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s in his address to Beethoven. [As is customary among the Viennese to this day. H. E. K.]) 316. "What is all this compared with the great Tonemaster above! above! above! and righteously the Most High, whereas here below all is mockery,--dwarfs,--and yet Most High!!" (To Schott, publisher in Mayence, in 1822--the same year in which Beethoven copied the Egyptian inscription.) 317. "There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind." (August, 1823, to Archduke Rudolph.) 318. "Heaven rules over the destiny of men and monsters (literally, human and inhuman beings), and so it will guide me, too, to the better things of life." (September 11, 1811, to the poet Elsie von der Recke.) 319. "It's the same with humanity; here, too (in suffering), he must show his strength, i.e. endure without knowing or feeling his nullity, and reach his perfection again for which the Most High wishes to make us worthy." (May 13, 1816, to Countess Erdody, who was suffering from incurable lameness.) 320. "Religion and thorough-bass are settled things concerning which there should be no disputing." (Reported by Schindler.) 331. "All things flowed clear and pure out of God. Though often darkly led to evil by passion, I returned, through penance and purification to the pure fountain,--to God,--and to your art. In this I was never impelled by selfishness; may it always be so. The trees bend low under the weight of fruit, the clouds descend when they are filled with salutary rains, and the benefactors of humanity are not puffed up by their wealth." (Diary, 1815. The first portion seems to be a quotation, but Beethoven continues after the dash most characteristically in his own words and a change of person.) 322. "God is immaterial, and for this reason transcends every conception. Since He is invisible He can have no form. But from what we observe in His work we may conclude that He is eternal, omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent." (Copied, with the remark: "From Indian literature" from an unidentified work, into the Diary of 1816.) 323. "In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee to let me feel the heavy hand of Thy displeasure and to humiliate my proud heart by manifold castigations. Sickness
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