The Guardian of the Threshold

GA 265a/1923-05-21/p015 ·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.

(The acquisition of the ability to perceive the inner word takes different lengths of time.) The ability to grasp the inner word takes a different amount of time to develop in different people; some experience it after a very short time, others only after a succession of years. One must patiently work and wait until this is achieved. Through the ancillary exercises and the special exercises, the ability is developed and this brings one the first step forward on the path to the spiritual world.

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