{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 8/l06/p002-p008","extent":"range","passage_number":2,"through":8,"paragraph_count":7,"first_locus":"GA 8/l06/p002","last_locus":"GA 8/l06/p008","lang":"en","edition":"AP1947","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"title":"VI. The Mystery Wisdom of Egypt","date":null,"location":null,"alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":null,"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["AP1947","RPC1961"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.93,"band":"fuller_than_original","note":"This witness is longer than the original — paraphrastic or padded. That makes it a less faithful witness to wording, not a more complete one. 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Proof of this may be found in the so-called *Book of the Dead*, which has been deciphered by the diligence of nineteenth-century scholars.[^1] It is *“the greatest coherent literary work that has come down to us from ancient Egypt.”* It contains all kinds of instructions and prayers that were put into the tomb of each deceased person to serve as a guide when he was released from his mortal tenement. The most intimate ideas of the Egyptians about the eternal and the origin of the world are contained in this work. These views point to a conception of the gods similar to that of Greek mysticism.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":133,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l06/p002","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l05","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 8/l05/p001","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/8/l05/p001"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 8/l05/p001"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":525,"en_words":532,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. The German original passage(s) above are the edition-invariant anchor — fetch them (lang='de') to verify wording before quoting across editions."},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. 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If the soul has confessed her sins, and has been deemed reconciled to eternal justice, invisible powers approach her and say: *“The Osiris N. has been purified in the pool which is south of the field of Hotep. and north of the field of Locusts, where the gods of verdure purify themselves at the fourth hour of the night and the eighth hour of the day with the image of the heart of the gods, passing from night to day.”* Thus, within the eternal cosmic order the Eternal in man is itself addressed as an Osiris. After the name Osiris comes the deceased person’s own name; and the one who is uniting with the eternal cosmic order also calls himself “Osiris”. *“I am the Osiris N. Growing under the blossoms of the fig-tree is the name of Osiris N.”* Thus man becomes an Osiris. Being Osiris is only a perfect stage in human development. It seems obvious that even the Osiris who is a judge within the eternal cosmic order is nothing more than a perfect man, Between being human and being divine there is a difference in degree and number. The mystic view of the *mystery of number* underlies this. Osiris as a cosmic being is One, yet he exists, nevertheless, undivided in each human soul. Every human being is an Osiris, yet the One Osiris must be represented as a separate being. Man is in course of development, and at the end of his evolutionary career he becomes divine. In taking this view we must speak of Divine-ness, or becoming divine, rather than of a finished divine being, complete in himself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":399,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l06/p003","german_anchor":{"de_prefix":"l05","de_passages":[{"locus":"GA 8/l05/p001","url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/8/l05/p001"}],"bead_confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["reader"],"reader_german":["GA 8/l05/p001"],"reader_part":true,"length_check":{"de_words":525,"en_words":532,"ratio":1.01,"partial":false},"correspondence":"established","note":"English passage numbering is edition-relative, so the same number need not name the same paragraph in the German. 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It becomes the ideal of the man who wishes to awaken the Eternal within himself.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":106,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l06/p004","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. See witness_completeness for how much of the original this witness holds."}},{"passage_number":5,"locus":"GA 8/l06/p005","text":"Osiris is torn to pieces, killed by Typhon. The fragments of his body are preserved and cared for by his consort, Isis. After his death he let a ray of his own light fall upon her, and she bore him Horus. This Horus takes up the earthly tasks of Osiris. He is the second Osiris, still imperfect, but progressing towards the true Osiris.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":63,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l06/p005","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. 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What Plato ( *cf*. p. 66) describes as a cosmic process—that the Creator has stretched the soul of the world on the body of the world in the form of a cross, and that the cosmic process is the redemption of this crucified soul,—this process had to be enacted in man on a smaller scale if he was to be qualified for Osiris-existence. The candidate for initiation had to develop himself in such a way that his soul-experience, his becoming an Osiris, blended into one with the cosmic Osiris process.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":196,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l06/p006","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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This divinity is kept down in him by the power of the earthly nature; this lower nature must first be buried in order that the higher nature may arise.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":91,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l06/p007","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. Cite the German for anything load-bearing."},"entity_parity":{"status":"not_checkable","note":"No verified paragraph alignment covers this passage, so its names cannot be compared with the German."},"note":"quote_safe certifies the bytes of this text. This block is about the translation as a WITNESS: who made it, and whether it carries the same names as the original. 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I overcame death, but now I have become a different being. I have nothing more to do with perishable nature. For me this has become saturated with the Logos. I now belong to those who live eternally, and who will sit at the right hand of Osiris. I myself shall be a true Osiris, part of the eternal cosmic order; and the judgment of life and death will be placed in my hands.”* The candidate for initiation had to submit to the experience which made such a confession possible for him. It was an experience of the highest kind that the neophite passed through.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":253,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/8/l06/p008","witness_quality":{"translator":{"status":"unknown","warning":"No translator is recorded for this edition. An unattributed translation cannot be weighed as a witness: you cannot tell which hand made the choices in it. 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Dafür ist ein Beweis das sogenannte «Totenbuch», das der Fleiß der Forscher im neunzehnten Jahrhundert entziffert hat. (Vergleiche Lepsius, Das Totenbuch der alten Ägypter. Berlin 1842.) Es ist «das größte zusammenhängende Literaturwerk, das uns von den Ägyptern erhalten ist». Man findet darin allerlei Lehren und Gebete, die jedem Verstorbenen mit ins Grab gegeben wurden, damit er in ihnen einen Wegweiser habe, wenn er der vergänglichen Hülle entledigt ist. Die intimsten Anschauungen der Ägypter über das Ewige und die Weltentstehung sind in diesem Literaturwerke enthalten. Diese Anschauungen deuten durchaus auf Göttervorstellungen, die denen der griechischen Mystik ähnlich sind. -Osiris ist unter den verschiedenen Göttern, die in den Landesteilen Ägyptens anerkannt wurden, allmählich der vorzüglichste und allgemeinste geworden. In ihm wurden die Vorstellungen über die anderen Gottheiten zusammengefaßt. Mag nun das ägyptische Volk in seiner großen Masse was immer für Gedanken über den Osiris gehabt haben, das «Totenbuch» deutet auf eine Vorstellung der Priesterweisheit, die in Osiris eine Wesenheit sah, wie sie in der Menschenseele selbst gefunden werden konnte. -Alles, was man über den Tod und die Toten dachte, sagt das deutlich genug. Wird der Leib dem Irdischen gegeben, innerhalb des Irdischen aufbewahrt, so tritt das Ewige den Weg zum Ur-Ewigen an. Es erscheint zum Gericht vor Osiris, den zweiundvierzig Totenrichter umgeben. Das Schicksal des Ewigen im Menschen hängt davon ab, wie diese Totenrichter befinden. Hat die Seele ihr Sündenbekenntnis abgelegt, ist sie versöhnt befunden mit der ewigen Gerechtigkeit, so treten unsichtbare Mächte ihr entgegen, die zu ihr sprechen: «Der Osiris N. ward geläutert in dem Teiche, der da ist südlich vom Felde Hotep und nördlich von dem Felde der Heuschrecken, wo die Götter des Grünens sich waschen in der vierten Stunde der Nacht und in der achten des Tages mit dem Bilde des Herzens der Götter, übergehend von der Nacht zum Tage. » Also der ewige Teil des Menschen wird innerhalb der ewigen Weltordnung selbst als ein Osiris angesprochen. Nach der Bezeichnung Osiris wird der persönliche Name des Betreffenden genannt. Und auch der sich mit der ewigen Weltordnung Vereinigende bezeichnet sich selbst als «Osiris». «Ich bin der Osiris N. Wachsend unter den *Blüten des Feigenbaums* ist der Name des Osiris N. » Der Mensch wird also ein Osiris. Das Osiris-Sein ist nur eine vollkommene Entwicklungsstufe des Mensch-Seins. Es erscheint da selbstverständlich, daß auch der innerhalb der ewigen Weltordnung richtende Osiris nichts ist als ein vollkommener Mensch. Zwischen Mensch-Sein und Gott-Sein ist ein Gradunterschied und ein Unterschied in der Zahl. Es liegt hier die Mysterienanschauung vom Geheimnis der «Zahl» zugrunde. Der Osiris als Weltwesen ist Einer; in jeder Menschenseele ist er deshalb doch ungeteilt vorhanden. Jeder Mensch ist ein Osiris; und doch muß auch der Eine Osiris als eine besondere Wesenheit vorgestellt werden. Der Mensch ist in Entwicklung begriffen; und am Ende seiner Entwicklungslaufbahn liegt sein Gott-Sein. Man muß vielmehr von einer *Göttlichkeit*, nicht von einem fertigen, abgeschlossenen Gotteswesen innerhalb dieser Anschauung sprechen.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":525,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/8/l05/p001"}],"beads":[{"from":[2,3],"to":[1],"confidence":"high","pairing_state":"verified"}],"note":"Paired by the paragraph aligner; each language numbers its own paragraphs. A bead at either end of the span can carry text beyond it (the `from` numbers show what each bead covers).","uncovered":[4,5,6,7,8]}}