{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 173c/1917-01-20/p036","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In much that today buzzes about in the world by way of untruthfulness and by way of egoism, in much that has even led to the canonization of egoism—not by the Pope, of course—in much that has led to the coining of the phrase *sacro egoismo*, which has become a new saint, though not canonized by the Pope, in much that today buzzes about in the world by way of egoisms and untruthfulnesses, influences and impulses are at work which gain extra strength from the world of the dead, in the manner described. And by searching for these impulses you will be led on to link up with other impulses about which you may find information in my book *The Spiritual Guidance of Man*. The lectures on which this book is based were given in 1911 in Copenhagen, for the most varied reasons. You will find there a description of how certain angelic powers remained behind in the third post-Atlantean period, in order today to unfold a force resembling that developed during the ancient Egyptian epoch. In those lectures I said:","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XXI","site_heading":"Ceremonial Magic, Dead Souls, and Ahrimanic Immortality","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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Und über diese Impulse, über diese andern Impulse finden Sie schon Aufschluß in meiner Schrift «Die geistige Führung des Menschen und der Menschheit». Die Vorträge, die dieser Schrift zugrunde liegen, sind wirklich aus den mannigfaltigsten Gründen damals 1911 in Kopenhagen gesprochen worden. Da finden Sie auseinandergesetzt, wie gewisse Angeloikräfte aus der dritten nachatlantischen Zeit zurückgeblieben sind, um in der jetzigen Zeit eine ähnliche Kraft zu entfalten, wie sie während der ägypzischen Periode entfaltet worden ist. 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