KING ARTHURKING ARTHUR

THE ONCE AND FUTURE KINGTHE ONCE AND FUTURE KING

SUPERSTITIONSUPERSTITION

• ARTHUR IS NOT DEAD• HE AND HIS KNIGHTS ARE INSIDE THE TOR

AT GLASTONBURY• EVERY CHRISTMAS THEY RIDE OUT TO

PROTECT THE COUNTRY AND MAKE EVERYTHING SAFE FOR THE BIRTH OF THE CHRIST CHILD

• OTHERS BELIEVE HE BECOMES A RAVEN, THE MOST PROPHETIC OF ALL BIRDS AND THE CELTIC WAR GODDESS (THE MORRIGAN)

SAINT MICHAEL’S TOWER ON GLASTONBURY TOR

AN ISLAND DURING ARTHUR’S TIME

GLASTONBURY ABBEY

JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA’S

THORN BUSH

THE GRAIL WELL

LEY LINESLEY LINESTHE VORTICETHE VORTICE

DION FORTUNE AND THE DION FORTUNE AND THE GOLDEN DAWNGOLDEN DAWN

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THE COTTAGE USED BY THE

GOLDEN DAWN DURING

WW II

STANDING

STONES

MARKING

LEY LINES

ARTURUS REX DUX BELLORUMARTURUS REX DUX BELLORUM

• HISTORICAL ARTHUR

• SAXON WARS

ARTHURARTHURTHE ENGLISH HERCULESTHE ENGLISH HERCULES

• DOUBTFUL BIRTH

• PAINFUL LIFE (12 VICTORIES

AGAINST THE SAXONS)

• VIOLENT AND WOEFUL DEATH

SOURCE OF ENGLISH LEGENDSOURCE OF ENGLISH LEGEND

• MORTE D’ARTHUR• THOMAS MALORY• 8 BOOKS

1. THE BIRTH AND CROWNING OF ARTHUR

2. THE INVASION OF FRANCE AND ROME

3. LANCELOT

4. GARETH

5. TRISTAM AND ISOLDE

6. QUEST FOR THE GRAIL

7. ROMANCE OF LANCELOT AND GUINEVERE

8. WAR

OTHER SOURCESOTHER SOURCES

• MIDDLE ENGLISH PROSE MERLIN• FRENCH PROSE, LANCELOT• A LOST ENGLISH POEM• FRENCH PROSE, TRISTAN• QUEST DE SAINT GRAAL• WELSH MABINOGIAN• HISTORIA REGUM BRITANNIAEHISTORIA REGUM BRITANNIAE• DE EXCIDIO ET CONQUESTU BRITANNIAEDE EXCIDIO ET CONQUESTU BRITANNIAE

BROCELIANDEBROCELIANDE

GOOD FAERIES OF

THE WELL

EVIL FAERIES OF THE MOUNTAIN

THE PRINCESS WAS IMPRISONED IN A TALL TOWER IN THE CENTER OF THE FOREST.

NO CARE WAS TAKEN TO BLESS THE ONLY WINDOW WITH GOOD FAERIE WATER.

THE EVIL FAERIES’ CHANCE HAD FINALLY COME.

THE OLD WOMAN HEAVED THE BABY INTO THE ANCIENT WELL.

MERLIN, THE FAERIE PRINCE OF BROCELIANDE

VORTIGERN PENDRAGON

EVIL KING WHO DELIVERS THE KINGDOM

TO THE SAXONS IN

HIS ATTEMPT TO GAIN

ALLIES IN HIS BID TO

BECOME HIGH KING

UTHER

DISPOSSESSED MAN

WHO LEADS AN ARMY

OF MALCONTENTS

GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS GORLOIS GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS GORLOIS

DUKE OF CORNWALLDUKE OF CORNWALL

AND HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE, IGRAINEAND HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE, IGRAINE

MERLIN COMES TO THE WORLD WHEN MAUGANTIUS THE FALSE

ADVISES VORTIGERN TO SACRIFICE A BOY, AND USE

HIS BLOOD TO MIX WITH THE MORTER; THEN HE MAY RAISE

A GREAT KEEP TO PROTECT HIM FROM BATTLE.

VORTIGERN PENDRAGON IS IMMOLATED IN HIS KEEP

GORLOIS SURRENDERSGORLOIS SURRENDERS

MERLIN CONJURES A CHILDMERLIN CONJURES A CHILD

• MERLIN'S SPELL

UTHER AND IGRAINE

UTHER RIDES OUT

MERLIN COLLECTS HIS PRIZE

A CHILD FOR A NIGHT OF LUST

IGRAINE WILL NOT LEAVE THE WINDOW…SHE DOES NOT EAT OR SLEEP AWAITING THE RETURN OF THE BABY

MORGANA, HER DAUGHTER TRIES TO COAX HER BACK TO THE WORLD AND FAILS

UTHER PROMISES TO FIND THE BOY

NATURE VERSUS NURTURENATURE VERSUS NURTURE

• MERLIN EXPERIMENTS WITH THE RAISING OF ARTHUR

• WILL THE BOY’S TAINTED PENDRAGON BLOOD RULE HIS DESTINY

• CAN HIS NUTURING SAVE HIM?

• THE BOY IS RAISED BY HECTOR, A COUNTRY KNIGHT

TOURNAMENTTOURNAMENT

• HECTOR TAKES HIS SON KAY AND YOUNG ARTHUR TO THE EASTER TOURNAMENT

• KAY IS ENTERING THE LIST FOR THE FIRST TIME

• ARTHUR IS HIS SQUIRE AND FAILS TO SAFEGUARD KAY’S EQUIPMENT

• THE BOY PULLS THE SWORD OF PENDRAGON FROM THE STONE SO HIS FOSTER BROTHER WILL NOT LOSE HIS CHANCE

A BOY BECOMES KINGA BOY BECOMES KINGBY DRAWING THE SWORD OF BY DRAWING THE SWORD OF

PENDRAGON FROM THE STONEPENDRAGON FROM THE STONE• THE SWORD IN THE STONE

FOR EVERY KING, A QUEENFOR EVERY KING, A QUEEN

THE DAUGHTER OF LEODOGRANCE OF CAMELIARDTHE DAUGHTER OF LEODOGRANCE OF CAMELIARD

CARLISLE

CAMELOT

A ROUND TABLEA ROUND TABLE

NO MAN IS GREATER THAN ANOTHERNO MAN IS GREATER THAN ANOTHER

THE ORKNEY FACTIONTHE ORKNEY FACTION

• CHILDREN OF MORGANA, ARTHUR’S HALF SISTER

• GAWAIN• AGGRAVAIN• GARETH AND GAHERIS• MORDRED PENDRAGON• PURPOSE IS TO DESTROY MERLIN

AND ARTHUR FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF IGRAINE

THE EMPTY SEATSTHE EMPTY SEATS

• ONE FOR THE ADVISOR• ONE FOR THE QUEEN’S

CHAMPION• ONE FOR THE GRAIL

CHAMPION, THE SEAT PERILOUS

KING PELLINOREKING PELLINORETHE ADVISORTHE ADVISOR

• PELLINORE LEARNS ABOUT COMMON LAW• WARRIOR KING• MADMAN WHO HAS LOST HIS FAMILY AND

KINGDOM• QUESTING BEAST• BRILLIANT STRATEGIST• BELIEVES THE KING SHOULD BE ABOVE

THE LAW• SOMETIMES THE FATHER OF PERCEVAL

LANCELOTLANCELOTQUEEN’S CHAMPIONQUEEN’S CHAMPION

• KING BORS AND QUEEN ELAINE

• SEIGE AND BIRTH

• THE BOY IS RAISED BY THE QUEEN OF THE GOOD FAIRIES

• SENT TO FIND A KING STRONG AND GOOD ENOUGH TO SERVE

• THERE MUST BE A DUEL

LANCELOT DIVIDES THE TABLELANCELOT DIVIDES THE TABLE

• THE CHALLENGE

EXCALIBUREXCALIBURTHE SWORD OF THE DRAGONTHE SWORD OF THE DRAGON

• DELIVERED TO ARTHUR BY NIMUE, LADY OF THE LAKE

• SHE IS MERLIN’S GREATEST WEAKNESS…HIS HUMAN SIDE LOVES HER

• SHE IS THE HANDMAIDEN OF THE DRAGON WHO IS SENT TO TEST ARTHUR AND HIS RESOLVE

• LATER, SHE WILL BE USED TO DESTROY MERLIN

LANCELOT LEAVES CAMELOT

• ELAINE, THE LADY OF SHALOTT

• ELAINE OF PERILOUS

• A BEWITCHED MARRIAGE

• DREAMS AND WASTING

• THE HERO RETURNS TO HIS HEART

• GUINEVERE AND ELAINE FORCE HIM TO CHOOSE

DIRE DECISIONDIRE DECISION

ELAINE OF PERILOUSELAINE OF PERILOUS

• ELAINE GIVES BIRTH TO A SON

• GALAHAD, THE PERFECT

• HE IS EXPOSED TO ALL THAT IS GOOD AND ALL THAT IS EVIL

• HE CHOOSES TO BE GOOD

• GALAHAD IS THE SEAT PERILOUS

• THE GRAIL KNIGHT

SLANDER AND STRIFESLANDER AND STRIFE

• AGGRAVAIN AND MORDRED EXPOSE LANCELOT AND GUINEVERE

• THE QUEEN STANDS TRIAL• LANCELOT ESCAPES TO JOYOUS GARDE• GUINEVERE IS SENTENCESD TO BURN• LANCELOT AND HIS COUSINS ARRIVE TO SAVE

HER• UNARMED GARETH AND GAHERIS ARE KILLED• BLOOD FEUD ENSUES BETWEEN LANCELOT AND

GAWAIN

ARTHUR WITHERSARTHUR WITHERSAND THE TABLE SPLITSAND THE TABLE SPLITS

• MORDRED RIDES TO THE NORTH WITH SOME OF THE KNIGHTS

• THE STORY DIVIDES AT THIS POINT

• SOME VERSIONS SEND ARTHUR TO WAR IN FRANCE WITH LANCELOT

• OTHERS START THE GRAIL SEQUENCES THEN MOVE TO WAR IN FRANCE

LOSS OF THE ADVISORLOSS OF THE ADVISOR

• PELLINORE IS LOST WHILE ON GRAIL QUEST

• HE SAVES NIMUE FROM THE BLACK KNIGHT• SHE RETURNS TO CAMELOT AND TESTS

ARTHUR• WHEN SHE MEETS MORGANA, SHE

BECOMES VIVIAN• VIVIAN AND MORGANA IMPRISON MERLIN IN

EITHER A CRYSTAL CAVE OR AN OAK TREE

CARBONEK

THE QUEST OF THE QUEST OF THE GRAILTHE GRAIL

•A SEPARATION OF MAN FROM THE GROUP

•THE SACRED JOURNEY WITHIN ONESELF

•THE GRAIL IS A METAPHOR FOR THE HUMAN BODY CONTAINING THE HOLY SPIRIT

THE FOUR HALLOWSTHE FOUR HALLOWS

SPEAR

SWORD

PATEN

GRAIL

THE GRAIL PROCESSIONTHE GRAIL PROCESSION

OBSERVED BY PERCEVAL AT CARBONEK

• A SQUIRE WITH A BLEEDING LANCE

• TWO SQUIRES WITH TEN-BRANCHED CANDELABRAS

• A MAIDEN WITH A BLOODY PLATE, SOMETIMES WITH A HEAD FLOATING IN THE BLOOD

• THE MAIDEN WITH THE GRAIL

THE GRAIL SWORDTHE GRAIL SWORD

• TREBUCHET

• SHATTERED WHEN IT STRUCK GOON DESERT

• TIP WEDGED IN FISHER KING’S GROIN

• MAKING IT WHOLE AND HEALING THE KING IS PART OF THE QUEST

• THE KNIGHT MUST SUCCESSFULLY FACE DOUBT

GAWAINGAWAIN

•THE HAWK OF THE MAY

•THE MARION KNIGHT

•WORTHY OF THE GRAIL, BUT FLAWED

•DEVOTION TO WOMEN IS HIS MAJOR FLAW

•HE IS IMPETUOUS

PERCEVAL, THE PERCEVAL, THE GRAIL KINGGRAIL KING

•POSSIBLY THE SON OF PELLINORE…HE TOO IS OFTEN LOST

•RAISED BY MOTHER IN THE WOODS…HE IS THE INNOCENT FOOL

•FIGHTS UNTRAINED FOR ARTHUR AND IS KNIGHTED

•MEETS THE FISHER KING AND FAILS TO ASK, “WHAT IS THE GRAIL, AND WHOM DOES IT SERVE

•WANDERS 5 YEARS, SUFFERS MANY TRIALS

•FINALLY ASKS THE QUESTION AND HEALS THE FISHER KING

GALAHADGALAHADTHE

PERFECT KNIGHT

***

HE IS THE ONLY ONE

WORTHY TO CARRY THE

GRAIL

***

THE GRAIL IS CARRIED TO HEAVEN BY A HAND AFTER THE DEATH OF GALAHAD

ACCORDING TO THE

QUESTE, HE CARRIES THE

GRAIL TO CAMELOT, TAKES HIS

SEAT AT THE TABLE, AND HEALS THE

KING

MALORYMALORY

• THE USUAL CHOICE CHANGES

• THE GRAIL KNIGHTS WHO ARE SUCCESSFUL ARE GALAHAD, PERCEVAL, AND BORS

• BORS RETURNS TO CAMELOT ALONE, WITH THE HOLY GRAIL

FINAL BATTLEFINAL BATTLE• FINAL BATTLE

• MORDRED ATTACKS CAMELOT WHILE ARTHUR IS LAYING SEIGE TO LANCELOT’S CASTLE

• MORTALLY WOUNDED GAWAIN DIES ON THE JOURNEY BACK TO ENGLAND

• A TRUCE IS CALLED BETWEEN ARTHUR AND MORDRED

• SNAKE BITES A KNIGHT WHO RAISES HIS SWORD…ITS FLASH CALLS THE SIDES TO BATTLE

• ARCHETYPAL BATTLE BETWEEN FATHER AND SON

DEATH OF ARTHURDEATH OF ARTHUR• ARTHUR'S LAST MOMENTS

• BEDEVERE IS THE LAST MAN STANDING

• ARTHUR ASKS THAT HE RETURN EXCALIBUR TO THE WATER

• WHEN HE FINALLY DOES AS THE KING ASKS, A HAND RISES AND SNATCHES THE SWORD FROM THE AIR

• MYSTICAL QUEENS ARRIVE IN A BARGE AND TAKE ARTHUR AWAY TO THE ISLE OF AVALON…

WHERE HE WAITS FOR ENGLAND TO NEED HIM AGAIN….HE IS THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING!