Ancient Myths and the New Isis Mystery Seven Lectures Given in Dornach 4 to 13 January 1918 and a Lecture Given in Dornach 24 December 1920

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In these lectures, Steiner looks at Egyptian, Greek, and Hebrew myths and illustrates how the myths expressed the consciousness of the people of that time. He sees in the Osiris-Isis story an expression of the Egyptian experience of the loss of a direct experience of the supersensible world. He shows the relationship between this loss of higher consciousness and the challenge we face today to bring new life to our abstract ways of knowing.Steiner then offers a remarkable story, a new Isis legend. In the Egyptian myth the veiled Isis states, "I am the All, I am the Past, the Present, and the Future; no mortal has yet lifted my veil". In the New Isis legend as told by Rudolf Steiner, the Isis figure states, "I am the Human Being, I am the Past, the Present, and the Future. Every mortal should lift my veil". This extraordinary story is a challenge to modern humanity to awaken to a new way of thinking, and a new consciousness of the spiritual forces at work in our lives and in society.