The basic disposition includes mood [Zumutesein], namely, the temperament [Gemüt] of courage [Mut] as the mood of the attuned-knowing will of the event
The guiding dispositions are attuned and attuning in unison with one another.
The guiding disposition of the resonating is shock in the self-unveiling abandonment by beyng and is at same time diffidence in the face of the resonating event. Shock and diffidence in unity first allow the resonating to be carried out in thought.
The unison of the guiding dispositions is fully attuned only through the basic disposition. In it are the future ones, and as so attuned [gestimmt] they are determined [be-stimmt] by the last god. (On disposition, cf. what is essential in the lecture courses on Hölderlin.4)
250. The future ones
stand in sovereign knowledge as genuine knowledge. Whoever attains this knowledge cannot be subjected to calculation or compulsion. Furthermore, this knowledge is useless and has no "value"; it does not matter and cannot be taken as an immediate condition for a currently ongoing business.
With what must the knowledge of those who genuinely know commence? With authentic, historical cognition: i.e., with knowledge of the domain out of which future history is decided and with (questioning) steadfastness in that domain. This historical cognition never consists in determining and delineating current incidents in their circumstances and orientations and in their cherished goals and claims. This knowledge knows the hours of the occurrence which first forms history.
Our own hour is the era of downgoing.
The down-going, in the essential sense, is the path to the reticent preparation for what is to come, i.e., for the moment in which and the site in which the advent and the remaining absent of the gods will be decided. This downgoing is the utterly first beginning. The distorted essence of downgoing, however, takes its own different course and is mere foundering, impasse, stoppage, under the guises of the gigantic, the massive, and the priority of arrangement over what is supposed to fulfill it.
4. Lecture course, Hölderlins Hymnen "Germanien" und "Der Rhein," winter semester 1934-35, (GA39); lecture course, Hölderlins Hymne "Andenken," winter semester 1941-42, (GA52); lecture course, Hölderlins Hymne "Der Ister," summer semester 1942, (GA53).