The antithesis between symbolism and revelation - pagina 12

10 with a strong anti- symbolical element, just so

now impregnated

A distinct

distilled tincture of symbolism.

an ever more strongly

bA^

it is

change, which every thoughtful observer now already fully realizes, although the bulk of the people, soon accustomed to symbolism's fragrance,

peculiar

not

and themselves halfway intoxicated by

how

the least aware

in

This

far the scenes

however,

change,

ritualistic

(and

symbolism

but

once

I

shifted-

not to be understood as a

is

by the

supplantation of the religious feeling arl

have been already

are

it,

aesthetical.

more emphasise

It

not

is

the expression)

and the true conception of the new that took hold of the mind movement lies in the acknowledgement of the fact, that of late ;

indeed a new religious

dominating

well marked, in

Catholic circles.

A

and

scholars

French mind

politicians,

now on

ances,

between the

and

at least, both in Protestant

French

the

of

difference

in

is

Roman

hundred years ago Voltaire, now de Brunetiere^

gives expression to the

days

The

in.

of the end of the former century and of ours,

spirit

Europe

the

has set

tide

in

statesmen

convention

were vying

in

And

leading classes.

strong

the contrary an increasing

and

in

belletrists,

a7iti-rt\\g\o\xs

number

if

utter-

of eminent

men

of paramount influence, both in the university and in governmental circles, are deeming it a point of honour, publicly to declare their

and

sympathies

religious

to

proclaim their predilections for mys-

tical piety.

Only

it

should

for the religious

be

observed

element

is

that

this newly-risen predilection

of a very peculiar kind. It

is

absolutely

devoid of every personal and definite character. Both in the days of the Apostles and in the times of the Reformation the revival of spiritual

God,

living

the

cry

originated from a yearning of the heart after the

life

for salvation

Now, on

soul

witnessed.

meum on the not

it

It is

shall I

do

to

be

can rest

not Augustine confessing: Inquietum cor in in

Te

o Domine,

Thee,

O

stairs of the Vatican for the

Calvin,

What

the contrary, no such struggle of the oppressed

donee requiescat

unquiet until

In both instances

for eternal peace.

troubled conscience was:

of the

saved? is

and

bidding

every

earnest

God.

i.

e.:

It is

My

heart remains

not Luther creeping

redemption of his soul.

man and

woman

It is

not to rest

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