Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 545

Chap.

§ 84.

II]

THE FORMS OF INSPIRATION

521

Christ stands as univoeaU and to which is added the later graphic inspiration in the narrower sense. Let each of these types be separately considered.

Lyric inspiration comes first, because lyric itself, to some an inspired character, and so offers us the most beautiful analogy to holy inspiration, and really supextent, bears

plies the only

trustworthy key for the correct interpretation

Real lyric, worthy of which describes in song not the passionate cry

of the lyrical parts of the Scripture.

the name,

is

the concrete, personal experience of sorrow or of joy, but

appears only when, in the recital of concrete and personal experience, the note is heard of that which stirs the deeper

depths of the hidden

life of

the universal

human

emotions,

evoke a response from other In his Aesthetik, ii., p. 568 (3d Ausg. Lpz. 1885), hearts. Carriere states it thus " That which is entirely individual in lyric poetry obtains the consecration of art only by being represented as it answers to the nature of man, and by strik-

and

for this reason is able to

:

ing the chord of something universally human, whereby

reechoed in the hearts of others."

this

statement

is

when, by his personal emotions, the poet has descended to the depths wdiere his own life

not sufficiently lyric

Even

it is

full

;

for

mingles with the waters of human experience, he has not reached the deepest bottom of this ocean. That which is common in the emotional life of humanity is not grounded

powers of life from the immanence God, whose Divine heart is the source of the vital breath that stirs and beats this ocean. Von Hartmann QPhilosophie in itself, but derives its

of

736) very properly observes that there is "a mode of feeling which transcends the purely anthropological^''' which, from his Pantheistic point of view, he explains

des Schonen,

ii.,

p.

more closely as " an extension of self -feeling (Selbstgef iihl) unto a form of universal sympathy (Allgefiihl), the outreach of this sympathy (Weltschmerz) toward the world-ground, i.e.

its

expansion into the intuition of the Divine (Gottes-

Reverse this, and say that his concrete feeling governed by the universal human feeling, and that, so far as it affects him, this universal human feeling is governed schmerz)." is

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