“A stone of purest kind if you do not know it, it shall here be named to you. It is called Lapsis Exillis. By the power of that stone the Phoenix burns to ashes, but the ashes give him life again. Thus does the Phoenix molt and change its plumage which afterwards is bright and shining and as lovely as before. The stone is also called the Grail.”

“A heathen, Flegetanis, had achieved high renown for his learning. This scholar of nations was descended from Solomon and born of a family which had long been Israelite until baptism became our shield against the fire of hell. He wrote the adventure of the Grail. On his father’s side, Flegatanis was a heathen who worshiped a calf…

The heathen Flegatanis, could tell us how all the stars set and rise again… To the circling of the stars mans affairs and destiny are linked. Flegatanis the heathen saw with his own eyes things he was shy to talk about. Hidden mysteries. He said there was a thing called the Grail, whose name he had read clearly in the constellations. A host of angles left it on earth.”

Wolfram von Eschenbach – Parzival – 13th century Graill legend. 

Friedrich Justin Bertuch 1806