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The Knights of the Order of the Broken Heart

by J. B. Beauchamp

 
 

Question: Who will accomplish the difficult task?

 
 

Answer: The one who can

 
 

Question: Name your Quest?

 
 

Answer: I seek that which was lost

 
     
 

This is who we are

 
     
"The King has spoken, I will ride forth in the name of that quest"
Sir Percival addressing a meeting of the Round Table
     
 

Mystic Knights sworn to the quest

 
  Take the Cross and Die  
  In Holy war, in distant land  
  Beneath God's All-Seeing Eye  
     
  Knights of Christ who praise his name  
  Martyred first in Philip's flames  
  That not enough, martyred then again  
  By the lying tongues of evil men  
     
  May they rest in peace  
     
  "We hail thee noble martyr  
  may the light of thy funeral fire  
  shine on our lives and purify them  
  by its radiance"  
    Order of DeMolay  
     
  "God wills it"  
  Pope Urban II  
  Calling for the first Crusade - 1095  
     
  The Chivalry of Europe saddles up  
  and rides to the Holy Land  
  after thirst and death in the desert  
  East meets West  
  in a thunderous charge of heavy horse  
     
 

When worlds collide... Worlds change forever

 
     
 

"And the Mystic Knights dug beneath the stable of 10,000 horses, and shared their secrets with the angels who then assisted in the building of the great Cathedrals.

 
 

Always asking... Whom does one serve by virtue of serving the Grail?"

 
     
  Did the Templars acquire the oriental vice and wander in the ubiquitous haze?  
     
  Inheritance... thru time and space  
   

in days of old when Knights were bold when maidens were fair, and dragons flew in the air

 
     
  Inheritance... of blood, name and soul  
   

of days when the Maid of God and most beloved of the Angels could die in fire and pain

 
     
   

and what man said the words; "may God forgive us, we have just burned a Saint"?

 
     
  Like Royalty in exile  
     
  Exiled... thru time and space  
  Exiled... to a infinity of incarnations  
 

Exiled... to making the same stupid mistakes over and over again

 
     
  Know ye, good Horatio  
     
  this woeful Knight  
  of the Order of the Broken Heart  
  this Prince of tragedy  
  Knows well the melancholy Dane  
  and wept as the Noble Heart cracked  
  as his own infinity of outrageous fortune  
  engulfed him  
     
  "Good night sweet Prince  
  and flights of Angels  
  sing thee to thy rest"  
    Shakespeare  
     
  "Look well to the East"  
     
  Leo, are you not Leo?  
  How can it be that you know me not?  
  Are we not brothers of the League?  
  Did we not together make the great journey to the  
  East?  
     
  Did we not fight terrible battles against men and  
  monsters, dragons and demons?  
  Did we not leave vast fields of smoke and slaughter?  
  Did we not suffer wounds grievous to the body,  
  heart, mind and soul?  
     
  Well know I of Leo and the great journey to the East.  
     
 

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother"

 
    Henry V  
     
 

"I have seen things you people wouldn't believe"

 
    Blade Runner  
     
  Attack ships on fire off the shoals of Orion  
  I saw the murdered Grand Master raised from the dead  
     
 

I once held true love in my arms as we stood on a mountainside and watched as two eagles danced over the Sweet Shenandoah

 
     
 

"and now all these moments will be lost like tears in rain"

 
    Blade Runner  
     
  The closing of the eyes  
  the coming of the dreams  
     
  The most mystic of all events  
     
  Past, present and future  
  the laws of nature do not apply  
  all things possible  
     
  I have touched the ones I loved and lost  
  and spoke to the great men of the past  
  and what was the language that he spoke?  
     
  The dreamer awakes  
  and cries... to sleep and dream again  
     
 

"And we are such stuff as dreams are made on"

 
    Prospero  
     
  "And what dreams may come"  
    Hamlet  
       
  "Seņor, can you tell me where we are heading, Lincoln County road or Armageddon? Seems like I've been down this road before"  
    Bob Dylan  
       
 

"Pat Garrett was an easy man to track he left a trail of dead bodies behind him everywhere he went, he was a one-man slaughterhouse"

 
    Lincoln County Regulator  
       
  "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed"  
    Stephen King  
     
  "the Quest Knights have failed... they are all dead"  
    Sir Mordred speaking to Sir Percival  
     
 

You shall know the truth and it will Break your Heart

 
     
  Crossing the wasteland in search of the Fisher King and finding only death and despair  
  The Quest has failed, the word is lost and the column broken  
  All is darkness, hope is gone  
  And in that last moment, standing on top of the wall that stands at the edge of the world... he sees it  
 

It is there, shining in light, before him, and in that radiance is a cross before which the young knight kneels, and through his tears he thanks God for the blessing he has received

 
  The king is healed and the land reborn  
       
  "The undiscovered country whose born, no traveler ever returns"  
    Hamlet  
     
  Let's take a trip down memory lane...  
    A lane that runs through time and space  
       
  How far back can we trip?  
 

To all the lives, I've loved her and lost her in ages gone past

 
 

back to the day of creation, when we stood together in the hall of souls and God Himself turned us face to face and said; "Go now and seek one another throughout all of time until time is no more, and you stand together for all eternity"

 
     
  "his memory raced with great speed and much haste"  
    George Harrison  
     
  Ever onward thru the mist of obscurity  
  these Knights of the Broken Heart ride  
     
  Cursed with a quest unasked for  
  but blessed by the truth we find  
     
  the quest not fulfilled by the riding  
  but by the coming home to love and fireside  
     
  because that is where I saw the Grail mon frere  
  reflected and shining in her eyes  
     
  "He which hath no stomach to this fight, let him depart; his passport shall be made, and crowns for convoy put into his purse. We would not die in that mans company that fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is called The Feast of Crispian. He that outlive this day and comes safe home, will stand a'tiptoe when this day is nam'd. And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors and say; "Tomorrow is Saint Crispian." Then will he strip his sleeve, and show his scars, and say; "These wounds I had on Crispian's day." Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, but he'll remember, with advantages, what feats he did that day. Then shall our names, familiar in his mouth as household words, Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. This story shall the good man teach his son".  
   
   
   
    Henry V  
       
  "and all shall be remembered... as a brief shining time"  
    King Arthur after the Battle of Camlan  
     
  "them boys fought with their rifles, they didn't even pull them pistols, what they shot they hit and what they hit stayed shot"  
    Coffeyville Avenger  
     
  Grand Preceptory Order of the Temple - 1199  
  Grand Master speaking to First Preceptor;  
 

"Is the Jew working? He works night and day my Grand Master. He works night and day, yet there is no gold? No gold yet, my Grand Master, but many strange and wondrous things have come from his shop, things the world has never seen. He hopes the stars of the coming change of Centuries is the time he seeks. We shall see."

 
     
 

"Let me in from the cold, turn my lead into gold"

 
    Pink Floyd