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The individual personality had to submit to a process whereby sensuality and the physical were purified to such an extent that it could comprehend the world in a spiritual way. The process was carried out within the Egyptian priestly mysteries in such a way that the person who was considered mature enough to be subjected to an etherization of the body was put into a kind of higher hypnosis, placed in a coffin, in a tomb. He lay there with his hands outstretched in a mystical sleep, from which he was to be awakened on the third day. The awakening from the mystical sleep was accomplished by the rising morning sun. But now this whole process made such an impression on him that he actually led a new life when he had gone through this process. Now he could understand when the Egyptian and Indian world views claim that the earthly is nothing and that the world of the senses no longer means anything. 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There, where the spiritual awakens and the lower, the tangible really evaporates. The lower, the tangible becomes nothing compared to the higher that awakens in us. Hence this mystical confession in various ways. Anyone who studies mystical writings will often have come across this expression. It can be found, for example, in Jakob Böhme, who expressed it in the words: \"He who does not die before he dies, perishes when he dies\". 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Die einzelne Persönlichkeit musste sich einem Vorgang unterwerfen, wodurch die Sinnlichkeit und das Leibliche so weit gereinigt wurden, dass sie die Welt auf geistige Weise begreifen konnte. Der Prozess wurde vollzogen innerhalb der ägyptischen Priestermysterien so, dass man denjenigen, welchen man für reif hielt, dass man ihn einer Ätherisierung des Leibes unterwerfen konnte, in eine Art höhere Hypnose versetzte, ihn in einen Sarg, in ein Grab legte. Mit ausgestreckten Händen lag er da im mystischen Schlaf, aus dem er am dritten Tage erweckt werden sollte. Das Erwecken aus dem mystischen Schlaf wurde dadurch vollzogen, dass es durch die aufgehende Morgensonne geschehen sollte. Jetzt hat aber dieser ganze Vorgang auf ihn einen so großen Eindruck gemacht, dass er ein tatsächlich neues Leben führte, wenn er diesen Prozess durchgemacht hatte. Jetzt konnte er verstehen, wenn die ägyptischen und indischen Weltanschauungen behaupten, dass das Irdische ein Nichts ist und dass die Sinnenwelt nichts mehr bedeutet. Goethes Worte dafür waren: «Stirb und werde.»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":204,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/87/1902-03-15/p005"},{"locus":"GA 87/1902-03-15/p006","passage_number":6,"text":"Wer die mystischen Schriften studiert, wird dieses «Stirb und werde» öfters wiederfinden. Da, wo das Geistige erwacht und das Niedere, das Greifliche wirklich verdunstet. Das Niedere, Greifliche wird zu dem Nichtigen gegenüber dem Höheren, das in uns auferwacht. Daher dieses mystische Bekenntnis in der verschiedensten Weise. Wer mystische Schriften studiert, wird häufig diesen Ausdruck gefunden haben. So ist er zum Beispiel zu finden bei Jakob Böhme, der ihn in die Worte fasste: «Wer nicht stirbt, bevor er stirbt, der verdirbt, wenn er stirbt». 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