Also, thresholds are not time constrained in anyway. We encounter the threshold in time, but it has always been there waiting for us to get to a point where we could see it. Thresholds are stations in consciousness. They signify the approach to an opening between two places in consciousness, not between two places in time at all. Thresholds are also more than the usual points of development that we know as rites of passage in a person's life.
Thresholds are more internal, more esoteric points in development.
They are openings in consciousness. They are steps in the inexhaustible, unfolding revelation as it gradually and sequentially dawns upon the disciple's awareness. Revelation, as you know, always carries with it the need for the disciple to rearrange the interior way in which he or she lives, often times in only a minor way, but sometimes in a very significant manner. There are basically three things that one can do when one realizes that one's efforts have brought him or her into a threshold condition. One can move forward.