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arisen again in our fifth period, which brings the fruits of the third period. These fruits
appear in the inclinations and ideas of modern times, which have their causes in the
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ancient Egyptian world. Nowadays all the ideas emerge which at that time were laid
down in the soul as germs. Therefore it is easy to see that man's modern conquests on the
physical plane are nothing more than a coarser version of the transfer of interest to the
physical plane that was present in ancient Egypt, only people are now even more deeply
ensnared in matter. In the mummifying of the dead we have already seen a cause of the
materialistic views that we now experience on the physical plane.
Let us imagine a soul of that time. Let us imagine a soul that then lived as a pupil of one
of the ancient initiates. Such a pupil's spiritual gaze had been directed to the cosmos
through actual perception. The way Osiris and Isis lived in the moon had become
spiritual perception for him. Everything was permeated by divine-spiritual beings. He had
taken this into his soul. He is again incarnated in the fourth and fifth periods. In the fifth
period such a person experiences all this again. It comes back to him as a memory. What
happens to it now? The pupil had gazed up at all that lived in the world of the stars. This
sight comes to life again in a certain person of the fifth period. He remembers what he
saw and heard at that time. He cannot recognize it again, because it has taken on a
material coloring. It is no longer the spiritual that he sees, but the material-mechanical
relationships emerge again and he recreates the thoughts in materialistic form as memory.
Where he had previously seen divine beings, Isis and Osiris, now he sees only abstract
forces without any spiritual bond. The spiritual relationships appear to him in thought-
form. Everything arises again, but in material form.
Let us apply this to a particular soul which at that time acquired insight into the great
cosmic connections, and let us imagine that there arises again before this soul what it had
seen spiritually in ancient Egypt. This appears again in this soul in the fifth post-
Atlantean period, and we have the soul of Copernicus. Thus did the Copernican system
arise, as a memory-tableau of spiritual experiences in ancient Egypt. The case is the same
with Kepler's system. These men gave birth to their great laws out of Their memories, out
of what they had experienced in the Egyptian time. Now let us think how such a thing
arises in the soul as a faint memory, and let us think also how what such a spirit truly
thinks was, in ancient Egypt, experienced by him in spiritual form. What can such a spirit
say to us? That it seems to him as though he looked back into ancient Egypt. It is as
though he stated all this in a new form when such a spirit says,  But now, a year and a
half after the first dawning, a few months after the first full daylight, a few weeks after
the pure sun had risen over these most wonderful contemplations, nothing holds me back
any longer. I shall revel in holy fire. I shall scorn the sons of men with the simple
confession that I am stealing the sacred vessels of the Egyptians to build with them an
habitation for my God, far removed from the borders of Egypt. Is this not like an actual
memory, which corresponds to the truth? This is Kepler's saying, and in his works we
also find the following:  The ancient memory is knocking at my heart. Wonderful are
the connections of things in human evolution. Many such enigmatic sayings take on light
and meaning when one senses the spiritual connections. Life becomes great and
powerful, and we feel our way into a mighty whole when we understand that the single
person is only an individual form of the spiritual that permeates the world.
I have already pointed out that what has arisen in our time as Darwinism is a coarser
materialistic version of what the Egyptians portrayed as their gods in animal form. I was
also able to show that if one understands Paracelsus correctly, his medical lore is a
recrudescence of what was taught in the temples of ancient Egypt. Let us contemplate
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such a spirit as Paracelsus. We find a remarkable statement by him. One who has steeped
himself in Paracelsus knows what a lofty spirit lived in him. He made a remarkable
statement, saying that he had learned much in many ways; least of all in the academies,
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