THENEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND

TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1897.

II. Showing the Providential Character and

Fivefold aspect of the ordinary Drama.

III. Illustrating the Scenical Harmony of a

Drama and the Special Characteristics of

its Five Parts.

IV. Scenery and Dramatis Personæ of the Divine

Drama.

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THE PENTALOGUE; OR, THE DIVINE DRAMA

OF WESTERN CIVILISATION.

THE MEDITERRANEAN MISSIONS: being a Trilogue, con-

sisting of the Hebrew, Greek, and Roman Missions

-which are confined to the Mediterranean world in

a geographical sense and-until modern times, when

the Trilogue is renewed and enlarged- confined

within analogous narrow limits in every other sense.

The Hebrew mission is unitary and monotheistic-

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absolute and illiberal. The Greek is divisional, poly-
theistic, and liberal. The Roman first resembles the
Greek in character, but at last it closes the history
of the olden times by taking possession of the whole
Mediterranean world-first territorially, philosophi-
cally and classically taking possession of Greece,
and then adopting the new or Christian form of the
Hebrew mission, and reconciling the three apparently
opposite missions by a new collective unitary mission
of its own, with which it begins a new trilogue in
the Spiritual Empire of the Middle Ages. The
Roman Unity is distinguished from that of the Jews
by its tri-unity, and also its multitudinous lesser
canonised divinities; and though each unity is ex-
clusively male, there is a growing tendency in the
Roman Mission to deify the Feminine Principle in
the worship of the Sponsa Dei.