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In the final volume of her acclaimed trilogy Through the Eyes of Mary Magdalene, Estelle Isaacson intimates a connection between Magdalene and Repanse de Schoye, who lived nine centuries later in the Grail family, a sister to Anfortas, the Grail King. As the Magdalene visions ended, a new cycle began on Repanse and the Grail Family, leading to the publication in 2016 of The Grailbearer: Tellings From the Ever Primal Story, Through the Eyes of Repanse de Schoye. The Knight Kyot, paladin of Charlemagne, leapt to life also in this book, whose deeper purport is a call to take up again the quest for the Holy Grail in the challenging conditions of our time. The visions, however, continued, not forward but into the past. In the present book we follow the Younger Kyot as in a forest he comes upon the Astrologer Flegetanis of the East. When that night a star above Kyot’s head falls from the Heart of the Virgin into the Cup, Flegetanis reads this as a sign to commence initiating Kyot into the Lore of the Stars. Along the way, Kyot is twice saved by a strange bird of multi-colored plumage, first at the brink of a crumbling cliff, then in face of a mysterious snarling cat in the mist. In due course he makes his way to the Land of Grace, so-called for its harboring of the Holy Grail. He is introduced to two wondrous Manuscripts and The Book That Writes Itself, then seeks out in a cave the young Hermit Trevrizent, brother of Anfortas and Repanse de Schoye, and grandson of the old Grail King Titurel. He reads also in The Book With No Name. A mysterious Maiden Petite, with oars of filigree, rows on Emerald Lake singing most wondrously. A Queen, by name Belletrieste—straddling both our world and that of the Nature Spirits—appears with shattered crown a-dangling. In her tale the Agitator and his minions rise up from a Crack in the Earth, and the Sorceress Chanzacouth, in whose Sickly Tree the Queen is trapped, would tempt Kyot to her bed. Ever and anon we hear of the Grail, o’er which keeps ward a family to it destined, and upon whom Kyot’s heart is set. But first he must to Charlemagne. And ever does a Presence warm and easing guide our good Knight Kyot—the spirit of St. Odile! And more besides… Let the story, then, be further told. “We are all part of the Grail stream. We have each a role in the Grail story that is now revealing itself further, bringing to light characters as yet unknown, or lost to memory, as well as their stories—stories that may echo in our depths and illuminate our destinies.” From Grail Bearers: Bringing Heaven and Earth Together
