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The cities were built in such a way that the Egyptian expressed in these constructions a sacred order of laws and they sought to express in images the cosmic laws which governed the universe. This did not as yet include the individual human essence, which only begins to unfold in Greek art, and which shows us that man now takes hold of his own being as an immediate reality and seeks to create it as an image in space.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XI. Progressive Development Through The Different Cycles Of Culture","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-26","location":null,"word_count":210,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/100/1907-06-26/p040","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"ANS1942","book_title":"Theosophy and Rosicrucianism","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA100/English/ANS1942/19070626p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Und eine Maßausrechnung können Sie bei ihm finden, die vom Himmel heruntergeholt ist. Die Städte waren so eingerichtet, daß der Ägypter in ihrem Bau eine heilige Ordnung zum Ausdruck brachte, die ihm vorgeschrieben war; ein Abbild der Ordnung des Himmels versuchte der Ägypter da zu geben. Aber das Individuell-Menschliche war noch nicht darin begriffen. 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