An Age of Expectation

Most of the friends gathered here know from various cycles and individual lectures that I have given here and there in the very last few months that one of my most significant occult experiences of late has been spending time with Christian Morgenstern after his death. And I have not held back the very experience that is so significant in connection with Christian Morgenstern for the blessing that flows to our movement from the spiritual worlds: that a poet could find his way to our movement and connect his soul so intimately with it that that, so to speak, the elements of his present nature in the spiritual worlds include that cosmic tableau, which – with the means of the spiritual world, and at the same time as an integral part of Christian Morgenstern – reveals the truth of that which we have to recognize and teach. Yes, my dear friends, this is something extraordinarily significant, something that can instill tremendous confidence in the inner truth, but also in the inner driving force of our movement. We know that something like the confluence of the spiritual cosmic universe is now connected with Christian Morgenstern's own being. Just as in a large tableau by a painter, a real painter on the physical plane, one sees many of the secrets of the physical world flowing together, so in the spiritual world, because there the human being has to give not only his abilities to what it offers, but his whole being, so the whole being of Christian Morgenstern is connected with this, I would say, cosmic painting in which he now lives. And it is one of the most moving experiences one can have to see how he is only now living in the spiritual world with his true and genuine nature. It is one of the most harrowing experiences to see how this human being lived in the physical world, locked into the most diverse inhibitions, and how it can now - conceivable, tangible for those who love this person - develop freely in the spiritual world. It is harrowing how we can only fully get to know such a being when we grasp its meaning after death.