The Threshold of the Spiritual World: Aphoristic Comments (CW 17) Die Schwelle dre geistigen Welt: Aphoristische Ausführungen (GA 17) from revised lectures held in Copenhagen published 1911, revised 1918 Contents Introductory Remarks 1. Trust in Thinking. The Nature of the Thinking Soul. Meditation 2. Cognising the Spiritual World 3. The Human Etheric Body and the Elemental World Summary 4. Repeated Earthly Lives and Karma. The Human Astral Body and the Spiritual World. Ahrimanic Beings 5. The Astral Body and Luciferic Beings. The Nature of the Etheric Body Summary 6. The “Guardian of the Threshold.“ Some Characteristics of Suprasensory Consciousness 7. ”I”-Feeling, the Human Soul’s Capacity to Love, and their Relationship to the Elemental World 8. The Boundary between the Sensory and the Supersensory Worlds 9. On the Nature of the Spiritual Worlds 10 Cosmic Beings of the Spiritual Worlds 11. On the First Rudiments of the Physical Body 12. The Tru “I” of the Human Being Summary Remarks on the Relationship of the Descriptions Given Here to Those Given in Theosophy and An Outline of Occult Science Afterword to the 1918 Edition