43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III

With such a statement, which resounds to us from ancient times, we only ever have to understand the right thing. What did the Egyptians mean when they said that the gods were our kings and the gods were our great teachers? - The person who said this to Herodotus himself said: "If you were to go back to the ancient times of the Egyptian people and ask those people who felt something like a higher consciousness, like wisdom from higher worlds: Who is actually your teacher? - they would answer: If I wanted to speak of my real teacher, I would not have to point to this or that person and say: This or that person is my teacher, but if I want to find my teacher, I must first put myself into a clairvoyant state - we know from other lectures that this was relatively easy in ancient times - and then I will find my true inspirer, my true teacher; he only approaches me when my spiritual eye is open. - For in ancient Egypt such beings descended from the spiritual worlds to human beings who did not embody themselves in the human physical body. The gods still ruled and taught through the physical humans in the ancient, gray times of Egypt, and by “gods” the ancient Egyptians understood the beings that preceded humans in their development.