Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Rudolf Steiner tells us:
“Once the Guardian of the Threshold, at the edge of the abyss-of-being, has shown us how the forces of our inner humanity — willing, feeling, thinking — appear to the eyes of the Beings of the spiritual world; after the Guardian has shown us how in the present time’s consciousness we have not awakened to our full humanity in respect to these forces if they are inwardly observed, but that these forces appear to the divine-spiritual powers as the three beasts, which are shown to us by the Guardian of the Threshold; after the Guardian of the Threshold has placed this shattering view before our souls, he shows us the path forward, which leads to ennoblement in self-knowledge, and which must be followed if the exhortation ‘O man, know thyself’ is to be realized.”
“In order to pass the Guardian of the Threshold in the right way, it is absolutely necessary to develop self-knowledge: truly genuine, unsparing self-knowledge. It is a neglect of one’s duty to the progress of evolution if one refuses to rise into the spiritual worlds, should karma make it possible in this present incarnation.”
Rudolf Steiner tells us:
“Once the Guardian of the Threshold, at the edge of the abyss-of-being, has shown us how the forces of our inner humanity — willing, feeling, thinking — appear to the eyes of the Beings of the spiritual world; after the Guardian has shown us how in the present time’s consciousness we have not awakened to our full humanity in respect to these forces if they are inwardly observed, but that these forces appear to the divine-spiritual powers as the three beasts, which are shown to us by the Guardian of the Threshold; after the Guardian of the Threshold has placed this shattering view before our souls, he shows us the path forward, which leads to ennoblement in self-knowledge, and which must be followed if the exhortation ‘O man, know thyself’ is to be realized.”
“In order to pass the Guardian of the Threshold in the right way, it is absolutely necessary to develop self-knowledge: truly genuine, unsparing self-knowledge. It is a neglect of one’s duty to the progress of evolution if one refuses to rise into the spiritual worlds, should karma make it possible in this present incarnation.”
