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

To want to remain in the first, original state of existence—to want to keep the original naïve simplicity of divine goodness, of the time when the gods ruled in Man, and to shrink from making use of his freedom,—this leads Man in the present-day world, where everything is disposed for the evolution of his freedom, only in the end to Lucifer, whose aim it is to see the present world repudiated.