{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p018-p023","extent":"range","passage_number":18,"through":23,"paragraph_count":6,"first_locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p018","last_locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p023","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"Seventh Lecture","date":"1908-09-09","location":null,"alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Norman MacBeth","identified_edition":"AP1971","book_title":"Egyptian Myths and Mysteries","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA106/English/AP1971/19080909p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. Unknown is not an assurance of a stenogram: check the edition's own notes before resting an argument on one word.","evidence":null,"evidence_translation":null,"evidence_source":null},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3678,"original_word_count":3628,"may_be_abridged":false},"site_heading":"Cosmic Evolution of Human Form Through Osiris-Isis","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. Cite the unit by its title and locus, never by this heading, and do not quote it.","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-09/p018-p023","json_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-09/p018-p023.json","lecture_url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-09#p018","word_count":1139,"quote_safe":true,"passages":[{"passage_number":18,"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p018","text":"Then began the time when, through the forces of the moon, the nerve-filaments appeared in the region where the spine now is. The formation above the spine, the present head-region, had condensed and changed itself into the human brain; that was the completely transformed light-organ. Attached to this was the spine, from which the nerves proceeded, and attached to this in turn was the lower man whom we have described. This was revealed to the Egyptian pupil, and it became clear to him that any being wishing to incarnate on the earth would have to assume the corresponding human form. Osiris, as spirit, often visited the earth and incarnated as a man. Men felt that a god had descended, but he had a human form. Every exalted being who visited the earth appeared in the shape that man then had. This shape was then such that one still, saw that light-body, that remarkable head-ornament, the lantern of Osiris,[^2] which has been described in a pictorial way as the eye of Polyphemus. This is the organ, the lantern, which at first was outside the human body, and which then transformed itself into an inner organ in the brain. Everything in early art is a symbol of actual forms.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":207,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-09/p018","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-09-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p016","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p016"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":201,"en_words":207,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Norman MacBeth","identified_edition":"AP1971","book_title":"Egyptian Myths and Mysteries","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA106/English/AP1971/19080909p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 106/1908-09-09/p016"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":19,"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p019","text":"When the Greek initiates became acquainted with these mysteries of the Egyptians, they had already learned many things. Basically, they had learned the same things as the Egyptian initiates, but they gave them different names in their language. The initiates of the Egyptians had developed the clairvoyant gifts to a high degree, so that many of their pupils could look back clairvoyantly into those most ancient times. The Egyptian initiate had a direct connection with those mysteries, hence the Greek priests seemed to him to be only childish stammerers. This is illustrated by the words that an Egyptian priest once spoke to Solon, “O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes remain always children, and there is not an old man among you. In spirit you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you from ancient tradition, nor any science that is hoary with age.[^3] Thus did the Egyptian point out that his wisdom stood infinitely far above anything that can be experienced materially. Only in the Eleusinian mysteries did the Greeks progress equally far, but only a few participated in them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":183,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-09/p019","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-09-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p017"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 106/1908-09-09/p017","GA 106/1908-09-09/p018"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":409,"en_words":416,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Norman MacBeth","identified_edition":"AP1971","book_title":"Egyptian Myths and Mysteries","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA106/English/AP1971/19080909p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 106/1908-09-09/p017","GA 106/1908-09-09/p018"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":20,"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p020","text":"In his study of earth-evolution, the Egyptian initiate saw that the god Osiris had separated himself from the sun and had gone to the moon, whence he reflected the light of the sun. What this god did was also sacred to the Greeks. They too knew that it was this god, Osiris, who formed the twenty-eight moon-aspects, and thereby laid the groundwork for the twenty-eight nerves in man. Through Osiris, the nervous system is built onto the spinal column, thereby forming the whole upper body of man. For what appears as muscle can maintain its form only because the nerves are its shapers. All we have as muscles, cartilage, and other organs such as heart and lungs, maintains its form only through the nerves. Thus through the earlier sun-activity appeared what took form as brain and spinal column, and on this spinal column the twenty-eight aspects of Isis and Osiris work from outside. Isis and Osiris are the shapers of all this, and in the tentacles that the brain sends down into the spinal column, Osiris works upon the spine. The Greeks experienced this also, and as they became acquainted with the Egyptian mysteries they recognized that Osiris was the same as the god whom they called Apollo. They said that the Egyptian Osiris was Apollo, and that, like Osiris, Apollo worked upon the nerves so as to achieve a soul-life within man.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":233,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-09/p020","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-09-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p017","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p017"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p018","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p018"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 106/1908-09-09/p018"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":409,"en_words":416,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Norman MacBeth","identified_edition":"AP1971","book_title":"Egyptian Myths and Mysteries","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA106/English/AP1971/19080909p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 106/1908-09-09/p017","GA 106/1908-09-09/p018"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":21,"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p021","text":"Now in a simple way, let us try to view this formation. Let us think of the brain as it might be sketched. This continues itself into the spine, and there the twenty-eight arms of Osiris enter in; there Osiris with his twenty-eight hands plays upon the spine as upon a lyre. The Greeks had a significant image for this—the lyre of Apollo. We need only think of it as transposed. The lyre is the brain, the nerves are the strings on which the hands of Apollo play. Apollo plays on the cosmic-lyre, on the mighty work of art that the cosmos has formed, and that causes to resound in man the tones that compose his soul life. For the Eleusinian initiate, this was what the Egyptians had given in their pictures.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":132,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-09/p021","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-09-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p019","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p019"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":129,"en_words":132,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Norman MacBeth","identified_edition":"AP1971","book_title":"Egyptian Myths and Mysteries","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA106/English/AP1971/19080909p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 106/1908-09-09/p019"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":22,"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p022","text":"From such a picture we can see that these things should not be expounded too rigidly, or we shall merely be forcing fantasies into them. For as a rule, our experience should be that these pictures are actually much deeper than anything we can dream into them by means of the intellect. If the Greek clairvoyant spoke of Apollo, he had before his mind the mystery of Osiris-Apollo and the human musical instrument. Osiris stood before the Egyptian pupil when he was initiated into the mysteries of earth-existence. Thus we must say that these symbols, these pictures, which have been preserved for us and which characterize what has been taken from the primeval mysteries, mean much more than can be expounded by the intellect. This lyre was seen, the hands of Apollo were seen. The important thing is that we should relate every symbol to some actual vision, to something really seen. There are no symbols, no legends, that have not first been seen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-09/p022","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-09-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p020","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p020"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":167,"en_words":164,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Norman MacBeth","identified_edition":"AP1971","book_title":"Egyptian Myths and Mysteries","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA106/English/AP1971/19080909p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 106/1908-09-09/p020"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":23,"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p023","text":"The Egyptian pupil could penetrate to such mysteries only after a long time. He was first prepared through a definite course of instruction, which was somewhat similar to basic theosophy. Then only was he admitted to the real exercises. There he experienced a sort of ecstatic condition which, although not yet true clairvoyance, was more than a dream. In this condition he beheld what he was later to see in the form of pictures. The pupil actually beheld in a mighty living dream the departure of the moon, and of Osiris with it, and Osiris's working upon the earth from the moon. He dreamed the Osiris-Isis legend. Every pupil dreamed this Osiris-Isis dream. He had to dream it, for otherwise he would not have been able to come to a perception of the true facts. The pupil had to go through the picture, the imagination. The legend of Isis and Osiris was inwardly experienced. This ecstatic soul-condition was a preliminary to the true vision, a prelude to his seeing what takes place in the spiritual world. What has been described today could be read by the pupil in the Akashic Record only when he had reached a high degree of initiation. Tomorrow we shall speak further of this, and also of the other signs of the Zodiac and their significance.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-09/p023","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-09-09","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p021","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p021"}],"bead_confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":221,"en_words":220,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Norman MacBeth","identified_edition":"AP1971","book_title":"Egyptian Myths and Mysteries","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA106/English/AP1971/19080909p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. The translator IS verified for this lecture: its own source names the translator (evidence: the lecture's page, rsarchive's lecture list, or the cover of the book it was published in), and that page's text was matched against this unit (see match_score and source_url). Cite the translator with confidence; attribute the publisher only as probable."},"entity_parity":{"status":"ok","checked_against":["GA 106/1908-09-09/p021"],"missing_from_translation":[],"present_only_in_translation":[],"bead_confidence":"medium","note":"Every load-bearing name in the German counterpart appears in this English passage. That is a check on NAMES only: a translation can keep every name and still reverse who acts on whom, change a number, or soften a claim. Read the German for anything you intend to rest an argument on."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}}],"witnesses":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"first_passage":1,"last_passage":21,"passage_count":21,"word_count":3628},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"first_passage":1,"last_passage":27,"passage_count":27,"word_count":3678,"completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null}}],"aligned_witness":{"status":"aligned","lang":"de","edition":"original","confidence":"medium","passages":[{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p016","passage_number":16,"text":"Dann begann die Zeit, in der sich eingliederten durch die Kräfte des Mondes längs derjenigen Gegend, die das Rückgrat ausmacht, die Nervenstränge. Die Bildung über dem Rückgrat, die heutige Kopfgegend, war auch verdichtet worden und hatte sich umgebildet zum menschlichen Gehirn: das war das ganz umgebildete Leuchtorgan. Daran gliederte sich das Rückgrat, von dem die Nervenstränge ausgingen, und an dieses gliederte sich der niedere Mensch, wie er beschrieben worden ist. Das zeigte sich dem ägyptischen Schüler, und es wurde ihm klar, daß, welche Wesenheit auch immer sich verkörpern wollte auf der Erde, sie die entsprechende Menschengestalt annehmen mußte. Osiris hat als Geist oft die Erde besucht und sich als Mensch verkörpert. Die Menschen empfanden dann: Ein Gott ist herabgekommen — aber er hatte dann Menschengestalt. Jede hohe Wesenheit, die die Erde besuchte, war in der Gestalt, die der Mensch jeweilig hatte. Damals war die Menschengestalt so beschaffen, daß man noch jenen Leuchtkörper sah, jenen merkwürdigen Kopfschmuck, die Laterne des Osiris, die bildlich als das merkwürdige Polyphemauge bezeichnet worden ist. Das ist jenes Organ, jene Laterne, die erst außerhalb des Menschenleibes war, die dann zu einem inneren Organ im Gehirn sich umbildete. Alles in der ursprünglichen Kunst ist Symbol für tatsächliche Gestalten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":201,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p016"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p017","passage_number":17,"text":"Als die griechischen Eingeweihten bekannt wurden mit diesen Geheimnissen der Ägypter, hatten sie auch schon manches erfahren: im Grunde dasselbe wie der ägyptische Eingeweihte. Sie benannten es nur in ihrer Sprache anders. Die Eingeweihten der Ägypter hatten die hellseherischen Gaben in einem hohen Maße ausgebildet, so daß viele ihrer Schüler in jene uralten fernen Zeiten hellseherisch zurückblicken konnten. Der ägyptische Eingeweihte hatte einen ursprünglichen Zusammenhang mit jenen Geheimnissen; daher kam es auch, daß dem ägyptischen Eingeweihten griechische Priester wie kindliche Stammler vorkamen. Bezeichnend ist daher das Wort, das einst ein ägyptischer Priester, der mit Solon zusammentraf, aussprach, indem er sagte: O Solon, Solon, ihr Hellenen bleibt doch immer Kinder, einen alten Hellenen gibt es nicht! Jung seid ihr alle im Geiste, denn ihr habet in demselben keine auf vieljährige Überlieferung gegründete alte Ansicht, noch irgendeine durch die Zeit ergraute Kunde.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":140,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p017"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p018","passage_number":18,"text":"So wies der Ägypter darauf hin, daß die ägyptische Weisheit hoch erhaben darüberstand über dem, was materiell erfahren werden kann. Nur in den eleusinischen Mysterien war man ebensoweit, aber es hatten nur wenige Teil daran. Aber was für jene Strecken der Erdenentwickelung der ägyptische Eingeweihte sah: daß sich der Gott Osiris von der Sonne getrennt hatte und auf den Mond gegangen war und von dorther das Sonnenlicht zurückstrahlte — das, was dieser Gott tut, das war auch den Griechen heilig. Auch sie wußten, daß dieser Gott Osiris es ist, der die achtundzwanzig Mondesgestalten bildet und dadurch die achtundzwanzig Nervenstränge im Menschen veranlagt. Durch Osiris wird das Nervensystem gebildet am Rückenmark herunter und dadurch der ganze menschliche Oberkörper geformt. Denn das, was als Muskel entsteht, kann seine Form nur erhalten dadurch, daß die Nerven die Bildner sind. Alles nun, was da ist an Muskeln, Knorpeln, an anderen Organen, wie Herz und Lunge, alle diese erhalten ihre Form nur durch die Nerven. So ist durch die frühere Sonnentätigkeit entstanden, was sich gebildet hat als Gehirn und Rückenmark, und an diesem Rückenmark arbeiten von außen die achtundzwanzig Gestalten des Osiris und der Isis. Also sind Osiris und Isis ihre Bildner, und indem das Gehirn seine Fühlfäden heruntersendet in das Rückenmark, da bearbeitet Osiris das Rückenmark. Das empfanden auch die Griechen, und die Griechen erkannten, als sie bekannt wurden mit den ägyptischen Mysterien, daß Osiris derselbe Gott war wie der, den sie Apollo nannten. Sie sagten, der ägyptische Osiris ist Apollo, und wie er an den Nerven tätig war, damit im Inneren des Menschen das Seelenleben bewirkt wurde, so tut es unser Apollo.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":269,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p018"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p019","passage_number":19,"text":"Und nun nehmen wir uns skizzenhaft diese Gestaltung heraus. Denken wir uns das Gehirn schematisch gezeichnet: das setzt sich fort ins Rückenmark, da greifen ein die achtundzwanzig Hände des Osiris, da spielt der Osiris mit seinen achtundzwanzig Armen in dem, was als Rückenmark vom Gehirn sich herunterzieht, wie auf einer Leier. Die Griechen gaben davon ein bedeutungsvolles Bild: das ist die Leier des Apollo. Man braucht sich das bloß umgekehrt zu denken. Die Leier ist das Gehirn, die Nerven sind die Saiten, in welche die Hände des Apollo eingriffen. Apollo spielt auf der Weltenleier, auf dem großen Kunstwerke, das der Kosmos gebildet hat, und läßt im Menschen erklingen die Töne, die sein Seelenleben ausmachen. Das war für die eleusinischen Eingeweihten das, was die Ägypter in ihren Bildern gegeben haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":129,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p019"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p020","passage_number":20,"text":"Aus einem solchen Bilde können wir ersehen, daß diese nicht schematisch gedeutet werden dürfen, sonst würde man nur etwas hineinphantasieren. Denn man wird in der Regel erleben, daß die Bilder in der Tat viel tiefer sind als das, was man irgendwie durch den Verstand hineinträumen kann. Wenn der griechische Hellseher von Apollo sprach, dann hatte er das Geheimnis des Osiris-Apollo und des Menschheitsinstrumentes vor sich. Und Osiris stand vor dem ägyptischen Schüler, wenn er eingeweiht wurde in die Geheimnisse des Erdendaseins. So müssen wir uns sagen, daß diese Symbole, daß diese Bilder, die uns erhalten sind, welche das charakterisieren, was aus den Urgeheimnissen entnommen ist, daß all die Ausdrücke der Urgeheimnisse viel mehr bedeuten als etwas, was man mit dem Verstande deuten kann. Gesehen wurde diese Leier, gesehen wurden die Hände des Apollo. Und daß wir jedes Symbolum auf irgendein wirkliches Gesicht, auf eine reale Schauung zurückführen, darauf kommt es an, das ist das Wesentliche. Denn es gibt kein Symbol, keine Legende, die nicht geschaut worden wäre.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":167,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p020"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p021","passage_number":21,"text":"Der ägyptische einzuweihende Schüler konnte erst nach langer, langer Zeit zu solchen Geheimnissen dringen. Der Schüler wurde erst durch eine ganz bestimmte Lehre vorbereitet, die eine ähnliche war wie unsere elementare Theosophie. Dann wurde er erst zu den eigentlichen Übungen zugelassen. Da erlebte er Zustände einer Art Ekstase, die noch kein eigentliches Hellsehen war, aber die mehr war als ein Traum. In ihr sah er das, was er später im Bilde sehen sollte. Wahrhaftig, dieses Hinausgehen des Mondes und mit ihm des Osiris, dieses Arbeiten desselben vom Monde aus auf die Erde herunter, das sah der Schüler als gewaltigen lebendigen Traum. Er träumte in der Tat die Osiris-Isislegende. Jeder Schüler träumte diesen Osiris-Isistraum. Er mußte ihn träumen. Hätte er ihn nicht geträumt, er hätte nicht zur Anschauung der wahren Tatsachen kommen können. Durch das Bild, durch die Imagination, mußte der Schüler hindurchgehen. Die Osirisund Isislegende wird innerlich durchlebt. Diese ekstatische Seelenverfassung war eine Art Vorstufe zum wahren Schauen, das Vorspiel zum Schauen dessen, was sich in der geistigen Welt abspielt. In der Akasha-Chronik konnte der Schüler das, was heute beschrieben wurde, nur lesen, wenn er in einen so hohen Grad eingeweiht war, wie wir es heute nur angedeutet haben, und von dem wir morgen weiter reden wollen. Dann wollen wir auch von den anderen Bildern des Tierkreises und ihrer Bedeutung sprechen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":221,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-09/p021"}],"beads":[{"from":[18],"to":[16],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[19,20],"to":[17,18],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"verified"},{"from":[21],"to":[19],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[22],"to":[20],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[23],"to":[21],"confidence":"medium","pairing_state":"proposed"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers)."}}