The ethereal secret hidden within the legend of the early years of Arthur’s life, which made him a King, has survived many hundreds of years. Ever drawing the brave seeker of his holy wisdom to yield to the sannt grathail: ‘the terrible desire’ and the yearning for the Siege Perilous: ‘the Perilous Seat;’ the highly honoured, yet fearsome place beside the King at his spiritual Round Table, in which only one who feared not, to live contrary to his own base nature and lose his life, could sit. For being steadfast against the love of his own life in this world...the indulgence of the self...he alone had the power to surpass time and entrance the heart of people throughout every age: giving the wisdom that was not of this world, and which was therefore glorious and wholly to be desired. For there the seat of real authority in this life, the sign of true nobility which was the standard and banner of Arthur, and which he longed to share at his inner table, and even in the presence of his enemies. His success in battle, was as it was in his own life – first the winning of his own battle within - in that he went ‘against himself’ – and that from there, was glory! And it is no different, for anyone!
‘Were it well to obey then, if a king demand
An
act unprofitable, against himself:’
( - Alfred Lord
Tennyson; Morte d’Arthur.)
The inner truth of THE PERILOUS SEAT: THE SIEGE PERILOUS... made the legend of Arthur. ...For without a doubt a pictorial symbol of this eternal spiritual truth could forge itself through anything that gave it room. It could emerge anywhere, and in any age, and through anything which gave it the space to exist: for the life of word of God is eternal. And therefore the truth 'IF I LOSE MYSELF I SAVE MYSELF' could come through the pen of those who wrote the legends of Arthur, for in them was the Holy Spirit and the true gospel of the kingdom of God... the Spirit being willing to reveal the truth of that which makes for a seat beside HIM, though it be a perilous seat!
'Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.' (Luke 17: 33)
'He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.' (John 12: 25)
Continued /
The Round Table and the Siege Perilous...
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