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emissary of the luciferic beings. The real teachers of the Rishis were such beings. The ancient initiates had to obtain wisdom and also thinking and speaking from them without giving way to their intention to make humankind turn away from the earth evolution. If new wisdom is not established within humankind in the time up to the incarnation / incorporation of Ahriman, civilisation will completely be Ahrimans slave. When Ahriman incarnates in the West at the appointed time, he would establish a great occult school for the practice of magic arts of the greatest grandeur, and what otherwise can be acquired only by strenuous effort would be poured over humankind. I.e. people would become clairvoyant; nevertheless, everybody would see something different. 193/10(11/4/1919, Bern)*: But humankind has to live on toward Ahriman's incarnation with full consciousness amid the shattering events which will occur on the physical plane. Amid the perpetual stresses of war and other tribulations of the immediate future, the human mind will become very inventive in the domain of physical life. And through this very growth of inventiveness in physical life which cannot be averted in any way or by any means the bodily existence of a human individuality in whom Ahriman can incarnate will become possible and inevitable. Many things discovered in the forces and substances of the universe will be used to provide human nourishment. But these very discoveries will at the same time make it apparent that matter is connected with the organs of intellect, not with the organs of the spirit but of the intellect. People will learn what to eat and drink in order to become really clever. The preparation of Ahrimans incarnation by certain secret societies existing today. See 195/2(12/25/1919), /3(12/28/1919, Stuttgart). *= lecture 3 in The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman.

191-09 11 or 1(11/1/1919, Dornach) 19ff. 3894 With the ingestion of food something spiritual is absorbed. However: People do not believe that the spirit can be eaten, and yet the very ones who say this, do eat the spirit! Although they may refuse to accept anything spiritual, nevertheless with every morsel that passes through the mouth into the stomach they are devouring the spiritual, but dispatching it along a path other than the path which leads to the real well-being of humankind. These human beings, the devourers of soul and spirit, drive straight into the luciferic stream everything they introduce into their stomachs. What people eat and drink without spirituality goes straight to Lucifer! 193/10(11/4/1919, Bern)*: This luciferic power will help Ahriman incarnating or incorporating in future. *= lecture 3 in The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman.
12 or 2(11/2/1919, Dornach) p. 28 3896 191-10 social threefolding On the necessity of a free cultural life: Civilised humankind must either establish the independence of the spiritual life or face collapse with the inevitable result of an Asiatic influence taking effect in the future. To the ahrimanic power a free spiritual life would denote a kind of darkness, and peoples interest in it, a burning, raging fire. 13 or 5(11/9/1919, Dornach) 73ff. 3901 191-11 building up-destruction The human forces of will that are actually concentrated in the human centre of gravity are related to the forces of nature. They have a destroying effect, and the relation between the human being and the remaining mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms of nature today is such that our will is connected with the forces of dissolution and destruction inherent in our planet. Black-magic practices are based essentially on the fact that certain human beings learn to employ their will wrongfully, in such a way that they do not

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