III. The Pre-Michaelite Way, and the Way of Michael

A form of consciousness such as this, which looks above to a world of spiritual Beings, is everywhere to be found amongst the different peoples in their early ages. What remains of it, preserved in history, is termed to-day the ‘myth-creating’ consciousness. Man is in the midst of his own true world, the world of his origin. Whereas, with the present-day consciousness, he withdraws himself from his own world.