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Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: (Cw 106) QUOTES

Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: (Cw 106) QUOTES

1 " The myth says that Osiris was cut into fourteen pieces and was buried in fourteen graves. Here in this profound myth we have a wonderful reference to the cosmic event. The fourteen aspects of the moon are the fourteen pieces of the dismembered Osiris.  10  The complete Osiris is the whole moon-disk. "

― Rudolf Steiner , Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: (Cw 106)

2 " He remembers that it was said to him, "Our ancestors were animal forms." But he does not remember that these forms were gods. This is the psychological basis for the emergence of Darwinism. "

― Rudolf Steiner , Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: (Cw 106)

3 " Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are the same souls who, in Egypt, received the pictures of the animal forms of man's forebears. The old views have awakened again, but man has descended more deeply into the material world. "

― Rudolf Steiner , Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: (Cw 106)

4 " It would be an error to wish to spread Christianity from a center in Asia, where other peoples are still settled, and Buddhism would be equally false for the European population. No religious view is right if it is not suited to the innermost needs of the time, and such a view will never be able to give a cultural impulse. "

― Rudolf Steiner , Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: (Cw 106)

5 " These fourteen phases from full moon to new also have their result, and for the Egyptian consciousness this result was achieved through Isis. These fourteen phases are ruled by Isis. "

― Rudolf Steiner , Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: (Cw 106)

6 " a beggar on earth than a king in the realm of shades. "

― Rudolf Steiner , Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: (Cw 106)

7 " The Greeks had the greatest architectonic gifts. Every art has its climax at some point, and here architecture had its high point. Modeling and painting reached their climax elsewhere. Despite the gigantic pyramids, the most wonderful architecture appears in the Greek temple. "

― Rudolf Steiner , Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: (Cw 106)

8 " But all those who had made themselves comfortable in the physical world experienced this fading away of consciousness in the spiritual world. It was no fairy tale but plain truth, that the initiates in the Eleusinian "

― Rudolf Steiner , Egyptian Myths and Mysteries: (Cw 106)