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So even in ancient Egypt, when a human being who was a teacher or king faced his spiritual leader, he knew that the commandment he gave and the truth he spoke were directly correct and could not be wrong. - This was again felt by those to whom these truths were transmitted, who had received them from these clairvoyant teachers, for they could speak in such a way that one believed to receive from their words what came down from the spiritual world. In short, it was a direct stream up to the higher hierarchies.","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":209,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/246/1911-06-07/p014","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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Sie müssen einen ätherischen Leib benutzen, weil ein menschlicher Leib und ein menschliches Gehirn die Gedanken nur in der Zeit ausbilden, während diese Wesenheiten nicht die Gedanken in der Zeit ausbilden und gleichsam wie von selbst alle Weisheit haben. Die Weisheit sitzt in ihnen. Sie können unmöglich Falsches denken, können sich nicht irren, weil der Gedankenablauf als eine unmittelbare Inspiration in sie hineinschießt. Daher hatten diejenigen Persönlichkeiten, welche an diese dhyanischen oder Engel-Wesenheiten herankommen konnten, ihnen gegenüberstanden, das Bewusstsein: Da stehen sie der sicheren Weisheit gegenüber! Wenn also selbst noch im alten Ägypten der Mensch, der als Mensch Lehrer oder König war, diesem seinem geistigen Führer gegenüberstand, so wusste er: Das Gebot, das er gibt, die Wahrheit, die er sagt, sind unmittelbar richtig, können nicht falsch sein. - Das empfanden dann wieder diejenigen, auf welche diese Wahrheiten übertragen wurden, die sie wieder von diesen so hellseherisch Belehrten hatten; denn diese konnten so sprechen, dass man aus ihren Worten selbst das zu empfangen glaubte, was aus der geistigen Welt herunterkam. 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