An Age of Expectation

GA 156/1914-10-07/p031 ·1914-10-07 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Thus the moment arises when, one might say, in his quietly distinguished manner, Herman Grimm could see a supreme moment when a monarch of the outer world pays homage to the spiritual emperor. This is also a gesture of this world, of unspeakable significance. I know that many have taken offense at it, but one must take things in their deeper context. Many have been offended by the fact that Herman Grimm mentions an event that happened to him on Christmas Eve 1876. But this fact is significant because it leads to a point where, in more recent times, there stands a man who feels it to be natural for a monarch of the external world to pay homage to the spiritual emperor. Thus it seems to me to be most significant for the newer spiritual life when Herman Grimm, in his “Contributions to German Cultural History”, relates how on Christmas Eve 1876 the following letter from the German Emperor Wilhelm I was delivered to him:

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