{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 87/1902-03-01/p039","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"This contemplation will give us a view of the actual reason for the emergence of the Christ figure. If we go back to the sacred books of the Indians, which were completed two thousand years before the birth of Christ, we find a most curious legend that confronts us in the form of the Indian Vedic literature. It introduces us to the whole Indian world view. You will find the legend of [Adhima] and [Heva]. The two were created as human beings on Ceylon in paradise. They are presented to us in full innocence. A serpent comes to them. It says to them: Why do you want to stay within these realms? They then wander through these areas and [Adhima] says to [Heva]: Let us see what kind of land this is that we see in the distance. - The serpent also invited them to do so and said: 'When you get there, you will be like Brahma and realize the deepest secrets of the world. - It all seems great to them. But when they get there, the whole thing dissolves into a kind of mirage and they are in harsh, barren realms. But they are comforted by Brahma, who tells them, after the world had appeared to them as an insubstantial reflection: I will send Vishnu to you.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"17. The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life","site_heading":null,"date":"1902-03-01","location":null,"word_count":220,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/87/1902-03-01/p039","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"Ancient Mysteries and Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA087/English/SOL2024/19020301p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Wenn wir zurückgehen auf die heiligen Bücher der Inder, die zweitausend Jahre vor Christi Geburt abgeschlossen worden sind, dann finden wir eine höchst merkwürdige Sage, die uns in der Gestalt der indischen Veden-Literatur entgegentritt. Sie führt uns ein in die ganze indische Weltanschauung. Sie finden da die Sage von [Adhima] und [Heva]. Die beiden wurden als Menschen geschaffen auf Ceylon im Paradies. Sie werden uns vorgestellt in voller Unschuld. Zu ihnen tritt eine Schlange. Sie sagt ihnen: Warum wollt ihr innerhalb dieser Gefilde bleiben? Sie wandern dann durch diese Gebiete und [Adhima] sagt zu [Heva]: Wir wollen doch einmal sehen, was das für ein Land ist, das wir in der Ferne sehen. - Die Schlange hat sie auch dazu aufgefordert und sagte: Ihr werdet, wenn ihr dahin kommt, wie Brahma sein und die tiefsten Geheimnisse der Welt erkennen. - Großartig erscheint ihnen das alles. Aber als sie hinkommen, löst sich das Ganze in eine Art Fata Morgana auf und sie sind in rauen, öden Gefilden. 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