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Meaning. Goethe was an Initiate, yet it is doubtful
whether he ever understood the wealth of wisdom
which is embedded in the mystic ballad of the " King
of Thule." " Tannhauser " and " Lohengrin ’’
are Divine
Revelations in the fullest sense of the term, as they
contain truths from the celestial spheres—truths of
which Wagner had probably very incomplete knowledge.
Ibsen often sneered at critics who perceived in his
works depths to which the conscious thought of the
Author never had plunged. The great Norwegian poet
possessed the gift of tongues : he lacked that of inter-
pretation.
This latter gift of the Holy Ghost gives more joy
than any other: it consists in instant perception of
the Inner Meaning of Allegories, Metaphors, Fables,
and Parables. It is a magnificent gift, and St. Paul
was justified in saying " that it gave edification." The
faculty of speaking in tongues has been distributed
since time immemorial amongst all the nations of
Earth, as it is one of the favourite modes of mani-
festation of the Holy Ghost. It was particularly
abundant in the Middle Ages, and meets us constantly
in modern times. But this gift is only discerned by
those who have " from the self-same Spirit " received
the still greater gift of Interpretation. To one is
given the faculty of putting forth riddles, to another
that of expounding them, but the " same God worketh
in all,"
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