{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 246/1911-06-07/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You will find a curious parallel to that which announces itself in individual human life if you consider what was said to the ancient Greeks by the teachers and leaders of ancient Egypt about the guidance and direction of Egyptian spiritual life. It is said - and rightly so - that when the Egyptians were asked by whom they had been guided and directed since ancient times, they answered the Greeks: In ancient, gray times, the gods ruled and taught among us, and only then did men come as leaders. - They called the first leader on the physical plane “Menes” to the Greeks, who was recognized as a human-like leader. This means that the Egyptian people in their leaders referred to the fact that the gods themselves - as the Greek records say - had previously guided and led the Egyptian people.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III","site_heading":null,"date":"1911-06-07","location":null,"word_count":143,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1911-06-07/p004","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2025","book_title":"Supplements to Member Lectures","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA246/English/SOL2025/19110607s01.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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Da wird erzählt - und mit Recht erzählt -, dass die Ägypter, als sie gefragt wurden, von wem sie gelenkt und geleitet worden sind seit alten Zeiten her, den Griechen geantwortet haben: In alten, grauen Zeiten herrschten bei uns und lehrten die Götter, und dann kamen als Führer erst Menschen. - Den ersten Führer auf dem physischer Plan nannten sie den Griechen gegenüber «Menes», der als ein menschenähnlicher Führer anerkannt war. 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