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Those who wanted to rise to the highest truths that could be conveyed in the Egyptian priestly schools and cults, to descend to the depths of the mysteries of the world, could only do so in a precisely prescribed way, because it was believed that only those who had gone through the entire sequence of stages could have the inner life to have certain views alive within them.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"17. The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1902-03-01","location":null,"word_count":154,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/87/1902-03-01/p008","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ancient Mysteries and Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA087/English/SOL2024/19020301p01.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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Nach den Anschauungen der ägyptischen Priesterschaft sollte sie den Menschen einführen in die tiefsten Geheimnisse des Daseins, in die Urrätsel der Welt. Es handelt sich also dabei um die Einführung desjenigen, welcher zur Initiation zugelassen wurde, in das, was sorgfältig der großen Menge gegenüber von den ägyptischen Priestern verborgen gehalten wurde und was nur denjenigen mitgeteilt wurde, welche Fortschritte machen wollten. 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