Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 509

§ 82.

CiiAP. II]

those

THE INSTRUMENTS OF INSPIUATION

who were

possessed similar

phenomena

485 In our

occur.

dreams also our organs of speech sometimes utter words which at least do not rise from our normal consciousness. And the strongest proof for this lies in the speaking with the glossolaly, by which the mouth uttered words which were entirely foreign to the thought-sphere of the speaker. this is the speaking that has sometimes been taught to birds, and which from the side of God occurs in All these the significant speaking of the ass of Balaam. analogies show that the organs of speech of one can enter'

Analogous to

I

the service of the consciousness of another

when one

who knows no Latin and

;

as, for instance,

has no understanding of

medicine has been magnetized, and dictates a prescription Avhich not he but his magnetizer has thought out.

external address bears another character, and (Num. xii. 8) " mouth to mouth," or also

even (Exod. Here the emphasis xxxiii. 11) to take place "face to face." falls not upon what man speaks after the suggestion of God, but upon what he hears, even in such a way that the bystanders also can hear it. This is most clearly seen in Exod. " That the people xix. 9, where the Lord says to Moses This direct address thee." with speak I may hear when Sinai to the from speaking the appears equally clearly in " 26 For who is there people, of which we read in Deut. v.

The

is

said to be

:

:

of all flesh that

ing out of the midst

unique

fact,

the voice of the living Crod speakentirely of the fire, as we have ? "

hath heard

An

spoken of with emphasis no

less

than four times.

the call of Samuel the selfsame phenomenon appears. Samuel heard the sound of a voice, which he first took to be Eli's voice, and which only afterwards by the direction of Eli was recognized by him as the voice of the Lord (1 Sam. What we likewise read of the voice of the Lord iii. 8, 9). at the baptism of Jesus, and from the cloud at His transfiguration, falls under the same category even as the speak-

With

insr of

of the

God

to

Adam

Lord walking

after the fall, in the

when he heard

the voice

garden upon the wind of the

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