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The Ninth Century and the Holy Grail
W. J. Stein
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Description for The Ninth Century and the Holy Grail
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Much plagiarized and its contents distorted over the years, Stein's seminal work is a classic of original scholarly and spiritual research. In studying the central Grail narrative of Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, Stein takes a twofold approach. On the one hand he searches historical records in order to identify actual people and events hidden behind the Grail epic's veil of romance, and on the other hand he deciphers Eschenbach's hidden spiritual messages, showing Parzival to be an esoteric document containing mighty pictures of the human being's inner path of development. Stein reveals the period of the ninth century to ... Read more
Much plagiarized and its contents distorted over the years, Stein's seminal work is a classic of original scholarly and spiritual research. In studying the central Grail narrative of Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, Stein takes a twofold approach. On the one hand he searches historical records in order to identify actual people and events hidden behind the Grail epic's veil of romance, and on the other hand he deciphers Eschenbach's hidden spiritual messages, showing Parzival to be an esoteric document containing mighty pictures of the human being's inner path of development. Stein reveals the period of the ninth century to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Temple Lodge Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
East Sussex, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906999049
SKU
V9781906999049
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About W. J. Stein
DR W.J. STEIN, born in 1891, was a personal pupil of the Austrian philosopher and spiritual initiate Rudolf Steiner. In 1919 Steiner called him to be a teacher at the Waldorf School in Stuttgart and asked him to teach German Literature and History, despite the fact that Stein's doctorate was in Philosophy and his training in Mathematics and Physics. It ... Read more
Reviews for The Ninth Century and the Holy Grail
'One of the most valuable and original works on the Grail yet to appear in any language.' - John Matthews, author of The Mystic Grail. The definitive work on the historical background to the Grail Romances of the mediaeval age.' - Trevor Ravenscroft, author of The Spear of Destiny