138THE NORMAL ADVANCEWtyt Has* Judgment bv Jltdfjael gtogeioBY FREDERICK G. MUTTERER[A Translation from Phantasien iiber Kunst by Wackenroder and ...
if you feel exhalted and quickened,
so that everything dissolves like a sweet echo
from heaven, then go into the halls which
Raphaels&...
from a
mountain top the eye beholds the active, ever¬
lasting course of streams, the forest stands be¬
fore us with stern as...
behind it stretch fields and meadows
and
behind them lies the endless ocean
on both sides
the rocks tower on high
the heavens are filled
with laboring clouds, an army on a forced
march
the eagles leave their nests
the storm
resounds from the sea like distant thunder
the
earth seems to struggle with all its force
no
portion inert, no part at rest. Great in her
majesty nature stands before us. The eye does
not rest on this flower or tha...
you find no inci¬
dents in it, no place where the poet comes to a
stop, all forces are strained for a great magic
effec...
the miracles of Christianity, the
mystic secrets, entwine you in their incompre¬
hensible circles and carry you along with them.Just such...
your spirit is led heaven¬
ward
here, too, is no stop, no incident, no rest¬
ing place to which the eye can cling. The en¬
tire world, the past and ...
the Creation of the World, with its
large figures, God Almighty, Adam and Eve,
Angels, lost paradise, the time of the prophets
in ...
The Sibyles, and
finally the future, the supreme Last Judg¬
ment. The dire destruction of the earth, the
resurrection of the dead,...