The antithesis between symbolism and revelation - pagina 18

t6 In the Freemasonry you see quite the

same

aims

revelation,

the

at

and

the very

rejects

and

first,

symbolism.

elaborated

choked with

but

Infinite,

from

created

all still

Freemasonry

thing.

and therefore

it

advocates, the most explicit

Spiritism, on the contrary,

is

almost

from the other side of the tomb,

thirst for revelation

and consequently knows of no symbolical fancy whatsoever.

So Revelation and Symbolism Both

principle.

between

the

opposed,

have

himself

who

the

creature

field

and

unveils <5>'

Symbolism,

of

but they are so diametrically

finite,

it

it

is

the infinite Being

stipulates the relation to be accepted

—

/<r^zV// ;

is

and

the

that,

man who

finite

Now

conventionally coins

German pantheism

the fact that

diates every supernatural revelation,

very beginning

its

will

but by

rejects

and repu-

deny.

From

the

war has been waged against every dogma, every

tures.

The

history

was absolutely excluded;

idea

to

of

revealing

no one

faith,

and every divine authority ascribed to the Holy Scrip-

confession,

According

by

on the other hand, on the

such a relation symbollically, to be grasped not by sensation.

by

to establish a perceivable relation

by the means of Revelation

that

finite

and the

Infinite

are opposed one to the other

view

in

itself

the its

of a

God

intervening

in

the process ol

and debarred.

yea, even thrust out

navxa qh, the

Infinite,

strictly

bound

to the

essence in the course of successive events, could

only throb and pulsate in the arteries of the cosmos and in man's soul.

But,

besides that,

it

had

to

be

silent

and mute as the

idol.

In the all-embracing antithesis between Revelation and Symbolism, therefore, the current opinion of the

day could not but antagonize

Symbohsm. And here Philosophy and Art found their natural alliance Philosophy, by its oneness of systematical conception, raising the mind to the Infinite, and Art, by the wonderful power of its imaginative gifts, creating the corRevelation

and side with

responding symbols.

Such

is

the bifurcation of the

way

of Hfe at the approaching close

of this century. There are two crossing tracks. Pointing to the Orient, there

every

is

the old track of faith in a God-given Revelation, excluding

"will-worship."

new road

But

this

old track

now

is

crossed by the

of Symbolism, boldly exhibiting the word:

Mill-worship

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