The Guardian of the Threshold

GA 265a/1923-05-21/p008 ·1923-05-21 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
Record: listeners' notes. Written from listeners' notes, summaries, or memory rather than a shorthand transcript. The wording is the note-taker's as much as Steiner's: weigh a single striking phrase here far more cautiously than the same phrase in a stenographic volume, and do not rest an argument on one word. Evidence: «Nach Erinnerungsaufzeichnungen von Teilnehmenden» (From participants' records written from memory). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

Through one's thought life, one reaches connection with the world of the spirit when one handles one's thoughts differently than usual. When they become just as real to him as external things: during intense meditation, you notice that in the inner silence of the thought process, something much higher and more real than the things of the external world is revealed. Thoughts take on life, they themselves come to life. They are never shadowy and abstract: you hear a voice within you, unrecognized beings speak to you in the silence through your thoughts. One listens to an inner word, an inner language.

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