(3.7) “Galahad and the Grail” – An Introduction to ‘The Wasteland’ “We need to re-enchant a disenchanted world. We need to rebaptize our imagination. I’m trying to lift the veil; not so much to re-enchant, but to un-disenchant the world, to help us see what is already there.” (Dr. Malcolm Guite). Dr. Guite’s Thoughts on the Importance of …
Saved by the Wellspring – Restored with Fresh Water in Paradise. “Heaven must receive Jesus until the time for God to restore all of creation, the Universal Restoration when all things will be made new, as He promised through His holy prophets from ancient times.” (Acts 3:21, in a sermon preached by Peter in the …
Saved by the Wellspring – Ezekiel’s Vision of Water from the Sanctuary. “My heavenly guide brought me back to the entrance to the Temple, and I saw a stream of water coming out from under the threshold of the Temple. The water was coming out in a trickle. As the guide went eastward with a …
Saved by the Well – Jesus at the Pool of Siloam. “As long as I am in the world, I AM the light of the world.’ When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the mud. …
Saved by the Well – Jesus with Photini. “… Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” He was alone at the time because His disciples had gone into the village to buy some food. The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to …
Saved by the Bell – Jesus at the Pool of Bethesda. “Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at …
Saved by the Well – Jesus at the Feast in the Temple “On the last day, the great day of the Festival, Jesus stood and cried out, ‘Let anyone who is thirsty come to me! Let anyone who believes in me come and drink!’” (John 7:37-38, NJB) SAVED: The Hebrew word for save is “Yasha,” which means to …
Saved by the Well – Jeremiah. “O Lord, You are the hope of Israel; all who forsake You will be disgraced. Those who turn away from You will be written in the dirt, recorded in the underworld, buried in the dust of the hearth; for they have abandoned the Lord, the wellspring of living water.” (Jeremiah 17:13). …
Saved by the Well – Isaiah. “And you shall draw water with rejoicing from the wellsprings of salvation.” (Isaiah 12:3). SAVED: The Hebrew word for save is “Yasha,” which means to be set free into the wide open; to be delivered in a time of desperate need; to be saved from destruction and certain death. “Salvation” literally …
(3.6) “Galahad and the Grail” – Lancelot’s Further Adventures. (this post is in process and incomplete at this time) Book Three: “The Achievement of the Grail“ (by “book” is meant a large section in this installment of Guite’s Arthuriad). Stave Six: “Lancelot’s Further Adventures” (a “stave” is an old-fashioned term for the stanza of a poem, a verse …
Jesus Asks a Question: “Have you not read?” The Grand Inquisitor. Messiah Jesus was a Master of asking questions: some were open-ended, others were very pointed; some were out of curiosity, others were challenging; some seemed rhetorical, others seemed painfully obvious; some were to reveal Himself, others were to guide the other into self-understanding; some were intentionally …
Saved by the Well – Job’s Tree with the Scent of Water. “For a tree, there is hope that if cut down, it will sprout again, that its shoots will continue to grow. Even if its roots grow old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground, yet at the scent of water it …