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In our present time, when it is historically incumbent upon the whole of mankind to encounter the Guardian of the Threshold in some form, one finds how souls during sleep approach the Guardian of the Threshold as Egos and astral bodies, and the pictures that are revealed are full of significance. The stern Guardian of the Threshold has around him groups of human souls in the state of sleep, souls who in waking consciousness lack the strength to approach this Guardian of the Threshold. They approach him while they sleep.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":146,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/233/1924-01-01/p011","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams and Dorothy S. 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The souls approaching the Guardian of the Threshold during the state of sleep plead with the consciousness then prevailing—in the waking state everything remains unconscious or subconscious—plead to be admitted into the spiritual world, to be allowed to cross the threshold. And in numberless cases one then hears the voice of the stern Guardian of the Threshold saying: For your own well-being you may not cross the threshold. You may not be allowed to enter the spiritual world. You must go back!—For if the Guardian of the Threshold were to permit such souls to enter the spiritual world, they would cross the threshold and enter that world with the concepts imparted to them by the schools, education and civilisation of to-day, with the concepts and ideas with which the human being is obliged to grow up from about the age of six to basically the end of his life on Earth.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":176,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/233/1924-01-01/p012","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams and Dorothy S. 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And when one witnesses this scene which is experienced during sleep by more souls than is usually imagined, one feels: Oh! if only it were possible to protect these souls from having also to experience at death what they experience during sleep. For if the condition that is experienced in the presence of the Guardian of the Threshold were to be repeated for a sufficient length of time, if civilisation were to remain long enough under the sway of what current education provides, then the souls of men would pass through the gates of death into the spiritual world but would be unable to bring any mental vigour into the next earthly life. With the thoughts prevailing to-day it is possible for a man to enter the spiritual world but he can only come out of it again paralysed in soul.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":274,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/233/1924-01-01/p013","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams and Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1977","book_title":"World History in the light of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA233/English/RSP1977/19240101d01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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You Westerners have brought things to this pass because you have abandoned the ancient spirituality of the East.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":109,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/233/1924-01-01/p015","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams and Dorothy S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1977","book_title":"World History in the light of Anthroposophy","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA233/English/RSP1977/19240101d01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Here there must be the High School of true Spiritual Science. Henceforth we must not draw back when confronted by the shallowness of the scientific thoughts of to-day which, as I have described, lead in the state of sleep to the stern Guardian of the Threshold. In Dornach the strength must be acquired to confront and experience the spiritual world in its reality.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":209,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/233/1924-01-01/p016","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams and Dorothy S. 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I was obliged, however, to call attention to the position in which human beings are placed when confronting the Guardian of the Threshold on account of these scientific theories and their offshoots in the orthodox schools of to-day. If what has been said at this Christmas Meeting is sincerely applied in the life of soul, the Meeting will be a forceful impulse which the soul can then apply in the activity that is needed in this age so that in their next incarnations men may be able to confront the Guardian of the Threshold in the right way. This will ensure that civilisation in its own right can enable men to face and hold their own when confronting the Guardian of the Threshold.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":141,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/233/1924-01-01/p017","witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams and Dorothy S. 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If with these concepts—worthy of the Gods as they were—a man came before the Guardian of the Threshold, the Guardian would say to him: You may pass, for you bring over the threshold into the super-sensible world thoughts that were already directed to the super-sensible world during your earthly life in a physical body. 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Um so mehr aber in unserer Zeit, wo es der ganzen Menschheit historisch auferlegt ist, in irgendeiner Form am Hüter der Schwelle vorbeizukommen, um so mehr findet man, wie gesagt, bei entsprechenden Wanderungen in der geistigen Welt, wie die schlafenden Seelen als Iche und astralische Leiber an den Hüter der Schwelle herankommen. Das sind die bedeutungsvollen Bilder, die man heute bekommen kann: der ernste Hüter der Schwelle, um ihn herum Gruppen von schlafenden Menschenseelen, die im wachenden Zustande nicht die Kraft haben, an diesen Hüter der Schwelle heranzukommen, die an ihn herankommen, während sie schlafen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":140,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1924-01-01/p011"},{"locus":"GA 233/1924-01-01/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Dann, wenn man die Szene sieht, die sich da abspielt, dann bekommt man einen Gedanken, der gerade verbunden ist mit dem, was ich das Aufkeimen einer notwendigen großen Verantwortung nennen möchte. Die Seelen, die so im schlafenden Zustande an den Hüter der Schwelle herankommen, sie fordern mit demjenigen Bewußtsein - für das wache bleibt es unbewußt oder unterbewußt -, das der Mensch im Schlafe hat, den Einlaß in die geistige Welt, das Hinüberwandern über die Schwelle. Und in zahllosen Fällen hört man dann die Stimme des ernsten Hüters der Schwelle: Du darfst zu deinem eigenen Heile nicht hinüber über die Schwelle. Du darfst nicht den Einlaß gewinnen in die geistige Welt. Du mußt zurück. Denn würde der Hüter der Schwelle solchen Seelen ohne weiteres den Einlaß in die geistige Welt gewähren, sie würden über die Schwelle hinübergehen, sie würden in die geistige Welt hineinkommen mit den Begriffen, die ihnen die heutige Schule, die heutige Bildung, die heutige Zivilisation überliefert, mit den Begriffen und Ideen, mit denen der Mensch heute aufwachsen muß zwischen dem sechsten Jahre und im Grunde genommen dem Ende seines Erdenlebens.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":183,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1924-01-01/p012"},{"locus":"GA 233/1924-01-01/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Diese Begriffe und Ideen, sie haben die Eigentümlichkeit: wenn man mit ihnen, so wie man mit ihnen geworden ist dutch die gegenwärtige Zivilisation und Schule, in die geistige Welt eintritt, wird man seelisch paralysiert. Und man würde zurückgelangen in die physische Welt in Gedanken- und Ideenleerheit. Würde der Hüter der Schwelle nicht ernst diese Seelen zurückstoßen, viele Seelen der gegenwärtigen Menschen zurückstoßen, würde er sie hinüberlassen in die geistige Welt, dann würden sie, wenn sie wiederum aufwachend zurückkommen, beim entscheidenden Aufwachen zurückkommen, das Gefühl haben: Ich kann ja nicht denken, meine Gedanken ergreifen mein Gehirn nicht, ich muß gedankenlos durch die Welt gehen. - Denn so ist die Welt der abstrakten Ideen, die der Mensch heute anknüpft an alles: man kann mit ihnen hinein in die geistige Welt, aber nicht wieder mit ihnen heraus. Und wenn man diese Szene sieht, die wirklich heute im Schlafe mehr Seelen erleben, als man gewöhnlich glaubt, dann sagt man sich: Oh, wenn es nur gelänge, diese Seelen davor zu behüten, daß, was sie im Schlafe erleben, sie nicht auch im Tode erleben müssen. - Denn wenn der Zustand, der so erlebt wird vor dem Hüter der Schwelle, lange genug fortdauern würde, das heißt, wenn die menschliche Zivilisation lange unter demjenigen bliebe, was man heute in den Schulen aufnehmen, durch die Zivilisation überliefert erhalten kann, dann würde aus dem Schlafe Leben werden. Die Menschenseelen würden hinübergehen durch die Pforte des Todes in die geistige Welt, aber nicht wieder eine Kraft der Ideen in das nächste Erdenleben bringen können. Denn man kann hinein mit den heutigen Gedanken in die geistige Welt, nicht aber mit ihnen wieder heraus. Man kann nur seelisch paralysiert wieder herauskommen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":278,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1924-01-01/p013"},{"locus":"GA 233/1924-01-01/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Sehen Sie, die Zivilisation der Gegenwart läßt sich begründen mit dieser Form des geistigen Lebens, die eben seit so langer Zeit gepflegt worden ist, aber das Leben läßt sich damit nicht begründen. Diese Zivilisation könnte eine Zeitlang fortgehen. Die Seelen würden eben während des Wachens nichts ahnen von dem Hüter der Schwelle, während des Schlafens von ihm zurückgewiesen werden, damit sie nicht paralysiert würden, und zuletzt würde das bewirken, daß ein Menschengeschlecht in der Zukunft geboren würde, welches keinen Verstand, keine Möglichkeit, Ideen im Leben anzuwenden, in diesem künftigen Erdenleben zeigte, und das Denken, das Leben in Ideen würde von der Erde verschwinden. Ein krankhaftes, bloß instinktives Menschengeschlecht würde die Erde bevölkern müssen. Schlimme Gefühle und Emotionen allein, ohne die orientierende Kraft der Ideen, würden Platz greifen in der Menschheitsentwickelung. Ja, es ist so, daß nicht nur in der schon geschilderten Weise sich durch die Beobachtung der vor dem Hüter der Schwelle stehenden Seele, die keinen Einlaß gewinnen kann in die geistige Welt, daß nicht nur dadurch ein trauriges Bild sich darbietet dem geistig Schauenden, sondern auch noch in einer anderen Beziehung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":182,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1924-01-01/p014"},{"locus":"GA 233/1924-01-01/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Nimmt man eine Menschenwesenheit, die nun nicht aus westlicher Zivilisation, sondern aus östlicher Zivilisation entsprungen ist, mit auf jener Wanderung, die ich charakterisiert habe, auf der man beobachten kann die schlafenden Menschenseelen vor dem Hüter der Schwelle, nimmt man eine solche östliche Menschenwesenheit mit, dann kann man von ihr die Geistworte wie einen furchtbaren Vorwurf gegenüber der gesamten westlichen Zivilisation erheben hören: Seht ihr, wenn das so fortgeht, wird schon, wenn die Menschen, die heute leben, neuerdings in einer Inkarnation auf Erden erscheinen, die Erde barbarisiert sein. Die Menschen werden ohne Ideen, nur noch in Instinkten leben. So weit habt ihr es gebracht, weil ihr abgefallen seid von der alten Spiritualität des Morgenlandes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":113,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1924-01-01/p015"},{"locus":"GA 233/1924-01-01/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"In der Tat, für dasjenige, was Aufgabe des Menschen ist, kann gerade ein solcher Blick in die geistige Welt hinein, wie ich ihn geschildert habe, von einer starken Verantwortlichkeit zeugen. Und hier in Dornach muß eine Stätte sein, wo für diejenigen Menschen, die es hören wollen, gesprochen werden kann von allen wichtigen, unmittelbaren Erlebnissen in der geistigen Welt. Hier muß eine Stätte sein, wo die Kraft gefunden wird, nicht bloß in ausspintisierender, dialektisch-empirischer Wissenschaftlichkeit der Gegenwart hinzudeuten darauf, daß es da oder dort solche kleinen Spuren des Geistigen gibt, sondern wenn Dornach seine Aufgabe erfüllen will, dann muß hier offen von dem, was in der geistigen Welt vorgeht geschichtlich, was in der geistigen Welt vorgeht als Impulse, die dann in das natürliche Dasein hineingehen und die Natur beherrschen, es muß in Dornach von wirklichen Erlebnissen, von wirklichen Kräften, von wirklichen Wesenheiten der geistigen Welt der Mensch hören können. Hier muß die Hochschule der wirklichen Geisteswissenschaft sein. Und wir dürfen fortan nicht zurückweichen vor den Anforderungen heutiger Wissenschaftlichkeit, die die Menschen so, wie ich es geschildert habe, schlafend vor den ernsten Hüter der Schwelle führt. Man muß sozusagen in Dornach Kraft gewinnen können, sich - geistig sei es gemeint — Auge in Auge der geistigen Welt wirklich gegenüberzustellen, von der geistigen Welt zu erfahren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":213,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1924-01-01/p016"},{"locus":"GA 233/1924-01-01/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Daher soll auch hier nicht in dialektischen Tiraden von dem Ungenügenden der heutigen Wissenschaftstheorie gesprochen werden, sondern ich mußte darauf aufmerksam machen, in welche Lage der Mensch gegenüber dem Hüter der Schwelle durch diese Wissenschaftstheorien mit ihren Ausläufern in die gewöhnliche Schule kommt. Wenn man sich jetzt bei dieser Tagung hier einmal dies ernsthaftig gegenüber der eigenen Seele eingestanden hat, dann wird diese Weihnachtstagung einen kräftigen Impuls in die Seelen hineinsenden, der dann diese Seelen hinaustragen kann zu kräftigem Wirken, wie es die Menschheit heute braucht, damit die nächste Inkarnation die Menschen so finde, daß sie wirklich dem Hüter der Schwelle begegnen können, das heißt, daß die Zivilisation so werde, daß sie selbst als Zivilisation vor dem Hüter der Schwelle bestehen kann.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":122,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1924-01-01/p017"},{"locus":"GA 233/1924-01-01/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"Vergleichen Sie die heutige Zivilisation mit früheren Zivilisationen. In allen früheren Zivilisationen gab es Ideen, Begriffe, die zuerst hinaufgingen nach der übersinnlichen Welt, nach den Göttern, nach der Welt, wo gezeugt, geschaffen wird, hervorgebracht wird; dann konnte man mit den Begriffen, die vor allem den Göttern gehörten im Aufblicke, herabblicken auf die irdische Welt, um diese irdische Welt nun mit den götterwürdigen Begriffen und Ideen auch zu verstehen. Kam man mit diesen Ideen, die götterwürdig und götterwert ausgebildet waren, vor den Hüter der Schwelle, dann sagte einem der Hüter der Schwelle: Du kannst passieren, denn du bringst hinüber in die übersinnliche Welt dasjenige, was schon während deines Erdenlebens im physischen Leibe nach der übersinnlichen Welt gerichtet ist. Dann bleibt dir bei der Rückkehr in die physisch-sinnliche Welt noch genug der Kraft übrig, um nicht gelähmt zu werden durch den Anblick der übersinnlichen Welt. Heute entwickelt der Mensch Begriffe und Ideen, die er nach dem Genius der Zeit nur anwenden will auf die physisch-sinnliche Welt. Diese Begriffe und Ideen handeln von allem möglichen Wägbaren, Meßbaren und so weiter, nur nicht von den Göttern. Sie sind nicht götterwürdig, sie sind nicht götterwert. Deshalb donnert es den Seelen, die nun schon ganz verfallen sind dem Materialismus der götterunwerten und götterunwürdigen Ideen, deshalb donnert es ihnen, wenn sie schlafend den Hüter der Schwelle passieren, entgegen: Tritt nicht über die Schwelle! Du hast deine Ideen mißbraucht für die Sinneswelt. Du mußt mit ihnen deshalb in der Sinneswelt bleiben, kannst mit ihnen nicht, wenn du nicht seelisch paralysiert werden willst, in die Götterwelt eintreten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":258,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/233/1924-01-01/p018"}],"beads":[{"from":[11],"to":[11],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[12],"to":[12],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[13],"to":[13],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[14],"to":[14],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[15],"to":[15],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[16],"to":[16],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[17],"to":[17],"confidence":"high"},{"from":[18,19],"to":[18],"confidence":"high"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}