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THE GRAIL 49
A tree of the word or of life can be found, as they say, in the middle of
Paradise, and the Hellenes already knew this. The people of the Hesperides
guarded its golden apples.
A boat with a sun on the sail.
A fish, symbol of divine luminosity.
A dove, the emblem of God the Spirit.
Monograms of Christ, in Greek or Latin characters.
The word "Gethsemane": the garden where Christ was handed over to the
authorities.
The initials "GTS," artistically entwined, probably an abbreviation of the
word "Gethsemane."
Fragments of a phrase, of which only "Sant Gleysa" can be read.
Two of these grottoes have kept their names: the Grotto of Jesus Christ and
the Grotto of the Dead Man. Before the entrance to the first one, traces of a small
garden and a small terrace remain where the hermit who lived there must have
meditated:
Alas wicked world, why do you do so? You give us more pain,
and bitter sorrow, Than ever joy!
WOLFRAM VON ESCHENBACH 9
The Cathars did not feel that Earth was their homeland. They compared it to a
prison that an architect, lacking experience, had constructed from low-quality
materials. They were conscious of the fact that their real home could only be
somewhere beyond the stars. "Up there" had been built by the Spirit, Amor:
neither hatred nor war, but life; neither sickness nor death, rather—God. In the
beginning was the Spirit. In it was the Word, and they were God.
Just as within us two worlds may fight each other—the spirit, which is fat, and
the flesh, which is thin—there are two principles of action in the universe: the Yes
and the No, the Good and the Bad. The Good is God; the Bad is Lucifer—the
eternally negative spirit.
The Word created a world that extends beyond the arch of golden clouds, past
the stars. Our world is the work of Lucifer. The Word is creative; Lucifer is only a
plagiarist, an untalented modeler.