Sixth Lecture
GA 106/1908-09-08/p018
·1908-09-08
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Many will now object that this does not account for all the nerves, but only for twenty-eight of them.[^2] There would have been only twenty-eight had the moon-year coincided with the sun-year. But the sun-year is longer, and the difference between the two caused the surplus nerves. Thus from the moon the influences of Isis and Osiris were built into the human organism. But something further is connected with this.
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