Anni - The Perfect Wisdom Web

a n n iwhen it actually was not. So I was somewhat critical, eventhough in another way I was attracted. I did not want tobind myself to any firm belief or to commit myself.From her side, Emi-Margret wrote to her parents on May1, 1929:I talked for a long time with Anni about faithfulness,which for her is only a concept. For people who knownothing except the soul and its emotions, there is no suchthing as faithfulness. It would take too long to writeabout it all. We have long and heated debates. But actuallysuch a debate can only be described verbally. In acertain way she reproached me because I have a fixedcenter point in life from which I take my bearings. But atleast she knows that I never, never want to lose this fixedpoint; I told her so.For Emi-Margret, this “fixed point” was self-evident; thecommunity she grew up in was founded to be an expressionof faith. From her father, she had learned to admirethe Youth Movement’s vitality and joyful non-conformitywhile clearly seeing its shortcomings. In fact, EberhardArnold had written an article discussing the novels byGertrud Prellwitz that had so impressed Anni, in whichhe concluded: “Emotion without Christ’s spirit leads tothe abyss.”Anni’s correspondence with her family continued todescribe only the activities of college life.48