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Probably the knowledge of bats which most of us possess is chiefly derived from the imaginations of artists and poets, who, unlike the Chinese, do not look upon these creatures with much favour, generally symbolising them in connection with passages and pictures which relate to the infernal regions. All of which is entirely unjust.
In most religious communities a minor form of Baptism accompanies all religious ceremonies, water being used as a symbol of purification, and the idea being that no man should enter upon worship until he has purified his heart and conscience, the outer washing symbolising the inner lustration.
Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?" This is a parable symbolising the uselessness of the old teaching, represented by the barren fig tree. That which is meant metaphorically, St. Mark relates as a fact appearing to be historical.
I do not, of course, propound it as literally and precisely as it is here set down it is not a forecast of the future, so much as a symbolising of the forces of life but the renewal of conscious experience, in some form or other, seems to be the only way out of the difficulty, and it is that which is here indicated.
Again, as of old, her outstretched hand the little formality symbolising to him the importance of all that concerned them. He touched it. "A bientôt," she said. "On the lawn out there farther out, in the starlight," he whispered his voice broke "my darling "
What does their dreamy solemnity mean if not, "the Lord hath smitten him by the hand of a woman"? One other delicate bit of symbolising he has allowed himself, which I may not omit. You are to see by whom this deed was done: by a woman who has unsexed herself. Judith is absorbed in her awful service; her robe trails on the ground and clings about her knees; she is unconscious of the hindrance.
My mother is afraid but we cannot turn back. I am calm. Then this immediately follows I am in a kind of tunnel and fear that I shall suffocate. This and the following might be construed as symbolising my own birth. I am in a boat on the ocean with my mother. The waves are tremendous and as she goes out on deck to close a great door I fear she will be washed away. But she is safe.
A similar mode of symbolising the Commune is chosen in the bas-reliefs of Archbishop Tarlati's tomb at Arezzo, where the discord of the city is represented by an old man of gigantic stature, throned and maltreated by the burghers, who are tearing out his hair by handfuls. Over this figure is written "Il Comune Pelato." These were adopted as the ensign of Siena, in the Middle Ages.
Thus we perceive what prejudice hath arisen, and yet ariseth to the true and saving doctrine, by the means of symbolising with the church of Rome in these ceremonies. I will therefore show, that Reconcilers are set forward in their course of reconciliation, by means of the Roman rites remaining in reformed churches.
'But the beautiful must be truly beautiful to be worth anything; and so you, too, must search for the true. 'Yes; truth of form, colour, chiaroscuro. They are worthy to occupy me a life; for they are eternal or at least that which they express: and if I am to get at the symbolised unseen, it must be through the beauty of the symbolising phenomenon.
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