Lesson XVII
GA 270/1924-07-05/p047
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For, when we depict with sensory imagery, what really occurs purely in spiritual fashion, the Guardian of the Threshold gently covers our eyes with his hands, so that we see nothing of the spiritual brilliance we find ourselves in all about, for what mounts up within us, is what in remembrance works in the sensory world, which we have left with the acquisition of insight in the spiritual world. It mounts up.
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