17. The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life
GA 87/1902-03-01/p009
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In abstract terms, this is the basic idea that leads to Egyptian initiation. It was believed that the person concerned should not only receive spiritual teachings, not only spiritual shells, for the reception of which it was sufficient if he could think logically, no, it was believed that the whole physical should also be transformed in such a way that his whole sensual perception served the spirit to a much higher degree than was the case with another.
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