An Age of Expectation

And if we seek today to find a true soul-feeling, a true and deep feeling of the affiliation of the human soul to the higher hierarchies, then this is really - as it presents itself to us in spiritual science - in a certain sense the fulfillment of expectations, of expectations that have been there in the development of mankind, that one can say: It is precisely such representative spirits as Herman Grimm who, in their own way, express the deepest longing for something that they are waiting for and which must be given in the way we describe today the higher hierarchies and their relationship to the human being. You see, a spirit like Herman Grimm was able to express this most deeply, most soulfully, one might say, most powerfully at the core of the soul. And yet, whenever we open his books, we see once more how his personality is connected with the expectation of spiritual science, which, when it fleetingly came to him, he was unable to understand. It was necessary that something similar should happen as it was after Christian Morgenstern's death.