Some men will find only the chronicles of a young monk here, whose life was transformed during several terrible, though wondrous days in a monastery now destroyed and unrecognisable. Others will see my journey to the Grail, to the Revelation of the Gospel and seek to emulate it. I have marked the way, though slow and perilous, to the cornerstone, now you must make your way to it. For if this little book stimulates the eye to see the world differently, if it invigorates the ear to hear the ineffable silence of the word, which it contains, then indeed it has rewarded its master.
Now there is little that can be said. After all, I have been here before, I am no stranger to death, and as you close these pages, you may deign to pray for me in the name of our Lord; for at last the twelve have spoken, the seven have resounded in the Temple of the Grail. That is all that I am permitted to tell you. As for all that remains? It is better hidden, Sacramentum regis abscondere bonum est.