Search for the New Isis, the Divine Sophia: The Quest for the Isis-Sophia

GA 202/1920-12-24/p019 ·1920-12-24 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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We must recreate this legend, for it represents the truth of our time. We must speak in the same sense of the slain and lost Isis, or divine Sophia, as the ancient Egyptians spoke of the lost and slain Osiris. And we must go forth with that which we do not comprehend, but which is in us, with the power of Christ, with the new Osiris power, and seek the body of the modern Isis, the body of the divine Sophia. We must approach nature science with a lucid mind and search for the coffin of Isis, that is, we must find, in what science gives us, that which inwardly stimulates imagination, inspiration, and intuition. For in this way we acquire the help of the Christ in us, who nevertheless remains hidden to us, who remains obscure to us, if we do not enlighten him through divine wisdom. Equipped with this power of Christ, with the new Osiris, we must go in search of Isis, the new Isis. Lucifer will not dismember this Isis, as Typhon-Ahriman dismembered Osiris. No, quite the opposite: this Isis is spread out in her true form in the beauty of the whole cosmos. This Isis is that which shines out to us from the cosmos in many glowing colors. We must understand her by looking into the cosmos and seeing the cosmos aura in its glowing colors.

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