248. The future ones
Those strangers alike in heart, equally decided for the bestowal and refusal that have been assigned to them. The ones who bear the staff of the truth of beyng, the truth in which beings are built up to the dominance of the simple essence of every single thing and breath. The stillest witnesses to the stillest stillness in which an imperceptible impetus turns truth out of the confusion of all calculatively correct findings and back into its essence, such that there is kept concealed what is most concealed, viz., the trembling of the passing by of the decision about the gods, the essential occurrence of beyng
The future ones: the slow, far-hearing ones who ground this essence of truth. Those who offer resistance to the thrust of beyng.
The ones to come2 are those future ones who receive—insofar as they expect on the way back and in sacrificial restraint—the intimation and intrusion of the absconding and nearing of the last god.
The task is to prepare for these future ones. Such preparation is served by inceptual thinking as bearing the silence of the event. But thinking is only one way the few venture the leap into beyng.
249. The basic disposition of the future ones3
The resonating and the interplay, the leap and the grounding, have their own respective guiding dispositions, and all of these originally dispose together out of the basic disposition.
Yet the point is not so much to describe this basic disposition as it is to bring it into effect in the whole of inceptual thinking.
It is hardly to be named in one word, unless that word is "restraint." But then this word must be taken in its entire fullness of origin, a fullness accruing to its meaning out of the inventive thinking of the event.
2. Cf. Prospect, 45. The "decision."
3. Cf. Prospect, 5. For the few—For the rare, p. 14ff