The Knight as Lost Royal (medieval romance motifs)
Several Grail-adjacent romances present heroes (e.g., Perceval, Parzival) as royal sons raised in the forest among peasants, ignorant of their birthright. Their entire quest is the return to the court and the recovery of their true identity.
Kabbalah: the King in Exile (Melekh be-Galut)
Lurianic Kabbalah describes the Shekhinah and the King as exiled in the “other side.” The King is present but unrecognized. Humanity restores the King through raising the sparks.
Sufi allegories of the Prince in Exile
In Rumi and Attar, the soul is a royal bird or prince who forgets its origin and becomes entrapped in the material world. Through remembrance (dhikr) it returns to the Beloved.
ACIM: the Son of God who fell asleep
The Son dreams a world of separation, forgets his identity, believes he is a mortal self, and must awaken to restore his Father’s Kingdom.
The King & The Potion of Forgetfulness
The king drinks a potion of forgetfulness and becomes or dreams that they are a peasant. They believe and therefore perceive that they are a poor orphaned peasant. They must go on a long journey of awakening and remembering(or anamnesis) to recover and restore their lost divine, royal nature, heritage, and station. At the end they have gone through the entire journey and recovered everything, but now they are much wiser and more experienced and humble and conscious. Now he has mastered and integrated all aspects of life and his soul and is truly a total sovereign master and monarch.
The King and the Potion of Forgetfulness a very deep and significant parable
You ARE that King who drinks the potion and forgets his true divine inheritance and thinks he is a penniless beggar who must scrounge for scraps in the muddy street.
Who can wake up at an time and realize who/what he really is. And can walk into the castle and announce himself
The dreamer who falls asleep and is lost in the dream The prisoner in an imaginary, mental prison