PARSIFAL

It is written in volume three:


Thus Parsifal stands there as the First One! He has stepped out of the Divine Sphere. From out of His radiation there first severed themselves the uppermost Primordial Beings as they became conscious, and their love and loyalty to the Light, towards Parsifal, formed itself in the volition to the glorious Hall, to the Temple, to the Castle!


However, I want to mention this living forming and weaving only fleetingly today. Perhaps I shall give more detailed enlightenment about it later on. It has only to be mentioned now for the sake of the whole picture I want to give.


For you Parsifal Himself is only undulating Light, His Unsubstantiate Core out of Imanuel puts all else deep into the shadow, if shadow can be spoken of at all in the Luminous Castle. Therefore this is only stated pictorially, for actually there is no trace of shadow whatever.


However, to the eye of the Primordial Spiritual Beings, of the Primordial Beings, the form takes shape, the Primordial Spiritual Form of the Son of the Light, brilliantly penetrated with radiation by His Unsubstantiate Core!


What shall I now tell you about that which simply cannot be limited by earthly words?


A luminous head in the most perfect form, cloaked in the eternal movement of the Living Light, which causes every Created One who looks at it to lose consciousness and throws him down. The body enveloped in a radiant cloak which gives the impression of a flexible scaly mail, above the head the wings of the Dove spread protectingly . . . thus can you envisage Him, powerful, imperious, invincible, unapproachable, the Power of God embodied, the Radiance of God that has taken on form: Parsifal, the Son of Light, in the Primordial Spiritual, standing at the summit of Creation! The Pure Gate that has opened from the Divine to Creation, that leads from God to man!


According to its meaning the name Parsifal signifies among other things: From God to man! He is therefore the gate or the bridge from God to man. He is not the pure simpleton (in German “der reine Tor”), but the Pure Gate (in German “das reine Tor”) of Life to Creation!


For His work of purifying Creation which was granted by God the Father, and which became necessary through the fall of the human spirits in the World of Matter, Parsifal’s volition as a Part of Him took on form for His wandering through all the parts of the world, so that through gathering experiences therein He would recognise all the weaknesses and wounds of the human spirits.


Parsifal always remained in the Castle while His living volition, as a part out of Him become form, wandered through the parts of the world learning.


Being of an alien nature, particularly towards everything that is wrong, the form of His volition for this task was naturally bound to be like that of a child first, then like that of a youth who had to learn and so mature to become a man, which in the swinging of the Laws of Creation naturally also manifested in the outward form, corresponding to the nature of the particular plane.