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In false asceticism a person exposes himself to this kind of seduction because instead of rightly balancing the scales, using thus the polarity of forces, he does away with one side altogether.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture II","site_heading":"Crossing the Threshold: Luciferic and Ahrimanic Dangers","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Da setzt sich der Mensch in der falschen Askese den Verlockungen Luzifers aus, weil er, statt die Waagschale ins Gleichgewicht zu versetzen, die Kräfte als polarisch zu verwenden, die eine Seite ganz austilgt. So hat Ahriman seine volle Berechtigung für alle richtige Schätzung des Menschen gegenüber der physisch-sinnlichen Welt. Das mineralische Reich ist das sozusagen ureigen dem Ahriman zugehörige Reich, das Reich, über das der Tod fortwährend ausgegossen ist, in den höheren Naturreichen ist Ahriman der Regulierer des Todes, insofern er gesetzmäßig in den Gang der Vorgänge und Wesenheiten eingreift. Dasjenige, was wir als Übersinnliches mehr in der Außenwelt verfolgen können, bezeichnen wir aus gewissen Gründen als geistig; das, was mehr seelisch in dem Menschen wirkt, was mehr innerlich im Menschen wirkt, bezeichnen wir als seelisch. Ahriman ist ein mehr geistiges Wesen, Luzifer ein mehr seelisches Wesen. 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