17. The Idea of Christ in Egyptian Spiritual Life
GA 87/1902-03-01/p044
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To grasp this view of the nothingness, of the mere appearance of the world, was one of the insights that the initiates were to be taught in a living way. He was not to see that which was to be seen in a coarse, crude manner. But that which the [non-initiated] people do not see, they should see. Wherever we go back to the mystical sources, be it in the ancient Vedas or in Genesis, wherever there is a deeper understanding, there is also the perception that we are dealing with a mere mirage - as in the Indian. [And this can only become what it must become when the deity appears in its form and when man not only contributes to bringing knowledge into the world, but also to permeating matter with spirit, so that not only the spirit becomes alive, but also that matter becomes alive with the spirit at the same time.
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