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I shall now speak as if all these matters were hypotheses, but what I now develop as a hypothesis can be established by spiritual science as a fact. A condition must once have existed, and we look back on it, when as yet theology was not addressed in such an intellectual manner but was considered to be something one delved into in a living way. Without doubt, it was that kind of theology the Egyptians spoke of, those Egyptians of whom the Greeks—I mentioned it above—report that Egyptian sages told them: You Greeks are like children;[^6] you have no knowledge of the world's origin, we do possess this sacred knowledge of the world's beginnings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture XV","site_heading":"John Scotus Erigena: Thinking with the Etheric Body","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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