The Guardian of the Threshold

GA 265a/1923-05-21/p019 ·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.

And yet the whole experience may last only a few moments, at most a minute or two. It is not the duration of time that matters, but the intensity of the contemplation. In those two minutes, the experience can be so intense when you hear these words that it is as if you are experiencing a whole day and [a whole] night with the rising and setting of the sun, the rising and setting of the moon.

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