it was clear to all of us that a break-up of the present-day world was approaching, to be followed by a new birth.
Demian said to me on more than one occasion: “What will come is beyond conception.
The soul of Europe is an animal which has been chained up for an immeasurably long period.
When it is set free, its first movements will not display much amiability.
But the way it will take, whether direct or indirect, is not of importance,
provided that the soul’s true need is realized, this soul which has been deluded and dulled for so long.
Then our day will come, then we shall be needed, not as guides or new law-givers—we shall not live to see the new laws—
but rather as volunteers, as those who are ready to follow and to stand wherever fate shall call us.
Look, all men are ready to perform the incredible, when their ideals are threatened.
But no one comes forward when a new ideal, a new, perhaps dangerous and uncanny impulse of spiritual growth declares itself.
We shall be of those few who are there, ready to go forward.
For that purpose have we been singled out just as Cain was marked with the sign to inspire fear and hate,
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