The awakening of Parsifal in a man constellates energy in him and he can function again. 21

Many inner truths are shorn of their true power by being transposed to a level inconsistent with their power and depth. Viewing the virgin birth of Christ as only a historical event will blur the sight of a vital law which is needed when you are called upon to make that interior mating of the human soul with the Divine Spirit which is the true genesis of one’s individuality.
Much of our religious heritage is a map or set of instructions for the deepest meaning of our interior life, not a set of laws for outer conduct. To relate to our religious teaching only in its literal dimension is to lose its spiritual meaning. This dimension of materialism is far more harmful than much of what is usually condemned under that dark name. 30

Goethe, in his masterpiece, Faust came to the noble conclusion late in his life that it is the province of man to serve woman: He ends Faust with the lines 34 "The Eternal Feminine draws us onward"—certainly a reference to the inner woman. Io serve the Grail is to serve the inner woman.
An alert woman knows the instant a man in her life succumbs to a mood for all relating stops that very instant. A glazed look comes over the eyes of the man and the woman knows he has abdicated from any relationship. Even a good mood costs one relationship. All ability to relate, objectivity and creativity, come to an end when mood takes control. In Hindu terminology, serving the goddess Maya (the equivalent of our anima moods) costs one all reality and substitutes a vaporous unreality in its place. Myth often overstates its case in its timeless language, and one’s chance for a vision of the Grail is not lost forever. But so long as the mood is dominant there is no Grail: the mood imprints its character on the objective world and all objective vision of the true splendor of the world is lost. One literally sells one's birthright for a mess of illusion.
The worst characteristic of mood possession is that It robs one of all sense of meaning. Suddenly the "out there" is dominant in one’s inner life and the inner meaning of life is lost. One is then at the mercy of the "out there" for one’s sense of value or happiness. One is so tied to a new purchase or gaining the favor of someone that he is unaware of his own inner meaning, which is the only stable value he has. 35 35 Mood possession also robs him of the objective world and its true beauty and magnificence, a deep meaning in its own right. 36 34-36

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Thomas Merton, the Trappist that a monk may often be happy b good time. This is another way ° happiness from mood. 40