{SCHOP} {FEUER} As the Dream-organ cannot be roused into action by outer impressions, against which the brain is now fast [P. 69] locked, this must take place through happenings in the inner organism that our waking consciousness merely feels as vague sensations. But it is this inner life through which we are directly allied with the whole of Nature, and thus are brought into a relation with the Essence of things that eludes the forms of outer knowledge, Time and Space; {SCHOP} whereby Schopenhauer so convincingly explains the genesis of prophetic or telepathic (das Fernste wahrnehmbar machenden), fatidical dreams, ay, in rare and extreme cases the occurrence of somnambulistic clairvoyance. From the most terrifying of such dreams we wake with a scream, the immediate expression of the anguished will, which thus makes definite entrance into the Sound-world first of all, to manifest itself without.” [767W-{9-12/70} Beethoven: PW Vol. V, p. 68-69]
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[P. 69] {SCHOP} {FEUER} “ … let us … recall our philosopher’s profound remark adduced above, that we should never understand even the Ideas that by their very nature are only seizable through will-freed, i.e. objective contemplation, had we not another approach to the Essence-of-things which lies beneath them, namely our direct consciousness of our own self. By this consciousness alone are we enabled to understand withal the inner nature of things outside us, inasmuch as we recognise in them the selfsame basic essence that our self-consciousness declares to be our very own. Our each illusion hereanent had sprung from the mere sight of a world around us, a world that in the show of daylight we took for something [P. 70] quite apart from us … .” [768W-{9-12/70} Beethoven: PW Vol. V, p. 69-70]
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[P. 70] {SCHOP} “But that consciousness which alone enabled us to grasp the Idea transmitted by the Show we looked on, must feel compelled at last to cry with Faust: ‘A spectacle superb! But still, alas! a spectacle. Where seize I thee, o Nature infinite?’
{FEUER} {SCHOP} This cry is answered in the most positive manner by Music. Here the world outside us speaks to us in terms intelligible beyond compare, since its sounding message to our ear is of the selfsame nature as the cry sent forth to it [P. 71] from the depths of our own inner heart. … no illusion is possible here, as in the daylight Show, to make us deem the essence of the world outside us not wholly identical with our own; and thus that gulf which seems to sight is closed forthwith.” [769W-{9-12/70} Beethoven: PW Vol. V, p. 70-71]
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[P. 71] {FEUER} {SCHOP} “Now if we see an art arise from this immediate consciousness of the oneness of our inner essence with that of the outer world, our most obvious inference is that this art must be subject to aesthetic laws quite distinct from those of every other. All aesthetes hitherto have rebelled against the notion of deducing a veritable art from what appears to them a purely pathologic element, and have consequently refused to Music any recognition until its products show themselves in a light as cold as that peculiar to the fashionings of plastic art. Yet that its very rudiment ((ihr blosses Element) is felt, not seen, by our deepest consciousness as a world’s idea, we have learnt to recognise forthwith through Schopenhauer’s eventful aid, and we understand that
