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We see how the threads of culture stretch from the Greek age, the Roman, the Christian, down into our own age. All these are guided by a kind of connection that takes place above the earth, but there is also a hidden, a subterranean force which works more or less directly from the ancient Egyptian age into our own. Many a remarkable secret is revealed to us when we follow these connections and examine them thoroughly.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. The Egyptian period, and the present time.","site_heading":null,"date":"1908-08-04","location":null,"word_count":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/105/1908-08-04/p008","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"H. 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