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constellations. This is exactly reminiscent of the visions of the Sufi,
Ruzbehan of Shiraz.
Flegetanis is supposedly descended from Solomon, begotten of
Israelite kin from ancient times and to have lived one thousand two
hundred years before Christ. Identifying Flegetanis as worshipping a
golden calf is meant to suggest that he was with Moses in the Exodus at
the time the golden calf Atabyrius was calcinated by Moses and drunk by
the Israelites.
In all likelihood the Sabian School of Thabit ben Qorah was
really the character Flegetanis. This School played a pivotal role in
keeping alive the Iranian traditions of the Holy Grail. This school was
still active in Baghdad at the end of the ninth century and translated the
texts of Hermes Trismegistus from Greek into Arabic. 1438
Much of the Grail quest is about achieving purity of heart and
understanding the true nature of pure charitable love. Wolfram sees the
Quest as one where the individual struggles toward a sense of
wholeness. 1439 The Grail expresses the source of this wholeness. In his
prologue, Wolfram says that every act has Good and Evil results. He
says its best to err on the side of good so the natural and spontaneous
man will always choose the Good. This maxim elegantly delineates
Zoroastrianism.
Parsifal’s important question in Wolfram's romance is different to
Perceval's question What is it? in the Didcot Perceval.
Parsifal’s question instead reflects the alternate theme of purity
and true love through empathy with another's pain:
What ailes thee uncle?
It conceals the main theme of the Philosophers' Stone with an
admirable and intricately related alternative of love and charity.
Wolfram’s prologue also alludes to the reason for the difference
between these two interpretations. He says that he obtained the true story
from Mazadan who had the exact record of his family. That record is the
Sufi tradition of Sohrawardi and Mazadan is most likely the Zoroastrian
God Ahura Mazda.
Wolfram’s story is about the achievement of Perfect Nature by an
individual. We see this with Gawain and Parsifal who are twin aspects of
the same individual. Gawain is the perfect knight who represents the
peak of worldly chivalry. Parsifal is the perfect knight within the
transcendental realm of the Fellowship of the Grail.
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