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

The reason why Materialism arose, is not that only material things and processes are to be seen in the outer world of Nature; it is because Man, in his evolution, had to go through a stage which brought him to a form of consciousness that is at first only capable of seeing material revelations. The one-sided development of this requirement in human evolution has resulted in the modern view of the natural world.