Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/301/en

In the period that followed, up into the ninth and tenth centuries, the soul-formation of human beings was transformed under this ascending cultural impulse. The untamed, tempestuous strength of courage became inward, and transformed itself into the soul-force of humility. And from the I — which, in penetrating and ennobling body and soul, became aware of itself in ever further degrees — the "question" wrested itself toward human being and world alike. The Parzival story depicts this turning. The young Parzival enters the world as a "guileless fool." With tempestuous courage he takes up combat with every adversary without knowing who it is. Only after the fight do victor and vanquished lift their visors and make themselves known. The action preceded the knowing. The wandering of Parzival leads through misconduct, doubt, and suffering to the awakening of the I, to the question: "Who am I — what ails thee?" The soul's opening toward the question, at the right place and the right time, raises Parzival to Grail King — to the I that, filled with spirit, masters itself. Just as in Hellenism the inexorability of the fate of Orestes or Oedipus announces the tragedy of an age coming to its close, so in the unfolding of the Parzival-destiny — in complete metamorphosis — there reveals itself the future path toward free self-determination.