17. The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life
GA 87/1902-03-01/p019
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Through the ray of light, of love, she gives birth to her son Horus, who is thus in a sense a virgin-born son. He [replaces] his father. Isis and Horus continue to reign. Isis can even celebrate [the resurrection of Osiris] in a new body. Something takes place over his coffin that has been performed again and again as a kind of divine service. Thus, we are told, while their son Horus rules the people on earth, although he, according to the stay, completes his orbit on earth, also sits, as it were, at the right hand of the father.
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