The Guardian of the Threshold

GA 265a/1923-05-21/p029 ·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.

We compare our own breathing with the cosmic breathing. The cosmos breathes us out over the course of a day. We awaken in the morning and live consciously in the physical world – an exhalation of the cosmos. [We fall asleep into the spiritual world – an inhalation – and awaken again in the morning.] A day and a night here is for the cosmos like for us a breath (is for the cosmos as one of our breaths is for us).

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