43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III

It is not only the guided human being who achieves something by allowing himself to be guided, but this guidance also means something for the guiding, leading beings, that they progress in their development. An angel, for example, is more after he has guided people for a while than he was before he started this guidance. Through his work in guiding, the angel also progresses - both the one who is a full angel and the one who has only half become one. Everyone progresses; everything is in constant development. But at each stage, entities remain behind. And now we look into the ancient Egyptian culture in such a way that we say: First there are the divine leaders, the angels, then the semi-divine leaders who did not quite reach the angelic level, and then there are humans who develop higher and higher. But certain of the superhumans, of the semi-divine leaders, remain behind again; that is, they do not lead in such a way that they express all their powers, [they] remain behind as angels or as half-angels during the ancient Egyptian cultural stage. So while men advance below, certain such entities remain above under the guidance of the dhyanic entities or angels - and likewise among the Luciferic entities. So when the Egyptian culture comes to an end and the Greco-Latin culture begins, there are leading, guiding entities from the Egyptian-Chaldean culture that have remained behind. However, they cannot use their powers now, because they are now replaced in the leadership of humanity by other angels or semi-angelic beings. This means, however, that they are also unable to continue their own development.