"Now begins the true pilgrimage: Parsifal with the lance in hand! Here begins the symbol of renunciation! The renunciation lies, symbolically expressed, in the words, with the lance in hand! A renunciation is first, then, a renunciation in the true sense of the word, when one does not do something that one has recognized as desirable and has wished to do. The sojourn of Parsifal with the lance in hand corresponds to the 40 days that Christ shall have spent in the wastelands. It corresponds to the trials and tribulations which all candidates of all the old religions, of all mystical secret societies etc. had to undergo, before they could become initiates. This sojourn also corresponds therefore, to the 40 days of the fast and abstention, which yet today the initiates of a mystical society impose on their candidates as a test before they are left to study the mystical secret, salvational — teachings."
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Theodor Reuss
Theodor Reuss (28 June 1855 – 28 October 1923) was an Anglo-German tantric occultist mystic, anarchist, police spy, journalist, singer, a promoter of the Feminist movement, and the head of the Ordo Templi Orientis after Carl Kellner, and prior to Aleister Crowley. Crowley named him one of the Saints of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica.
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