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

In the human being who felt the stir of Nature stirring within himself, there grew up a longing to separate his own life-stir from the life-stir that he saw going on in the outer world, foreign to himself. But, nevertheless, this life-stir in the outer world was still felt as a last outcome of that real and active Spirit-world which is of the same kind with Man.