{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 44/01_02/p017","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"THE GUARDIAN OF THE THRESHOLD:  \nIf your heart can decide,  \nTo cross this threshold,  \nThen let it be so.  \nBut know that in this realm you will find  \nWhat the fruits of your life will help you achieve.  \nYou do not know  \nThe powers that allowed these fruits to ripen.  \nI cannot reveal them to you.  \nFor my spirit can never see  \nWhat the princes of the world plant in human hearts.  \nI never desired to see  \nIn this prince's ominous workshop.  \nBut I see in your being,  \nInto which my gaze can penetrate,  \nWhat of your life's content  \nMust fall away like dry leaves from trees,  \nIf you want to enter the realm,  \nOf which I am appointed guardian.  \nI look into your soul,  \nHow it wants to preserve its self.  \nHere this self will disappear into nothingness,  \nAnd you may only be a member  \nIn the life of a higher being.  \nIn earthly life you cherished  \nThe saying that promises miraculous power,  \nKnow thyself.  \nHere live only beings  \nWho serve other selves  \nAnd act from other thoughts.  \nI recognize your self only as a being  \nThat I must crush  \nWhen it approaches my being.  \nAnd you have learned  \nThrough many earthly lives  \nTo direct your gaze  \nInto realms that meet the gaze  \nWith their glistening light of revelation.  \nIt is my duty to walk in misty haze  \nEverything you could ever see,  \nAnd only backwards may  \nYour soul look  \nInto the root powers of its being.  \nThere were never times  \nWhen spirits like me saw differently.  \nWhatever you ever thought beautiful and great,  \nYou must abandon it.  \nThis sword of flame  \nMust, upon your entry,  \nErase from your memory  \nThat from which you often drank joy,  \nIn which you revelled in bliss.  \nAnd what will seem hardest to you:  \nThere will be no change in events  \nThat will satisfy your soul's desire.  \nThe unchanging existence of eternity  \nWill, stripped of birth and death,  \nAlways stand before your eyes in the same way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Preliminary drafts: Scenes not included in the drama","site_heading":null,"date":null,"location":null,"word_count":334,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p017","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":null,"book_title":null,"publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Articles/GA044/English/Dweller_01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/44/01_02/p017"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/44/01_02/p017","paragraph_aligned":true}],"unit_kind":{"kind":"second_piece_same_name","base_unit":"GA 44/01","note":"Another piece with the same name as 01 in this volume; the suffix only separates the two."},"authorship":{"kind":"dramatis_persona","is_steiner":true,"speaker":"THE GUARDIAN OF THE THRESHOLD","author":"Rudolf Steiner","note":"A line from the drafts and fragments of Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Dramas. 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