While, on the one hand, the enemies of the Templars tendentiously
emphasized the latter's misogyny, on the other hand they accused the
initiates of breaking the order's vow of chastity and of engaging in
homosexual practices. Purity and chastity sometimes, though not always,
appear also in the cycle of the Grail as characteristics required in the
predestined hero. I have already indicated the possibility of bestowing on
these concepts a meaning higher than a merely sexual and moralistic one.
The renunciation of the earthly woman essentially alludes to the
overcoming of desire: Amfortas is doomed by mating not with the woman
of the Grail but with Orgeluse. In any event, just as the kings of the Grail
were given a woman, according to Wolfram, while the simple knights had
to be without one, likewise one may think that while the simple Templars
practiced ascetic material chastity, the initiates of the Order practiced a
transcendent chastity. If it is legitimate to refer, in regard to initiatory
Templarism, to the views of sexual magic that I have mentioned when
talking about Amfortas, it would not be difficult to understand what was
really the case in the charge of "unnatural intercourse."?
>unnatural intercourse
so...what was it bros?