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He saw all this; he saw in what a special way the Osiris influences had shaped themselves when the moon had withdrawn from the earth; he saw how Horus issued from Isis and Osiris; he saw the four human types, the bull, the lion, the eagle, and the true man. He also saw what happened to man between death and a new birth. The Sphinx appeared to him as a real form; he experienced it. He could say, “Oh, I have seen the Sphinx, man as he was when he still had an animal-like form, and his etheric body—similar to the human—only projected out of this animal-like form!” The Sphinx was a real experience for the initiate. He even heard the question of the Sphinx with its enigmatic content. He saw how the human body prepared itself out of the animality, at a time when the head was only an etheric form, the ether-head of the Sphinx. 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The individuality of Wotan, for example, takes such a different course. Up to a certain stage it travels together with man, but then it does not descend so deeply. Man descends further into matter and only later will he again join these beings, who are completing their evolution in the earth-time. We have seen that a time came when Wotan no longer walked on our earth. Such beings, however, were not like Osiris and Isis. These latter were beings who had branched off still earlier, who completed their evolution on a higher level in full invisibility. These forms went through their special experiences.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":117,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-13/p013","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-09-13","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-13/p011","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-13/p011"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":125,"en_words":117,"ratio":0.94,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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In his etheric body man was still similar to the animals, and the gods who descended then had to accommodate themselves to the same animal forms in which man lived on the earth. If a being wishes to enter into a certain plane, it must fulfill the conditions of that plane. This is also the case here. The divine beings who were connected with the earth during the departure of the sun and moon, who were on the earth, had to take on a form that was possible at that time, an animal-like form. And since the Egyptian religious views present in a certain way a recapitulation of the Lemurian time, the Egyptian initiate looked upon the gods, Osiris and Isis for example, as having animal-like forms. He still saw the higher gods with animal heads. Therefore from an occult view it was quite correct when such forms were represented with the head of a hawk or a ram in accordance with what the initiates knew. The gods were portrayed in the forms they had when they walked the earth. The outer images could only resemble what the initiate saw, but they were faithfully reproduced. The various divine beings changed a good deal. The forms in Lemuria were different from those in Atlantis. In those times beings went through much more rapid changes than they do now. In addition, these forms were still filled with spirit. When one looks back on them one sees them in their three bodies, but illuminated and rayed through by the astral and etheric light. This was accurately portrayed in the pictures. Modern men may laugh over the forms that were represented, but they do not know how realistic they were.[^1]","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":306,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-13/p014","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-09-13","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-13/p012","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-13/p012"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":302,"en_words":306,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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The ancient Egyptian initiates saw the god who implanted the faculty of intelligence in men, and in portraying him they painted him green[^2] because they saw the green shimmering of his luminous astral and etheric form. Today this is still the color that glitters in the aura when the person's intelligence is stirred. Much time could be devoted to these connections if people really wanted to study this wonderful realism of the forms of the Egyptian gods. These representations of the divine forms, through the fact that they were so realistic and not at all arbitrary, had magical power; and one who could see more deeply would perceive that many mysteries were present in the coloring of these ancient forms. Here one can, see deep into the workings of human evolution.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":272,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-13/p015","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-09-13","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-13/p013","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-13/p013"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"length_check":{"de_words":245,"en_words":272,"ratio":1.11,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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But the forms were always changing. The form of the Sphinx gives an image of how man once looked. His present form has been shaped by man himself. We know that through evolution on the earth various animal forms have been split off. What is an animal form? It is a form that has remained static, while man proceeded further in evolution. In these forms we see arrested stages of evolution, to the extent that these forms have become physical. In the spiritual something else has taken place. What man is spiritually has nothing to do with his physical forebears. Only the physical is connected with that. Man does not descend from the animals; the animal forms have remained unchanged. In man, however, the shape has been transformed to a certain level. The animals are previous physical human forms fallen into decadence. The situation is different in another realm of evolution. Not only have the physical forms of the animals remained unchanged, but also the rudiments of the etheric and astral forms as well. Just as the lion, at the time when it split off, looked quite different than now, so certain soul-spiritual forms degenerate in the course of time when they remain at a particular stage. It is a law of the spiritual world that anything that stands still on the same level of spirit or soul becomes more and more decadent.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":260,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/106/1908-09-13/p016","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"1908-09-13","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-13/p014","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-13/p014"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-13/p015","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-13/p015"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","reader"],"reader_german":["GA 106/1908-09-13/p014","GA 106/1908-09-13/p015"],"length_check":{"de_words":246,"en_words":260,"ratio":1.06,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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Das vermochte er den anderen Menschen nun zu sagen, indem er es in die Mythen und Sagen kleidete. Er sah das alles; er sah, wie eigenartig die Wirkungen des Ösiris sich gestaltet hatten, als der Mond von der Erde sich getrennt hatte. Er sah das Hervorgehen des Horus aus Isis und Osiris; er sah die vier Menschentypen, den Stiertypus, den Löwentypus, den Adlertypus und den eigentlichen Menschentypus. Er sah auch die Schicksale des Menschen zwischen Tod und einer neuen Geburt. Die Sphinx war ihm als eine wirkliche Gestalt entgegengetreten, er erlebte sie. Er konnte sagen: Oh, ich habe gesehen die Sphinx, den Menschen, wie er noch eine tierähnliche Gestalt hatte, und sein Ätherleib, menschenähnlich, nur herausragte aus dieser tierähnlichen Gestalt. — Die Sphinx ist ein wirkliches Erlebnis gewesen für den Eingeweihten. Er hörte auch die Frage der Sphinx mit ihrem rätselhaften Inhalt. Er sah, wie sich vorbereitete der Menschenleib aus der Tierheit heraus, in einer Zeit, wo der Kopf nur ätherisch angelegt war, der Ätherkopf der Sphinx. Das war eine Wahrheit für den Eingeweihten, aber ebensogut waren auch eine Wahrheit für ihn die älteren Göttergestalten, die sozusagen einen anderen Entwickelungsweg genommen haben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":250,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-13/p010"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-13/p011","passage_number":11,"text":"Es ist in der vorigen Betrachtung gesagt worden, daß gewisse Wesenheiten einen anderen Gang in der Evolution durchmachen. Die Individualität des Wotan geht zum Beispiel einen solch anderen Weg. Sie geht bis zu einer gewissen Stufe mit dem Menschen gemeinsam, dann steigt sie aber nicht so tief herunter. Der Mensch steigt weiter in die Materialität herunter und wird erst später sich wiedervereinigen mit diesen Wesen, die ihre Evolution in der Erdenzeit vollenden. Wir haben gesehen, wie Wotan später nicht mehr in unserer Welt auf der Erde umherwandelte. Solche Wesen waren aber nicht Wesen wie Osiris und Isis. Diese waren Wesen, die noch früher sich abgezweigt hatten, die in einer noch höheren Schicht, in voller Unsichtbarkeit ihre Evolution vollendeten. Diese Gestalten machten ihre besonderen Erlebnisse durch.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":125,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-13/p011"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-13/p012","passage_number":12,"text":"Blicken wir in das lemurische Zeitalter zurück. Da hat sich das Ätherische nicht menschenähnlich gestaltet; der Mensch ist im Ätherleibe noch tierähnlich, und die Götter, die da herunterstiegen, mußten damals sich bequemen, in derselben tierähnlichen Gestalt zu erscheinen, in welcher der Mensch auf der Erde vorhanden war. Will eine Wesenheit einen bestimmten Plan betreten, so muß sie die Bedingungen für diesen Plan erfüllen. So war es auch hier der Fall. Die göttlichen Wesenheiten, die mit der Erde während des Hinausgehens der Sonne und des Mondes verbunden waren, die auf der Erde waren, die mußten eine Gestalt annehmen, die damals möglich war, eine tierähnliche Gestalt. Und da die ägyptische Religionsanschauung gewissermaßen eine Wiederholung darstellt der lemurischen Zeit, so sah der ägyptische Eingeweihte hinauf zu den Göttern, zum Beispiel Osiris und Isis, wie auf eine tierähnliche Form. Die höheren Gottheiten sah er noch mit tierähnlichem Kopfe. Daher war es nur ganz richtig aus dem okkulten Schauen heraus, wenn solche Gestalten dargestellt wurden nach dem, was die Eingeweihten wußten, mit einem Sperberoder einem Widderkopf. Sie wurden dargestellt, die Götter, wie sie auf Erden wandelten, in der Gestalt, die sie hatten, als sie auf Erden wallten. Die äußeren Abbildungen konnten nur ähnlich sein demjenigen, was der Eingeweihte sah, doch war es sehr getreu wiedergegeben. Diese verschiedenen göttlichen Wesenheiten verwandelten sich gar sehr. Anders waren die Gestalten in Lemurien, anders in der Atlantis. Viel schnellere Verwandlungen machten die Wesen in jenen Zeiten durch als jetzt. Dazumal waren sie auch noch geistvolle Gestalten, und wenn man zurückblickt auf diese Gestalten, dann erblickt man sie in ihren drei Leibern, aber durchleuchtet und durchstrahlt von dem astralischen und ätherischen Lichte. Und das wurde recht genau in den Bildern dargestellt. Die heutigen Menschen haben leicht zu lachen über die Gestalten, die abgebildet wurden, denn sie wissen nicht, wie realistisch sie waren.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":302,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-13/p012"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-13/p013","passage_number":13,"text":"Es gab eine Gestalt, die insbesondere Dienste leistete in der Zeit der Menschenentwickelung, als durch die kosmisch-tellurischen Mächte der kombinierende Verstand den Menschen eingegliedert wurde. Damals wurde das physische Gehirn so vorbereitet, daß der Mensch später die Intelligenz entwickeln konnte. Diese Fähigkeit wurde dem Menschen eingepflanzt und zu den Taten des Gottes ... gerechnet. Damit hing zusammen dasjenige, was dem Menschen als Intelligenz eingegliedert wurde. Wenn wir heute einen Menschen betrachten, in dem ein scharf ausgebildetes Urteils- und Kombinationsvermögen vorhanden ist, wenn wir ihn heute hellseherisch betrachten, so finden wir einen starken Ausdruck und eine Spiegelung davon in einem grünen Glitzern und Glänzen des Astralleibes, der astralischen Aura. Das Kombinationsvermögen zeigt sich in grünen Farbeneinschlüssen der Aura, besonders bei denen, die einen scharfen, mathematischen Verstand haben. Die alten ägyptischen Eingeweihten haben den Gott, der den Menschen die Fähigkeit der Intelligenz einpflanzte, gesehen, und sie bildeten ihn ab und bemalten ihn grün, weil sie seine leuchtende Astral- und Äthergestalt grün schimmern sahen. Das ist heute noch die glitzernde aurische Farbe, wenn der Mensch in der Intelligenz sich bewegt. Und es könnte viel über diese Zusammenhänge studiert werden, wenn die Menschen diese wunderbare Realistik der ägyptischen Göttergestalten wirklich studieren wollten. Dadurch, daß diese Darstellungen der Göttergestalten so realistisch und keine willkürlichen sind, wirkten sie wie Zaubermittel; und derjenige, der tiefer sehen könnte, würde sehen, wie in den Farben dieser alten Gestalten Geheimnisse in hohem Maße vorhanden sind. Man könnte da tief hineinsehen in das Getriebe der Menschheitsentwickelung.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":245,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-13/p013"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-13/p014","passage_number":14,"text":"Wir haben gesehen, wie in der Sphinx festgehalten ist das, was die Eingeweihten gesehen haben. Zwar ist das nicht photographisch festgehalten, doch realistisch. Aber die Gestalten wandelten sich ja immer wieder. Die Gestalt der Sphinx gibt im Bilde wieder, wie der Mensch einmal war. Der Mensch hat sich seine heutige Gestalt selbst gestaltet. Wir wissen, daß durch die Evolution auf der Erde verschiedene Tiergestalten abgespalten worden sind. Was ist überhaupt eine Tiergestalt? Es ist eine Gestalt, die stehengeblieben ist, während der Mensch in der Evolution weiterschritt. Wir sehen in ihnen stehengebliebene Stufen der Menschheitsentwickelung, insofern diese Stufen physisch geworden sind. Im Spirituellen hat sich etwas ganz anderes abgespielt. Was der Mensch geistig ist, hat mit den physischen Vorfahren gar nichts zu tun. Nur das Physische hat damit zu tun. Aber der Mensch stammt nicht von den Tieren ab, sondern die Tiergestalten sind stehengeblieben. Beim Menschen aber ist die Gestalt umgewandelt zu einer gewissen Höhe. Die Tiere sind in die Dekadenz gekommene frühere physische Menschengestalten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":164,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-13/p014"},{"locus":"GA 106/1908-09-13/p015","passage_number":15,"text":"Anders liegt die Sache für ein anderes Evolutionsgebiet. Nicht nur sind die physischen Gestalten der Tiere stehengeblieben, sondern auch die Anlagen zur ätherischen und astralischen Gestalt. Gerade wie der Löwe, damals als er sich abspaltete, anders aussah als jetzt, so werden auch gewisse seelisch-geistige Gestalten, die auf einer gewissen Stufe stehenbleiben, im Laufe der Zeit anders, sie verkommen. Ja, es ist ein Gesetz der geistigen Welt, daß dasjenige, was auf der geistigen oder seelischen Stufe stehenbleibt, immer mehr in die Dekadenz kommt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":82,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-13/p015"}],"beads":[{"from":[12],"to":[10],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[13],"to":[11],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[14],"to":[12],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[15],"to":[13],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"proposed"},{"from":[16],"to":[14,15],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"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)."}}