Becoming Like the Grail ...Through Speech

from Speech of the Grail by Linda Sussman,  from the introduction, 1995... Landisfarne Books

"All these possibilities prompt fruitful contemplation, but the overall impression remains that the physical manifestation of he Grail and its history are not as pertinent as the ability to recognize its significance, to know its mission. The grail can be known only through its activity which, as depicted in the stories [of the Grail] is the nourishing of each person according to his or here needs and capacities. The stories clearly illustrate that one can know the Grail only by becoming like it. (p.1)

If the end of the Grail journey is to become like the Grail, then the crowning achievement is to stand with humble dignity upon the threshold between earthly and spiritual worlds. Like the Grail, human beings who inhabit their speaking are the connection, the common boundary between visible and invisible realms. The grail journey brings Parzival and each seeker to realize that, as Robert Sardello says, 'the new temple of initiation is the world itself'. With that insight the re-sacralization of the earth becomes possible through renewal of the individual and collective understanding of the significance of human speech." (p.11)
(italics my emphasis)