ABSTRACT
“The Tempest” is Shakespeare’s Will, the testament in which he bequeaths to mankind the almost illimitable wealth of his spiritual treasure. What that tremendous opera is to Music, “The Tempest” is to Drama, the greatest play in existence. The student reads “The Tempest,” the work of the greatest poet that ever lived, his last, his best, the summary of his life. Students who wish to follow in detail the exact parallel between Aenead VI and “The Tempest” should read “Shakespeare’s Mystery Play,” by Colin Still. All that is implicit in the Bible was explicit in the Primitive Church, and should be taught in the Churches. And yet these Mysteries were never peculiar to the Hebrew and Christian Religions. In the abstract conception Prospero is the God-Immanent, or divine principle in man. In the concrete drama Miranda is daughter to the banished Duke; but in the abstract conception she is the Divine Wisdom, mystically of equal rank to Hermes.
