Idea as a direct revelation of the oneness of the Will; starting with the oneness of all human being, our consciousness is thereby shown beyond dispute our unity with Nature, whom equally we recognise through Sound.” [770W-{9-12/70} Beethoven: PW Vol. V, p. 71]
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[P. 72] {SCHOP} {FEUER} “We can but take it that the individual will, silenced in the plastic artist through pure beholding, awakes in the musician as the universal Will, and – above and beyond all power of vision – now recognises itself as such in full self-consciousness. Hence the great difference in the mental state of the concipient musician and the designing artist; hence the radically diverse effects of music and of painting: here profoundest stilling, there utmost excitation of the will. In other words we here have the will imprisoned by the fancy (Wahn) of its difference from the essence of things outside, and unable to lift itself above its barriers save in the purely disinterested beholding of objects; whilst there, in the musician’s case, the will feels one forthwith, above all bounds of individuality: for Hearing has opened it the gate through which the world thrusts home to it, it to the world. This prodigious breaking-down the floodgates of Appearance must necessarily call forth in the inspired musician a state of ecstasy wherewith no other can compare: in it the will perceives itself the almighty Will of all things: it has not mutely to yield place to contemplation, but proclaims itself aloud as conscious World-Idea. {SCHOP} {FEUER} One state surpasses his, and one alone, -- the Saint’s, and chiefly through its permanence and imperturbability; whereas the clairvoyant ecstasy of the musician has to alternate with a perpetually recurrent state of individual consciousness, which we must account the more distressful the higher has his inspiration carried him above all bounds of individuality. And this suffering again, allotted him as penalty for the state of inspiration in which he so unutterably entrances us, might [P. 73] make us hold the musician in higher reverence than other artists, ay, wellnigh give him claim to rank as holy. For his art, in truth, compares with the communion of all other arts as Religion with the Church.” [771W-{9-12/70} Beethoven: PW Vol. V, p. 72-73]
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[P. 73] {FEUER} {SCHOP} “We have seen that in the other arts the Will is longing to become pure Knowledge (gaenzlich Erkenntniss zu werden verlangt), but that this is possible only in so far as it stays stock still in its deepest inner chamber: ‘tis as if it were awaiting tidings of redemption from there outside; content they it not, it sets itself in that state of clairvoyance; and here, beyond the bounds of time and space, it knows itself the world’s One and All. What it here has seen, no tongue can impart [* Translator’s Footnote: “Cf. Tristan und Isolde, act iii. : ‘Die Sonne sah ich night, nicht sah ich Land noch Leute: doch was ich sah, das kann ich dir nicht sagen.’ “]; as the dream of deepest sleep can only be conveyed to the waking consciousness through translation into the language of a second, an allegoric dream which immediately precedes our wakening, so for the direct vision of its self the Will creates a second organ of transmission, -- an organ whose one side faces toward that inner vision, whilst the other thrusts into the reappearing outer world with the sole direct and sympathetic message, that of Tone.” [772W-{9-12/70} Beethoven: PW Vol. V, p. 73]
