4 THE PRIMARY FEATURES OF STEINER’S ANTHOPOSOPHY EXPRESSED IN DIE PFORTE 4A: The Dramatic Elements of Das Märchen Provide a Template for Die Pforte, But These Are Adapted for Didactic Purposes, With Regard to Steiner’s Esoteric Worldview 4B: Steiner’s View of the Spirituality Portrayed in Die Pforte Is Quintessentially Expressed by His Interpretation of Goethe 4C: The Concepts of Reincarnation and Karma Are Seen As Compatible to Christianity, and Are Understood to Have a Rational Basis 4D: Steiner’s Earlier Holistic Epistemology Is Based on a Proto-Type of the ’ether-body’ Postulate 4E: Steiner’s Holistic Epistemological Conviction That the Limits to Knowledge May Be Extended, Is Reflected in Die Pforte’s Portrayal of the Efficacy of Meditation 4F: A Major Element in Steiner’s Anthroposophy Is an Esoteric-Mystical Christian Perspective, in Which a Connection Between Conscience and the Second Coming - As Understood by Steiner - Has a Discrete Role 4G: The Spiritual Development Process Underlying Die Pforte Is Derived from the View of the Human Being As an Interrelated Septenary Organism of Body, Ether Body, a Triune Soul, Self and a Triune Spirit. OGS 2017, 19. https://doi.org/10.11157/ogs-vol19id287.