...work on the Grail. That is also why Jessie Weston herself concludes: The Grail story is not dufond en comble the product of imagination, literary or...secret of the sources of life, physical and spiritual. . . . The study and the criticism of the Grail literature will possess an even deeper interest, a more...

...Romance, 1920) At the root (of the Grail story) lies the record, more or less distorted, of an aneient Ritual, having for its ultimate object the initiation...physical life, survives to-day, and can be traced all over the world, in Folk ceremonies, which, however widely separated the countries in which they...

...points out, enshrined in this 'earliest form of the Grail story' the record of an actual anti-Christian ritual 'having for its ultimate object the initiation...secret of the sources of life, physical and spiritual. . . . The mise en scene of the story, the nomenclature, the march of incident, the character of the...