IX. World-Thoughts in Michael, and World-Thoughts in Ahriman

Michael exercised the power of the intellect throughout the Cosmos in past times. He did so then as servant of the divine spiritual Powers, to whom he himself, as well as Man, owes his origin. And this original relation to the intellectual force it is his will to maintain. When this intellectual force became detached from the divine spiritual powers, to find its way into the mind of the human being, Michael determined forthwith to place himself in a right position towards mankind, so as to establish in Man his own relation with the intellectual force. He purposed however to do this all, as before, solely in accordance with the designs of the divine spiritual powers, and to continue to act as the servant of these powers, with whom he, like Man, is united from his origin. It is his purpose, therefore, that in future the intellectual stream should flow through the hearts of men, yet still as the same force which it was when first it flowed forth from the divine spiritual powers in the beginning.