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Crusade Against the Grail is the daring book that popularized the legend of the Cathars and the Holy Grail. The first edition appeared in Germany in 1933 and drew upon Rahn's account of his explorations of the Pyrenean caves where the heretical Cathar sect sought refuge during the thirteenth century. Over the years the book has been translated into many languages and exerted a large influence on such authors as Trevor Ravenscroft and Jean-Michel Angebert, but it has never appeared in English until now. Much as German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann used Homer's Iliad to locate ancient Troy, Rahn believed that Wolfram von Eschenbach's medieval epic Parzival held the keys to the mysteries of the Cathars and the secret location of the Holy Grail. Rahn saw Parzival not as a work of fiction, but as a historical account of the Cathars and the Knights Templar and their guardianship of the Grail, a "stone from the stars." The Crusade that the Vatican led against the Cathars became a war pitting Roma (Rome) against Amor (love), in which the Church triumphed with flame and sword over the pure faith of the Cathars. OTTO RAHN was born in Michelstadt, Germany, in 1904. After earning his degree in philology in 1924, he traveled extensively to the caves and castles of southern France, researching his belief that the Cathars were the last custodians of the Grail. Induced by Himmler to become a member of the SS as a civilian archaeologist and historian, Rahn quickly grew disillusioned with the direction his country was taking and resigned in 1939. He died, an alleged suicide, on March 13, 1939, in the snows of the Tyrolean Mountains.
CONTENTS Translator's Foreword vii Map of Southern France xvi Prologue xix PART ONE Parsifal 3 PART TWO The Grail 43 The Golden Fleece 53 Gwion's Cup 59 How the Bard Taliesin Came to the World 67 The Legend of the Bard Cervorix 68 The "Pure Ones" and Their Doctrine 70 The Caves of Trevrizent Close to the Fountain Called La Salvaesche 93 Monmur, the Enchanted Castle of Oberon 101 Muntsalvaesche and Montsegur 104 Repanse de Schoye 108 PART THREE The Crusade 115 PART FOUR The Apotheosis of the Grail 157 Appendix: Observations on the Theoretical Part 190 Notes 193 Bibliography 211 Index 224
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THE GRAIL The empire of love is ope
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THE GRAIL 47 of the elm trees known
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THE GRAIL 49 A tree of the word or
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THE GRAIL 51 radiant springtime. Th
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THE GOLDEN FLEECE 1 Heracles or Her
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THE GOLDEN FLEECE 55 Originally, ev
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GWION'S CUP The wise Pythagoras, Wh
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GWION'S CUP 61 magic circle around
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GWION'S CUP 63 massive defeat on th
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HOW THE BARD TALIESIN CAME TO THE W
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THE LEGEND OF THE BARD CERVORIX 69
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MONMUR, THE ENCHANTED CASTLE OF OBE
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REPANSE DE SCHOYE 109 summit of the
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REPANSE DE SCHOYE 111 Church of Amo
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THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE GRAIL 165 of
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THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE GRAIL 169 per
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THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE GRAIL 171 And
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THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE GRAIL 173 eve
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THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE GRAIL 175 The
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THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE GRAIL 181 con
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THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE GRAIL 185 det
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THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE GRAIL 187 Ver
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE THEORETICAL PAR
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Alighieri, Dante. La D
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BIBLIOGRAPHY 215 Vater. Die Argonau
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BIBLIOGRAPHY 217 Peyrat, Napoleon.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY 221 Molinier, Charles.
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