The Guardian of the Threshold

GA 265a/1923-05-21/p055 ·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.

In the beginning, it is not easy to understand this language. To say that everything in nature is an expression of divinity is quite easy. But to understand what thoughts and what is hidden behind nature and the cosmos, that is, to fully understand this language, is only learned through occult experiences in the spiritual world. But then it also becomes a living language that makes it clear what thoughts underlie the mineral, the plant, the animal and one's own physical body. Then one understands that a divine power has created all this and has led the soul and the mind of man into the physical world in order to develop strength through life in matter, in order to work out from his own conscious ego an ever stronger connection with the hierarchies and the spiritual worlds.

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