43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III

Now we have turned our attention to a category of beings who should have used their powers during the Egyptian period, but did not use them fully during that time - and now could not use them in the subsequent Greco-Latin period because they have now been replaced by other leading beings. Just as those beings who had not reached their angelic level on the old moon later had the task of intervening again during the time on earth, so now those beings who had remained behind as leading beings in the Egyptian-Chaldean culture also have the task of intervening again later in the culture - of intervening as beings who had remained behind. We will therefore be able to see a later cultural epoch where there are indeed beings who came to lead later and who direct the normal development, but where alongside these beings intervene those who had remained behind earlier - and especially those who had remained behind during the ancient Egyptian culture. This cultural period indicated here is our own. We live in a time when, in addition to the normal rulers and leaders of humanity, such backward beings of the ancient Egyptian and Chaldean culture are still intervening and working into everything that is our present culture. - How do they manifest themselves?