The Guardian of the Threshold

GA 265a/1923-05-21/p020 ·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 words come from the world of the spirit and are felt as overwhelming. They thunder (runger) at you. It is something similar to what the ancient Hebrews experienced when pronouncing the word Yahweh. It was as if the cosmos collapsed with a thunderous roar, so powerfully did the sound reverberate. They heard it as one short and one long syllable.

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