15. Goethe's Search for the Depths of Becoming and the Mysteries of the World in His “Faust” The Luciferic and the Ahrimanic Temptation

The second thing that our time demands, and demands quite energetically, is familiarization with the sense of fact. Humanity is instructed to understand the spiritual world. In this spiritual world, it is not the case that one can follow how one is being corrected. I expressed this in the final chapter of my “Theosophy”, that one is not corrected when one has done something wrong. Read it up. Sense of fact, sense of real facts. But the strongest Luciferic battle is being waged against this sense of fact in our time. In no other time, despite everything and in spite of everything that has happened, have facts been falsified as much as in our time! The Luciferic instincts call upon Ahrimanic forces, which present facts in a lying way. This tendency to present facts dishonestly is on the increase and will become more and more prevalent. It is important to see through this. Becoming accustomed to a sense of fact and to the fact that one will increasingly have to stand up for what needs to be stood up for in the world with one's personality is part of the fifth post-Atlantic period.