In The Hands of a Child ANYTHING Can Become a Toy

toy (n.)

c. 1300, "amorous playing, sport," later "piece of fun or entertainment" (c. 1500), "thing of little value, trifle" (1520s), and "thing for a child to play with" (1580s). Of uncertain origin, and there may be more than one word here. Compare Middle Dutch toy, Dutch tuig "tools, apparatus; stuff, trash," in speeltuig "play-toy, plaything;" German Zeug "stuff, matter, tools," Spielzeug "plaything, toy;" Danish tøj, Swedish tyg "stuff, gear." Applied as an adjective to things of diminutive size, especially dogs, from 1806. Toy-boy is from 1981.

 

toy (v.)

"deal carelessly (with), trifle," 1520s, from toy (n.) in its older sense.

If he be merie and toy with any,

His wife will frowne, and words geve manye.

["Song of the Bachelor's Life," 16c.]

Related: Toyed; toying.

BILL MOYERS: 

What is The Grail representing, then?

JOSEPH CAMPBELL: 

Well, The Grail becomes the, what we call it, 

That Which is Attained and Realized by People Who Have Lived Their Own Lives. 

So The Story very briefly is of this — I’m giving it now as Wolfram gives it — but this is just one version. 

The Grail King was a Lovely Young Man, but he had not EARNED that position. 

And The Grail represents The Fulfillment of The Highest Spiritual Potentialities of The Human Consciousness. 

And he was a Lovely Young Man, and he rode forth from His Castle with The War Cry, “Amor!” 

And as he’s riding forth, a Moslem, a Pagan Warrior, a Mohammedan Warrior, comes out of The Woods, A Knight. 

And they both level their lances at each other, they drive at each other, and The Lance of The Grail King kills The Mohammedan, but 

The Mohammedan Lance castrates The Grail King.

What that means is that the Christian separation of Matter and Spirit, of The Dynamism of Life and The Spiritual, Natural Grace and Supernatural Grace, has really castrated Nature. 

And The European Mind, The European Life, has been as it were, emasculated by this; 

True Spirituality, which would have come from this, has been killed. 

And then what did The Pagan represent? 

He was A Person from 

The Suburbs of Eden. 

He was regarded as 

A Nature Man,

and on The Head of His Lance was written The Word, “Grail.” 

That is to say, 

Nature intends The Grail. 

Spiritual Life is The Bouquet of Natural Life, not a supernatural thing imposed upon it. 

And so The Impulses of Nature are what give Authenticity to Life, not Obeying Rules come from a Supernatural Authority, that’s the sense of The Grail.