The legend of El Santo Grail
Introduction
The origin of the Holy Grail legend dates back to the Middle Ages, as patent in the writings of Godofredo de Monmouth, Chrétien de Troyes and Wolfram von Eschenbach, among others. These wrote about a mystical and powerful object that is supposed to contain the blood of Christ collected during the crucifixion.
The Christian symbolism of the Holy Grail is incontestable. However, there are Celtic precedents of the legend. This town called a special dish in which fish was normally served. Again, the symbolism of the fish and Christianity are put in relation.
However, from the gniostic and alchemical point of view, the Holy Grail is within us. For example, for gnostics, we all carry out that divine spark as a result of creation. The alchemists, meanwhile, were not so interested in obtaining gold, as in the interior transformation process that is initiated in these practices of hidden knowledge.
For Jungians, for example, finding the Holy Grail is nothing more than recovering the state of completion. Well, from this perspective, the disease is understood as a state of incompleteness, while health is understood as the totality, individuation or the state of completeness.
Developing
In the case at hand, we will see it from this last point of view: the integration of the opposites, of the shadow and the advance towards the process of individuation. That is, we will not address it as total completeness, but rather as a significant advance towards the same. Why is the Holy Grail an inner search? Because in the search for the material object there are a series of unconscious transformations in the person looking for.
In what for some was the repressive Middle Ages, in reality, the emergence of cavalry and polite love made women a superior, pure and immaculate being. It was radically cut with the idea of Pater Roman families, with the traditional patriarchy, and entered a new era in which women were put on a pedestal and began to enjoy social rights (although insufficient, of course).
Women now raised much more than mere sexual and reproductive interest. They were considered with quasi-divin qualities. Beings to whom it had to be protected and with which every stable man aspired to fill his spirit and to be nourished by the nectar of polite love, pure and spiritual love, transcendent love that would survive even the same death.
As a counterpart, the women of the time saw men as gentlemen, virile, determined, brave and pure of heart and spirit. To some extent, neither men nor women were able to respond to such high expectations. Neither all women were pure nor superior, nor all men were heroes. It was clear that it was an archetypal projection.
This projection was nothing more than an unconscious attempt of the psyche for trying to integrate the opposite men-women, Ánima-Animus and for trying to complete its spirit. A spirit that was always incomplete, since Western Christian civilization came from a patriarchal culture that had previously surpassed the matriarchal culture of preclassic peoples.
However, at any time in history, what has been called patriarchy was given. That is, a culture that would overcome both matriarchal and patriarchal hemiplegia, integrating both aspects of the human psyche, recognizing the intrinsic value of the human being and proposing a free society of complementarity and positive exchange between sexes. It should be found that, at the present time, we are in a new era of matriarchal claim.
The legend of the Grail tells us about a pure man of spirit and heart – perceval – that will help a king injured by the spear of Longinos, who represents an expired and decadent masculinity, to compensate for his wound and favor well -being and progressfrom his town. However, this man looking for the Holy Grail must go through a series of tests that will lead to a personal transformation process.
To begin with, it is not enough to be pure in terms of their intentions, you must integrate those aspects that dislike themselves (your shadow) and should learn to value true love and meaning of femininity. It should be.
conclusion
In the Grail Story, Perceval has had the Holy Grail ahead, but he has not been able to see or use his power. I was not ready. However, over time he realizes his serious mistake and an internal transformation process begins. A process that makes you better person, better gentleman and more courageous, if possible.
Grail search is the search for the divine in the interiority itself. For a man, a gentleman, the closest to the divine is the woman. And through respect and love towards women who realizes that their spirit was empty. Indeed, in this sense it is the woman who helps her fill it, giving her meaning to live, fight and work. It is the integration of the opposite, the completeness, the acceptance of the female part in the male psyche.
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