The antithesis between symbolism and revelation - pagina 17

15

Now

here

announced aware

the very point at which the want of

is

Every one who, moving

itself.

of the

the

in

hties present themselves.

and

of his imagination

possibi-

that

;

manners spoke

artificial

Now

way.

sundry times and

Infinite at

by the prophets, and

past

by

us

to

an

in

The

times

in

has spoken

or the

and man himself has to guess,

silent,

is,

his

man,

itself to

to represent to himself this relation by

the Christian one.

is

days

Either the Infinite reveals

mute and

remains

conjecture,

line

Here two

this revelation unveils the really existing relation;

Infinite

to

becomes

finite,

existence of something Infinite, has to form a con-

ception of the relation that exists betiveen both.

and by

Symbohsm

Son

—

this

in

means

the

these late

Son being not a

mystery, but the eternal, creating and speaking

Word.

first

in divers

silent

Paganism,

on the contrary, being destitute of revelation, wants the symbol, and creates

it

having

but

ears

between

from

the

in

its

they

i.

the

is

having mouths but they speak not,

Symbol means a

hear not."

invisible

av^^alltiv;

Symbolism

"

idols,

Infinite

and the

two

bringing

e.,

fictitious link

visible finite.

It

is

derived

spheres together.

different

grasping of something outward

and material,

upon which the imagination may put the stamp of the unseen and unspeakable.

The symbol

one

what you

the

to

side

what you

side to

feel,

can

the middle link, being related from

and grasp, and from the other

see

As

fancy and imagine.

of the

consciousness

is

Infinite

revives

in

soon, therefore, as

the public mind, in

antagonism to a God-given Revelation, the demand for the symbol necessarily

world,

so

and immediately declares is

it

ever-changing relation between the

phenomena of

life

;

ing after

is

it

was

in

and the

is

the Grecian

finite in

satisfy the soul.

What

a comprehensive impression of the Infinite in

phenomenon

able to

stir

the soul want to realize

it

Infinite

all-pervading and all-permeating action

such an

So

the actual

but this relation, being always partial, successive

and momentarily gauged, cannot

its

itself.

now. Of course there exists also an ?/;/conscious,

infinite sensation

is

in us, just

;

and

she

its

totality, in

this sensation

because

it

is

long-

is

no

finite.

a grasping of the Infinite as such

finite

What ;

and

Symbolism only can produce, just because

puts an invisible stamp upon a visible or palpable phenomenon.

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