{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 87/1902-03-29/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"[To show how the historical world life lived in the Gnostic view - to illustrate how it was expressed - I will use the \"Exodus from Egypt\"). It is an allegory of the inner development of the soul. The land is to be understood as the body of the individual. [The exodus from Egypt thus corresponds to the entry into the \"Garden of Eden and the exodus from the sensual body\" in the story of the Israelites.] The Gnostic seeks to overcome this, to move out, as it were. By approaching the higher, he is led out [from the sensual nature] by the Initiate. He is not immediately led to Palestine, to the \"Promised Land\". He must first go through various stages of development. We have a symbol in the 'brazen serpent' set up by Moses as a remedy against the many snakes. Anyone who was bitten by a snake had to die. At the sight of the brazen serpent, however, he was to remain alive. The brazen serpent was nothing other than the prophetic foretelling of redemption through Christ Jesus. The serpent has always been an important symbol. The people then reached the inner world, the life of the soul, the Promised Land, where the Messiah must appear. This is how the Gnostics understood this event: as an allegory of the inner life of the soul. The serpent is regarded everywhere as a symbol of the development of spiritual life passing through matter. The [brazen] serpent symbolizes the destruction of the last material manifestation. The very last stage, the coarsest stage, is precisely that in which the Logos, the highest spirit of God, expresses itself, from which man, human individuality, must [wriggle] out. The turning back, the return of the earthly to the divine must be undertaken. The bronze serpent is the symbol for the exemplary human being who is so far advanced that he can contribute to the spiritualization of the rest of the world through his spiritualization. The Gnostics interpreted all historical events in this way. They saw them as allegories for individual soul processes of the actual human being and thus grew into the divine world processes.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"21. 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