{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"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,"title":"Seventh Lecture","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. 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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. 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