17. The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life
GA 87/1902-03-01/p022
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Horus was to be nothing other than the divine-human soul, which was poured into matter and was to bring matter back to its original existence. This cosmological truth, which relates to the individual human being, was handed down to the disciple. If he has not merely absorbed it in an abstract way, but if he has really lived into it, then he was considered worthy, since he does not merely grasp the external intellectual matter, but comprehends the great holiness of cosmology as something sublime, through which he himself believed to have become better.
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