17. The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life
GA 87/1902-03-01/p034
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The one thing that must be clear to anyone who knows how to read Genesis is that Moses probably knew the Decalogue in the form in which he gave it. This results from the great correspondence we have in the Decalogue and in the commandments of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. And we must be clear that in ancient Egypt there was no other way to get this across than by being initiated.
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