Dr. Douglas J. Gabriel
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Please note that this book is accompanied by video lectures and articles by Douglas Gabriel at
https://www.ourspirit.com/dweller-threshold
Rudolf Ste
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iner speaks about this being called the ‘Guardian of the Threshold’ in An Outline of Occult Science, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, The Secrets of the Threshold, The Mystery Dramas, and The First Class of Spiritual Science, among other writings. According to Steiner’s teachings, this Being will present itself as soon as the student of the spirit seeks the higher worlds. At a certain stage of evolution, the soul forces of thinking, feeling, and willing dissociate themselves and bring to the student a new inner way of perceiving that will lead to the encounter of the Guardian of the Threshold, who is also called the Doppelgänger or Double. The Guardian of the Threshold stands before the supersensible world in order to deny entrance to those who are not truly ready to enter.
The Guardian of the Threshold may also be encountered in deep meditation and when we pass through physical death. Rudolf Steiner identified both the Lesser and Greater Guardians and taught that Jesus Christ is now the Greater Guardian of the Threshold, or the new Lord of Karma.
This book provides an opportunity to refine the reader’s Language of the Spirit as it applies to initiation and the meeting of the Guardian, so crucial in spiritual advancement. Of course, Dr. Rudolf Steiner, the brilliant clairvoyant seer, has given us the clearest expressions concerning the nature of the Guardian. This is because he experienced both the Lesser and Greater Guardians of the Threshold directly through his clairvoyance. Others, like H. P. Blavatsky, Alice A. Bailey, Dr. Franz Hartmann, and Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton speak of the Guardian out of their philosophical understanding which was not aided by clairvoyance. Thus, the confusion about the Guardian taught by these teachers cannot be compared to what Steiner shared out of his clairvoyant perception of the Guardian.
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