Seventh Lecture

The greater part of the people, who were unable to raise themselves to clairvoyance, learned about all this in a most significant picture. We have often touched upon this picture, which was the most important one in the Egyptian world-view. It is embodied in the myth of Isis and Osiris. We are all acquainted with this picture, and no one who knows anything believes that it is without significance.[^1] It was not only a picture for these people, but it was much more. What was contained in the Isis myth was told approximately as follows.