XI. Before the Door of the Spiritual Soul

The Luciferic and the Ahrimanic forces are both busily at work to prevent their meeting. The Luciferic forces would only allow those things to come to expansion in Man, which were his in his cosmic childhood. The Ahrimanic forces—as their opponents, but yet in cooperation with them—want to develop those powers only, which are acquired in the later ages of the world, and to let the cosmic childhood wither away.