Petition to King William-Alexander to Establish a Willehalm Order of Knights of the Word

Willehalm Institute Press Release

Petition to King William-Alexander  to Establish a new Willehalm Order of Knights of the Word  to be further Highlighted during the exhibition of the virtues – towards a new courtesy in Amsterdam city hall

Amsterdam,  April 23  2013 – The dedication and petition to  Dutch King (in waiting) William-Alexander and the High Counsel of Nobility, released on April 19 and now online in Dutch, English, German and French, to establish a Willehalm Chivalric Order of Knights of the Word  will be further highlighted during the supporting activities of the International Book and Art Exhibition The Virtues – Towards a New Courtesy in Amsterdam City Hall.

The dedication to the King and Counsel concerns a translation by Robert Jan Kelder, founding director of the Willehalm Foundation, of the The Virtues – Seasons of the Soul  by Herbert Witzenmann with illuminations by Dutch artist Jan de Kok, which will be presented on April 26 (3-4 PM). Afterwards the announcement of the petition to establish this new Order of Knights named after the Patron Saint of the Knights and Founder of the House of Orange, the Willehalm of legendary fame immortalized in the medieval epos Willehalm by Wolfram von Eschenbach, will be read and commented on in Dutch, English, German and French. This will be followed on May 3 (3-4 PM) by a PowerPoint presentation of a newly revised edition of How the Grail Sites Were Found – Wolfram von Eschenbach as a Historian (see image) by Werner Greub. This translation with its new findings on the hitherto unknown biography of the founder of the House of Orange will also be dedicated to the King and the Council of Nobility as source material for their decision-making process in this delicate matter. A power-point presentation with the title “The Siege and Liberation of Orange” (English/Dutch) will round off the formal supporting activities of the exhibition, which ends on May 10.

The text of the petition itself will be presented on May 28 (update: 2014) to commemorate the 1200^th day of death of Willehalm of Orange, together with a presentation (in Dutch) of The Jezus Mysteries – Rudolf Steiners Chronology of the Gospels and the Christ Prophecy of Zarathustra, a translation from the third volume of Werner Greubs trilogy of the history of the Grail from Zarathustra to Rudolf Steiner, to be held, preferably, in the Royal Hall of the Theosophical Temple Building De Bazel in Amsterdam. (RJK)

Program of the Events within the Framework 
of the Exhibition The Virtues in Amsterdam City Hall

April 26 (3-4 PM): Presentation of the revised English edition of The Virtues - Season of the Soul  and  (4-5 PM) reading of the Dutch, English, German and French versions of the dedication and announcement of the petition with room for discussion.

May 3 (3-5 PM): Presentation of the first book edition of the English translation How the Grail Sites Were Found (see image) followed by a power point lecture  “The Siege and Liberation of Orange” (English/Dutch)“

May 10  (6 PM): End of the exhibition and onwards to a new, not yet available location of this moving exposition to help generate a Movement Towards a New Courtesy.

Info: rjkelder@willehalm.nl ; tel. 0031 (0)206944572