An Age of Expectation

GA 156/1914-10-07/p040 ·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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One would like to say that everything in this man strives for spirit, for spiritualization. This is how he brings us the confidence, the genuine confidence, the true confidence, that we are not giving something that has arisen from external arbitrariness, but rather what humanity needs, what it has been waiting for. This is something tremendously important. And it is the universality of spiritual science that already lives in this expectation. Therefore, I may refer once more to what Herman Grimm says in his book on Homer:

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