{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 237/1924-08-01/p019","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I beg you not to take these words lightly or easily. We have but human words to express these sublime realities. Simple as the words may sound, they are not lightly meant. Of all these Angels, the number of whom is seven, six have to a very considerable extent (not entirely—Gabriel most of all—but even he not altogether)—six, as I said, have to a very considerable extent resigned themselves to the fact that man is faced with Maya, with the great illusion, because, in his quality which no longer accords with his original pre-destination, he has in fact descended from his first stature. Michael alone, Michael is the only one (I say again, I am forced to use banal expressions) Michael is the only one who would not give in. Michael, and with him those who are the Michael spirits even among men, continues to take this stand: I am the Ruler of the Intelligence. And the Intelligence must be so ruled that there shall not enter into it any illusion nor false fantasy, nor anything that would restrict the human being to a dark and vague and cloudy vision of the world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VIII. Ahriman's Fight Against the Michael Principle — The Message of Michael","site_heading":null,"date":"1924-08-01","location":null,"word_count":193,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/237/1924-08-01/p019","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"George Adams. Revised by D.S. 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Einzig und allein Michael ist derjenige, der eben — ich muß mich, ich möchte sagen, banal ausdrücken - nicht nachgeben wollte und der mit denen, die Michael-Geister sind auch unter den Menschen, auf dem Standpunkte steht: Ich bin der Verwalter der Intelligenz. 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