The Mystery of the Holy Grail: A Modern Path of Initiation

in 1947, shortly after I had met Rudolph Steiner's Anthroposophy, friends and Brussels invited me to a performance of Richard Wagner's Parsifal at the Royal Opera. The music drama not only made an indelible impression on me, it also stirred many disturbing questions. Thus my search began, and in a rather short time I had read whatever I could find by Steiner on the subject of the Holy Grail.... Years later I began, tentatively at first, to lecture on the subject of the quest for the Holy Grail.... The Mystery of the Holy Grail: A Modern Path of Initiation contains in essence the contents of lectures developed over the years particularly in Europe and North America. Though they have been revised for publication, the oral flavor of these lectures has been consciously retained. It is hoped that this book may fill a gap in the Grail literature available to readers of English. --- excerpts from book's Introduction