{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 156/1914-10-07/p021","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I once met Herman Grimm during his visit to the Goethe-Schiller Archive in Weimar. He talked about how he imagined the evolution of humanity, that history was not a list of what is usually recorded as history; for him, history is an evolution of spiritual forces. But he could only bring himself to call it a history of the imaginative work of human beings. It was not possible for him to grasp that there are imaginations in the development of humanity that unconsciously flow into humanity and are transformed into human activity, that there are inspirations and intuitions in history. To him, it was 'the imaginative work of nations'. He could not come to replace the purely external, factual aspect of the Maya, which he called the “imagination work of the peoples”, with that which must present itself in the human spirit if it is to find its way out of the physical world and into the spiritual one. Only in the future will we understand what it meant for the nineteenth century when Herman Grimm said: What can interest us particularly in the way history has handed down the story of Julius Caesar? Julius Caesar – Herman Grimm says – interests me much more as he is portrayed by Shakespeare. That is truer, more historical than anything presented in historiography. – He repeatedly pointed out how much he likes to read Tacitus, for the reason that he was a person who knew how to bring to life and transform into the spiritual what he had to describe. From such conceptions there arose such a wonderful thought as that which Herman Grimm wrote down in the nineties and which is found in his book on Homer, a thought which really stands there as the expectation of what is to come as tidings from the Hierarchies: ” Recognizing themselves as a totality, human beings acknowledge that they are subject to an invisible court enthroned in the clouds, before which they consider it a misfortune *not* to be allowed to exist, and whose judicial proceedings they seek to adapt to their inner disputes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"An Age of Expectation","site_heading":null,"date":"1914-10-07","location":null,"word_count":351,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-10-07/p021","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA156/English/Singles/19141007p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-10-07/p021"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/156/1914-10-07/p021","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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Da sprach er davon, wie er sich die Evolution der Menschheit vorstellte, daß ihm Geschichte nicht eine Aufzählung dessen sei, was gewöhnlich als Geschichte aufgezeichnet ist; ihm sei Geschichte eine Evolution geistiger Kräfte. Aber er konnte sich nur dazu erheben, sie eine Geschichte der Phantasiearbeit der Menschen zu nennen. Daß es Imaginationen in der Menschheitsentwickelung gibt, die unbewußt in die Menschheit einfließen und sich umsetzen in menschliche Tätigkeit, daß es Inspirationen und Intuitionen in der Geschichte gibt, das konnte ihm nicht aufgehen. «Phantasiearbeit der Völker» war ihm das. Er konnte nicht dazu kommen, das rein Äußerliche, Tatsächliche der Maja, das er «Phantasiearbeit der Völker» nannte, abzulösen durch dasjenige, was sich im menschlichen Geiste darbieten muß, wenn er den Aufstieg aus der physischen Welt in die geistige finden will. Man wird wirklich erst später verstehen, was es für das 19. Jahrhundert bedeutete, wenn Herman Grimm sagte: Was kann uns das, wie die Geschichte Julius Cäsar wiedergegeben hat, besonders interessieren? Julius Cäsar - meint Herman Grimm - interessiert mich viel mehr, wie er von Shakespeare dargestellt ist. Das ist wahrer, historischer als alles, was in der Geschichtsschreibung dargestellt ist. - Immer wieder verwies er darauf, wie gern er Tacitus liest, aus dem Grunde, weil dieser ein Mensch war, der aus der Seele heraus lebendig zu machen und ins Geistige zu verwandeln wußte, was er zu schildern hatte. Aus solchen Vorstellungen heraus entstand dann ein so wunderbarer Gedanke wie der, den Herman Grimm in den neunziger Jahren niedergeschrieben hat, und der in seinem Homer-Buche steht, ein Gedanke, der wirklich so recht wie eine Erwartung dessen dasteht, was als Kunde von den Hierarchien kommen soll: «Die Menschen als Totalität anerkennen sich als einem wie in den Wolken thronenden unsichtbaren Gerichtshofe unterworfen, vor dem *nicht* bestehen zu dürfen, sie als ein Unglück erachten, und dessen gerichtlichem Verfahren sie ihre inneren Zwistigkeiten anzupassen suchen.»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":322,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/156/1914-10-07/p021"}],"english":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p021"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":322,"en_words":351,"ratio":1.09,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8155,"original_word_count":7855,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"Singles","book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA156/English/Singles/19141007p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 156/1914-10-07/p021"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"high","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. 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