gion and irreligion, the invisible world contrasted with
the visible. "Out of Enthusiasm the poets in bacchanalian intoxication
contend for death." The sciences are poetized; mathematics also enters
the lists. The plants of India are commemorated in song; new
glorification of Indian mythology.

This is Henry's last act upon the earth; the transition to his own
glorification. This is the solution of the whole work, the _Fulfilment_
of the allegory which concludes the First Part. Everything is explained
and completed, supernaturally and yet most naturally. The partition
between Fiction and Truth, between the Past and the Present has fallen
down. Faith, Fancy, and Poetry lay open the internal world.

Henry reaches Sophia's land, in Nature, such as might be allegorically
painted; after having conversed with Klingsohr concerning certain
singular signs and omens. These are mostly awakened by an old song
which he hears by chance, and in which is described a deep water in a
secluded spot. The song excites within him long forgotten
recollections; he visits the water, and finds a small golden key, which
a raven had stolen from him some time before, and which he had never,
expected to find. An old man had given it to him soon after Matilda's
death, with the injunction that he should carry it to the emperor, who
would tell him what to do with it. Henry seeks the emperor, who is
highly rejoiced and gives him an ancient manuscript, in which it is
written that the emperor should give it to that man who ever brought
him a golden key; that this man would discover in a secret place an old
talisman, a carbuncle for his crown, in which a space was yet left for
it. The place itself is also described in the parchment. After reading
the description, Henry takes the road to a mountain, and meets on the
way the stranger who first told him and his parents concerning the blue
flower; he converses with him about Revelation. He enters the mountain
and Cyane trustingly follows him.

He soon reaches that wonderful land in which air and water, flowers and
animals, differ entirely from those of earthly nature. The poem at the
same time changes in many places to a play. "Men, beasts, plants,
stones and stars, the elements, sounds, colors, meet like one family,
act and converse like one race. Flowers and brutes converge concerning
men. The world of fable is again visible; the real world is itself
regarded as a fable." He finds the blue flower; it is Ma