17. The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life
GA 87/1902-03-01/p005
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However, anyone who wanted to go even further back into the old ideas of Indian religion would find that the Buddha as a personality, as he appears to us and as it is also according to the ideas of Indian religion, is only the last Buddha [of many]. It is therefore more a repetition than a first appearance of a [personality of such a nature]. Christians have lost this idea because they only know the one. We cannot follow the various Buddha figures in the life of the Indian religion.
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