The Guardian of the Threshold

GA 265a/1923-05-21/p033 ·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.

But not only the moral life of man has these great dimensions in the spiritual world, but also all the other impressions that the soul receives from things down here are magnified there to the corresponding degree. The impressions of beauty that people receive from all the beautiful things in nature, from flowers, clouds, the sea and mountains, however beautifully it is expressed here, cannot be compared to the impressions of beauty experienced there – they are so sublime, so majestic. Just as the physical breath relates to the soul-spiritual breath, so much more powerful and awe-inspiring is the spiritual world in relation to the physical.

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