Rahn - Crusade Against the Grail - The Struggle between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church of Rome (2006)

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This is Otto Rahn's monumental book Crusade Against the Grail - The Struggle between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church of Rome (2006) which is one of the early attempts to discover the true meaning behind the legend of the Holy Grail. The author was a german philologist who traveled extensively to the caves and castles of southern France, researching his belief that the Cathars were the last custodians of the Grail. Induced by Himmler to become a member of the SS as a civilian archaeologist and historian, Rahn quickly grew disillusioned with the direction his country was taking and resigned in 1939, dying soon after. This book first appeared in 1933 and drew upon Rahn's account of his explorations of the Pyrenean caves where the heretical Cathar sect sought refuge during the thirteenth century. Much as german archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann used Homer's Iliad to locate ancient Troy, Rahn believed that Wolfram von Eschenbach's medieval epic Parzival held the keys to the mysteries of the Cathars and the secret location of the Holy Grail. Rahn saw Parzival not as a work of fiction, but rather as a historical account of the Cathars and the Knights Templar and their guardianship of the Grail, a "stone from the stars." The Crusade that the Vatican led against the Cathars became a war pitting Roma (Rome) against Amor (love), in which the Church triumphed with flame and sword over the pure faith of the Cathars. Crusade Against the Grail masterfully uses Cathar spirituality like a prism to bring out the religious conflicts of the time thus presenting the history of the Papal persecution of the Cathars that lies hidden in the medieval epic Parzival and in the poetry of the troubadours. Find out what it all really means. 240 pages. A must read for everyone.

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