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Transmission of the mallet 159entioned
Lecture Thursday, March 11 th 2010
to
Fidelity and Prudence Lodge at Geneva East
By
THE GLORY OF THE GREAT ARCHITECT OF THE UNIVERSE
SPONSORED
THE French National Grand Lodge
PROVINCE Austrasia CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE
RL Chrestien de Troyes # 398
THE CHARTER GRANTED 19 January 1985
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
Transmission of the mallet traveller
Worshipful Master and all of you my brothers in your grades and qualities,
We are very happy, my Christian brother and me to be the transmitters of the mallet symbolizing the true
Masonic desire, that of spreading brotherhood and peace throughout the world.
Before going further, we must present as it should be our Chrestien Respectable Lodge No. 398 of Troyes, who
works at the East of the capital of Tricasses, Troyes in Champagne.
Our Lodge is only 25 years of existence since its charter was issued by the French National Grand Lodge
January 19, 1985.
We are pleased today to find thirty faithful brethren, who are fortunate to be a member of the lodge. Some
travel, New Caledonia, Vietnam, Guyana. Accompany us in all your symbolic space and are glad to know that
we welcome that.
We could no doubt do as your emissary, our Brother Remy we visited, we found a delicacy that cannot meet
more than in the Swiss chocolate. Da ns “Yvain or the Knight of the Lion”, Chrétien introduced his story with
the preliminary raise up the quest of the knight Yvain: “ Give me the heart and ear for the word is lost if the
heart does not hear.” So thank you my brother Remy, not having lost speech. For our part, I recognize our
Christian Brother carrying a beautiful human who knows every pore of his skin, to be heard.
So Chretien de Troyes is a troubadour born in Troyes in 1135 and died in 1183. He is the creator of the Legend
of the Grail, Lancelot, Perceval, the development of the Arthurian legend and Merlin the Magician, considered
one of the first author of novels of chivalry, he says he wrote the “commandment my lady of Champagne, “that
is to say, Marie de Champagne , daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine and King of France, Louis VII , it married
in 1164 the Count of Champagne Henri first the Liberal .
In the prologue of his latest work, The Story of the Grail , it indicates the service of Philip of Alsace, Count of
Flanders. This story is for the initiation future king, Philip Augustus which he is the tutor. The word Grail is to
gasoline and Champagne refers to a fish dish, during the procession to the king-fisher, is carrying the sacrament
of eternity, the IKTUS the first Christians.
The tale of the Grail myth based on the most important of the Middle Ages, of this enigmatic and fascinating
text will make a crop of masterpieces of representations and questions that continue to inspire the Western
imagination.
The adventures of the knights, heroes of these novels have of course a symbolic meaning: it is the quest for
identity. The myth of the Grail (1170) uses the utensils of worship that Christianized Celtic, especially the
“cauldron” of the Dagda, the “cup of Sovereignty,” and the sword of Dagda. The Mystery of the Celtic world