The Soul of Chivalry is a cinematic odyssey into the lost spiritual heart of medieval knighthood—an ideal far beyond common etiquette, romance, or battlefield skill. This documentary reveals chivalry as a path of heroic transformation, where warriors were not only bound by a code of honour, but called to master their lower natures in pursuit of divine dignity.

Contrasting modern misunderstandings with chivalry’s true Olympian spirit, the film immerses viewers in the demanding life of the medieval knight, where prowess, honour, loyalty, and piety were not just virtues but ascetic disciplines that shaped the soul. It unveils the rites of passage into knighthood as initiatory trials—periods of service, purification rituals, and the solemn “wake in arms”—echoing the great mystical traditions of the past. Weapons, far from being crude instruments of destruction, were consecrated symbols of spiritual virtue, forging a link between earthly combat and the higher realms. Even the knight’s horse represented the primal forces he was charged with mastering.

At the heart of the chivalric vision lies a mystery: the knight’s devotion to a lady, a bond that was far more than worldly affection. This film explores how the feminine, in its highest archetypal form, was perceived as the embodiment of Holy Wisdom, a force of purification and inspiration, capable of elevating the warrior to transcendent heights— but only if he could prove himself worthy. Drawing from mythic parallels from other traditional civilizations, such as Anahita, Isis, and Drugmo, the film reexamines courtly love, not as sentimentality, but as a method of channeling and transmuting raw desire into something sacred.

The Soul of Chivalry also confronts the uneasy alliance between chivalry and Christianity, revealing that the knightly ideal drew from an older, Hyperborean tradition of warrior spirituality rather than from ecclesiastical Christian doctrines. The film investigates the suppression of the Knights Templar as an attack on the last bastion of spiritual chivalry, a critical turning point when the West fully severed its connection to the World of Tradition. The transition in the tone of the Grail legends, away from its original affirming spirit to themes of the loss of a transcendent power from this world, is not an inconsequential literary evolution, but a poignant and profound symbol of a lost spiritual order.

Through stunning visuals, historical depth, and esoteric insights, The Soul of Chivalry resurrects the forgotten quest for transcendence that once shaped the soul of the West—and asks whether its echoes can still be heard today.