Revised Petition for a Willehalm Order of Knights of the Word

This is the revised version of the Dutch petition, which was submitted by the petitioner Robert Jan Kelder on May 28, 2014 to Dutch King William-Alexander of Orange, subsequently further motivated in 2015 and 2016. On November 25, 2016 it was formally rejected by the Chancellery of Dutch Orders on the grounds that it saw no necessity for instituting such a Civil Oder of Knights of the Word as a supplement to the already since 1815 existing Military Willems Order, named after the original William of Orange. Nevertheless this English version has been put on the website Petitions.nl to gain further support for it and where it can be countersigned. In the meantime, the idea is to further motivate the necessity for such an order and plan a training courses to educate Grail knights, for that is what knights of the Word are.

Willehalm Order of Knights of the Word

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This new order is to be named after the title and main character of the epos by the German medieval poet/knight Wolfram von Eschenbach about the founder of the House Of Orange in the South of France, who as protector of Celtic Christianity was canonised in 1066 as patron saint of Christian knights.

Petition

We

seek a spiritual renewal of christian knighthood to uphold and defend a new and true Christianity.

Observe

This new Christianity was characterised by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) as the source of inspiration in the spiritual world of his anthroposophy or science of the Grail with its mission to reunite art, science and religion. As a vehicle thereto he and his followers in 1923/24 reconstituted the Anthroposophical Society in Switzerland as a world-wide union of people dedicated to furthering the soul life of the individual and of mankind as a whole.

And request

King William-Alexander of The Netherlands, Grand master of the Military Willems-Order named after Willehalm, and the only one constitutionally privileged to do so, to install an new Civil Order of Knights of the Word (m/f) with its mission to uphold and defend the New Christianity by embodying in a new fashion the knightly virtues of courage, righteousness and loyalty as well as the vows of obedience, chastity and poverty of the monks.