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>>23293364
His theology is highly unorthodox but it makes perfect sense. Before writing Parsifal he prepared himself by rereading the NT, studying Christian theology and talking with a Catholic priest regularly. He was trying to purify Christianity from the imperfect state that Schiller recognised it to be in, and separate it from the OT. Emotionally and mythologically it is Christian, but theologically it's connecting Christian concepts with the East. Precisely because it is such a unique transmutation of the Christian religion Spengler predicted that it would 'disclose to us in advance the shape that our spirituality will assume in our next (in point of creative power our last) centuries'.

>>22550144
Wagner was better.

>Kundry is living an unending life of constantly alternating rebirths as the result of an ancient curse which, in a manner reminiscent of the Wandering Jew, condemns her, in ever-new shapes, to bring to men the suffering of seduction; redemption, death, complete annihilation is vouchsafed her only if her most powerful blandishments are withstood by the most chaste and virile of men. So far, they have not been. After each new and, in the end, profoundly hateful victory, after each new fall by man, she flies into a rage; she then flees into the wilderness, where by the most severe atonements and chastisements she is, for a while, able to escape from the power of the curse upon her; yet it is denied to her to find salvation by this route. Within her, again and again, arises a desire to be redeemed by a man, this being the only way of redemption offered by the curse: thus does innermost necessity cause her repeatedly to fall victim anew to the power through which she is reborn as a seductress. The penitent then falls into a deathlike sleep: it is the seductress who wakes, and who, after her mad frenzy, becomes a penitent again.

>>22018644
Are there any lesser known aspects of Parsifal that you think are particularly relevant to Wagner's view of Christianity? I've always found the intentional resemblance between Amfortas and Christ very interesting but have never quite been able to explain what it means.

Pilgrimage to Beethoven is my favorite, the Composer and the Virtuoso is also good. He espouses a weird and fabulous historiography is several scattered essays in which the world’s northern hemisphere was flooded recently. Final essential essay is the Niebelungen Mythos

Why didn't Nietzsche realise Parsifal was critiquing traditional Christian morality?

Thoughts on Parsifal?

Weininger called it 'the deepest poetry in world literature' and the character of Kundry 'the most profound female figure in all art'.

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>>20657163
Wagner made the theme more central to the story (necessary for a three act drama) by replacing the asking of the question with the return of the spear. Though you will find Wagner changes a lot, the meaning always remains essentially the same. In general Wagner centralises the esoteric themes of the work, such as holy blood and Amfortas' relation to Christ. In his own words on Tristan and the development of his dramatic style: "A glance at the volumen of this poem will show you at once that the exhaustive detail-work which a historical poet is obliged to devote to clearing up the outward bearings of his plot, to the detriment of a lucid exposition of its inner motives, I now trusted myself to apply to these latter alone."

>What is important is not the question, but the recovery of the spear (Cosima's Diary, 30 January 1877).

Another reason Wagner is so enlightening on the source material is how he poietizes in music. Perfectly capturing the young Parsifal's character and adventures:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y309f7HAOrU

What do we think of book diagrams?

What does /lit/ think of Parsifal?