“Introduction B 1B: The Romantic context: themes from Goethe and Schiller viewed as formative by Steiner in early years, and viewed as supportive to his ’anthroposophy’ in later years 1B1: Egyptian Mysteries: Schiller’s esoteric religiosity and pre-existence 1B2: Goethe’s ’primal skeleton’, ’primal plant’ and Steiner’s ’life-force’ 1B3: Goethe’s esoteric religiosity (the Rosicrucians) and a Platonic ’Devachan’ 1B4: Goethe’s fairy tale provides the thematic basis of Die Pforte 2 Die Pforte AN OUTLINE OF ITS STRUCTURE AND THEMES 2A: Describing supra-sensible phenomena, metaphor and ’transferring’ German into English, including Steiner’s neologisms 2B: An overview of the scenes in Die Pforte”, OGS, vol. 19, Mar. 2017, doi: 10.11157/ogs-vol19id227.