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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.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Guardian of the Threshold","site_heading":null,"date":"1923-05-21","location":null,"word_count":137,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/265a/1923-05-21/p055","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA265a/English/SOL2025/19230521fm.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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