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Nor did a thinker in that time think differently than thus, that Michael was working in him and giving him the thoughts.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VII. The New Age of Michael","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-07-28","location":null,"word_count":159,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/237/1924-07-28/p024","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams. Revised by D.S. Osmond","identified_edition":"RSP1977","book_title":"Karmic Relationships  III","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA237/English/RSP1977/19240728p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Denn wenn auch in etwas anderem Ideenzusammenhange, so hatte doch ein Mensch wie zum Beispiel Alexander der Große durchaus ein deutliches Bewußtsein davon, daß ihm seine Gedanken auf dem Michaels-Wege kamen. Gewiß, die entsprechende geistige Wesenheit hieß anders. Wir bedienen uns hier der christlichen Terminologie, aber die Terminologie macht es ja nicht aus. Als nichts anderes sah sich ein solcher Mensch wie Alexander der Große an denn als einen Missionar des Michael, als ein Werkzeug des Michael. Er konnte gar nicht anders denken als: Michael handelt eigentlich auf der Erde, und ich bin derjenige, durch den er handelt. So war die Auffassung. Das gab ja auch die Kraft des Willens zu den Taten. 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