17. The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life
GA 87/1902-03-01/p038
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I have only mentioned this to show the method. You can recognize the ancient Egyptian priestly religion in Genesis. This is how Genesis came about. The Egyptian priestly religion has been lost, but was later rebuilt from what was planted by tradition. This is why it is difficult for us to recognize the original form of what Moses handed down to us. But within the Egyptian priestly religion we can. When we reconstruct them, they correspond to the old mythical forms, to the oldest forms, so that we are in fact just as surprised by them as we were by the correspondence between the life of the Buddha and the life of the Christ.
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