The Grail Fables

The Grail Fables → Volume Four

Volume IV · Volume Four

The Cycle of Passing

Eleven tales for grown readers on death and what follows — the loosening, the severance, the funeral seen from inside, the veil of birth, the descent, the rescue, and the approach to the Light.

Tales
11
For
grown readers
Arc
death & what follows
Volumes
of four

Before the threshold

The loosening, the quiet in the room.

41

The Weight of the Cord

Death as birth; the cord's density set by volition

Before the threshold

42

The Quiet in the Room

The Rule of the Death Chamber

Before the threshold

43

The Funeral of Herr Direktor Brandt

The partial observation window · Hamburg 1927

Before the threshold

44

The Blindfold

Forgetting past lives as mercy · future

Before the threshold

45

The Inheritance of Nothing

Nothing spiritual is inherited · present

Before the threshold

46

The Nursing of Tomas

Pre-redemption through devoted service

Before the threshold

The severance & its window

The cut, and what is seen.

47

The Land of Twilight

The bars of wrong opinions · historic register

The severance & its window

48

The Man Who Studied the Other Side

Projection vs. presence; mediums

The severance & its window

The planes beyond

Descent, rescue, and the approach to Light.

49

The Descent of Marcus Aurelius Vane

Fine-material gravity; propensity weighs more than deed · future

The planes beyond

50

The Helper's Price

Descending to help; hatred and help use the same muscles

The planes beyond

51

The Fields of the Blessed

Transparency is the ascent; no honest painting exists

The planes beyond