{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 107/1909-01-01/p025","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The subtle difference between the two Beings must not be overlooked. The essential point is that, fundamentally speaking, Lucifer had brought man under the influence of the powers connected with air and water *only*; whereas it was Ahriman-Mephistopheles who has subjected him to the influence of far more deadly powers and the civilizations immediately to come will see the appearance of many things connected with Ahriman's influence. Through this influence the seeker for the spirit who does not stand upon firm and sure foundations can readily fall prey to the most terrible illusion and deception. For Ahriman is a spirit who sets out to spread deception as to the true nature of the sense-world, especially as an expression of the spiritual world. When a man has a tendency to abnormal, somnambulistic states or through certain wrongful training awakens occult forces whereby egoism is intensified, then Ahriman or Mephistopheles has a ready influence precisely upon these occult forces, an influence that can soon become overwhelmingly powerful. Whereas Lucifer's influence can only bring it about that what confronts a man from the spiritual world (and this applies also to one who is receiving wrongful training) appears to him as an *astral* form visible to the astral body, the manifestations due to the influence of Ahriman are brought to light in that the evil influences on the physical body press through into the etheric body and then become visible as *phantoms*.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"II. 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Denn in der Tat ist Ahriman ein Geist, der darauf ausgeht, über die wahre Natur der Sinneswelt zu täuschen, zu täuschen nämlich darin, daß sie ein Ausdruck ist der geistigen Welt. Wenn der Mensch nun Veranlagung hat zu abnormen Zuständen, zu somnambulen Zuständen oder durch eine gewisse unrichtige Schulung okkulte Kräfte in sich erweckt und irgend etwas in sich hat, was zur Egoität, zum Egoismus hindrängt, dann hat gerade auf die okkulten Kräfte Ahriman oder Mephistopheles leicht einen Einfluß, einen Einfluß, der leicht ein gewaltiger werden kann. 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