The Holy Grail a Study And a Retrospect
The Holy Grail a Study And a Retrospect
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" THIS is Galahad's golden paradox, and its sentence is an inspiration, rather than an intuition. Mer- lin's magic skill had not sufficed to "save himself" from the dangers of the "Siege Perilous. " The mystic ambiguity of the Seer's portentous utterance, like that older "self-maxim of Delphi, is itself "perilous for good and ill. " To Merlin himself it meant destruction for " once by misadvertence Merlin sat, in his own chair, and so was lost" to Galahad, deliverance. These half-truths ask wis...e interpreting. " Know thyself!" despite Pope's famous re-assertion of its completeness " Know then thyself, enough for man to know Virtue alone is happiness below. " " Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man. 1 ' is but a half-truth after all, and a very " perilous " half- truth too. How many have found by bitter experience that " self-knowledge without God-knowledge is self- torture!" The secret of the "Siege Perilous" is not with Delphi, nor with Merlin, but with Galahad.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" THIS is Galahad's golden paradox, and its sentence is an inspiration, rather than an intuition. Mer- lin's magic skill had not sufficed to "save himself" from the dangers of the "Siege Perilous. " The mystic ambiguity of the Seer's portentous utterance, like that older "self-maxim of Delphi, is itself "perilous for good and ill. " To Merlin himself it meant destruction for " once by misadvertence Merlin sat, in his own chair, and so was lost" to Galahad, deliverance. These half-truths ask wis...e interpreting. " Know thyself!" despite Pope's famous re-assertion of its completeness " Know then thyself, enough for man to know Virtue alone is happiness below. " " Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man. 1 ' is but a half-truth after all, and a very " perilous " half- truth too. How many have found by bitter experience that " self-knowledge without God-knowledge is self- torture!" The secret of the "Siege Perilous" is not with Delphi, nor with Merlin, but with Galahad.
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