160: King Arthur and the Holy Grail

Did King Arthur exist? I'm going to kind of breeze through the historicity of that, But I wanted to spend the majority of this time focusing on the myth and ritual symbolism of the allegory of the Arthur myn because there is so much information about the you could say, hermetic philosophy or al chemical symbolism or whatever existing in the story of Arthur. Because there's like no genuine evidence

that he did exist as a real person. So I was like, why spend all this time trying to, you know, debate that or whatever.

named Arthur supposedly fought. Then you have Jeffrey of Monmouth, the really I guess he's like one of the really famous writers of King Arthur. He wrote all the Merlin Stones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, in the twelfth century Historia region Brittannier The History of Britain, which significantly expanded the Arthur myth but it's like considered more literary, like you know, like how he was about Merlin writing just this epic story.

battles and was renowned as a warrior. And then eventually he became like a monk and he didn't like violence and war anymore, and he wanted to be like an ascetic kind of living as a hermit up in a monastery. So he like proclaimed before God that he would see his fighting in all this violence, and he shoved his sword into a stone, and it's regarded as an actual miracle. No way, yep, you can visit it in Tuscany, Italy.

It's still there. Yeah what Yeah, it's actually there. It's like a real archaeological site.

but it is a little weird. And the guy was talking about how Disney is like they're becoming so big now that they're fading away from the magic that they used to have. And he was like, for example, dude, many years ago, it was this really cool thing where you know, they sit around and they watch all these little kids trying to pull the sword from the stone, and then they let some kid at random pull it and it's exciting and everybody around is, you know, so

freaked out or whatever. And now it's like, you know, follow this rule to enjoy this experience. And I don't know if you heard this lately, but they had that like Star Wars hotel. You know, it was like, oh yeah, they came out in a Star Wars hotel and it was like a disaster of epic proportions. What happened?

while I'm like spending all day. I didn't even think about it in the moment.

I'm going to try to break it up and keep it really concise between the different phases. The first phase, I want to talk about a little bit of my experience in Europe and why I was so like heated to do King Arthur when I got back. And then the second phase is going to be a little bit about this that movie I was telling you about, Yes, and then the third phase is going to be about the alchemical symbolism. So when I was in Germany, like two weeks ago at this point, I guess we had

our trip to the Netherlands planned. And when we got to the Netherlands, there was like two things we had booked on a three day trip, and it was the Vango Museum, which was really cool, and the I think it's called the Reich's Museum. It might I think it's the Reichs Yeah, and it's like the main art museum

of Amsterdam. And we get there the first day in the Netherlands and we're eating this amazing Dutch food and like, we're so tired, we've been traveling all day and we were so hungry, and we're sitting there eating this Dutch food, having this experience and we're like, Wow, this is so awesome. And we were just like what should we do because we didn't want to like overbook our trip. We just

wanted to kind of figure out things to do. And I was like, you know, there's this place that's been recommended to me by people in our discord and I've seen videos on TikTok about it called the Embassy of the Free Mind, and it's like this hermetic museum. I started looking it up and I was like, oh my god, dude, it's down the road from our airbnb. Oh, no, way, we got to go. Yeah, I was on the same street.

You know, it's a series of canals in Amsterdam, so it's kind of like, oh, it's kind of like a circle in the streets blossom out in a circle and they just go around the central point or whatever. So these streets are like really long semi circles around the canal. And we were here and then the museum was up on that same street, so I was like, dude, we got to go. So I was telling my wife like, I want to book this. We can do whatever you want.

I want to do this. And I started of reading into it a little bit and found out that the Netherlands, particularly Amsterdam, is actually the hermetic capital of the world. Right. I was like, what, I didn't know that either. Amsterdam is Yeah, it's the hermetic capital of the world. Why, I mean, does it does it tell you? Yeah, there's a reason because in the Medieval Ages and the Renaissance era,

when the Rosicrucians were starting to spread. You obviously had like templars during the Crusades, and you had all these different traditions Kabbala, and then Masonry was beginning to form, and obviously you had the alchemical Renaissance, and just all of this knowledge was beginning to like explode in the

undercurrent of philosophical thought in Europe. The Church was like, oh shit, and they like had this brutal oppression towards it and just slaughtering people, slaughtering anybody that opposed you know, the official doctrine of the Church and the Netherlands. It's funny because when you think about Amsterdam, you think about like, yeah, dude, you can go there to get like mushrooms, go to the red light district and get weed, and it's like this very free yeah, but like it's so much deeper

than that. It actually, for hundreds of years has been like the probably most like free thought centric capital of Europe in those daily so yeah, So like in the Medieval Ages and in the Renaissance era when all this stuff was happening, these philosophers would escape to the Netherlands and they would take their scrolls in their texts and they would go and they would seek refuge in the Netherlands. No way, yep. And I think it was the seventeenth century.

I don't know. I have to look it up because I wasn't prepared to talk about this, this Hermetic philosopher, but there was like a really famous Hermetic philosopher from Amsterdam name I think Barok de Spinoza's like a really famous Hermetic philosopher in history. And he started, like you know, accumulating all these texts and all this knowledge, and then over time there just became this large volume of texts building in the Netherlands.

I'm pretty sure. I mean I've I did a quick little search on the history of the institute the other day, and you know, it's just crazy, Like I had no clue that this was the Hermitic capital of the world.

And they have like thirty thousand books there, and they have like a whole museum exhibit where you can like go into different rooms and read like so many different pamphlets and and uh diagrams and and literal real like ancient artifacts that were magical relics and like books attributed to hermist Tree's majistus and like one thing that got my attention was there was this massive golden vase that had I can't remember if it was twelve plates, and there were two halves of this thing, and it was

like the top half was depicting all around different images on each side of it wasn't like a pure circular base. It had like faces like a like a hexagon or something, you know what I mean, And like on the top half was the story of Jesus the Gospel, and then on the bottom half was mirroring the story, but it was showing like the esoteric version of the Gospel with the Holy Grail. Oh yeah, And there was like little monuments to the Grail myth and the legends of King

Arthur and stuff. And I was like, dude, this is so deep. And we've got the Merlin episode come out right when I get back from Europe, and I was like, I already had mentioned on the episode we'll, you know, we'll do a King Arthur follow up, so it's like this is too timely. So yeah. So like it was just really mind blowing. Like I spent an hour there.

I only had an hour and a half because by the time I got there, they closed it an hour and a half and I spent an hour there just reading all the pamphlets and some of their little booklets and stuff. And Jenny was like, dude, they closed in thirty minutes, like you need to get up and actually walk around, and I'm like, oh shit, So I get up. I start running around speed reading all the rest of

the stuff and on. In In the back courtyard, they had like a massive wall with the emerald tablets of Doth inscribed on it, and they had this like staircase leading down to the courtyard with like the seven stages of the alchemical process, which is weird. There's like four steps of the alchemical process and then there's the seven stages and they're separate things, but they both have significance

or whatever. I don't know, but in this episode we're going to focus on the four steps of the alchemical process. So long story short, I'm gonna move on from the Amsterdam thing.

to see like really really rare artifacts. Obviously I didn't get to see them because I didn't know that was an option. Sure, you know, but they have some sweet stuff. So in addition to the thirty thousand books that they have, they have two thousand books that are sitting upstairs in a library for public access.

I mean, Europe is, I mean, it is very simple minded philosophically compared to you know, places in Asia or places in Europe where these alchemical movements actually happened. Yeah, you know what I mean. So, like the wealth of information you can find there is so much deeper than you know a lot of the stuff that you could find in museums in America. So yeah, well those places are also infinitely older, exactly.

about hermeticism? They're like, what's that? Yeah, nobody you know what I mean. It's the vibe that the attitude about it was so common there that I was like, this is really cool. So anyway, so after leaving the Institute and going back to Germany for several days and then we flew home to America. In that phase where I like left the Netherlands and went back to Germany, there was quite a few periods of time where obviously, when

I'm traveling in Europe, I'm on airplane mode. I can't use my signal, so I'm like, well, I mean, let me look at my candle and see if I have any books downloaded. Oh sweet, I have the Secret Teaching of All Ages downloaded. So I just started power reading it. I'm not even close to finishing it, but I started just having my mind blown constantly over and over and

over by the Sea Teaching of All Ages. So I was just like, man, I really should like pull all of the Arthurian symbolism from the Secret Teaching of All Ages for the episode. So that's where we're going to go in phase one. So I'm gonna start We're going to talk about the Manly P. Hall interpretation of the Arthurian myth. So Manly P. Hall. I have a I'm not sure where that book is because all my books are still packed up for moving, but I have the book.

It used to sit right beside me in our old studio. Yeah. Yeah, but it's a really good book. It's it's way. I started reading it I don't know, like seven years ago, and I don't think I was mature enough to really like commit to it. When I say mature, I mean like mature enough in all of this stuff. I was still getting my feet wet in a lot of this esoteric conversation, and I don't think that I was really

ready to like commit to reading the book. But now I'm reading it, and I'm like, holy shit, this is probably the deepest thing I've ever read. And it just, like Shotgun blasts pretty much every esoteric tradition and goes really deep into what they're about, what the symbols mean, and really demystifies them. And it makes this grand connection between like all of the ancient wisdom traditions. Oh cool, which is like what we've been trying to do on the show. So I'm like dude, this is the book

for me, the Venn diagram. Yeah, and it's it's really deep, dude. So I'm going to get into that. I'm going to get into the secret teaching all the ages of interpretation. So we're going to start with the Roundtable of King Arthur from Manly p Hall and then this is in his what he does a lot is he references a

lot of older texts. And by the way, this was written in the nineteen twenties, So if that wasn't mind blowing enough that this material has been around the whole time, even though a lot of us are just now hearing about it. Pretty crazy, Yeah. From Jennings the Rosicrucians, their rights and mysteries. According to tradition, Arthur, when a boy of fifteen, was crowned King of Britain in a d.

Five hundred and sixteen. Soon after his ascension to the throne, he found it the order of the Knights of the Roundtable at Windsor. Thereafter, the knights met annually at Carleon or Carlin, I don't know how to say, at Winchester or at Camelot to celebrate Pentecost from all parts of Europe came the brave and the bold, seeking admission into his noble Order of British Knighthood. Nobility, virtue, and valor were its requirements. In those possessing these qualities to a

marked degree were welcome to King Arthur's court. Having gathered the bravest and noblest knights of Europe about him, King Arthur chose twenty four, who excelled all the others in daring and integrity, informed of them his circle of the Roundtable. According to his legend, each of these knights were so great in dignity and power that none could occupy a

more exalted seat than another. So when they gathered at the table to celebrate the anniversary of their foundation, it was necessary to use a round table that all might occupy chairs of equal importance. While it's probable that the Order of the Round Table had its distinctive rituals and symbols,

the knowledge of them has not survived the ages. Elias Ashmole and his volume on the Order of the Garter inserted a double page plate showing the insignia of all the orders of knighthood, the block set aside for the symbol of the roundtable being left blank. The Chief reason for the loss of symbolism of the Roundtable was the untimely death of King Arthur upon the field of Camberlin in five hundred and forty two, a d in the forty first year of his life. While he destroyed his

bitter enemy Mordred. In this famous battle, it cost him not only his own life, but the lives of nearly all the Knights of the Roundtable who died defending their commander. So dark, grizzly end, right, damn King Arthur, He's slaughtered in battle. Yeah.

Many of them end with his wife Guinevere being in like a love triangle with Lancelot and they betray him. And Mordred by the way, and every version of King Arthur is either his son or his nephew, so he has this like blood feud with his rival Mordred, who he kills in battle but then receives a mortal wounded dies Mordruid. So it is always like this grim end of King Arthur. But you know, maybe it's not as

bad as we thought. So now we're going to get into the Arthurian cycle and the legend of the Holy Grail. We're going to spend a little bit more time on the Grail, which pretty deep. The origin of the Grail myth, as of nearly every other element in the Great Drama, is curiously elusive. Sufficient foundation for it may be found in the folk lore of the British Isles, which contains many accounts of magic cauldrons, kettles, cups, and drinking horns.

The earliest Grail legends described the cup as a veritable horn of plenty its contents were inexhaustible, and those who served it never hungered or thirsted. One account states that no matter how desperately ill a person might be, he could not die within the eight days of beholding the cup. Some authorities believe the Holy Grail to be the perpetuation of the Holy cup used in the rights of Adonis

and Attis. A communion cupp or chalice was used in several of the ancient mysteries, and the god Bacchus is frequently symbolized in the form of a vase, cup or earned and nature worship, the ever flowing grail signifies the bounty of the harvest by which the life of manas sustained. Like Mercury's bottomless picture, it is the inexhaustible fountain of

a natural resource. From the evidence at hand, it would indeed be erroneous to ascribe a purely Christian Oregon origin or an Oregon to the grail symbolism, and the Arthurian cycle appears a strange and mysterious figure, Merlin the Magician, and one of the legends concerning him. It is declared that when Jesus was sent to liberate the world from the bondage of evil, the adversary determined to send an

antichrist to undo his labors. The devil, therefore, in the form of a horrible dragon, overshadowed a young woman who had taken refuge in sanctuary to escape the evil which had destroyed her family. When Merlin, her child, was born, he partook of the characteristics of his human mother and

demon father. Merlin, however, did not serve the powers of darkness, but, being converted to the true light, retained only two of the supernatural powers inherited from his father, prophecy and miracle working. The story of Merlin's infernal Father must really be considered. Now. I'm just going to take quick pause and say, this is where Manley P. Hall is genius, because for every one of these mystery traditions, he tells you, like, here's the legend, Here's what it really means.

to initiates will mainly be all agrees. Oh wow, let me pick back up where I was. Confusion of the dragon and serpent with the powers of evil has resulted as an inevitable consequence for misinterpretation of the early chapters of Genesis. Arthur, while an infant, was given into the keeping of Merlin the Mage, and in his youth instructed by him in the Secret Doctrine, and probably initiated into

the deep his secrets of natural magic. With Merlin's assistance, Arthur became the leading general of Britain, a degree of dignity which has been confused with king shit, which that's true. The historicity of Arthur. They believe that if the if he existed, he was probably actually a general like a warrigoin, not like a king. King. Yes, and I'm gonna get into this later, but Arthur may have also been a title and not like an actual birth name. No way, yep.

versions he just pulls EXCaliber. After the establishment of the Roundtable, having fulfilled his duty, Maryland disappears, according to one account, banishing in the thin air, where he still exists as a shadow, communicating at will with mortals. That's just like the Merlin shope, I know, dude, According to another, retiring of his own accord into a great stone vault, from which he sealed within which we also talked about that too. Yeah.

It is reasonably certain that many legends regarding Charlemagne were later associated with Arthur, who was most famous for establishing the Order of the Roundtable at Winchester. Reliable information is not to be had concerning the ceremonies and initiatory rituals of the round table, and one story of the table was endowed with the powers of expansion and contracted to contraction, so that fifteen or fifteen hundred could be seated around

it according to whatever need might arise. The most common accounts fixed the number of knights who could be seated at one time at the roundtable at either twelve or twenty four. Here we go the twelve apostles or excuse me, the twelve signified the zodiac and also the apostles of Jesus. The knight's names and also their heraldic arms were emblazoned

upon their chairs. When twenty four are shown seated at the table, each of the twelve signs of the zodiac is divided into two parts, a light in a dark half to signify the nocturnal and diurnal phases of each sign Yang exactly, and the sun and the moon the

light in the dark. As each sign of the zodiac is ascending for two hours of every day, so the twenty four nights represent the hours the twenty four elders before the throne in revelation, and the twenty four Persian deities who represent the spirits of the divisions of the day. In the center of the table was the symbolic rose of the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, the symbol of resurrection, and that he rose from the dead. Oh damn,

they're doing wordplay. There was also a mysterious empty seat called the siege Perilous, in which none might sit except he was, except he who was successful in his quest for the Holy Grail. And the personality of Arthur is to be found. Now, this is where I really want people to pay attention. I love looking up and seeing us in thirty three minutes too. You know, it might not be to them, but it is to y because we cut a little bit before we actually start recording.

I love that, Okay. In the personality of Arthur, this is the most important part of all of it. And the rest of the conversation is gonna kind of piggyback on this, okay. So in the personality of Arthur is to be found a new form of the ever recurrent cosmic myth. The Prince of Britain is the Sun, his knights are the Zodiac, and his flashing sword may be the Sun's ray. With which he fights and vanquishes the dragons of darkness, or it may represent the Earth's axis.

Arthur's roundtable is the universe, the siege, perilous, the throne of the perfect man. In its terrestrial sense, Arthur was the grand master of a secret Christian masonic brotherhood of philosophic mystics who turned themselves knights. Arthur received the exalted position of Grand Master of these knights because he had faithfully accomplished the withdrawal of the sword or the spirit from the anvil of the base metals his lower nature.

As invariably happens, the historical Arthur soon was confused with the allegories and myths of his order. Until now the tour inseparable. So he dies in the field of Camberlin, the mystery cease, and esoterically he's taken away on a black barge, as is so beautifully described by Tennyson in his mort d Arthur. The great sword Excalibur was also cast back into the waters of eternity, all of which is a vivid portrayal of the descent of cosmic night

at the end of the day of universal manifestation. The body of the historical Arthur probably interred at Glastonbury Abbey, a building closely identified with the mystic rights of both the Grail and the Arthurian Cycle. The medieval Rosicrucians were undoubtedly in possession of the true secret of the Arthurian Cycle and the Grail legend, much of their symbolism having been incorporated into that order which is true, is true. When I studied briefly with Robert Gilbert, doctor Robert Gilbert

and amazing, and people should look him up. He's like lowing up on the internet now he's really Oh yeah, dude, he's he's making the rounds.

has received the least consideration. So we're, yeah, we're getting to the end of phase one here and then we we'll like, uh, we'll kind of process some of this stuff, but I'm just going to blow through and finish this part. So the crucified rose the original, and again this is still all from secret teaching, these different segments of the secret Teaching of all ages. The original symbol of the Rosicrucian fraternity was a hieroglyphic rose crucified upon a cross.

The cross was often raised upon a three step cavalry. Occasionally, the symbol of a cross rising from a rose was used in connection with their activities. The Rosicrucian raw rose was drawn upon the roundtable of King Arthur and is the central motif for the links forming the chain from which the Great George is suspended among the jewels of the Order of the Garter. Hargrave Jennings suspects this order of having some connection with the Rosicrucians. The Holy Grail.

This is the last part of this phase of the episode. This part's pretty deep. The Holy Grail, like the sapphire, This is a Greek word, I believe. I don't know how to pronounce it, but shathilla, I think it's a Greek word. The Lapis Exalis, crown jewel of the archangel Lucifer, fell from heaven. Michael, the Archangel of the Sun and the hidden God of Israel, at the head of the angelic host, swooped down upon Lucifer and his legions of

rebellious spirits. During the conflict. Michael, with his flaming sword, struck the flashing Lapiece Exalis from the coronet of his adversary, and the green stone fell through all the celestial rings into the dark immeasurable abyss. I want to pause there, Centomani Stone, the wishing stone, remember that, Yeah, the green stone that falls and you know it's the wishing stone.

Eastern philosophy. Oh my god, how about this moldivite, the crystal that's a multi billion year old meteorite that's found in places and I believe Asia and Europe that people think might be this stone. It's green. That's so wild too, because Lapis is usually blue. This is this is not Lapis lazuli. This is a different stone, the Lapis excellis. Many people in modern times believe that this actual stone may have been the moldivite meteorite.

could make a necklace. And they're like, sorry, you can't bring that in here. We don't want it messing with our I'm serious, dude, what. Yeah, there was like a serious belief around mouldabite. Yeah, so I just thought that was interesting. You know, I have actually read before. I might have talked about it on the episode one time a long time ago, but there is a belief that moldivite may have been the crystal that was on the

Holy Grill. And then in the Saintient myth, you see this stone that was on the Archangelucifer, and you know he's cast out and the stone falls to the earth and then it's put in the grail. I just I love the connection there.

Though some controversy exists as to whether the grail was a cup or a platter, it is generally depicted in art as a chalice of considerable size and unusual beauty. According to the legend, Joseph of Arimathea brought the Grail or Arimathea whatever brought the grail cup to the place of the crucifixion, and in it caught the blood pouring

from the wounds of the dying Nazarene. Later, Joseph, who had become custodian of the sacred relics, the Sangreal and the Spirit of Loungeness, which I guess is the spirit of destinated stabbed Jesus, carried them into a distant country. According to one version, his descendants finally placed these relics

in Glastonbury Abbey in England. According to another, in a wonderful castle a Mount Salvet Spain built by angels in a single night under the name of Preston John Parsifald, the last of the Grail Kings, carried the Holy Cup with him into India, and it disappeared forever from the Western world. Subsequent search for the Sangreal was the motif for much of the knight errantry of the Arthurian legends and the ceremonials of the Round Table see the Morte

de artur. No adequate interpretation that has ever been given to the Grail mysteries, or has ever been given to the Grail mysteries. Some believe the Knights of the Holy Grail, who have been a powerful organization of Christian mystics perpetuating the ancient wisdom under the rituals and sacraments of the Oracular Cup. The quest for the Holy Grail is the eternal search for truth, and Albert G. Mackie sees it in a variation of the Masonic legend of the Lost Word,

so long sought by the brethren of the Craft. There's also evidence to support the claim that the story of the Grail is an elaboration of an early pagan nature myth which has been preserved by reason of the subtle manner in which was engrafted upon the cult of Christianity, which for anybody who was offended by that, and in ancient times Christianity was literally the cult it was, yeah, because they practiced in underground sepolchers and temples and they

had to like hide from you know, the Romans at the time. So like it, it actually was a cult. This is not this is not trying to like smear, it's not.

which continually swirls the living water of eternal life. Moreover, to the Christian, the search for the Holy Grail is the search for the real self. When found is the consummation of the magnum opus, or in alchemy, this is known as the great work, that the turning of the lead into gold, which we're going to go way more into that later. The Holy Cup can.

In his mystic poem The Vision of Sir Lonfall, James Russell Lowell disclosed discloses the true nature of the Holy Grail by showing that it is visible only to a

certain state of spiritual consciousness. Only upon returning from the vain pursuit of haughty ambition did the aged and broken Night see in the transformed Leper's cup, the glowing chalice of his lifelong dream Some writers trace a similarity between the grail legend and the stories of the martyred sun gods, whose blood, descending from heaven into the earth, was caught in the cup of matter and liberated therefrom by the

initiatory rites. It's called the cup of Matter. M. A. T. T. E. Er Well, the point here is that he's making a connection that between in all and there's way more context of this book, and this is one little segment, and the point that he's making in this entire book that there is one secret primordial tradition between all of these ancient wisdom traditions, and it's that we have descended here into matter as parts of the you know, the the true spiritual reality, and that our whole game here is

to go through the initiations which served to wake us up to our true nature. So he's saying that that's what he's saying, the cup of the worldly, cup of matter. You know that the grail is symbolic of us being in matter, and that we are liberated from matter by the initiatory rights going through the awakening process. The Holy Grail may also be the seed pods so frequently employed in the ancient mysteries as an emblem of German nation

and resurrection. And if the cup like shape of the grail be derived from the flower, it signifies the regeneration and spiritualization of the generative forces of men. So that's that's all the Manley P. Hall stuff. But would you guys think about that?

You know what I mean, Yeah, it's what I'm reading. Even true is as accurate, And you know, it's really cool to read this stuff from the lens of somebody who, by the way, I mean, Manly P. Hall was brilliant, dude. We've talked about him before. He's he like was so spot on with his knowledge that the Freemasons in America. I don't know what loge it was. Maybe it was Blue logic. If I'm not mistaken, I really don't know.

I'm not a Mason. I don't intimately know what chapters are here and there, but they they initiated him as an honorary thirty third degree if you remember, because he was so spot on with his material.

the myth that he's telling is an allegory. It's like, it's hard for me to even conceive of doing something like that. Now, this is Star Wars.

that much. They talked a little bit about like the Illuminati and the historical version of that, and it was really cool reading this stuff and then reading The Secret Teaching of All Ages. There's such an overlap between the material and his book and the material I was reading there. So he was born in nineteen oh one and my god. He's twenty one.

finish it till today. It was really cool. It's the movie is I think it's called King Arthur The Legend of the Sword. It's the one that came out in twenty seventeen. And I remember when that movie came out. I was really interested watching it, but for whatever reason, I just I didn't.

it's okay to be cheesy a little bit. Yeah, I agree, And it was honestly very occult. Really, yes, it was very very occult, and right from the jump it was just you know, showing the symbolism. I was like, okay, I'm in for it, and I started taking notes. So the basic premise of the movie was obviously just like in pretty much every single King Arthur myth, pretty much like all of them agree that he had a secret birth.

Just like remember in the Merlin story when he goes in he appears as I can't remember her name, Bridget of Cornwall or something like that. It's it's different in every myth. Who he's like, born to Yea or Uther Pendragon is the dad, right, but the mother is like, who it's this guy's wife. It's this guy. I can't

remember the name. I think it's Bridget of Cornwall. But anyway, so they all agree that he had this secret birth and then he's like tucked away, you know, while he's uh, until he grows up to be about like fifteen or whatever. What what'd you find?

father Uther, he's like wielding EXCaliber. It's badass, dude. It's like very anime like he when he when they willed Excalibur. They have these like incredible like powers and like this magical strength and like nobody can stand against him and super sick and they're being sieged at Camelot by Like

I think it was Mordred, if I'm not mistaken. This one of the mages of the Order who turned evil, and he's like attacking them and then Pendragon whips out the sword, gets up in his base or whatever, lops his that off, and he brings it back to Camelot, and he's like everybody in Camelot king is almighty, but in this story it's his brother. It's Uther Pendragon's brother, Vordigern, who is I guess he's like a prince or whatever because he's the king's brother. Yeah, he's like jealous of

his power. He's kind of acting weird. He starts crying when he sees that his brother killed again. I'm pretty sure it was Mordride. I didn't pay super attention to that. It was like two minutes of the movie this character, wasn't it. And you know, and Vordigern is like obviously scheming, right, and then it kind of reveals a little bit dialogue that he was sent by his brother Uther to study

with the mages, so you're like, oh oh. And then Vordigern, the brother, is acting really weird when they're all having the like the chat after defeating this this evil mage and like ending this war that literally the movie starts with and he's, you know, Uther's like hey to Vortigern's wife. He's like, take you know, keep an eye on Vortigern today. He's acting weird, and he away, and then you see Vorderger and go into this castle and he's like crying

or whatever. He's ringing this bell and then next thing you know, he just straight up sacrifices his wife throws her in the water. Dude, he just he just he just rips a dagger. Dude, Bro, he straight up got it in. Yeah, he just straight up just shanked her. Bro whoa And he throws her in the water and you're like, what the hell? And then you see something mysterious like coming at him through the water and you're like, what is it? Is it a serpent? I don't know

what it is? And then the camera like flashes away, and then like Uther goes to his wife. Arthur's a little kid, he's a lot. He's like probably like five years old. And Uther wakes up Arthur's mother in the middle of the night. He's like, we got to get the hell out of here. Something's happening. You need to run,

and he whips out EXCaliber. He goes and he's like fighting off the legions of like bad soldiers whatever, and then basically, uh, he fights this like giant demonic figure that's like it kind of looked like the dude from Mortal Kombat. With the skull mask what's his name? Shall Khan kind of look like him but like full black plate armor and like the kind of like the ram horns and a skull mask. And he's like fucking like

that a demon. Yeah, And he's like ten feet tall and he's got this like double bladed scythe is that what was in the water?

starts fighting the demon and he's wielding EXCaliber. His eyes are glowing, the sword is glowing like all the powers or whatever. But it's not enough and he gets his ass whip by the demon. So Uther takes the sword and he throws it up in the air and then it spends and it stabs him in the back and then it turns into the sword and the stone and Arthur the floats away on a boat. And thus we have Arthur growing up in secret, right, like every version

of the myth, He's growing up at a brothel. He's kind of like training kung fu with the Chinese guy George. He's like actually, like they make jokes about it, like you know, he trains all the British soldiers in kung fu. And not soldiers, not soldiers, the rebels. He's like teaching them kung Fu. So Arthur's like training kung Fu his

whole life, which was like really cool. And he grows up and I'm just like skipping a lot of the fluff and keeping it about the Arthur myth, right, So then he grows up and you find out that every the sword reveals itself and obviously you as the viewer, know that Vordigren he becomes king, he betrayed his brother, he had the demonic figure like do all that when he sacrificed his wife, he Vortigern like became the stone. No Uther did?

and you know, the sword reveals itself. So about a quarter of the movie, you see Vordigren go down to that place where he sacrifices his wife, and these sirens come out of the water, these ugly, disgusting sirens, and he's talking to him, and I'm gonna read the quote. He says, why has the water dropped? Why does the sword reveal itself now? And the sirens said, as your power increases, so too do the forces that will oppose you. Balance is a law that cannot be transgressed. Transgressed, the

born king will come. It is inevitable. So moving forward a little bit, you find out they're testing everybody alive basically in England to like come and like it's like like thousands of people in all they'll go to cities and they'll take them in boats to the sword and like make them up. Next next, everybody try to pull it because he knows that he knows it's Arthur. He's his uncle, right, he's trying to find him. Yeah, And

next next, so a sequence of events happen. I'm skipping over really a lot, right, and Arthur shows up whips that bitch out and they're like, oh shit, it's the born King, right, and he starts becoming a myth. He wields Excalibur, there's like a storm or some shit happens supernaturally, and everybody around is like, it's the born King. So there starts to be this force growing where his legend is spreading throughout the land. And finally Vortigern and again

this is not even probably halfway through the movie. Vordigran captures Arthur right then, because he passes out when he first wilds EXCaliber. He starts seeing visions of witnessing his mother and father gets slaughtered. Granted, this is going somewhere. This is going somewhere al chemical. And then I'm gonna spring fourth into the alchemical if you guys just stay with me a little longer. So he every time he

tries to wield a galliber. Initially he sees visions of his mother and father being slaughtered by this demon, right, and then he passes out from the trauma. He can't activate the power. His mind is in chaos. He's traumatized, it's blocked, right, and Vordigern ties him up, calls the whole freaking country. There's tens of thousands of people out in the crowd below the castle, and he's like going

to execute him. And basically a sequence of events happened where like the rebels, who we at the time didn't know about yet, some of the older people from like Uther's rule, I guess escaped Vortigern and like started a rebellion loyal to Uther in the Pendragon line. And this mage, it's like a Merlin's not really in the movie. You see him one time, you hear about him the whole movie,

but he's not the main mage. It's actually a girl and I can't remember her name, it's not important, but she was badass, and she had orders for Merlin basically to like kind of help him out. She pulled off some magical stuff and like helps Arthur escape. But right before that, Vordegren says this he says to Arthur, is he's about to cut his head off. He says, I will let them hate me as long as they fear me.

When people fear you, and I mean really fear you, it is the most intoxicating sensation a man can possess. A force of something almost indescribable, moves through your blood and takes over you completely. Which I was like, damn, Hollywood, there, possession type Yeah, possession, human sacrifice. There's there's multiple parts of like human sacrifice in this movie. And you know, they were really kind of revealing some stuff. I mean, that is how the Dark Force works. It's all fear.

It's all trying to rule through fear. And I thought that was really interesting how he was like, it's so intoxicating and it moves through your blood and it just you become consumed with the feeling.

gotta take him to darklands. So she goes to take him to the dark Lands and kids. So in the movie, she takes him to a ritual stone site that looks like a Druid circle that it looks like Stonehengeay, it's very druidic this movie. In the magees and how they work and it's you know, like the Wargs and Game of Thrones. Yeah, how they like possess the animals and there's a lot of that in the movie. Cool, the Good Majes do that, and then the dark ones, you know,

they work with demons and stuff. She takes him to the dark Lands and he gets to this like ritual kind of stone hingesk Druid Circle, and she's like, all right, when you go in there, you know, you got to touch your sword to the altar at the tower. So this kind of like portal opens up and he's like whisked into this dark dimension where there's like giant monstrous creatures like snakes and rats and bats. It's not like monsters, it's like animals but massive, yeah, like skull Island or something.

And they're trying to kill him and it's like hellish and he's like barely surviving. He's like limping at the end, and he's like cutting up all these giant snakes and rats and just like literally just trying to survive. He gets to the temple, he puts his sword on the altar and he's because he can hold Excalibur with one hand and he can like carry it around, but when he would try to like wield it, then you know, the power would start to grow and he pass out, right,

so he has the with them the whole time. He puts it on the stone and he starts to see more of the memories of his mother and father, and it's too traumatic, and he starts like, he sees his mother get killed. Then he sees more of the version of what happened when his father dies. He sees the sword toss and then you know, become the stone, which originally he didn't have access to. All of these memories. He starts unfolding to him and then he looks away

and he takes the sword from the altar. He doesn't complete vision, and then they pull him out of the dark Lands and lo and behold, he was just sitting there right there at the same spot. And I, you know, tend to think subconscious, damn.

dimension with giant creatures attacking him. They explained that they Okay, so when he's in the dark Lands, the leader of the rebels and the Mage are talking and he's like, he's got to make it out alive, and the Mage is like, no, we don't want all of him to make it out alive. We want his old self to completely die. We want him to be broken down so that he will come from the dark Lands born again, anew right, born again. Basically, she didn't say born again yet.

wasn't like fasing him head on. They were trying to assassinate him and be like tactical about it, and it went south. Some of their friends died or whatever. And then he starts to see his friends died. He had the visions of his parents died, the little orphaned boy whose father who was his best friend. You know, now he's an orphan, and he starts to have all these thoughts and he's like, I don't want to do this.

So he goes and he throws his sword into the water to try to abandon it, and he tries to run away through the forest and then there's like this giant pile of mud and an arm reaches out and the Lady of the Lake pulls him through the puddle of mud takes him down into the water, which again is the water of his subconscious. The Lady of Lake returns Excalibur to him and says, let me show you what happens if you do not stop your uncle Vordigrean. You are the only one who can stop him. You

are the born king. And then she shows a vision of like hell on earth. Because I forgot to say this, this is very important. All Vordergren was trying to do is build a tower, which dinginging tower a babbel. Yeah, yeah, he's building it, and every time he adds a level, his magical power increases, and he's like trying, he's trying to build it all the way to the top, and Arthur's like, I don't I don't really want to. I

don't want to be that guy, you know. And she's like, here's what's gonna happen if he completes the tower, and it's literally like hell on Earth, like cities and everywhere is raised and on fire and people are suffering and infamine and all this, and she says, you know, you got to trust the Maide. She's helping you. She's helping you, you know, achieve your destiny. Take the sword Excalibur, and you know, go and become the born king or whatever.

So then he comes from the water wielding the sword. He holds it up to the sky. It's like storming, which is obviously symbolic, you know, you have thunder thunder going on, and he's you know, he's claiming Excalibur that he's going to wield it, which we'll talk about that in the alchemical process too. But then he goes. He's he gets back to the rebels after abandoning them. They're like, where the hell you been, and he's like, you know, don't worry about it, and they're like, well, what are

we gonna do. He's like, we're gonna walk right in the fucking front door and we're gonna take his ass out. And then and he's like, let's go, and he shows up and basically he for the first time he will well, actually there was one time before he wielded excalaberan accident and then controlled him. It was super cool. But then he like he goes and wields it for real and he obviously has like this crazy supernuch power, defeats like

a legion of soldiers fights. Vordigern gets his ass whip the first time, like like just totally just like Molly whopped Arthur. He you know, he falls down, he's about to kill his ass and then Arthur starts seeing the full memory what really happened. But it was weird because when you know, originally when the sword spends and then it lands in the stone, and this version of the memory, Arthur caught the sword before it goes into his father, so he kind of like was changing the past a

little bit in his mind. He was like overriding the trauma and he catches the sword and then his father looks at him and he's like, basically like, you know, this is your sword. You're the born king. He takes it and then he wields it, whips Vortigern's ass, and he says, you created me, and for that, I bless you. You make sense of the devil instead of cursing him.

He took the path of light. He defeated him, not that he wanted to out of revenge and spite, but he did it because he had to to be the righteous leader and protect the people, you know, the christ like king.

You have made since the devil. And I took that as an interpretation of like the demonic forces or the dark forces in our life, or the devil or whatever you could think about that allegory however you want to believe that exists for a purpose to help you awaken.

it's super cool. It's it was like the epitome of the hero's journey, you know, supernatural power, all that stuff and I feel like we're missing that a lot nowadays and movies. But anyway, before I get into the final part here, I wanted to talk about the battle of evermore synchronicity from led Zeppelin. The lyrics the Queen of Light took her, But I'm not gonna read all the lyrics, just the ones I highlighted that are relevant to this. The Queen of Light took her a bow, and then

she turned to go. The Prince of Peace embraced the gloom and walked the night alone. Dance in the dark of night, the trauma, the night gretto, the first stage of the alchemical process, being in the darkness and the confusion. I can't see all my memories, I can't access Excalibur and my supernatural power because I'm broken and feel like shit, you know, dancing in the dark of night. But we're

looking to the morning light right the second phase. I think it's called albedo, the whitening, the purification, the awakening into the power. I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon, waiting for the eastern glow, the sun, the light of the sun, the spiritual force. The magic runes are written gold to bring the balance back, bring it back at last, the sun is shining. The clouds of blue roll by with flames from the Dragon of darkness. The sunlight blinds

his eyes. Which I thought that was cool about the balance thing, because in the movie it said the law of balance is a force that cannot be transgressed. As you grow in power, so too will be the force that opposes you. The born king will come right. And then I wanted to remind people of the manly Pea Hall quote when it says, with the flames from the Dragon of darkness, the sunlight blinds his eyes, and the personality of Arthur is to be found a new form

of the ever recurring cosmic myth. The Prince of Britain is the Sun. His knights are the Zodiac and his flashing sword. Maybe the Sun's ray with which he fights and vanquishes the dragons of darkness, or it may represent the Earth's axis. Yadda, YadA, YadA. I read the quote earlier, crazy that led Zeppelin was on that Yeah.

physical realm. This means the decomposition and putrefaction of substances. Spiritually, it denotes the death of the old self, confronting one's darkest aspects in inner turmoil. The only way he's got to go to the darklands. Yeah, or just like Luke Skywalker bro when he's training with Yoda, he has to go into this dark little small arth Vader, you know, it's it's in every great hero's journey myth. Oh yeah, absolutely. The symbolism of blackness represents the unconscious, the darkness, and

the chaos. And traditionally, when people go through initiation ceremonies in these secret mystery traditions, they tend to start wearing black in some orders and then once initiated.

where old beliefs in negative patterns are dismantled. Alchemically, the process might involve the fermentation or rotting of materials to produce a black substance. These physical processes serve as metaphors for the inner transformation occurring within the alchemist. It can be likened to the concept of death, where the individual undergoes a symbolic death, presenting the end of old ways

of being and thinking. This parallels the alchemist's goal of achieving a new state of existence through the destruction of the old self. The completion of Nigrito leaves the alchemist in a state of raw potential. The chaos and disintegration of the stage are necessary for the subsequent phases of the great work. Or the magnum opus of alchemy, preparing

the alchemist for renewal and enlightenment. I will say that everybody in my life that I've ever met just having this crazy journey of you know, being a UFO experiencer and kind of like having had contact with so many people reaching out to us about this. Everybody I've ever met in my life. It's like, dude, i feel like

I'm going through an awakening process. I'm waking up everybody I've ever met, by the hundreds, if not thousands, I swear, bro They tend to always go into some initial period of suffering when they realized what they thought they knew is not what they knew. Yeah, oh yeah, and that makes sense according to the phases of alchemical.

early life is shrouded in mystery and secrecy. Born out of wedlock to Uther, Pendragon and Egrain, he is hidden away by Merlin to protect him from those who might harm him. This period represents the chaos and uncertainty of Nigrito, where his true potential as a future king is obscured. The Kingdom of Britain is in turmoil, lacking a strong leader. Uther's death plunges the land into disorder, with various factions

vying for his power. The societal chaos mirrors the cycle and spiritual disintegration of Nigrido, where old structures must break down to make way for renewal. His hidden potential Arthurs is like the raw material in alchemy that must undergo transformation. His upbringing away from the court under Merlin's guidance in secret is the preparatory stage where his latent qualities are

nurtured in secret. The second phase albedo, referred to as the whitening stage, is a critical phase in the journey of the awakening of the soul towards spiritual and material transformation. The transition from nigrido to albedo symbolizes moving from chaos and confusion to a state of clarity and enlightenment, Purification and cleansing. Albedo involves these steps to cleanse the alchemist's material and spiritual essence and the physical Realmness means the

separation of pure substances from impurities. Spiritually, it denotes the cleansing of the soul, removing the metaphorical darkness and shadows the clouds one true one's true nature. Whiteness in the albedo phase represents purity, light, and truth. It is associated with the illumination of the mind and spirit, akin to the dawn breaking through the night, bringing new understanding and awareness.

Albido is often linked to a rebirth or awakening, and psychological terms, it signifies the integration of the conscious and unconscious mind, leading to a greater self awareness and insights. Spiritually, it marks the attainment of a higher state of being where the individual is more in tune with their true self and the divine. Alchemically, it involves the washing of a substance or rid it of impurities, or the heating

of materials to produce a white ash. These physical processes serve as metaphors for the inner transformation occurring within the alchemist. It can be likened to the concept of baptism, where the individual undergoes a ritual washing in water, symbolizing the removal of sin and the rebirth into a life of spiritual purity. This parallels the alchemist's goal of achieving a

state of spiritual and moral clarity. The completion of albido brings a sense of inner peace and balance, the chaos and turmoil of nigritae, or left behind, and the alchemist

experiences new harmony and equilibrium. This stage prepares the individual for the subsequent phases of the great work, the magnum Opus, leading ultimately to the Philosopher's Stone and the attainment of enlightenment and immortality, and the Arthurian context, and I'm halfway done here, and then we're done, halfway done with these phases,

you know, and the Arthurian context. Arthur pulling excalibur from the stone or receiving it from the Lady of the Lake symbolizes his rightful claim to the throne and the purification of his lineage. I did forget to say this detail, but in the movie it was really cool how they made EXCaliber because it was Uther was the king and he, like Merlin, was kind of like his friend and counselor he was like one of the heads of the order.

He goes to this evil dark mage, steals his staff, forges it as x EXCaliber, and I think he throws it to the Lady of the Lake, who then gives it to Uther. And or maybe it was the other way around. Maybe he gives it to the Lady the Lake, then she gives it back to Merlin. Either way, and in the movie, Merlin binds the sword Excalibur to the

Pendragon blood line, which I thought was really cool. That's why Arthur could wield it even though it was his father's before him, you know, So Arthur pulling Excalibur from the stone in the real myth or receiving it from the Lady of the Lake, it's different in every version. Symbolizes his rightful claim to the throne, his divine right to have this supernatural power, and the purification of his lineage.

This act is albedo where his potential is actualized. He has awakened, and he steps into his role as the destined born king. Establishing Camelot represents the creation of a new enlightened order, a harmonious, utopian order. Camelot is a symbol of purity, justice, and rivalry, embodying the principles of Albedo. The Roundtable, with its emphasis on equality, where everyone is equally at the table and noble deeds, reflects the purification

and the enlightenment associated with this stage. The formation of the Knights of the Roundtable, dedicated to the upholding of chivalric idea deals, further exemplifies the purification and spiritual enlightenment of the stage. These nights are not just warriors, but also paragons of virtue, embodying the illuminated mind and spirit citrinitas. The third phase, the yellowing. It represents the spiritual awakening and the manifestation of the inner light following the purification

of Albedo. It involves the awakening of the material and spiritual essence and the physical realm. This means that the material begins to exhibit a golden hue, is becoming gold Spiritually. It denotes the dawning of wisdom and enlightenment, the emergence of the inner light. Yellow in citrinitas represents the sun light and consciousness. It's associated with the illumination of the mind and spirit, akin to the rising sun that brings

clarity and understanding after the darkness of light. It's linked to the integration of knowledge and wisdom in the psyche. It is the merging of conscious insight with the previously unconscious elements of the mind, leading to profound spiritual insight. Spiritually, it marks the blossoming of one's inner light in the beginning of a deeper spiritual understanding. Alchemically, it involves the heating of substances to produce a yellow or golden color.

These physical processes serve as metaphors for the inner awakening occurring within the alchemist. Citrinitas can be linked to the concept of enlightenment, where the individual awakens in the emergence of light and knowledge, like the coming of the sun. This parallels the alchemist's goal of achieving a state of heightened awareness and spiritual clarity. It's it's the preparatory phase for the final phase of alchemy, which is rubido, which I thought was weird the ruby.

aligning with the Citronitas stage. Arthur's reign is marked by wisdom and justice, reflecting his enlightened state. He embodies the integration of physical and spiritual power, guiding his knights and kingdom towards higher ideals. This period of his rule represents the blossoming of wisdom and the illumination of citronitas. His wise governance and the harmonious function of Camelot under his leadership exemplify the spiritual awakening and integration of knowledge associated

with this phase. His reign is a period of prosperity. It's like a golden age of peace and enlightenment, where the kingdom reflects the inner light of its ruler and its knights, and then the final stage Rubido, the reddening. It represents the achievement of the great work, the magnum opus, and the attainment of spiritual and material perfection, or, as a Rosicrucian might say, the attainment of God in Man, or as Rudolph Steiner would say, the awakening of the

inner god Man the God within. Rubido involves the integration of the alchemist's material and spiritual essence into a unified hole in the physical realm. This means the material achieves a red or golden red hue. Spiritually, it denotes the culmination of the transformative process, resulting in a complete and perfected self. Red in Rubido represents the philosopher's stone.

union with the divine. Alchemically, the process might involve the production of a red substance, such as the Philosopher's Stone the Red Elixir. I believe they call this the prima materia, the physical process to serve as metaphors for the innercompletion occurring within the alchemists. It can be likened to the concept of resurrection, where the individual undergoes a spiritual rebirth. The phoenix right at the top of the Embassy of the Free Mind. The final room in the museum was

called the Phoenix Room. Did it have a phoenix in it? It might have had a diagram of a phoenix, but it was just a bunch of other magical diagrams and the arch of this place. Yeah, for sure, I got you, But I just thought it was cool that the final room is the Phoenix Room. Yeah, Rubido, you've awakened. Wow, you know symbolizing the emergence of a new perfect itself. This paralyzed parallels the alchemist's goal of achieving immortality and

ultimate enlightenment. The completion of Roubido brings a sense of perfection and mastery. The integration and unification of this stage is the attainment of the Great Work, where the alchemist achieved spiritual and material perfection, symbolized by the Philosopher's Stone. In the Arthurian context, the quest for the Holy Grail is the ultimate spiritual journey, seeking the highest form of

enlightenment in union with the divine. The Grail quest is the pinnacle of the night's spiritual endeavors, embodying the Roubido stage where the great work is achieved. Arthur's final battle with Mordred and his subsequent journey to Avalon, which is why I brought up the led Zeppelin song too, Waiting for the Angels of Avalon, Waiting for the Eastern Glow. Avalon is like the heaven of the Arthur myth. It's like this right right, It's like and Lord of the Rings.

is a reflection of the Grail's divine nature. This union represents the harmonious integration of the material and spiritual realms, achieving the ultimate goal of the alchemical work. His journey to Avalon, where he is said to heal and return when needed by mankind, reflects the immortality and eternal perfection of Rubido. It signifies the birth and renewal of the true King, embodying the Philosopher's Stone promise of eternal life

imperfected wisdom. Once you achieve the immortality of Rubido and you awaken to the the state of perfection the God with the man, you've achieved the Philosopher's Stone, then you can sit in the siege perilous the seat, yes, the chair yep, the seat of the perfect Man. It's always in waiting to be filled by that perfect man who's

seeking the Grail. So that's that's pretty deep. That's why in the beginning I wanted to talk about the dark Death of King Arthur and every myth because then at the end we talk about what it.

blown that. I mean, over a thousand years ago, you know, and four hundreds of consecutive years, people have been like weaving this elaborate allegory of of these like archetypal alchemical lessons, and like it's it's really beyond my own Like I can't even fathom putting all of that stuff together and

then weaving it in. It's such a beautiful story, and probably out of necessity, right, like, because if they just wrote this stuff down as it is and then they're caught with it, like they could be killed, they could be you know, they're persecuted for these beliefs and trying to pass this knowledge along, Like these stories and these allegories probably came out of necessity, like they had to do it this way.

But now I'm kind of like, dang, Like you know, I could I guess what I'm coming from is like the world absolutely was not ready right for all of this stuff to be out in the open, you know, and it's it's just crazy to think about, like from a new lens, you know, especially after going to the embassy in Amsterdam.

really genius. And I'm kind of I kind of just as we're doing this episode, came to that same realization that like, oh no, of course this stuff is all being hidden in allegories and these elaborate stories.

there reading all this stuff. I'm like, oh my god. Like I feel like it helped me like re contextualize these things. Could you see while like why while I was researching this stuff, I was like, I don't even care to talk about like if he was real or not? Right, Yeah, focus on this absolutely, you know. Yeah?

thought I would. Let's be honest, I knew this was gonna take a long time, but I have way more and I'm like, you know, it's it would probably be at least another hour and I'm like, you know, maybe another time we can go into this, but I'm gonna read a small excerpt from another part of this research that I gathered, and there was this brilliant video I watched on YouTube. I'm gonna give a shout out, a shout out. I'm doing like a twenty four hour fast

right now. So that's why I'm like, you know, it kind of makes you a little fun. I feel like I'm like struggling my words today, dude. But anyway, so YouTube video summary of Numanus Damon, and this video is called the Hidden Alchemy in King Arthur's Story. It's like twenty minutes. It's super brilliant, and I have the entire transcript that I pulled from YouTube and like removed a lot of the fluff out of it. And I was gonna go over this entire like twenty minute video, but

it would take way longer than that. So I'm gonna read this part that I think you'll really look. Let me find it, okay. Merlin compliments Arthur's physical might with spiritual wisdom, paralleling the Hindu relationship between Kushatriya, the warrior king and the brahmin or the y sage. The nights of the Roundtable are bound by spiritual commitments, which reflects an initiatic brotherhood like the Freemasonry. So like in this video,

the Hidden Alchemy of Arthur. It's really cool because it goes like way deeper into some of the symbolism and even like relates it to like the Atlantis myth and Hyperborea, which is a Greek myth are you familiar with, Yeah, you know, like the giants that live beyond the wall, and you know, there's some versions of Hyperborea suggest that actually it like predates Atlantis and that like the Atlantis,

the Atlantean people may have come from Hyperborea. It's like, again, this is all like ancient conjecture, but it's very fun to read and talk about. But I thought you'd like that Arthur and Merlin connection, Like the Arthur and the Merlin archetypes are merged that either one can't be fulfilled without the other.

the Buddhists. But I suspect that like, these people back in the day knew a lot more about each other than we commonly think today, and that they were like very much privy to each other's texts, and like we have all these stories, dude, the secret teaching of the all Ages. I'm definitely gonna talk about this in a

future Wisdom Tradition episode. He goes into great detail about Plato being an initiate of the Eleusis mysteries and pythagorasts, and how he traveled to these other places and learned from Egypt and India and like I'm really starting to think that, like that's way more common than we think.