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What does this eagle mean and what does it foreshadow?
ECSTASY!
For it is written: “The Eagle is that Might of Love which is the Key of Magick, uplifting the Body and its appurtenance unto High Ecstasy upon his Wings.”
This Eagle is known to Occultists as one of the Four Cherubic Beasts and he represents one of the Four Powers of the Sphinx. Likewise he is attri- buted by Eliphas Levi to Azoth, the formula of the Alpha and Omega, the First and Last.
It was by the right use of this Might of Love that Parzival succeeded where others had failed. For again it is written in Liber Aleph: “Consider Love. Here is a force destructive and corrupting whereby have many men been lost: witness all History. Yet without love man were not man.
“We see Amfortas, who yielded himself to a seduction, wounded beyond healing; Klingsor, who withdrew himself from a like danger , cast out forever from the Mountain of Salvation, and Parzival who yielded not, able to exercise the true Power of Love and therby to perform the Miracle of Redemption.”
But though we are now nearing that realm wherein “Time and Space are One” we must not allow ourselves to be rushed forward too rapidly.
There were many things that Parzival did not know, or which he professed not to know when questioned. He did now as yet know he True Name—the Word of His Being—though he had in the past been called by many names. Some things he knew and remembered clearly; there was one thing he desired to know and to understand.
What is the Grail!
To which Gurnemanz very properly replies:
I
may not say:
But
if to serve it thou be bidden,
Knowledge
of it will not be hidden.-
And
lo!-
Methinks
I know thee now indeed;
No
earthly road to it doth lead,
By
no one can it be detected
Who
by itself is not elected.
To which Parzival, without further questioning, replies:
I
scarcely move,
Yet
I swiftly seem to run.
And Gurnemanz:
My
son, thou seest
Here
SPACE and TIME are ONE.
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