I have lived through others far too long.
Lancelot carried my honor
and Guenevere my guilt.
Mordred bore my sins.
My knights have fought my causes.
Now, my brother......I shall be . . .
king.
Arthur spoke these words to Sir Kay after Sir Perceval had shed his armor in the wonderful baptism (immersed-not sprinkled) scene in Excalibur. This allowed him to find the grail and the secret that Arthur had lost-that he and the land were one. When Arthur drank from the chalice, he was also was reborn and the land with him. Arthur had not known how empty his soul was “until it was filled.” Upon this realization he put his armor back on.
May we all be monarchs who know ourselves, remember the secrets, bear our own stuff, and know how to properly dress for the occasion at hand.
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6 comments:
Hi Ho Silver, away!
Arthur impaled his only begotten son, Mordred, so that others might live. The blood of the Father & The Son mixed and both died to be born again and again and again. The Holy Spirit lived through Merlin, Vivian, Guenevere and/or even Morgan Le Fay in later female friendly versions.
We're already creating an orthodoxy around a simple statement of personal struggle. This, of course, obscures the point of the post. Imagine what can be done to a more complex message in 2000 years when wealth and power are at stake.
Each sees what he is capable of seeing. The Dragon, the real topic at hand, is a beast of such power that if you were to see it whole and complete in a single glance it would burn you to cinders.
Virg:
My daughter-in-law saw this post and emailed me these questions about you: "Does he do a lot of drugs? Or is he so smart that I can’t understand him?"
You got me I don’t understand.
VIRG; PLEASE EXPLAIN ALL THIS AS I SEEM TO BE TO THICK HEADED TO UNDERSTAND.
Who the heck talked us into playing these characters we play without giving us the magical script and the bullet proof underwear? I guess we just have to improvise. I have never seen a yellow rubber bracelet out there with "what would Atticus Finch do?" I was happy to find out in the Atticus was based on Harper Lee's father, a character based on reality and in my mind worthy of the Greatest Hero of American Film designation that they gave him. That award led me to remember the short lived t.v. series the Greatest American Hero in which the average Joe guy finds the magic suit, has the right heart to be able to wear it but didn't get the instruction manual, doesn't have a mentor, and makes crash landings and lots of screw ups etc. which I guess is another variation of the Arthurian legend and what made me come up with the underwear comment. Regarding the armor,........ remembering the secrets of our mentors, cleansing oneself of a few sins and finding the courage to put the armor back on when we have temporarily lost our way is a noble wish for all of us who wobble on the path. Maybe you should start a non-fundamentalist "Promise Keepers" group with Virg's last sentence on the armor blog as the parting benediction. Or if not it makes a great toast for raising a glass of strong ale with fellow pilgrims.
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