Rudolf Steiner Audio CW 26 Michael Mystery: Letter 4: Michael's Task in the Sphere of Ahriman by Rudolf Steiner
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The Rise Of Individual Will
- Human consciousness reached a critical turning point over the last five centuries as individual will emerged.
- Thoughts shifted from living spiritual organs into dead, abstract constructs bound to the physical body.
Dead Thought And Ahriman's Reach
- As thoughts became dead abstractions, humans felt released from the spiritual world and rooted in the physical.
- This detachment placed humanity within the sphere where Ahrimanic forces can exert strong influence.
The Fifteenth Century Turning Point
- Before roughly the 15th century A.D., Ahrimanic powers only faintly affected human evolution through a neighboring spirit world.
- After the 15th century, direct encroachment became possible as humans descended into a lower world-stratum.