VIII. Michael's Mission in the Cosmic Age of Human Freedom

For the man's inward perception, there is this consciousness of creative freedom. For the spiritual beings connected with Man from other world-spheres it is different. The being from the hierarchy of the Angeloi, whose work it is to conduct the man's identity from one earth-life to another, becomes at once visibly aware that man is repelling cosmic forces which are seeking to continue his development—forces which are seeking to give the necessary physical support to his I-system, as they did previous to the age of Michael.