…He's going to go through for a long way just being the one that knocks things over. He comes to a stream, as Wolfram says, a stream that a rooster could have crossed. But on this horse with his mother's instruction he goes along the stream until…

…They go to bed a second night together and it's still a marriage simply of souls. Then the third night something nice happens. Wolfram says please excuse me for mentioning it but he touched her, he found it nice they interlaced arms and legs and from…

…statement for that period to say that the Muslim and the Christian were one. This is the idea of loving the enemy. But Wolfram didn't say they should stop fighting, he said: and out of loyalty and courage and resolution, they are doing each other much…

…The German Tristan and parsifal are the great works of the middle ages. They're the top ones Gottfried of Strasbourg's Tristan, Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parsifal, and it's of those two that I want to speak this afternoon, the Tristan of Gottfried and the…

…such. And when the inquisition was instituted in the beginning of the 13th century we hear no more of the arthurian part of it. Wolfram is supposed to have gone on a crusade at any rate this was the great period of the crusades and in conflict with…

…start and they warmed up so wonderfully that the whole thing developed into a battle and the spears were splintering, they said. Wolfram says the spears were like snow on the field they were splintering all over the place and he comes off the victor…

…husband is dead and so she, in great sorrow departs departs. Now this is where the possible parsifal story usually begins. Wolfram has asked added this business of parsifal having a pagan brother, black and white, and parsifal being the white brother in…

…says to him: go on you goose, go on you gander, find a goose. That is exactly the opposite mood to that of wolfram. Wolfram, as we're going to see later today, has to do with the integrity of love in marriage not a cape but amour. And wolfram…

…her husband finally says: come kiss me darling and his head is all blood. And she jumps up and runs and kisses him. And Wolfram says that lips are sweet when there are tears, and so it's a rather cute little thing and so they're reconciled and of…

…do not continue the story of Percival they bring in other knights and other adventures in which gawain plays a big role. Wolfram said that Creighton had misunderstood the story and wolfram cites as his source a poet in Spain this is Muslim Spain really…

…the idea of the waste land. T s Eliot wrote a poem around 1925 or so called the waste land and it's based on Wolfram Von Eschenbach's idea of the waste land. He actually quotes wolfram in one of his lines. What is the waste land? Well as wolfram…

…f I l s means sun, multicolored sun, because he was piebald he was black and white. Now in that sense he is symbolic. Wolfram starts his whole narrative with a little poem about there is no such thing as a good deed. Everything is black and white and…

…pair of opposites. So you see, this is heresy. We're in the realm of gnostic traditions right away here. This is difficult stuff. Wolfram begins his whole romance with a long verse to the point that black and white are the qualities of every act. Every…

…is good and evil but we've got to be good. This is a tradition that does not say yield to nature, it says correct nature. Wolfram is here saying yield and the nature of that horse carries him to a castle. Now this is the castle of a young orphan…

…and the grail King's lance kills the pagan knight and the pagan knight's lance castrates the King. What is wolfram telling us? Wolfram is telling us that the spiritual ideals of the Europe, the natural grace is not allowed. It is not what dictates life.…

…you the grail answer to this, which is, in my thinking, one of the great, great stories of the middle ages. I think Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Parsifal is the high story of the middle ages. I would put it above Dante's Divine comedy. Dante ends up in…

…pair of opposites. So you see this is heresy. We're in the realm of gnostic traditions right away here. This is difficult stuff. Wolfram begins his whole romance with a long verse to the point that black and white are the qualities of every act. Every…

…is good and evil but we've got to be good. This is a tradition that does not say yield to nature, it says correct nature. Wolfram is here saying yield, and the nature of that horse carries him to a castle. Now this is the castle of a young orphan…

…starts in the spirit and it's fulfilled in the flesh. This is wolfram he tells us this in parzival and kondwinimer's marriage. Wolfram shows us a revolutionary concept: marriage for love. Up until the 12th century, marriage had been seen as a purely social…

…grail King's lance kills the pagan knight and the pagan knight's lance castrates the King. What is wolfram telling us? Wolfram is telling us that the spiritual ideals of the middle ages which distinguish supernatural from natural grace, has castrated Europe.…

…volition, in terms of its own impulse system, which carries it between the pairs of opposites of good and evil, light and dark. Wolfram starts his epic with a short poem saying: every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of…