Steiner
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As we learn in the heavily Steiner-influenced
Unancestral
Voice, Lucifer is "that spirit-being within man which seeks to "keep
mankind still dreaming if he might" (71). The governing spirit of the Orient,
Lucifer "seeks to preserve the past from dissolution" (UV 61).
The aim of Lucifer, according to the basic
tenets of Anthroposophy, has always
been, according to Barfield,
to preserve the past too long; to
maintain in the present, conditions, that rightly obtained in the past,
but should now be superseded. He adores tradition. . . . he seeks to maintain
the permeation of the mind by the "given," the physical, the instinctive
warmth, which men bring with them from the past and must indeed use, but
which should no longer permeate, or at least not involuntarily, their mental
powers. (58-59)
See in particular
Unancestral Voice,
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