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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
he has not , and possibly could not redeem . All relation ( in these poems of the troubadours ) to the knightly orders , and to the so-named dish of Cesal'ea , is carried exclusively into the mystical and symbolical , and rests only on the introduction of the new elements of their times into the older lays , which is as accordant to the French , as the introduction of old heroes under new names is to the German character . This legend , however , to judge from the focus of its localities—from the Sacro Catino—from the
glorification in it of the Templars—from its praises of the house of Anjou , and from the like facts , would have been enthusiastically received through the entire district of the high French dialects , wherein these were all united . " Should the antecedent extract from a neglected work of our best early historian , the Monk of Malmesbury , and the relic it describes , turn out to be the foundation of the beautiful fictions
of the Middle Ages , Avhich under the name of Lays , metrical Romances , Sagen , & c , have exercised so many pens in their elucidation , and still fill us Avith Avonder and astonishment at the luxuriant imagination , the richness of description , and their beauty of vez'sification ; should the inestimable gem mentioned above haA r e ( in the Avords of Geiwinus ) given the first impulse to all this , it will redound both to the credit of the Heidelberg professor to have mooted the idea a priori , and to the
satisfaction of the readers of the Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine to find it first established in these pages . It will also be gratifying to the higher branches of our Order to find that a community of knightly priests from which they claim descent , haA r e received the highest testimonials for morality and virtue from Avriters Avho have taken their themes from the most venerated
remeniscences of the Church , and been themselves the objects of enthusiastic and general praise . To revert , however , to a closer consideration of this relic , it seems Avith the commonalty that it Avent by the name of Saphirus ; it was intrinsically very valuable , but could not have been of very great sizeas it had been hidden in a hostio ( lvliich
, I take to be a pix ) . That a miracle or relic Avhich took greatly with the people , was often duplicated in the dark ages and Catholic countries , I believe not the most strenuous advocate for papal supremacy in this country will now deny . There are more than two Sudatories , or cloths , Avith the Veron-icon of the SaA'iour ; but the most notorious instance is the twofold head
of the Baptist , one at Amiens , the other at Turin , and both equally fortified by papal bulls vouching their separate authenticity . We need not , therefore , wonder that the gem at Glastonbury had its double in Germany . In the Boden See , or Lake of Constanz , on its most beautiful island , still exists the edifice of one of the most ancient and the richest of their Benedictine prelacies . It Avas founded by Karl the Hammerer , grandfather of Charlemagne ; and his charter of 725 is still
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On The Legend Of The Holy Or San Graal;
he has not , and possibly could not redeem . All relation ( in these poems of the troubadours ) to the knightly orders , and to the so-named dish of Cesal'ea , is carried exclusively into the mystical and symbolical , and rests only on the introduction of the new elements of their times into the older lays , which is as accordant to the French , as the introduction of old heroes under new names is to the German character . This legend , however , to judge from the focus of its localities—from the Sacro Catino—from the
glorification in it of the Templars—from its praises of the house of Anjou , and from the like facts , would have been enthusiastically received through the entire district of the high French dialects , wherein these were all united . " Should the antecedent extract from a neglected work of our best early historian , the Monk of Malmesbury , and the relic it describes , turn out to be the foundation of the beautiful fictions
of the Middle Ages , Avhich under the name of Lays , metrical Romances , Sagen , & c , have exercised so many pens in their elucidation , and still fill us Avith Avonder and astonishment at the luxuriant imagination , the richness of description , and their beauty of vez'sification ; should the inestimable gem mentioned above haA r e ( in the Avords of Geiwinus ) given the first impulse to all this , it will redound both to the credit of the Heidelberg professor to have mooted the idea a priori , and to the
satisfaction of the readers of the Freemasons' Quarterly Magazine to find it first established in these pages . It will also be gratifying to the higher branches of our Order to find that a community of knightly priests from which they claim descent , haA r e received the highest testimonials for morality and virtue from Avriters Avho have taken their themes from the most venerated
remeniscences of the Church , and been themselves the objects of enthusiastic and general praise . To revert , however , to a closer consideration of this relic , it seems Avith the commonalty that it Avent by the name of Saphirus ; it was intrinsically very valuable , but could not have been of very great sizeas it had been hidden in a hostio ( lvliich
, I take to be a pix ) . That a miracle or relic Avhich took greatly with the people , was often duplicated in the dark ages and Catholic countries , I believe not the most strenuous advocate for papal supremacy in this country will now deny . There are more than two Sudatories , or cloths , Avith the Veron-icon of the SaA'iour ; but the most notorious instance is the twofold head
of the Baptist , one at Amiens , the other at Turin , and both equally fortified by papal bulls vouching their separate authenticity . We need not , therefore , wonder that the gem at Glastonbury had its double in Germany . In the Boden See , or Lake of Constanz , on its most beautiful island , still exists the edifice of one of the most ancient and the richest of their Benedictine prelacies . It Avas founded by Karl the Hammerer , grandfather of Charlemagne ; and his charter of 725 is still