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"Parzival" -- Secrets From the Holy Grail (rebroadcast)

The Hermetic Hour

CHAPTER

The Story of Parseval

The book is actually an epic length poem of nearly a thousand stanzas divided into 16 books. The story begins with Parseval's father and his Saracen queen. He leaves her North African city to return to Europe. She dies of a broken heart after giving birth to Parseval’s five-year-old half-brother Firthiz. His mother gives him some very bad advice on how to have a woman. And he comes across a young woman, sleeping in a tent all by herself out in the woods. Now the husband blames her for being an encounter and believes she has been unfaithful to him. But then the horse of the...

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