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The “once and future king,” fifth- or sixth-century King of the Britons and Guru of the [[mystery school]] at [[Camelot]], an embodiment of [[El Morya]]. He drove the Saxon invaders from Britain, united the kingdom, and established the order of the Knights of the [[Round Table]], whose code of chivalry bound them to defend the helpless from the wicked and evildoers and to uphold the ideals of purity, truth, mercy, faithfulness and generosity . | The “once and future king,” fifth- or sixth-century King of the Britons and Guru of the [[mystery school]] at [[Camelot]], an embodiment of [[El Morya]]. He drove the Saxon invaders from Britain, united the kingdom, and established the order of the Knights of the [[Round Table]], whose code of chivalry bound them to defend the helpless from the wicked and evildoers and to uphold the ideals of purity, truth, mercy, faithfulness and generosity . | ||
[[File:The_Death_of_King_Arthur_by_John_Garrick.jpg|right|thumb|''The Death of King Arthur'', John Garrick (1862)]] | [[File:The_Death_of_King_Arthur_by_John_Garrick.jpg|right|thumb|alt=caption|''The Death of King Arthur'', John Garrick (1862)]] | ||
According to Arthurian legends, after King Arthur was mortally wounded at Camlann by his bastard son (or nephew), Mordred, he was placed on a barge with three queens which drifted toward Avalon, an “island valley,” where, as Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote in ''Idylls of the King'', “falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies deep-meadow’d, happy, fair with orchard lawns and bowery hollows crown’d with summer sea.” Some accounts say that Arthur would be healed of his “grievous wound” at Avalon and would return to rule over his people. | According to Arthurian legends, after King Arthur was mortally wounded at Camlann by his bastard son (or nephew), Mordred, he was placed on a barge with three queens which drifted toward Avalon, an “island valley,” where, as Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote in ''Idylls of the King'', “falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies deep-meadow’d, happy, fair with orchard lawns and bowery hollows crown’d with summer sea.” Some accounts say that Arthur would be healed of his “grievous wound” at Avalon and would return to rule over his people. | ||