The Festivals in Montsalvat

THE WAY OF THE GRAIL – SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS – December 12, 2022

Czech original: Slavnosti V Montsalvatu · cesta-gralu.cz

Irradiated with Light, the exalted castle on the summit of the spiritual Paradise gleams in the time of the festivals of the Grail

As in one of the lower-lying replicas of the actual Source of the Light in Creation, of the primordially created castle of the Grail, the service of noble knights and pure maidens vibrates within it

In close accord these faithful servants vibrate with the streaming of the Light that comes from the place where that gate is to be found which joins Creation with the eternally sustaining power out of the Divine

Montsalvat is joined in faithful service with the halls of the Grail, in which the highest Holy divine service is performed by Parzival himself

Just as with everything in the spiritual plane, so the castle of Montsalvat too is purely dependent upon the influx of the powers of the Light from the planes of Primordial Creation lying far higher still in Creation

In the time of the festivals of the Grail Montsalvat is permeated with the thankful extolling of God the Father, who draws near to Creation through the Holy Spirit, Imanuel in the Divine and through Parzival in the castle of the Grail

Fervent prayers of thanks rise at that time from the highest temple hall in the spiritual castle upwards to the Creator

A fervent prayer of thanks

Men on Earth cannot fully experience what it really means when the spirit is freed from all that oppresses and in its full-valued luminosity gives thanks to the Loving-Kindness of the Creator for its being

Without humbled pleas for help, such as men for the most part connect with the turning upwards towards the Light, the pure thanks of the inhabitants and servants of Montsalvat, filled with pride, fly to meet the inflowing streams of living Light

It is something quite other than what is known here on Earth when the term giving thanks to God is uttered

By the inhabitants dwelling there in the Light, thanks to God is expressed in one uniform living happening, at the same time through the experiencing of a single great, jubilant consciousness of themselves

Nowhere is there anything secondary nor anything inferior that could disturb

Neither inwardly nor outwardly is there experienced in that moment, by those who are permitted to take part in the Festivals in Montsalvat, even the least thing that could weaken their state of pure blazing for the Light

The extolling exaltedness which permeates all things unites all into a uniform blazing of the all-containing gleam of a flame that rises out of the inner beings of the blessed servants and handmaidens

Uniform is the attunement of all those assembled, who meet in this place in the time of the grace-filled moments of the highest influxes of the powers of the Light from the heights of Creation

Adorned with volition of the spiritual kind, it is enveloped in the glory of an all-permeating brightness

On every part of the luminous structure of the temple in the castle of Montsalvat there gleams at that time the lustre of the pure and faithful service of all spiritual life in Paradise

Thereby everything is adorned down to the very last white-shining stone of which the structure is formed, and also all the annexes and gardens surrounding the castle itself, right up to the blossoming landscapes stretching into the distance around the white ramparts of the proud castle

And the structure itself is formed precisely out of the fervent thanks of all the inhabitants, as a firm and sure point at the very summit of the spiritual section of developed and fully matured human spirits

At its highest place there rises a vault formed of high pillars joining together, through which there penetrates a golden Light a thousand times brighter than the strongest radiance of the earthly sun

Here in this part there is also to be found the vessel of Light given to Montsalvat as a distant form of the actual living vessel in the castle of the Grail

In this vessel to be found here there also glows a ruby-shining Light, as the living form of the eternal covenant between God and his work, to which naturally all that is spiritual in Paradise also belongs

The highest servant in Montsalvat is the priest and at the same time the first knight, who guards this vessel of life-giving Light which here graciously mediates a reflection of the happening in the Grail itself

Therefore here too among the servants the vessel bears the designation of the eternal chalice of the Grail

At the festive time, when the highest hall with the vessel of the Grail is filled, the strongest humanly spiritual knights together with the purest handmaidens of the Light stand in the innermost circle

Then first that temple vault opens, through which it suddenly becomes possible to look up more clearly further into the heights of Creation

Yet even with the greatest effort nothing more can be beheld at the very summit in that moment than a blinding white Light, out of which golden radiating rays of living Light flash forth in all directions

This sight calls forth in all who are permitted to be present a consciousness of the greatness of the coming happening of God

Gradually there emerges from the white brightness the first of the pictures which portray the happening in the primordially created Grail

The luminously glowing gate into the Divine, which is to be found in the highest spheres high above Montsalvat, is open

Out of these distances there suddenly draws nearer, ever more visibly, a host of Angels sent forth at that time from the Grail to prepare in Creation the way for the descending living image of the Holy Spirit himself

In a circling current endless streams of angelic beings draw down towards the highest place in the halls of Montsalvat, from whom, together with whiteness, there radiates the sacredness of the existing being of Life

And then, then high in the distance of this space formed by angelic wings there appears a radiant white dove – the visible form of the Holy Spirit, heralding the nearness of Imanuel, the Son of Man bestowed by God the Father as a connecting bridge from the Divine to Creation

The dove descends slowly

The golden Ray of Life issuing from it goes before it and unites itself with the most highly called knight, guardian and priest of the Grail in Montsalvat in one person

The first chosen and blessed of all the serving blissful spirits in Montsalvat, led by God's Light, steps out of the circle onto the raised sacred place where the vessel of Light stands in its enduring connection with the Source of Life

At this rare time it is granted to him alone to step into the nearness of the shining vessel for only a moment

Otherwise it is forbidden to every one of the spirits who look up to the vessel in the joyful awareness of the life-giving power pouring out of it

Angelic beings bring a mantle upon his shoulders as protection, so that his spirit may bear the mighty pressure which comes into his nearness with the Light of God itself

His figure is the ideal and the model for all spiritual priesthood

This first priest of Montsalvat is in this moment granted the grace to receive the power which in a new influx will soon sink into the opened vessel, and to bless it

And the living image of the dove of the Holy Spirit descends in a blinding ray of Light to the priest, who in that moment is also completely enveloped in white Light forming a protective pillar about him

The dove stands above the priest and the vessel

And then out of the heights of the Light two angels descend behind the dove, holding a golden vessel in which it glows like a shining ruby flame

The power sent by Parzival from the Grail draws near

The dove stands high above the most precious vessel in Montsalvat, and the Light issuing from it forms living circles in which there is a quiet whispering of the greatest mystery of the gift of the Love of God for all life in Creation

“I Am the Word of Life”

“I Am the Truth”

“I Am the beginning and the end”

“I Am that I Am”

In the living happening of the image of the Spirit of God there is contained such might and greatness that it compels all those present in the halls of Montsalvat to sink to their knees

Only the priest, already strengthened beforehand by the power of life flowing to him, stands in the glowing flame of white Light and raises his hands

The brightness of the colours and tones penetrates into the deepest inner being of all who take part in this sacred moment

As though everything were being inscribed with a golden stylus into the inner being of those present, it bears brightness and sharpness for all spiritual receptivity, which in itself is a thousandfold stronger than the earthly human perceiving of colours and forms

Then the two great angels with the vessel descending from the heights sink down above the temple of Montsalvat and out of these heights let the contents pour down into the sacred vessel of Montsalvat lying below

A great, golden-red glowing Light flows down like a quivering Ray, in which it circles and undulates unceasingly like the indescribably fluid Light of the Love of God

When the first drops of life sink into the vessel, this lights up with a translucent crystal lustre which contains all the life gathering within it in that moment

The vibration which permeates the space bears within it might, power and at the same time the highest bliss that the spirits there can bear without losing their consciousness

The living power permeates all things and brings a new becoming luminous, as though the morning sun had come

Although everything beforehand had already been irradiated in festive attunement by the shining flames of the purest inner being of all the knights and handmaidens, nevertheless everything has now suddenly become manifoldly more luminous, even to complete translucency

The priest, whose spirit in complete devotion to the service has been transformed before the eyes of those present into an upward-flashing white flame, gives thanks for the inflowing influx of the all-renewing Life

The dove soars back into the heights in a white pillar of Light

The two angels with the vessel follow the dove, and although in the mighty happening they vanish again into the bright Light, red drops still flow down and fill the vessel

“This is that Power for all those who are yet to awaken to their conscious life”, sounds through the space above the vessel

“The Grace of God is mindful of all His creatures”

“Whoever holds within himself the will to life is never forgotten by the Light”

“Amen”

Through the space there flows in circles a vibration of a high spiritual kind

As though everything had joined into a single harmony, so in deep reverence all hold within themselves the highest festive state of earnestness and of jubilation at once

Then in Montsalvat the choir of the knights resounds, and their raised swords change into living golden rays which join into a single protective vault above the vessel

From all those taking part the flame of the spirit's thankful disposition shoots high upwards

Blessed, a hundredfold blessed and in bliss supremely blessed is Montsalvat in the time of the Festivals of the influx of power from the Grail

Far into the distances in Paradise its Light radiates and spreads like a sparkling morning dawn over all the landscapes around the City of golden streets, in the midst of which Montsalvat rises upwards towards the heavens

Human spirits rejoice in joyful creating over the new influx of the luminous Power of God

In their longing to share, they send out the rays of their inner happiness towards the distances of Subsequent Creation in a fervent endeavour to pass on a little of their happiness as strengthening to all those who are only now drawing near to the places of eternal bliss in Paradise

For a long time still it vibrates through the blazing inner being of all who in grace are permitted to be invited into the festively adorned halls of Montsalvat to experience the lofty happening of the influx of power from the Holy Spirit

Thus that close experiencing of the mystery of the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the most precious thing for all the human spirits dwelling in Paradise

It is the fulfilment of a fervent and most inward wish which stands above all the joys and treasures of spiritual existence

O, what treasures there are in heaven

Men here on Earth have of it only a very dim intimation of something far away

So far away that they no longer even believe in it and take it for something unreal, for fairy tales too finely woven for them to devote more of their spiritual receptivity to them

Everything on Earth is heavy and in its essence creeps only very low, compared with the uplifting refreshment that is bound up with the heights above Subsequent Creation

And yet men here on Earth had the opportunity of experiencing the nearness of all the happenings in the heights, when the Ray of Parzival, anchored in an earthly body, was here among them

So much could have been received from the Light and anchored on Earth in that blessed time

The reflection of Montsalvat was within reach of the human spirits who were in earthly bodies

For they need only reflect rightly

They know the term the Holy Mountain, or also the term the Mountain of Salvation

That this is indeed the image of Montsalvat in the spiritual, clothed in earthly terms, no one has hitherto realised

Montsalvat is indeed, in earthly designation, the Holy Mountain

Through the nearness of the Ray of Parzival in the Lord on Earth men could thus have had everything blessed for the laying of the foundation stones for an earthly reflection of the spiritual Montsalvat

The building of an earthly temple was to have been an image received from that region of Paradise where the spiritually glorious castle of Montsalvat rises upwards

But nothing of this was brought about, owing to men's own excessive earthboundness and thereby their inevitable remoteness from all that is higher and thus more sacred

Thus today it is possible to find here only every kind of aftertaste of inner interests and of the personal will of men, instead of a common spiritual striving for the true upbuilding of a new, pure humanity which will always wish fervently to be in accord with the Harmony of Creation and thereby to serve the Creator

The fervent prayer of thanks such as is experienced in the heights is here on Earth only something that may be called tiny specks of gold of the Light

They are therefore only minute particles of vibrations which may be called the exceptional experience of individuals, but not the exalted manifestation of a whole of human spirits in accord with one another, striving for the fulfilment of the Word of the Lord

But the time of the renewal of all this will come soon

It is already drawing near to the Earth and forcing a way for itself which will first mercilessly prune away all that is bloated and grown out of vanity in spiritually striving people

But in the end it will come as a victorious campaign among these people, to unite them into a single stream of an upward-shooting flame of Holy service

And only then, after all the preceding struggle of purity with impurity in the inner being, will the day come when in everyone who is victorious it falls into order and suddenly there comes the flash of true recognition in the experiencing of the Word of Truth

And then, some portion of days, months or perhaps years later, the soil in men will ripen for them to join together and at last to build here on Earth a reflection of the luminous structure from the spiritual Paradise

Thoughts of Montsalvat will live among men as an inexhaustible spring of power, strengthening everyone so that on Earth too the power dwelling permanently in the vessel of Light, which will be laid in the highest place in its halls, may be anchored within its white walls

That will be the time which becomes the beginning of a new mankind on Earth, because in it there will come the automatic joining of all the powers, the spiritual as well as the animistic and the material

Festive, in the true sense spiritually pure and at the same time fully conscious on all the planes of human perceiving, will then be the experiencing of every blessed descent of the powers of the Light down to this small Earth

Yes, even here the angels will bring down the vessel with the bestowed power of life from the Grail, so that life here too may unfold as an accord with all the other spheres in Creation

And this power will dwell among men so long as it is tended with purity of spirit and guarded with the highest wakefulness of a sparkling vigilance against all that is lower and ignoble which might perhaps still wish to draw near

That time is drawing near to the Earth in pictures

And you who already know this now, work upon yourself and do everything now so that the promised Kingdom of God may become part of the life of all good people on Earth who are inwardly alive and honest in their striving towards the Light