17. The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life
GA 87/1902-03-01/p011
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The cosmological, physiological and astronomical were not considered sufficient. It was believed that the whole body of man had to be transformed, that man had to be given a completely different view. They did not believe that man was born with fully developed abilities, as Western science believed. It was believed that man, as he had developed step by step up to now, had to be developed further so that life was not lost. It is therefore a matter of transforming body and mind in such a way that man can not only understand the highest knowledge logically and abstractly, but that he can also experience the deepest [life] of the world.
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