Palestine to being interwoven into the Lays of the Troubadours , and the metrical romances of Arthur and the Round Table . The second will embrace the visionary reveries of those old Troubadours and Minne-Sangerwild and fanciful in ideabut
, , rich in imagery , easy in diction , and often fraught with sentiments drawn from the deepest insight into our common humanity . The principal of these foreign singers of love , Wolfram von Esclienbach , who flourished early in the
thirteenth century , was declared , even after Schiller and Gothe had produced some of their most admired works , by no mean judge of the literature and poetry of his countrymen , F . von Schlegel , to have produced in his " Titurel" and "Parzival " two of the finest poems in the German language . Under the third head we shall examine the more practical ,
certainly less poetical legends of the monks , on the existing Sacro Catino at Genoa , perhaps with a rival or a duplicate at the rich Benedictine Abbey of Reichenau , an island in the Boden See , or Lake of Constanz . These cloistered scribes imagined , no doubt , that they were surer of the approbation of posterityand entitled to full credence for their reveriesfrom
, , the ocular demonstration they could bring of an existing vase of inestimable value , and whose authenticity they believed proved beyond the possibility of a doubt by a long chain of tradition ; by its monetary value beyond the possibility of purchase ; by its long preservation , and the attested miracles of which it was the immediate sphere . Under this headalsowill be found
, , some clue why the sacred Graal was supposed to have chosen a lodgment for some time in Britain ; in this the readers of the Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine are principally concerned , and if proved , it may , on the principle of nullum tempus regi et ecclesim , give the Bishop of Bath and Wells , as ordinary of Glastonbury ,