I. At the Dawn of the Michael Age

Directly one's views are carried higher, into the spiritual world, one meets with concrete Spiritual Powers in the form of living Beings. To that Power, from whom proceed the Thoughts of things, they gave, in old teachings, the name of Michael. Keeping the name, one may say that it was Michael from whom men once received their thoughts. Michael was regent of the Cosmic Intelligence.—From the time of the ninth century on, men ceased to have a sense that their thoughts were inspired by Michael. Thoughts had fallen from Michael's dominion, and sunk from the spiritual world into the individual souls of men.