The Wanderer I come from highlands down to shore, the valleys steam, the oceans roar. I wander silent, joyless here: my sigh keeps asking, Where? Oh, where? Their sun appears to me so cold, their blossoms limp, their life so old; and what they speak of, empty fare: I am a stranger everywhere. Where are you, land, beloved home? Imagined, sought, but never known! The land, the land, whence hope does flow, the land where all my roses grow, where... Read more
The ‘Secret of the Grail’ I hold to be above all a ‘human’ problem, a subject of profound human interest, and one which touches such deep springs of human thought and need that it requires to be handled by those whose interest lies in dealing with the workings of the soul, as much as with the expression of literary intelligence. JESSIE L. WESTON Read more
“He may be like Khidir, the green one, who travels the earth in a variety of guises, and by means unknown to you…” (‘The Sufi’, Salik) The cult of St George originally derived from the martyrdom of an early Christian. Together with Middle Eastern mysticism, the legend arrived in Britain around the eleventh Century carrying with it a colourful legacy of a draconian cult and fiery gnosis; combining astrology, alchemy, Jewish and Islamic mysticism and merging it with indigenous schools... Read more
The Spiral Castle, here, is the Grail Castle and Underworld, bounded by the river of Time, contained within the witches’ circle and approached only after certain rituals are undertaken, incorporating as they do pure witchcraft folklore elements combined with essential grail lore brilliantly. Ian Chambers, unpublished Within the cache of publicly available letters of Robert Cochrane, mysterious, mercurial and almost cultic figure of modern traditional craft, are his clear distinctions and definitions of the forms, philosophy and use of the... Read more
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