Parsifal
Music drama by Richard WagnerWikipedia
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Sep 29, 2026
Gregory PettysGUEST
Actually, it's right here.
Gregory PettysGUEST
I'm thinking of Parsifal.
Gregory PettysGUEST
I don't know if you're familiar with this one.
Gregory PettysGUEST
It's fantastic.
William CooperHOST
It is represented in the mysteries when the candidate lies in the coffin, as George Bush did naked in the crypt at Yale University with a ribbon tied around his genitals, symbolizing the separation of the animal in man and the elevation of the intellect.
William CooperHOST
The same with Parsifal.
William CooperHOST
In the end of the tale, The Search for the Holy Grail, after he had achieved His goal after he had finally obtained the Grail, he lay in bed with a woman who tried her best to coax him into making love to her, and he said, "I cannot, for I have a wound in the side." In the mysteries, you have to understand, ladies and gentlemen, that in history, the Holy Grail never existed, and all the tales sprang up with the bards of Europe from the halls of the Templars.
William CooperHOST
And wandering minstrels sang these stories of this Holy Grail in the Celtic kingdoms.
Bodhi AldridgeGUEST
And so the stages on the hero's journey, again, it's not linear, yet there's the wake up, the clean up, the grow up, the show up, and the open up.
Bodhi AldridgeGUEST
And what's fascinating for those listeners who are leaning in is on the hero's journey, the Celtic myth, Parsifal, who is the young man on the hero's journey.
Bodhi AldridgeGUEST
When he heals or helps the Fisher King remember, the question was, for whom does the grail serve? So the mythology is we're searching for the Holy Grail.
Bodhi AldridgeGUEST
The Holy Grail is our essence, the sense of freedom.
Edmund BloxhamNARRATOR
His answer was, to choke over the rumination of moral and religious absurdities.
Edmund BloxhamNARRATOR
In short, Parsifal.
Edmund BloxhamNARRATOR
The philosopher writes thereto an epilogue, Holiness, the only remaining higher value still seen by the mob or by woman, the horizon of the ideal for all those who are naturally short-sighted.
Edmund BloxhamNARRATOR
To philosophers, however, this horizon, like every other, is a mere misunderstanding, a sort of slamming of the door in the face of the real beginning of their world.
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Edmund BloxhamNARRATOR
all very modern problems all problems which are at home in big cities do not doubt it have you noticed it is in keeping with this association of ideas that wagner's heroines never have any children they cannot have them the despair with which wagner tackled the problem of arranging in some way for siegfried's birth betrays how modern his feelings on this point actually were siegfried emancipated woman but not with any hope of offspring.
Edmund BloxhamNARRATOR
And now here is a fact which leaves us speechless.
Edmund BloxhamNARRATOR
Parsifal is Loringuin's father.
Edmund BloxhamNARRATOR
However did he do it, ought one at this juncture to remember that chastity works miracles.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
Every opera he wrote depicts a soul in bonds.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
From the Flying Dutchman to Parsifal, we are shown the struggle of a strong man with cruel fate, a reaching out for liberty and light, the halting between duty and inclination, and the endless search for a woman who shall give deliverance through her abiding love and faith.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
All art seems controlled by fad and fashion.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
No fashion endures, else 'twere not fashion.
45 MINS LATER
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
Nietzsche, not being satisfied with an attack on Wagner's art, also made a few flings at his pedigree and declared that the master's real name was not Wagner.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
This was his mother's name, he being a natural son of Ludwig Geyer, the poet, the Jew.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
What this has to do with Tannhauser, Tristan und Isolde, The Ring, Lohengrin, and Parsifal, Nietzsche does not explain.
John BurlinsonNARRATOR
In any event, the information about Wagner's birth comes with very bad grace from an avowed enemy who practically admits that he got the facts in confidence from Wagner himself.
Nwando EbizieGUEST
It's about like the human struggle, the human struggle in a kind of in a mythic, expansive kind of state.
Nwando EbizieGUEST
yeah whether that's like Orfeo or like Parsifal it's like that's the kind of opera that I'm interested in and I'm just quite a dramatic person
Jennifer AthanHOST
it's such a perfect medium for it because when I think of opera I'm just thinking of like the drama and the very the characters in it are really dynamic and intense that just screams like Hildegard's music
Nwando EbizieGUEST
yeah
CostaNARRATOR
An infinite emotion.
CostaNARRATOR
While Langdon had never quite understood the words on the casino's banner, the spectacular Renaissance-style palace had been part of the Phoenician landscape since the 16th century, Once a private mansion, it was now a black-tie gaming hall that was famous for being the site at which, in 1883, composer Richard Wagner had collapsed dead of a heart attack shortly after composing his opera Parsifal.
CostaNARRATOR
Beyond the casino on the right, a baroque, rusticated façade bore an even larger banner, this one deep blue, announcing the Ca Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna.
CostaNARRATOR
Years ago, Langdon had been inside and seen Gustav Klimt's masterpiece, The Kiss, while he was on loan from Vienna.
speaker_3NARRATOR
For example the story of good King Arthur and his round table is a cosmic myth, and while there is little doubt that he as a man also lived, the real mystery as in the story of the Christ, is not the literal tale, but the great mystic or occult truth that it concealed under allegory and parable.
speaker_3NARRATOR
It is the same with the story of Parsifal which can never be really understood and appreciated until the student sees in the knight and later king of the sacred cup, his own spiritual development and the temptations he must also master if he would become a king of the grail.
speaker_3NARRATOR
In Lohengrin also the same truth is shown to the world.
speaker_3NARRATOR
It is the path of initiation along which each must pass on his road to self-mastery.
speaker_3NARRATOR
It was said that the green stone had been struck from the crown of Lucifer by the archangel Michael during the famous battle in heaven.
speaker_3NARRATOR
After the death of Christ it is said that Joseph of Arimathea took the sacred cup and the spear of the passion and carried them into a distant land.
speaker_3NARRATOR
He wandered with his sacred relics through Europe and is said to have finally died, and those who came after him after many centuries of tribulation carried the sacred relics to Mount Salvert in northern Spain where they remained until Parsifal finally took the grail and spear back to the east where it is to be now preserved.
speaker_3NARRATOR
It is around this cup and spear that the legends of Parsifal and King Arthur have been written, and it is through study of this fact that we are able to better understand the mystery of the great white lodge of which the round table of Arthur and the circular temple of the Knights of the Grail is a symbol.
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