The antithesis between symbolism and revelation - pagina 23

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my

elucidate

assertion,

undermining

symbolical

the

tide of

The

churches.

Symbolism and

principle of

An

Calvinism are just the reverse of one another.

between them. Symbolism

with

be

Our

desire that all the people of

"to

gaping

is

which could but

raised

the

every

believer

masses.

of the

senses

religious

to

life

personally

that

spiritual

to that lozver stage of

the feelings and intoxi-

Our churches, on the contrary, much higher level, which leads

what

to

stir

God might

wisdom and

all

Symbolism throws us back

religious development,

the

abyss

holy precincts stuns, blunts and

with the hiowledge of his will in

understanding y

cate

in the

that of

churches, on the contrary, did not cease to pray,

and

Paul,

St.

filled

is

organs of understanding, and checks their function

the

stultifies

agnostically.

our days

most dangerous way the very foundation of

the

in

Calvinistic

all

that

St.

John confessed,

..that the

we

Son of God has come and has given us the tinderstanding might know him." And so also Symbolism subjects the

laity to

hereby

fosters

the

mysterious

performances

aristocratic sympathies.

and clergy

laity

in

Our

churches, on the contrary, united both

one brotherhood, and thereby

dation for the democratic pre-eminenee of

Let

therefore

no

and

clergy

of the

one

that

modern

laid the foun-

times.

whatsoever catastrophe

retort, that

may

be menacing elsewhere, neither Ritualism, nor Symbolism proper, has

thus

services.

made any

far

May

the fact be

no good arithmetician out

the

negative

noticeable

beyond

will cast

ones.

Now,

intrusion

of sensual

worship,

the

darkening

of the

viz.,

confessional

indifference.

intrusion

question.

up the in

into

But do you not know, that

positive figures only, leaving

our

but here

case is

the

is

to

flow.

is

understanding and the slipping

Symbolism always

toward the dogma, so digging out the bed stream

positive

And

now, as

the

also the negative item,

begins

some

the voice of the confession, and by instilling

ritualistic

our Calvinistic

in I

by

slight aversion

which the

am

in of

silencing

glittering

a foreigner here,

you know you own churches better than I do. But are you sure, that this negative action of Symbolism is nowhere operating among you ? Is the danger that the love for the banners which your fathers unfolded, be drowned in mere practical

work and

beautiful services

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