Seventh Lesson

You may conclude from this that opponents will take Anthroposophy, and its branch Religious Renewal, much more seriously than many already ensconced as members. For when one becomes aware of the intention of reconstituting the broken-up Holy Roman Empire of 1806, and the implication that it is in order to dispose of our Movement, then one must take the matter very seriously. In a movement grounded in the spirit, it really and truly does not matter, my dear friends, just how many members are in the movement. What does matter is the sort of strength living within, strength that has come out of the spiritual world. The opponents know that this sort of strong force dwells within our Movement, so don't enter into it lightly, but with sufficient strength and firmness. Now, my dear friends, the content of these class-lessons has essentially been drawn from those things which can be imparted about meeting with the Guardian of the Threshold, and what this meeting with the Guardian of the Threshold on first encounter, on first experience signifies for the attainment of truer, more genuine supersensible insight, of actually knowing. Today I would like to add a few remarks to what we have already been looking into.