17. The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life
GA 87/1902-03-01/p030
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Through this, man practically experienced what Jakob Böhme wanted to say with the words: "He who does not die before he dies, perishes when he dies." Because his spirit was able to leave the body and take possession of it again, he was able to embark on the path to deification, to becoming Osiris himself, in a completely different way. We have seen from the Egyptian Book of the Dead how the Egyptians imagined eternal life in contrast to physical-sensual existence; we have seen how this initiation was brought about.
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