Towards the Sun

Ah, but we lived together in Egypt. I've known you from the time of Egypt, I know that. You are one of those to whom I said in Egypt, "I promise you that you will be part... that you will be on earth at the hour of realization." There are a few of them - not many But I know that!...
...Oh, there are amusing things. Egypt was an extremely occult age, at that time they really had occult knowledge. So that gives you a power over the invisible, you can act there consciously. ...
...Oh!. That's a remarkable thing꞉ in every age, and probably on the contrary, the farther you go into the past, there's a jumble, a clutter of quite uninteresting things - which disappear. They disappear, they are destroyed. There only remains what had an interesting inner life. So the past seems to us much more interesting than the present, but from our age all the clutter will also disappear and be dissolved in the same way, and only the best will remain, except if they use mechanical means to preserve loads of recordings of heaps of stupidities.
But otherwise...