Here's a very brief summary of the 2nd half of the 1909
Hidden Church of the Holy Graal Ch. 9. Then, in the 1933
The Holy Grail revision, Waite turned this text (with only minor changes) into the Summary Chapter of Bk XI on the ritual aspects of the Grail:
"The message of the Secret Tradition in the Christian Graal mystery is this: The Cup corresponds to spiritual life. It receives the graces from above and communicates them to that which is below. The equivalent happens in the supernatural Eucharist, the world of unmanifest adeptship, attained by sanctity [Grace].
"We are confronted by two theses:
1) The Mystery of Divine Attainment subtly calls and can be experienced even in the modern world.
2) The Great Secret is no longer available externally [that is exoterically; through the stories in the Lesser Arcana].
"Several scholars think it existed only in heretical schools of concealed sects. They didn’t know it existed as a concealed sanctuary, a “Third Heaven” that can only be known through vision, not communicated, except through approximation. Though the external doctrine is the same, the secret school opens one to what lies behind definitions and expressions that satisfy the mind. It never tried to change doctrine but, rather, to carry the Universals implied to their final Universal implication.
"We are spiritually isolated and conscious of our loss.
"We move through our spiritual and everyday life, hearing veiled voices that signify the Presence, but we don’t know where/how to find it. Dead sects and legends offer us little. Freemasonry says the grave is empty and the enemy within. Is there any greater desolation than what has lost its sacred significance? Until the lost is restored, the true temple can only be built in the heart.
"It is only the higher side of alchemy which has continued to point the path of Attainment, telling us of the One Matter, the One Vessel, the one way of perfection. Only Divine Guidance can lead us in the path of illumination and help us acquire the most hidden of all secrets. Our inhibitions only need a small shift to transform into Grace.
"Like Perceval, it is as if we failed to ask “one little question” [i.e., “Whom does the Grail serve?”], because we only know it externally. We are haunted by a voice that says the question and answer lie within. All creatures wait for us to be unspelled. The unspelling is of the High Order of Union. The external orders and conventions do not give us this highest advice. But, if we persevere and affirm our beliefs in this Glory, it will be revealed.
"The same story of loss is told everywhere, though never in the same way. But a story also continues, from age to age, that somewhere, sometime, the missing Word, the key to our Existence, will be restored. Christian mystics say it is here and now, while the Hermetic Mystery says, ‘In the place of wisdom there is still the Stone of the Wise.’"*
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* Notes regarding the 'Stone of the Wise' - which seems to be the grand culmination of everything Waite had to say on the subject:
In one of the GD rituals it is said, “In the alembic of thine heart, through the athanor of affliction, seek thou the True Stone of the Wise.” [alembic & athanor are alchemical vessels of transformation] Waite favorably compares the Greater Arcana with the major alchemical texts.
The Stone is the result of the Great Work of alchemy. Waite writes in the 1933 edition of
The Holy Grail:
“The Alchemist is himself finally the Stone, and because many zealous aspirants to the Art have not understood this they have failed in the Great Work on the spiritual side. . . . But “God abides in Man.” (1933, p. 457),
and
“Christ is therefore the Stone, and the Stone in adept humanity is the Union realized, while the Great Secret is that Christ must be found within, and manifested from within outwardly.” (1933, p. 459.)
and
“Make of man and woman a circle; then a quadrangle; out of this a triangle; make again a circle, and you will have the Stone of the Wise. Thus is made the stone, which thou canst not discover, unless you, through diligence, learn to understand this geometrical teaching.” From Michael Maier's "Atalanta Fugiens."
Waite also wrote: "The 'Secret Symbols,' is, by its very nature, a sealed book to all except those who have made some progress on the way of the 'Great Quest' of what is variously called, 'The Stone of the Wise,' the 'Summum Bonum,' and by many other names, or simply 'The Stone,' implying thereby, all that the word means in the language of the Secret Tradition."
We've now finished with Waite's original chapter on the four Graal Hallows and the Tarot suits.