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But this child in fact represents the Twins. It is the representative of the two Jesus children. This was an astrological conception especially at the time of the ancient Persians.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. A Christmas Lecture","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-12-23","location":null,"word_count":167,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/202/1920-12-23/p024","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"MP1983","book_title":"The Search for the New Isis, Divine Sophia","publisher":"Mercury Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA202/English/MP1983/19201223p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"no_translator_named","note":"Neither the lecture's own page nor rsarchive's lecture list names a translator for it. 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So wurde es dargestellt, daß an die Stelle des Sternbildes der Jungfrau die Jungfrau mit dem ÄAhrenzweige, aber auch mit dem Kinde dargestellt wurde, das nur der Repräsentant der Zwillinge ist, der Repräsentant der Jesusknaben. 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