--, .-.-. <b>4 THE PRIMARY FEATURES OF STEINER’S ANTHOPOSOPHY EXPRESSED IN <i>DIE PFORTE</i></b> <p> 4A: The Dramatic Elements of <i>Das Märchen</i> Provide a Template for <i>Die Pforte</i>, But These Are Adapted for Didactic Purposes, With Regard to Steiner’s Esoteric Worldview </p> <p>4B: Steiner’s View of the Spirituality Portrayed in <i>Die Pforte</i> Is Quintessentially Expressed by His Interpretation of Goethe</p> <p> 4C: The Concepts of Reincarnation and Karma Are Seen As Compatible to Christianity, and Are Understood to Have a Rational basis</p> <p>4D: Steiner’s Earlier Holistic Epistemology Is Based on a Proto-Type of the ’ether-body’ postulate</p> <p>4E: Steiner’s Holistic Epistemological Conviction That the Limits to Knowledge May Be Extended, Is Reflected in <i>Die Pforte’s</i> Portrayal of the Efficacy of meditation</p> <p> 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</p> <p>4G: The Spiritual Development Process Underlying <i>Die Pforte</i> 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.