{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 106/1908-09-14/p016","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"What we have just mentioned was practice as well as theory among the ancient Egyptians. What was taught in the great mysteries was also practical., Something special was connected with this, as we shall learn as we penetrate further. The mysteries of the ancient Egyptians strove for something special. Today we may smile when we are told how the Pharaoh was at a certain time a kind of initiate, and how the Egyptian stood in relation to the Pharaoh and to his state institutions. For the modern European scholar it is particularly comical when the Pharaoh gives himself the name, “Son of Horus,” or even “Horus.” It seems singular to us that a man should be venerated as a god; nothing more abstruse could be thought of. But the man of today does not understand the Pharaoh and his mission. He does not know what the Pharaoh-initiation really was. Today we see in a people, only a group of persons who can be counted. To the man of today a people[^2] is a meaningless abstraction. The reality is simply a certain number of persons filling a certain area. But this is not a people for one who accepts the standpoint of occultism.[^3] As a single member such as the finger belongs to the whole body, so do the single persons within the people belong to the folk-soul. They are as it were embedded in it, but the folk-soul is not physical; it is real only as an etheric form. It is an absolute reality; the initiate can commune with this soul. It is even much more real for him than are single individualities among the people, far more so than a single person. For the occultist spiritual experiences are entirely valid, and there the folk-soul is something thoroughly real. Let us examine briefly the connection between the folk-soul and the individuals.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Twelfth Lecture","site_heading":"Christ-impulse at humanity's material nadir point","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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Für den europäischen Gelehrten der Gegenwart ist es ganz besonders lächerlich, wenn sich der Pharao den Namen «Sohn des Horus» oder sogar «Horus» selbst beilegte. Sonderbar erscheint uns heute, nicht wahr, wie der Mensch als Gott verehrt werden kann; etwas Abstruseres kann man sich ja nicht denken. Der heutige Mensch kennt eben den Pharao und seine Mission nicht. Man weiß eben nicht, was die Pharao-Einweihung wirklich war. Heute sieht man in einem Volke nur eine Gruppe von Menschen, die man zählen kann. Ein Volk ist dem heutigen Menschen ein wesenloses Abstraktum, Realität ist einzig eine gewisse Summe von Menschen, die ein gewisses Gebiet erfüllen. Das ist das «Volk» nicht für denjenigen, der auf dem Standpunkte des Okkultismus steht. Wie der Finger als einzelnes Glied zum ganzen Leibe gehört, so gehören die einzelnen Menschen des Volkes zu einer Volksseele. Sie sind sozusagen in sie eingebettet, nur ist die Volksseele nicht physisch, sie ist nur als Äthergestalt real. Sie ist eine absolute Realität: der Eingeweihte kann sich mit dieser Seele unterhalten. Sie ist sogar viel realer für ihn als die einzelnen Individualitäten eines Volkes, viel realer als ein einzelner Mensch. Für den Okkultisten gelten auch die geistigen Erfahrungen, da ist die Volksseele etwas durchaus Reales. Betrachten wir einmal ganz schematisch diesen Zusammenhang der Volksseele mit den Individuen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":309,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/106/1908-09-14/p017"}],"english":["GA 106/1908-09-14/p016"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":309,"en_words":311,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.04,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":6170,"original_word_count":5926,"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/AP1971/19080914p01.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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