Second Lecture
Those spirits, then, who have remained behind in their development on the moon, have brought with them the endeavour to turn people's heads upwards by penetrating and pervading them. People who have the tendency to carry their nose high in an unsympathetic way, as one says, are seduced by such Luciferic spirits. There is a real background to this. It is truly a truth of physiognomy and the cosmos, and one is quite right when one says of someone who carries his nose up: Well, Lucifer is in his neck! That is absolutely true. Therefore, it is infinitely important for life to really know these cosmic relationships.
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