Excerpt from Parsifal: A Study of Wagner's Music DramaBe not afraid the place is full of noises, Sounds and sweet strains that give delight and hurt not.world Amfortas really typifies every-man and the very name suggests infortune, imper fection and enfeeblement.2 He is the son of Titurel - obviously, from its Hebrew termina tion, a celestial name, not of this world - who before Amfortas' time erected the Grail Castle upon the Mount of Salvation and had perfectly served the office of the Holy Grail therein by which is implied that before man descended into a body of mortality and physical condi tions he pre-existed spiritually and did the perfect will of God in heaven as it is scrip turally recorded of the self-knowing, timeless spirit of man, Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was thy covering. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth that overbroods the natural external man) and I have set thee so. Thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.