A study of the Grail legend as a symbolic map of an initiatory, aristocratic spirituality, arguing that the medieval tale encodes a path to higher consciousness through chivalric virtue and warrior-like inner discipline; it reads figures such as Parsifal/Perceval and episodes of the cycle as stages of spiritual development, relates the myth to ancient Indo-European motifs and sacred kingship, and contrasts this traditional, hierarchical vision with what the author sees as the dissipations of modern, materialist society.