The Guardian of the Threshold

GA 265a/1923-05-21/p034 ·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.

Therefore, the cosmic or heavenly word - the word of the world that sounds to the disciple from the spiritual world and that he gets to know through meditation - is correspondingly greater than the words that people speak or have spoken with the ordinary breath. Before these spiritual-cosmic dimensions, he must figuratively speaking, take off his shoes.

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