Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 549

Chap.

II]

§ 84.

THE FORMS OF INSPIRATION

525

with the didacticus, and there are didactic poets with whom, is altogether wanting. With this kind

poetical inspiration

of poetry, inspiration

is

not in the feeling, neither in the

iraaghiation, or in the heroic impulse, but exclusively in the

sway

of the consciousness.

Not

as a result of his discursive

thought, but by an impulse of his perception, the real didacticus

impelled to song.

is

By

his

immediate perception he

understands what he sees the other does not understand,

and

he communicates to him in song. Subsidiarily to added that the didacticus, since he does not speak

this

this, is

as one

who

is

learned, but sings as one

who

is

wise,

is,

at the

sympathy with symbolism which unites the spiritual with the material world, and therefore expresses himself in the form of nature-illustrations and parables. In the Chokmah, this universal human phenomenon obtained a character Even as the prophet, the "wise man" was an isoof its own. lated phenomenon in Israel. Similarly to didactic poetry, this Chokmah confines itself mostly to the domain of the life of nature and to the natural relationships of life. That life of nature and of man, in its rich unfolding, is the realization of a thought of God. It is not accidental, but develops

same time,

in

itself after

ence of

the Divine ordinances, which, even as the exist-

life,

are the outflow of a

does not observe

this,

but

man

perceives

after God's image, he is himself an

of

God, and

is

Chokmah it

in

God.

Nature

because, created

embodiment

of that

therefore himself a microcosmos.

thought

In his per-

a reflected image of this Chokmah, which by Wisdom, and not science, but which only by analysis and synthesis can become science. The purer and clearer that glass of his perception is, the purer and clearer will the image of that Chokmah reflect itself in him. For this reason, Adam was created, not merely in justice and holiness, but also in original wisdom. By sin, however, this perception became clouded. There was a twofold cause for this. First, it reacts no longer accurately, and again, because nature itself and man's life in nature have become entangled in much conflict and confusion. For this reason, this natural Chokmah does no longer give what it ought to give it works

ception

nature

lies

is

;

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