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

To give himself over to the present state of existence; to admit through all the worlds nothing save the rule of that natural law, accessible to the present-day intellect, to which goodness is a neutral matter; to want to enjoy the use of freedom in the intellect alone; this, in the present-day world—where, while freedom reigns in the upper regions, evolution must be carried further in the deeper regions of the soul—only leads Man in the end to Ahriman, whose aim it is to see the present world transformed entirely into a Cosmos of Intellectual Being.