The Guardian of the Threshold

GA 265a/1923-05-21/p018 ·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.

(In four stages) This word is pronounced in four stages. To the esotericist, it is as if the sun rises in the morning, rises at noon, sets in the evening, and the moon rises and sets again. It becomes morning, and it becomes evening, it becomes midnight and morning again, and in each of these stages one hears a word resounding: O man, know thyself.

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