Youth of Sais

Frontispiece to Gerhard Blasius: Anatome Animalium,1681. A priestess unveils the veiled goddess to the appropriately prepared adept.

The youth of Sais is said to have lifted the veil of Isis in a forbidden manner. Plutarch describes the statue of the veiled Isis that is said to have existed in Sais in his Moral Writings, "On Isis and Osiris". The statue is said to have carried the following inscription:

„In Sais, the statue of Athena, who is also believed to be Isis, had the following inscription «I am the All, the Past, Present and Future, my veil no mortal has yet lifted».“

– Plutarch: On Isis and Osiris, C9

According to Rudolf Steiner, the youth of Sais who dared to lift the veil was reborn as the youth of Nain, mentioned in the 7th chapter of the Gospel of Luke, who was the one through whom Christ was raised from the dead. In him the whole Egyptian-Chaldean culture was alive and this celebrated its resurrection in the Christian sense through the revival, which was at the same time an initiation. This enabled this great initiate to become in the next incarnation Mani (Manes), who founded Manichaeism.

„Manes is that high individuality, embodied over and over again on earth, who is the guiding spirit of those who are there for the conversion of evil.“ (Lit.:GA 104, p. 162ff)

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Die Apokalypse des Johannes, GA 104 (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1040-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Der Orient im Lichte des Okzidents, GA 113 (1982), ISBN 3-7274-1130-9 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Aus der Akasha-Forschung. Das Fünfte Evangelium, GA 148 (1992), ISBN 3-7274-1480-4 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner, Marie Steiner: Briefwechsel und Dokumente 1901–1925, 2., völlig überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, GA 262 (2002), ISBN 3-7274-2620-9 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Zur Geschichte und aus den Inhalten der ersten Abteilung der Esoterischen Schule 1904 bis 1914, GA 264 (1987), ISBN 3-7274-2650-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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