{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 106/1908-09-09/p020","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"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,"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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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"}],"english":["GA 106/1908-09-09/p019","GA 106/1908-09-09/p020"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":409,"en_words":416,"ratio":1.02,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","anchors","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 106/1908-09-09/p018"],"reader_part":true},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":3678,"original_word_count":3628,"may_be_abridged":false},"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. 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