Guardian of the Threshold

This article is about the esoteric figure. For a deity referred to as a "threshold guardian", see Liminal deity.
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The Guardian of the Threshold is a menacing figure that is described by a number of esoteric teachers.[1][2][3][4] The term "Guardian of the Threshold", often called "Dweller on the Threshold", indicates a spectral image which is supposed to manifest itself as soon as "the student of the spirit ascends upon the path into the higher worlds of knowledge".[5][6][7] The Guardian of the Threshold is also the title of the third play (of a tetralogy of Mystery Dramas) written by Rudolf Steiner in 1912.

  1. ^ Madame Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, 1877
  2. ^ Rudolf Steiner, “Knowledge of the Higher Worlds”(1904-5),[1] Online English edition (1947, New York)[2] and An Outline of Occult Science first German edition 1909. Online English edition (1972, New York), chapter 5 [3][4]
  3. ^ Dion Fortune, “The Mystical Qabalah”, 1950
  4. ^ Samael Aun Weor, "The Perfect Matrimony", 1950
  5. ^ Franz Hartmann, The Dweller of the Threshold, Reprinted from The Theosophist, Vol. XI 1889
  6. ^ Rudolf Steiner, An Outline of Occult Science, Anthroposophic Press 1972
  7. ^ Tommaso Palamidessi, The Guardians of the Threshold, ed. Archeosofica, 1969