Higher visual language

> There may be ideas of interest in this. I.e would
> you agree C that in the
> grail literature King Arthur possibly represents
> Christ? The whole thing
> seems to me to be interwoven with Work and Christian
> themes. Not Christian
> themes at the ordinary level either, but purely Work
> level Christian themes.
> They are hard to define though, it is delivered in a
> more visual way.
>

I've never explored the Arthur/Christ theme in my writing on the 'net, but 'the King' is the King... I think what you wrote gets at it.

Your comments remind me of the aspect of higher visual language (like the poem Parzival) where it's not necessarily the things you can consciously see in them that are the only things of value. The higher visual language is valuable for what you can't currently see in it or explain. Those are going to be new things for you. Those are things that introduce into you language for you to be able to see the new thing in yourself or the world. Even a small detail that you just pass over (but it registers) or that leaves you scratching your head (in a state of tension regarding resolving its meaning). That's why you are to just 'read' these influences. Bible, Homer, Folk Tales, Grail Romance, etc.

The strongest Work theme in Grail Romance like Parzival that I've written on is the visual depiction of the two conscious shocks. The going off the path into the pathless forest (self-remembering, being directed by higher emotion, etc.), and then coming upon intervals of friction you have to get through (the battles where antagonistic knights come out of nowhere and challenge and a fight ensues), and once the grail knight succeeds he enters a higher realm as he continues on; the Grail Castle being the goal.

But in all that there are details and themes that can't be explained and that is why the language is even more valuable. You're getting what you don't currently know, and it's valuable (if it's a high influence).

Parzival itself is a busy canvas touching on many other things. More worldly experiences, internal experiences, etc., etc. It is unique among Grail Romance... - C.

ps- The entire society represented in Grail Romance (Malory may get at this in a more sustained sense) is like a depiction of life in a slightly higher dimension. Almost like the realm where the warriors hack each other to death all day, then come back alive, all in one piece, and feast at the end of the day. Valhalla. In Malory there are aspects of this. Characters reappearing, for instance, after dying. Other things. (I'll have to actually read Malory complete, but I've read some, enough to see some of these things...) You also see very worldly scenarios, like things that cause intense jealousy in the context of sex and beautiful women and so on (Malory has a classic story along those lines). But all depicted, like you say, in a language of Work. The universal language of Work...