Fifth Lecture

GA 117a/1910-01-08/p024 ·1910-01-08 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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But the luciferic forces have seduced man into regarding the opaque veil of Maya as the truth. Zarathustra knew how to tell of that second kind of force that prevents man from attaining to the spirit: Ahriman, who was able to oppose himself after the luciferic forces had woven the veil. When man enters into ecstasy, he brings with him the error that the external world is not a veil. This is what the second guardian of the threshold protects him from: belief in materiality appears before his eyes like a mirage. The great guardian is the one who asks to distinguish this brought illusion from the true spiritual world.

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