X. First Contemplation: How Michael prepares his earthly mission supersensibly, by the conquest of Lucifer.

The tales of historical events, which had lived in the minds and mouths of men during the preceding centuries, began to be written down just before the Age of Consciousness.[^1] And thus we have preserved from that period ‘legends’ and such things, which give a faithful portrayal of the manner in which men pictured ‘history’ to themselves in the times before.