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But at that point, you should say to yourself, “I live,” so as not to slip away completely and lose yourself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Guardian of the Threshold","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-21","location":null,"word_count":107,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/265a/1923-05-21/p016","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA265a/English/SOL2025/19230521fm.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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Dann fühlt man eines Tages — wenn man einen gewissen Punkt in seiner Entwicklung erreicht hat -, als ob man von einer großen Finsternis umgeben wäre, einer Leere, einem leeren Weltenraum, und gleichzeitig fühlt man, als ob man sich mehr und mehr erweitern würde, ja es ist, als ob man sich selber verlieren würde in die dunkle Unendlichkeit. Man wird von Furcht ergriffen. 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