I had just told her the news about Russia.” We turned back, scarcely speaking, he untied his horse and mounted.
I first realized in my room how exhausted I was by Demian’s message, and even more so by my previous spiritual exertions.
But Mother Eve had heard me! My thoughts had reached her. She would have come herself, if—how wonderful all this was, and how beautiful!
Now it was to be war. Now what we had so often spoken of was about to happen. And Demian had known so much in advance.
How strange that the world’s stream would no longer flow somewhere or other by us—that now it was suddenly flowing through us,
that fate and adventure called us, and that now, or soon, the moment would come when the world would need us, when it would be transformed.
Demian was right, one should not be sentimental over it.
Only it was strange that I was now to experience that lonely thing, “fate,” with so many, with the whole world.
Good then! I was ready. In the evening, when I went through the town, every corner was alive with bustle and excitement.
Everywhere the word “war”! I went to Mother Eve’s house. We had supper in the summer house. I was the only guest.
No one spoke a word about the war. But later, shortly before I left, Mother Eve said: “Dear Sinclair, you called me to-day.
You know why I did not come myself. But don’t forget, you know the call now and if ever you need someone who bears the sign, call me again.”
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