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Wir von der unsichtbaren Kirche haben nicht Not, die lauten Namen uns zu nennen, Geschicke uns zu künden vieles redend, -- und ist Geschick denn, was sich künden läßt? -- Ein Wink der Augen nur, ein Zug der Lippen, er hat die Kraft und wölbt die schlanken Bogen geschmeidig -- fest vom Menschen hin zum Menschen, welchen die Seelen zage erst betreten, doch lächelnd und dann immer schneller schreiten und eilen dann und stürzen immer schneller, um auf des Bogens höchstgewölbter Mitte in Armen sich zu finden, selig stumm.
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Confirmed with Nachgelassene Schriften von Walter Calé. Mit einem Vorwort von Fritz Mauthner, herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Arthur Brückmann, Dritte Auflage, Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1910, page 94
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We of the invisible church do not find it necessary to tell loud names to ourselves, to herald fates with much talk, -- and is it even fate, that which lets itself be heralded? -- A mere sign from one's eyes, a twitch of the lips, that has the strength and draws the slender curves smoothly -- firmly from one person to another, which the souls first enter with trepidation, yet smiling and then ever more quickly stride and hasten then and plunge ever more rapidly, upon the centre of the apex of the arch to find themselves in each other's arms, blissfully mute.
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