Developing a social memory complex

[Anders]

Rudolf Steiner said that words used in esoteric teachings are often veiled and the same word can even have different meanings in different situations. So the term Maya was used by Steiner in some cases to mean illusion rather than the eastern term Maya for all of reality being an illusion. Because I now heard in another lecture Steiner saying that the Gnostics believed that Jesus didn't have a physical body and instead had an astral body in the form of Maya, an illusion. Here again Steiner used the word Maya to mean illusion in the usual sense.