17. The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life
GA 87/1902-03-01/p024
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This is expressed in a profound symbol in the Osiris myth and especially in the cult. Isis and Horus were depicted as people lying on the ground with their hands outstretched sideways. Below them they placed the cross [...]. This was the symbol for the resurrection of that which had fallen to the dust. In the cross we have the same idea as we have in Platonic philosophy, in which God, the All-Spirit, is crucified. Here it becomes a symbol and at the same time the awakener. Passing through the cross, at the coffin of Osiris, he will rise again and then be ruler anew.
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