{"id":47477,"date":"2023-05-12T13:33:01","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T11:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=47477"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T11:33:05","slug":"the-spear-comes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-spear-comes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spear Comes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>\u00abWho is the Grail?\u00bb asks Parsifal. \u00abThere&#8217;s no telling,\u00bb replies Gurnemanz \u2013 describing the path to it: \u00abTime becomes space here.\u00bb In this time that has become space, Richard Wagner opens a variety of windows on the Grail quest throughout his opera.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Without revealing himself on the way, Gurnemanz leads the way through the events. Klingsor wants so badly to be accepted into the community of Grail knights, however, when he experiences rejection, he becomes the antagonist. Amfortas, the Grail King, succumbs to Kundry&#8217;s temptation in Klingsor&#8217;s realm, and is struck there by the Holy Spear \u2013 he lives on there with an eternally open wound. Kundry, the most multi-coloured figure, is on the greatest inner quest: In a previous incarnation, she laughed at Christ on the cross and was then struck by his gaze. She seeks to redeem this experience and wanders through all the realms. In their fellowship, the Grail Knights have become weak and challenge Amfortas in their own favour. Parsifal brings his openness, his unconsumedness. However, he must also search and wander through life to ultimately feel compassion for the eternally wounded. The spear returns and becomes a healing force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These different attitudes all live in our soul. How do we open our innermost space so that the higher, the spiritual can become reality? Where do we show our wounds, how do we become empathic and thus \u00abknowing through compassion\u00bb? Where do we bring earth and heaven into harmony so that the Grail event can become reality?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation<\/strong> Eliza Rozeboom<br><strong>Image<\/strong> Impression from the rehearsals for Parsifal at the Goetheanum. Photo: Fran\u00e7ois Croissant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00abWho is the Grail?\u00bb asks Parsifal. \u00abThere&#8217;s no telling,\u00bb replies Gurnemanz \u2013 describing the path to it: \u00abTime becomes space here.\u00bb In this time that has become space, Richard Wagner opens a variety of windows on the Grail quest throughout his opera. Without revealing himself on the way, Gurnemanz leads the way through the events. Klingsor wants so badly to be accepted into the community of Grail knights, however, when he experiences rejection, he becomes the antagonist. Amfortas, the Grail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9746,"featured_media":46260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8848],"tags":[11318,8819],"class_list":["post-47477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-literature","tag-2023-13-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}