Montsalvat – the Luminous Castle in the Paradise of Human Spirits

THE WAY OF THE GRAIL – SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS – March 22, 2021

Czech original: Montsalvat – Světlý Hrad V Ráji Lidských Duchů · cesta-gralu.cz

Montsalvat – the most blessed place of the faithful service of noble spirits in Paradise

The luminous castle is also called the place of the most faithful, forever filled with living Light

The longed-for place where the loving, helping will of the spiritual servants, destined for all that is weaker, unites with the purest faithfulness to the Spirit of God in Creation

Thus, and in still other ways, do the inhabitants of the spiritual homeland, of Paradise, name it when they may look up to the towering summits of the mountain ranges, where in a flood of Light resembling a golden nebula this place of the purest faithful service is to be found

Great pictures inscribed into tales of nobility and honour fill the legends that are borne through all the world-parts of the Subsequent Creation

This place is best known in those world-parts where the maturing of the human spirits took the natural and therefore right course, so that step by step ever more could be brought within the reach of the riper human spirits about the spiritual planes lying above Valhalla

These are the world-parts where, despite the partial influence of the fallen archangel, more light remained preserved and the human spirits in their development were able to raise themselves upwards more easily into union with the spiritual homeland

Floods of strengthening virtues draw near in influxes of power whenever the inhabitants of these brighter communities are told of Montsalvat, of the fabled spiritual castle of Light upon the summit of Paradise

This happening was also to have become part of the life of the inhabitants of Ephesus, for here too earthly mankind was meant to swing itself up, in full reverence towards Valhalla and its servants, beyond the boundaries of their sphere of activity, and thus to open its eyes also to the dazzling brightness of the gardens of the spiritual homeland

Had earthly mankind gone the right way of the development ordained by God, there would have opened to it at a certain time the view into the spiritual planes with their gardens of bliss, in which those may dwell who are created beings and who arose to their consciousness in these gardens, and also all the developed ones who have completed their path of development in the material planes of the Subsequent Creation

Thus men would know not only of the many strengthening pictures of these gardens, but they would know also of the City of the Golden Streets, and knowledge of Montsalvat would be to them a matter of course, of that place surrounded by Light upon the summit of the said gardens, where, formed by the fervent prayers of the faithful service of the spiritual hosts, there rises a castle in whose highest place stands a hall with the replica of the primordially eternal Vessel of the Grail

This place is indeed the highest place of the entire risen extension of the spiritual planes, which were formed by the thoughts of the primordially created and of the created spirits

Through their volition there was formed the plane of the never-ending existence of the spiritual inhabitants who arose to consciousness as spiritual germs out of the spark of the spirit

That place of the luminous refuge of the purest faithful service to God is permanently enveloped in a flood of rays descending from the heights, in which, after the pattern of the primordially created Castle of the Grail, there takes place from time to time the happening in which, within these streams of rays above the Vessel in the highest hall, a dove appears in order to let the branch of Life which it brings touch the chalice of the Grail here, as a sign of the enduring influx of the life-giving Power out of the Love of God

In the halls of Montsalvat the purest spiritual knighthood of Paradise serves in the purest service, forming a firm ring around the sacred steps with the altar and the Vessel, so that the latter may be shielded from the gaze of the unworthy

Numerous hosts of spiritual knights surround the highest place, and their faithful prayer streams high upwards to Parzival in the Castle of the Grail

This place, however, is not a temple in which assembled spirits perhaps give themselves up permanently in absorption to unending prayers, as many believers imagine it

True service is here transformed into deed, and therefore the highest thing, inseparable from this place, is the fulfilling of service in movement and in deed

Luminous service has many forms, and thus the highest liveliness and activity prevail here, for there is a multitude of tasks which need to be fulfilled for the wise realisation of the Will of God in all the places beneath Montsalvat

Again and again, therefore, the knights set out upon their journeys of fulfilment, whatever manifold kinds their tasks may be

Some set out on watch and on the conveying of tidings to places where spiritual sparks still slumbering are to be found, others incline towards Valhalla and Asgard, while yet others work directly in the materialities of the Subsequent Creation

Thus within the walls of Montsalvat there is always a part of the knighthood which, when need arises for some purpose, also incarnates into material bodies of its own, in order to quicken and strengthen in other human spirits the thoughts of God and of the work of Creation

These knights often carry great knowledge within them, and their presence in the gross material worlds is always a support and an inspiration to many people who find their way to them

Radiant and strong in their spiritual invincibility against the darkness, these envoys of the luminous castle pass through every storm as victors and always return to their place of origin, which lies within the mighty stones of golden lustre upon Montsalvat

Their number continually increases, for newly arrived spirits filled with the maturity just attained, in whom the highest longing for faithful service to the Light burns, may from time to time, after having proved themselves in the fulfilment of their service in Paradise, be raised into the ranks of the noble servants of the knightly race

With open joy is every such newcomer welcomed, and still more all those who upon their journeys incarnated into gross material coverings and honourably upheld their task in faithful fulfilment

Yet into these places only the purest of the pure may come, only the most faithful of those faithful to the Light

The halls of Montsalvat are filled with joyful songs of praise for those who once, or even several times, faithfully fulfilled their mission in the depths of the materialities and were permitted to return in the purest ray of Light as victors over the heaviness of the individual sections of matter

These resounding songs then descend into the other parts of the spiritual Paradise and become the fabled legends of the tales of the faithful knights of the luminous castle

It is also a great strengthening for all who in quiet petitions let a humble longing soar upwards in prayer that for them too a path of a great task in the Subsequent Creation may be prepared, upon which they might prove their faithfulness to Holy God and to the Grail

These thoughts fly from time to time also into the spheres of the materialities in the Subsequent Creation and are always a strong summons to true knighthood, fulfilled in the noblest manner of service to the Light

They descend in the form of luminous streams to certain men, who may draw from them the strengthening to rouse themselves to great deeds of heroism in the true expression of knightly conduct

The power of the actual experiences of the mature and strong spirits in the halls of Montsalvat resembles the vibrations of a pure resonance, and this, descending, finds the same inner resonance in those who carry within them the ancient imprint of the memory of the moment when their spiritual spark awakened

The great tales of victorious fulfilment for the Light in faithful service to the Laws of God have filled the halls of Montsalvat from the very beginning of its forming

Their content carries within it strong vibrations which must stir the inner being of every man who has not yet wholly lost the knightly traits of his spirit

Whoever has not yet entirely buried his true knighthood within himself must always, in great strengthening, rouse himself inwardly to walk further along this path through the fulfilling of his spiritual name

The sound of the tales and songs of praise of Montsalvat is a thousandfold stronger than any earthly tales, which often carry within them a great deal of impure conduct far from God, and which are thereby weakened in their inspirations and cannot give the strengthening needed for the deed

The tales of the knights of Montsalvat are real, they came to pass, the power of their message is imprinted into the past of Creation, and out of this past it shines like a golden trace of the fulfilled path of the faithful servants of the spirit

The victory of the Light is contained in these tales not as some invented fairy story, but out of them steps forth the genuineness and the indubitability of the proof that faithful service to the Light always brings victory, wherever in the depths of the materialities this happening may take place

This genuineness stirs the inner being of many a man, who, sinking to his knees, then asks the Light in joyful prayer for the strength to awaken the knightly power within himself for his further walk through life

And this is also fulfilled, and it brings into the nearness of the one thus asking an abundance of power to be used

It suffices only to reach for this power and to lay it upon the altar of the purest volition to help the weaker, to protect them, and also to guard luminous values against all that is base and false

Mighty is the vibration in these experiences of the faithful knights, and it rouses the human spirit to the deed

It was also precisely this power of the experience of proud service to the Light that the fallen Archangel used in order to confuse for a brief moment Amfortas himself, who at that time was the highest priest and also the guardian of the replica of the Vessel of the Grail in Montsalvat

The fallen one cunningly used the strong vibrations of the pictures of the knightly victories that had been lived through, in order to lay them flatteringly before the pure Amfortas

He described to him how he too could become such a strong example if, as the highest protector of the Grail in the spiritual realm, he were to show the purest path along which all those should walk who wish to serve the Light and God faithfully under him

He painted pictures of how strengthening this would be, and out of himself he clothed his thoughts in the most magnificent forms so powerfully that Amfortas succumbed and longed for the same experiencing that was appointed to the knights of his retinue

He did not realise that his task was a different one and that he had been graciously raised up in order to guard and protect the Vessel of Light in the halls of Montsalvat eternally

For a moment he also forgot what power was mediated to him for this from the King of Creation, Parzival

This power, which was and forever will be the most wondrous in the plane where Montsalvat stands, he was to use for one thing alone – for the faithful service of his kind

Amfortas stood beneath the mighty stream of powers of the primordially created Grail and also under the direct protection of Parzival

Nevertheless his own vibration of free will deflected him when he let the fallen Archangel slip enticing pictures into him

And thus only the brief moment of this vibration had to remove him far from the place of his service, for beneath the direct Light he wished to use the power bestowed upon him for something other than what the Will of God appointed for him

He was struck down and hurled away by the very same power which but a moment before had made him a blissful and faithful servant

When he had left the place closest to the Vessel of the Grail, the fallen archangel pondered whether he wanted this Vessel at all, which was to him here almost without value, for he was aware that in this place he could not long hold out against the superior force which Michael would surely send into battle against him

This moment of hesitation sufficed for a firm ring of luminous spiritual knights to close swiftly around the Vessel, faithfully resolved to defend the sacred place to their very last end

One of the knights stepped forward and pointed at Lucifer the sword of Amfortas, which had remained lying there forsaken

A flash of Light came down from above and glowed through the blade as though it had become white-hot metal

Out of the sword there became a sacred sword of Light, appointed forever for the protection of the Grail in Montsalvat

From the heights of Light the trumpets sounded at the same time for battle

Then Lucifer turned his back upon the Vessel and with laughter vanished into the dark nebulae beneath Creation

The knights cried out joyfully at the unexpectedly swift victory

Immediately afterwards, however, there fell upon them the oppression of that dreadful thing which had taken place within a few moments almost before their eyes

What would come now, none of them could guess

Who would hold the sublime divine service at the influx of the Power

Amfortas as the priest, as the forever connecting bridge to the mystery of the Gift of God of Life drawing near in the picture of the dove, was suddenly no longer there, and no one dared to take his place

All of them recognised that this was given not to their will, but to a higher one

In the humblest entreaty all the protectors of this place sank to their knees and fervently asked the King of Creation for help

And in their heaviest hour there descended to them the promise of help and of the setting right which was soon to come

Only the most inward pure faithfulness of all the spirits in Paradise would bridge the missing link, so that the blessing of the life-giving Power bestowed by God might descend

Even one single wavering spirit could bring about ruin

Such was the condition for the possible approach of the dove

Swiftly the tidings of what had happened spread abroad, and through all the parts of the spiritual Paradise prayers filled with the living pledge of the purest faithfulness of all the spirits rose upwards to God's throne

All places in Paradise lived in the most faithful weaving of pure service

Entire spiritual planes became radiant with the most fervent praise of the Creator

Thus at last, after a time which cannot be measured in earthly years, the fulfilment of the promise came, and Parzival, who had pledged his coming for the setting right, entered the highest hall of Montsalvat

Parzival with his faithful ones from Primordial Creation stepped into the halls of Montsalvat

His nearness stirred all spirits to bliss of the highest degree, for with Him there entered into Paradise the Spirit of God, which strengthened everything and quickened it to new being

At that time there appeared also above the Vessel of the Grail in Montsalvat the dove, and Parzival himself blessed its life-giving power for the mediation of blessed refreshment to all the inhabitants in the gardens of Paradise

The Festival of the Dove, blessed by the King of Creation, quickened all life to the highest joy and to fullness of happiness

And Parzival chose a new guardian, who had proved himself beforehand through his courage against Lucifer

The wound closed, and into Montsalvat there entered the flowing of a new time in this part of Creation, in which Parzival journeys with his faithful ones into all parts of the Father's work for its liberation from the influence of Lucifer

A joyful melody of heroism resounded through the whole space of the Luminous Castle above Paradise

The mission of Parzival, directed towards the victory of the Light over the fallen Archangel and towards his binding, awakened also in many of those present the longing to join the King of Creation in his great fulfilment

From the ranks of the knighthood of Montsalvat there joined at that time, upon their fervent petitions, the host accompanying Parzival, a multitude of those who longed in a united array to carry the victory of the Light into the materialities of the Subsequent Creation

Their fervent petitions were granted and they were permitted to join the luminous army

Thus many of them are incarnated upon this earth even today

They carry within them the best preconditions for the victory of the Truth and of the Light

For this victory they need only to awaken out of the sleep of their spirit

Temporarily deafened by earthly trivialities, they still do not know exactly why they came to this earth at all

But the call already reaches each one of them

For them the call of Montsalvat now sounds for awakening, so that their present noble service may join the past paths which long since became legends, told of in all the world-parts as great examples of the faithful knighthood of the Light

Dear reader of these lines, to you also this call resounds, to set out upon the path which is the true fulfilment of the great human victory of Good and of Light upon earth

The time is here which brings the urgency of a genuine awakening in the spirit

Faithful service filled with virtues, in a noble walking along the path of the Light, is to become the fulfilment of the true mission of every man

This is the message from Montsalvat