Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-09-19 | Page 34 | Injecting the Occult

INJECTING- THE OCCULT. ' Idyl!n of tho King: a .Spiritual Interpretation. Interpreta-tion. By Walter Sponcor. The Cochrane Coch-rane Publlahliif; Co., New York. Tho author in this work takes up tho twelve stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, as so beautifully retold by Tcnnvsoii, and undertakes to engraft upon "them an allegorical or spiritual fabric, which would bo a surprise at once to tho old writers aud compilers of those tales, . and to the noble poet who gavo them to us in such entrancing form. Ai such interpretations, all such attempts to make these stories subservient: to sonto sort of spiritual or occult idea, undertaking lo show that the old au thors did not know what they wore about, or wrote something deeper than they thomsolves comprehended, and that tho legends had all boon hitherto misunderstood, but that it was reserved for the writer of this theory to givo their real meaning to the world these will all nass away with the authors who wrote them. But. the tales will roinain and be a part of the F.ngMsh classic literature as long as English speech remains. There is nothing in any of those far-fetched interpretations; interpreta-tions; they amount to nothing, and must be swept away as nibbish. The modern theorists who undertake to road into these old stories something entirely entire-ly foreign to them and altogether out of tho conception of those who wrote them, must consent to go into oblivion as persons who would repaint the lily and sprinkle an alien perfume on the rose.