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The Mystery of the Grail Julius Evola Initiation And THE MYSTERY OF THE GRAIL JULIUS EVOLA INITIATION AND MAGIC IN THE QUEST OF THE SPIRIT Contents ALPHA MI Foreword VI! Part One: Approaching the Mystery of the Grail 1. The Literary Prejudice 2. The Ethnological Prejudice 3. Concerning the Traditional Method 4. The Historical Context of the Mystery of the Grail 3 6 9 12 Part Two: Principles and Prior Events 5. The Olympian Cycle 6. On the "Hero" and the "Woman" 7. The Hyperborean Theme 8. The Tradition in Ireland 9. The Arthurian Cycle 10. The Imperial Saga and the Universal Ruler 11. Frederick, Prester John, and the Tree of the Empire 12. Dante: The Greyhound and the Dux 17 19 23 25 31 38 43 50 v Part Three: The Cycle of the Grail 13. The Sources of the Grail 14. The Virtues of the Grail 15. The Luciferian Stone 16. The Test of Pride 17. The Thunderbolt and the Lance 18. The Mystery of the Lance and of Revenge 19. The Dolorous Stroke 20. The Fisher King 21. The Seat of the Grail 22. Initiatory Adventures of the Grail's Knights 23. The Grail as a Ghibelline Mystery 57 64 72 75 82 89 93 101 104 108 119 Part Four: The Legacy of the Grail 24. The Grail and the Knights Templar 25. The Grail, the Cathars, and the Love's Lieges 26. Dante and the Love's Lieges as a Ghibelline Militia 27. The Grail and the Hermetic Tradition 28. The Grail and the Rosicrucians 127 138 144 150 158 166 177 Epilogue: The Inversion of Ghibellini~m Index vi Foreword by H. T. Hansen The original version of Julius Evola's Mystery of the Grail formed an appendix to the first edition of his masterpiece, Rivolta contra il mondo moderno (1934).1 Three years later he reworked that appendix into the present book, which first appeared as part of a series of religious and esoteric studies published by the renowned Laterza Publishers in Bari, Italy, whose list included works by Sigmund Freud, Richard Wilhelm, and C. G. Jung, among others. The Grail book is closely related to Revolt Against the Modern World, where Evola discussed, within the framework of his "suprahistorical" analysis, medieval chivalry and the notion of a symbolic empire based on a sacred regality. Above all, Evola wanted to make three things clear: 1. The Grail was not a Christian but a Hyperborean mystery. 2. The Grail legend deals with an initiatory mystery. 3. The Grail is a symbolic expression of hope and of the will of specific ruling classes in the Middle Ages (namely, the Ghibellines), who wanted to reorganize and reunite the entire Western world as it was at that time into a Holy Empire, that is, one based on a transcendental, spiritual basis. The question of whether Evola was correct in his interpretation cannot, however, be unambiguously answered. Franco Cardini, a professor of medieval This foreword first appeared in Ansata-Verlag's Das Mysterium des Grals (Interlaken, Switzerland, 1978). It is translated from the German by Susan Essex. l. Revolt Against the Modern World, trans. Guido Stucco (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 1995). It is not possible to have a true understanding of Evola without knowledge of his Revolt, which most dearly demonstrates the principles of his worldview. VII THE MYSTERY OF THE GRAIL studies at the University of Florence, writes in his introduction to the fourth Italian edition (Rome, 1994) of a "peculiar tendency to oversimplify among many authors, who assume that the Grail can be explained with a single, basic theory." First-and here Evola would fully agree-it's a question of a myth, and a myth is by definition not single- but multifaceted. Second, the myth of the Grail embraces many different types of influences, above all: 1. Christian legend (at least from a later period). 2. Celtic folklore. 3. The so-called Isis Book (the eleventh book of Apuleius's Metamorphosis, which, based on ancient sources, describes the opening of the way in the Isis Mystery), as well as the Corpus Hermeticum. That, at least, is the view of Henry and Renee Kahane in the Standard Encyclopedia of Religion (vol. 6, New York, 1987), compiled under the direction of Mircea Eliade, easily the best-known scholar of religions in this century. The various interpretations of the Grail thus differ greatly, extending from the priestly chalice to the "manna machine" for the automatic production of nourishment, or even to the equation of the "Grail of Joy" with the vagina. The cited origins range likewise from the Western world (Burdach) to the Islamic and Persian East (Corbin). To this may also be added the works by such analytical psychologists as Emma Jung, Marie- Louise von Franz, and Robert A. Johnson. I One thing appears to be certain, however: the myth of the Grail does not deal with mere fantasies in a purely aesthetic-poetic sense. As Franco Cardini writes, "No author in the Middle Ages ever wrote a single line on the basis of his pure and bare fantasies, and it would be antihistorical to suggest such a thing:' Another point of interest, in the current debate of gender differences: It is always men who go off in search of the Grail, because women, by nature, already possess it. Thus in all versions of the legend, only women are referred to as carriers of the Grail. But as Helen Luke believes, expressing a Jungian perspective, many women today have contempt for the spiritually, psychologically, and physically nourishing Grail function of their womanhood, since they are striving for the same positions as men in areas that, until now, were purely masculine domains. 2 In so doing, these women outgrow their own essence and no longer have any counterbalance to their now overpowering masculine sides. 2. John Matthews, ed., At the Table of the Grail (London, 1984), p. 92. viii Foreword In other words, they have lost their own Grail, and have to go off in search of it again, just as the men do, in order to find spiritual harmony. What did Evola hope for when he published his book? In the epilogue to the first edition (1937) he expressed it dearly: To live and understand the symbol of the Grail in its purity would mean today the awakening of powers that could supply a transcendental point of reference for it, an awakening that could show itself tomorrow, after a great crisis, in the form of an "epoch that goes beyond the nations." It would also mean the release of the so-called world revolution from the false myths that poison it and that make possible its subjugation through dark, collectivistic, and irrational powers. In addition, it would mean understanding the way to a true unity that would be genuinely capable of going beyond not only the materialistic-we could also say Luciferian and Titanic- forms of power and control but also the lunar forms of the remnants of religious humility and the current neospiritualistic dissipation. But, added Evola, he would have to leave it open whether such a development would occur. It would therefore be useless to form any kind of organization that could be influenced by this development. In order to understand these words fully, one must keep in mind that Evola's endeavor since 1925, at the latest, was to influence the political development of Italy along the lines of a spiritual restoration of the ancient Roman Empire. Fascism, which was already in power at that time, appeared to fulfill quite a lot of prerequisites for such a revolution-indeed, Mussolini himself had no aversion to such ideas. 3 In 1928 Evola published his first political book, Imperialismo pagano, which fought for exactly that-a pagan imperialism-in a considerably polemic manner. Mussolini's compact with the Catholic Church in 1929, which opposed any endeavor to extinguish the power of the Church, shattered Evola's hopes once and for all. As Piero Fenili has suggested in his series of essays "Gli errori di Julius Evola" (The errors of Julius Evola; Ignis [December 1991]: 146ff.), Evola, in his Imperialismo pagano, still thought of a restoration "in the framework of a Mediterranean tradition." His belief in the independent powers of that region appears, however, to have suffered in the following years, thanks to Mussolini's behavior and the everyday reality of fascism in Italy. 3. See also the somewhat detailed explanation of Evola's political activities in my introduction to Julius Evola, Menschen inmitten von Ruinin (Tiibingen, 1991; a German translation of Gli uomine e Ie rovine [Men among ruins]). ix THE MYSTERY OF THE GRAIL Evola put new heart into his hopes for a union of "the two eagles;' that is, the German and the Roman, through his ever-closer contact with the so-called Conservative Revolution in Germany. The model was the Middle Ages, the time of the German emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen, the "Astonishment of the World," who was raised in Italy (Sicily, to be exact) and thus united the German and Italian regions in his Holy Roman Empire, and who also apparently personified the best of both geographical areas. In those years Evola stood strongly under the influence of Ernst Kantorowicz's two-volume biography of the Starfen emperor, at that time the object of great enthusiasm. Here also was the point of origin of his political motivations for writing The Mystery of the Grail. Just as in the Middle Ages, so now would it again be possible for Germany and Italy to build a new Holy Roman Empire, to be based on a spiritual foundation-specifically, on the mysticism of the Grail.
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