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237. Karmic Relationships III: Ahriman's Fight Against the Michael Principle. The Message of Michael 01 Aug 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond

They pointed to that new life of the Mysteries which we must now begin to understand in the realm of Anthroposophy, and which is absolutely compatible with the full Intelligence of man—the clear, light-filled Intelligence.
All manner of karmic experiences come to the individual, each in his own way. The one will have this or that to undergo through the fact that he must tear himself loose from old connections and unite with those who are seeking to cultivate the message of Michael.
My dear friends, we shall only be able to understand these karmic threads if we remember all the preceding conditions that we have now set forth. We shall only understand them when we have really seen how the souls who today, out of their unconscious Being, feel impelled to the Anthroposophical Movement, have undergone experiences together.
237. Karmic Relationships III: Entry of the Michael Forces. Decisive Character of the Michael Impulses 03 Aug 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond

Above all their karma was such that they had a strong feeling—though they did not understand it clearly—a strong feeling of the battle I described the day before yesterday, the battle between Michael and Ahriman.
He was to study an historic personality who had lived in the time of the Renaissance and Reformation. I want you to understand me precisely. All the preparations had been made for this man (it was at the end of the eighteen-nineties) to become historically acquainted with a personality who had lived at the time of the Renaissance and Reformation.
He actually received, though unconsciously, a real power of understanding for the Michael element. I give this somewhat strange example in order to show you by what paths the Michael element was approaching human beings at that time.
237. Karmic Relationships III: The Michaelites: Their Karmic Impulse Towards the Spiritual Life 04 Aug 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond

The real karmic conditions and pre-disposing causes of all that impels a man to Anthroposophy will best be understood if we speak not in pedantic outline and definition, but rather hint at the things in one way or another, characterising more the atmosphere in which, if I may put it so, anthroposophists unfold their lives.
Now all these things are as though created purposely to undermine initiative in the souls of men. Every public meeting, every mass meeting to which we go, only fulfils its purpose as such, if the initiative of the individual human being, with the exception of the speakers and leaders, is undermined.
The point is, my dear friends, that we should take hold of these things in no merely formal sense but in their reality. We must understand that since Michael no longer draws out the soul-and-spirit from the physical bodily nature as in times past, Ahriman can play his game with the soul-and-spirit as it lives within the body.
237. Karmic Relationships III: Evolution of the Michael Principle Throughout the Ages 08 Aug 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond

This is the great difference. But we can only understand such developments in evolution when we look behind the scenes of existence, perceiving the Spiritual behind the Material.
And it was always so, that the Sun Intelligence stood paramountly under the dominion of Michael, while the other Planetary Intelligences were subject to the other Archangels.
A course of eleven lectures published in English translation under this title: published in German under the title, Das Initiaten-Bewusstsein. Course of seven lectures on Education.
237. Lecture I 01 Jul 1924, Dornach
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith

In these pictures we see the Dominicans portrayed, treading the representatives of Arabism under foot. The Arabians are there under their feet—they are being trodden underfoot. The two streams were felt in this keen contrast for a long time after.
Until at length those philosophers arose who stood under an influence which has really killed all meaning. To speak radically: those who stood under the influence of Descartes!
I do not say that they became philosophers. These things underwent many changes. When people begin to think along these lines the strangest nonsense becomes self-evident.
237. Karmic Relationships, Esoteric Studies III, Entry of the Michael Forces 03 Aug 1924, Dornach

Above all their karma was such that they had a strong feeling—though they did not understand it clearly—a strong feeling of the battle I described the day before yesterday, the battle between Michael and Ahriman.
He was to study an historic personality who had lived in the time of the Renaissance and Reformation. I want you to understand me precisely. All the preparations had been made for this man (it was at the end of the eighteen-nineties) to become historically acquainted with a personality who had lived at the time of the Renaissance and Reformation.
He actually received, though unconsciously, a real power of understanding for the Michael element. I give this somewhat strange example in order to show you by what paths the Michael element was approaching human beings at that time.
238. Karmic Relationships IV: Introductory Lecture 05 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

It must always be remembered that although actual penetration into the spiritual world requires the development of other states of consciousness, the understanding of what the spiritual investigator brings to light requires only the healthy human intellect, the healthy human reason that endeavours to put prejudice aside.
What it means, translated into bald language, is this: If a man is not mad, he understands nothing of the super-sensible world; if he does, then he is certainly mad! That is the same way of speaking about the subject, only put rather more plainly.
By way of introduction to-day I want to help you to understand the evolution of other states of consciousness, first of all simply by comparing those that are normal in present-day man with those that were once present in earlier, primitive—not historic but prehistoric—conditions of human evolution.
238. Karmic Relationships IV: Lecture II 07 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

It was no real Initiation, but it lived within him instinctively. Thus a large number of mummies were mummified under the supervision and co-operation of these two people. Time went on. The two men passed through the gate of death and underwent the experiences of which I shall speak next time—the experiences in the super-sensible which are connected with the development of karma or destiny.
But once this has been done, a great light is shed on many things. It is difficult to understand the origin of the peculiar style of Titus Livius, who as it were embalms the human beings whom he describes.
Who, with the ordinary consciousness alone, can understand an earthly life? It can only be understood when we know what is there in the foundations of a soul.
238. Karmic Relationships IV: Lecture III 10 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

We understand only the very smallest part of human history and of our own life if we consider it in its external aspect, I mean in that aspect which we see from the limited view-point of our earthly life between birth and death.
There were, so to speak, later ‘campaigns of Alexander’ undertaken by the Knights of the Round Table of King Arthur into Europe, even as the real campaigns of Alexander had gone from Macedonia to Asia.
Moreover even in that time the belated followers of European paganism understood the Cosmic Christ far more worthily and truly than those who received the Christ in the Christianity that was spread officially under that name.
238. Karmic Relationships IV: Lecture IV 12 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy

I told you of a super-sensible event which took place under the aegis as it were of the Michael Power at the very time when the Council of 869 was taking place on earth.
On the contrary it rules over the organisation of the Elements within you and this your soul stands under the influence of the planetary world, of Mercury, Jupiter and Venus, of Sun and Moon, Saturn and Mars.
And if I may say so, there is a very strong karma underlying the fact that to-day and in recent times, at many places, I have been speaking of such things as the School of Chartres, and what preceded and what came after it.

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