Summary
Walter Leslie Wilmshurst: Parsifal
Walter Leslie Wilmshurst is one of the most brilliant thinkers of Freemasonry, an esoteric poet and certainly one of the deepest mystics of Masonic idealism, whose classic work stands as a bridge between the 19th and 20th centuries, but is actualized and revealed in full light only in our time. His work is gaining increasing importance, both because of the growing interest in Freemasonry and because of the receptivity of our age to spiritual achievements. PARSIFAL is a book prepared from Wilmshurst's study and expanded with other details to complement and shape this work. Wilmshurst states: "This interpretative study of Parsifal was published as a magazine article in 1914, on the opera first performed in England at Covent Garden. Now that the British National Opera Company is re-presenting the work to large audiences throughout the country, which had not previously had an opportunity to become familiar with it, it has been suggested on several occasions that it would be useful to reprint the article as a possible aid to those who want some guidance as to Wagner's ideas and intentions in the great symbolic musical drama in which it culminated his long and hard life's work."
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