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

And, in contrast, an Imagination of Ahriman: Ahriman, in his course, from time would wring Space. Around him is darkness, into which he projects the rays of his own light. The more he achieves his ends, the keener grows the frost about him. He moves like a world contracted into one single being—his own; affirming himself only by negating the world; he moves, as though he brought with him uncanny forces from the dark caverns of the earth.