17. The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life
GA 87/1902-03-01/p040
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It is the same as what we find in Genesis as the prophecy of God foretelling the coming of the Christ. You can find the sagas of the ancient Vedic literature in Genesis as well. This legend is intimately connected with the Indian world view. This Adam and Eve myth is in the deepest harmony with the teaching that has been propagated up to Buddhism and has become personal in Buddha, with the world view that what we perceive with our senses is basically a mirage, an illusion, a deceptive image and that man has a completely different goal in the eternal, in Nirvana. What is beyond nirvana is a vain appearance.
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