The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman Quotes

“What is it that arises in modern people in an Ahrimanic form? It is his knowledge of the outer world. There is nothing more ahrimanic than this knowledge of the material world, for it is sheer illusion.”
― Rudolf Steiner, Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman: Human Responsibility for the Earth, 5 lectures, November 1919

“Again, what wells up in our inmost being today is very strongly luciferic. How can we train ourselves rightly in this direction? By diving into it with our ahrimanic nature, that is to say, by trying to avoid all illusions about our own inner life and impulses and observing ourselves just as we observe the outer world. Modern people must realize how urgent it is to educate themselves in this way. Anyone who has an observant eye in these matters will often come across circumstances of which the following is an example.”
― Rudolf Steiner, Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman: Human Responsibility for the Earth, 5 lectures, November 1919