The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness
GA 177
Table of Contents
- The Driving Forces Behind Europe's War
- True insight into the underlying causes of the Great War show that they are spiritual in origin — this must be understood and acted upon or the chaos would continue.
- Humanity's Struggle for Morality
- Humanity labours under illusions based in the past — true insight requires a morality which is difficult to achieve but which must become part of human life.
- The Quest for a Perfect Social Order
- Efforts to create a perfect society based on non-spiritual impulses cannot succeed — yet a true spiritual-scientific viewpoint will not find easy acceptance.
- The Elemental Spirit Spirits of Birth and Death
- Humanity must accept that destructive spiritual beings — who previously held a rightful place — have entered into everyday life, bringing disruption and division.
- Changes in Humanity's Spiritual Make-Up
- The evolution of humanity means a gradual inner separation of the spiritual and physical, something that must be comprehended clearly and incisively.
- The New Spirituality
- Fruitful political ideas will arise if the previously separated realms of human thought and true spiritual impulses are bridged.
- Working From Spiritual Reality
- Thinking, and subsequent action, must be based on actual even-day reality and not on abstract intellectual theory.
- Abstraction and Reality
- Concepts based on reality hold within them the active inner life which is also present in everyday outer life.
- The Battle Between Michael and ‘The Dragon’
- Ahrimanic beings — defeated by the Michaelic hosts — now influence human beings, especially through materialistic thinking.
- The Influence of the Backward Angels
- The backward angels make themselves at home in human heads but can find no place in heads filled with true spiritual wisdom.
- Recognizing the Inner Human Being
- People's inner soul life and their connection with the Cosmos must be taken into consideration by future scientists, educators and others.
- The Spirits of Light and the Spirits of Darkness
- Until 1879 the Spirits of Light promoted hereditary blood bonds and the Spirits of Darkness the urge for independence — then this was reversed.
- The Fallen Spirits' Influence in the World
- The fallen spirits now work on earth, but their defeat in ‘the heavens’ meant a science of the spirit became available to humanity.
- Into the Future
- If humanity becomes fully conscious of spiritual realities — especially the influence of the Spirits of Darkness — then right attitudes and activities will manifest.
