Through the Luciferic seduction, man descended into the sensual world earlier and deeper than originally planned . Through this he came under the dominion of Ahriman, who works from the depths of the earth:
"If these Luciferic spirits had not come, man would not have descended into the earthly sphere so early. His passion, his desire for the physical world also made it possible for him to keep his eyes open earlier, so that earlier he was able to see the whole sphere of physical existence. If the advancing spirits had always had their way, man would not have seen the world around him until the middle of the Atlantean period. But then he would have seen her spiritually, not as he does today, he would have seen her in such a way that she would have been the expression of spiritual beings everywhere. Due to the fact that the human being was brought down to the earthly sphere prematurely, that his earthly interests and desires pushed him down, things turned out differently,
As a result, the Ahrimanic spirits, those spirits that can also be designated by the name Mephistophelic spirits, got mixed up in what man was able to see and understand. As a result, man fell into error, fell into what one could really only call conscious sin. So from the middle of the Atlantean period onwards the group of Ahrimanic spirits had an effect on people. To what did this group of Ahrimanic spirits seduce people, so to speak? It has seduced him into thinking that what is around him is material, so that he does not see through this material to the true underground of the material, to the spiritual. If man saw the spiritual in every stone, in every plant and in every animal,
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On the other hand, what have those spiritual beings who want to keep man in his progress done against this seduction, against error and illusion from the sensual? On the other hand, you have taken action to ensure that the human being is actually now only rightly - of course it came about slowly and gradually, but here are the forces that caused it - to be put in a position, so to speak, of gaining the possibility again from the physical world , to get over error and sin and evil, that is, they have given man the opportunity to bear and work out his karma. So if those beings who had to make up for the temptation of the Luciferic beings brought suffering and pain, yes also what is connected with it, death into the world, Thus those beings who had to mend what flows from error into the physical world gave man the opportunity to eliminate all error again through his karma, to wipe out all the evil that he had done in the world. For what would have happened if man had only succumbed to evil, to error? Then, little by little, man would have become, so to speak, one with the error, it would have been impossible for him to advance; for with every error, with every lie, with every illusion we throw an obstacle to progress in our way. We would always fall back so much in our progress as we throw obstacles in our way through error and sin, if we were unable to correct error and sin, that is, in truth we could not attain the human goal. It would be impossible to attain what is the human goal if the opposing forces, the forces of karma, were not at work.
Just think you do some wrong in a lifetime. This wrong which you have committed means, if it were to remain so in your life, that you have lost the step forward which you would have taken had you not committed the wrong. And with every wrong you would lose a step, and enough steps would be taken backwards. If there were no possibility of rising above error, man would ultimately have to sink into error. But in this way the benefit of karma has come about. What does this benefit mean for man? Is karma something that man should fear, that man should shudder at? No! Karma is a power for which man should actually be grateful to the world plans. Because karma tells us: Have you made a mistake - God is not mocked! What you have sown, you must also reap. This error causes you to correct it; then you have erased it from your karma and you can move forward again.
Without karma, our advancement in the human career would be impossible. Karma does us the benefit that we must right every mistake, that we must undo everything we have done backwards. Thus Karma occurred as a result of the deeds of Ahriman.
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