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these fourteen aspects caused something special. Each of them has had a great and
powerful influence on man in his evolution on earth. Now I must tell you something that
is strange, but true.
At the time when all this had not yet happened, when Osiris had not yet withdrawn, man
in his light-form did not have the foundation for something that today is of the greatest
importance. We know that the spinal cord is important. The nerves proceed from it. Not
even the beginnings of these were present in the time when the moon had not yet
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departed. These fourteen aspects of the moon, in the order in which they follow on one
another, were the cause of fourteen nerve-filaments being annexed to the human spinal
cord. The cosmic forces worked in such a way that these fourteen nerve-filaments
correspond to the fourteen phases or aspects of the moon. This is the result of the Osiris
influence. But something else also corresponds to the moon-evolution. These fourteen
phases are only half the phenomena of the moon. The moon has fourteen phases from
new moon to full moon, and fourteen phases from full moon to new moon. During the
fourteen days leading to the new moon, there is no Osiris influence. Then the sun shines
upon the moon in such a way that the latter gradually turns its unilluminated surface to
the earth as the new moon. 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. Through the Isis influence fourteen other nerve-
filaments proceed from the spinal cord. This makes a total of twenty-eight nerve-
filaments, corresponding to the different phases of the moon. So we see, from the
viewpoint of cosmic events, the origin of specific members of the human organism.
Many will now object that this does not account for all the nerves, but only for twenty-
eight of them. There would have been only twenty-eight had the moon-year coincided
with the sun-year. But the sun-year is longer, and the difference between he two caused
the surplus nerves. Thus from the moon the influences of Isis and Osiris were built into
the human organism. But something further is connected with this.
Up to the moment when the moon began to work from outside, here had been no duality
of sex. There had been only a human being who was both male and female. The division
occurred first through the alternating influences of Isis and Osiris from the moon.
Whether a person became male or female depended upon whether the Osiris nerves or the
Isis nerves exercised a certain influence on the organism. An organism in which the Isis
influence predominated was male, whereas a body in which the Osiris influence prevailed
became female. Naturally, both forces, Isis and Osiris, work in every man and in every
woman, but in such a way that in men the etheric body is female, while in women it is
male. Here we have something of the wonderful Connection between the single being and
the situation in the cosmos.
We have seen that man is influenced not only through the forces but also through the
constellations, or positions, of the heavenly bodies. All that belongs to the male or female
organisms formed itself under the influence of these twenty-eight nerves proceeding from
the spinal cord. Now we will bring forward something that will give an insight into the
cosmos and its connections with human evolution. These forces form the human shape,
but man does not rigidify in it; an equilibrium is achieved between sun and moon
influences. In the following, we must not think that we are dealing with mere symbols; it
is solid facts that concern us.
What is the original Osiris, the undismembered Osiris? What is the divided Osiris? What
previously was a unity in man is now divided into the twenty-eight nerves. We have seen
how in ourselves he lies dismembered. Without this, the human form could never have
come into being. What formed itself under the influence of the sun and moon? Through
the joint working of all the nerves there was brought into being, not only the externally
male and female, but also within man something arose through the influence of the male
and female principles. There arose the inner Isis-result, and this is the lungs. The lungs
are the regulator of the influences of Typhon or Set. What works on man from Osiris, by
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stimulating the female influence in a masculine way, causes the lungs to be made
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