Mysteries of the Holy Grail

La Canada, Calif.: New Age Press, La Canada, 1973. 2nd Printing. Octavo in pink and blue pictorial wraps; 128 pages; one illustration; 23 cm In very good condition with slight sunning to spine, very minor edgewear; bookshop stamp on front flyleaf; binding is tight though glue is somewhat brittle; pages clean. Paperback.

Corinne Heline, New Age darling, explores the Holy Grail as symbol, historical artifact and sacred touchstone: "The Holy Grail is a subject of perpetual and absorbing interest to the scholar, the artist and the occultist--through each of these approaches the study from a somewhat different point of view. Popular Christianity has, it is true, lost the enthusiasm for the Grail stories which was so conspicuous a feature of the nineteenth century in England and on the continent of Europe, perhaps because contemporary science has produced miracles which seem to overshadow the miracles of religion; but when the beautiful olf tales are interpreted in the light of soul-illumination and Initiation into great Mysteries , the interest springs up anew as vital as it ever was." --Author. Contents: Background, Initiatory Cycles, The Cycle of Dissolution, The Galahad-Parsifal Cycle, Conclusion.