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288. The Building at Dornach: Lecture II 24 Jan 1920, Dornach
Translator Unknown

Architrave over the first two capitals of the east rotunda [ 30 ] You see a bit of what is in the middle; beneath that will be the sculptured group of the Representative of Humanity with Ahriman and Lucifer in the vicinity. Above is the picture of the same. [IMAGE REMOVED FROM PREVIEW] 63.
You will find when you compare that which confronts you in the form of the sculptural group showing the Representative of Humanity, Lucifer and Ahriman with all the different curves and forms and surfaces which are found on the capitals and architraves, contains in itself the whole Building in a certain sense.
The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz: Foreword
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

In his Four Mystery Plays, Rudolf Steiner has given us living pictures of this: the human being between Lucifer and Ahriman—now succumbing to their promptings, now overcoming them, but nevertheless bearing them in the soul like a poison that may at any time begin to work.
220. Concerning Electricity 28 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translator Unknown

For if one has just arranged a sectarian meeting and raved about being on guard against Ahriman, then one goes down the stairs and gets on the electric train. So that all this ranting about Ahriman, no matter how holy it sounds - forgive the trivial expression - is garbage.
Read this final image again and you will see that it is quite different whether I am unconscious about something or whether I consciously grasp it. Ahriman and Lucifer have the highest power over man when man knows nothing of them, when they can work on him without his knowing it.
He feels uncomfortable when he has to admit to himself that when he gets on the electric train he is sitting in the chair of Ahriman. So he prefers to mysticize about it, forming sectarian assemblies in which he says: "One must beware of Ahriman. - But that is not what matters, what matters is that we know: The development of the earth is henceforth one in which the forces of nature themselves, which work into cultural life, must be ahrimanized.
194. The Mission of the Archangel Michael: The Power and Mission of Michael, Necessity of the Revaluation of Many Values 21 Nov 1919, Dornach
Translated by Lisa D. Monges

Nothing less than the removal of the divine from consciousness and the usurping of the divine name by the Luciferic principle; so that in reality we have a battle between Lucifer and Ahriman; only, Ahriman is endowed with Luciferic attributes, and the realm of Lucifer is endowed with divine attributes.
But in reality, instead of dealing with the realm of the Divine we are dealing with the realm of Lucifer. Paradise Lost describes the expulsion of man from Lucifer's realm into the realm of Ahriman; it describes the longing of man not for the realm of the Divine, but for the paradise that has been lost, that means, the longing for the realm of Lucifer. You may regard Milton's Paradise Lost and Klopstock's Messiah as beautiful descriptions of human longing for the realm of Lucifer; this is what you should consider them to be, for this is what they are. You see how necessary it is to revise certain conceptions which prevail today.
180. Ancient Myths: Their Meaning and Connection with Evolution: The Getting Younger of Humanity while Advancing in Time 11 Jan 1918, Dornach
Translated by Mabel Cotterell

[IMAGE REMOVED FROM PREVIEW] If socialism, in the crude materialistic form in which it appears today, attempts to force itself upon mankind, it will bring the greatest unhappiness upon humanity. It is symbolized for us through the Ahriman at the foot of our Group, in all his forms. If the false freedom of thought, which wants to stop short at every thought and make it valid, seeks to force itself, then harm is again brought to mankind. This is symbolized in our Group through Lucifer. But you can exclude neither Ahriman nor Lucifer from the present day, they must only be balanced through Pneumatology, through Spiritual Science, which is represented by the Representative of mankind who stands in the centre of our Group.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Sixth Lesson 21 Mar 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

For even as relations, as they are so firmly emplaced down in the unconscious, that just so in world living and world chemism the allurement of Lucifer may present itself, and out of earth and water the seduction of Ahriman. [The words Lucifer and Ahriman were written down, and so the schematic was complete.] [IMAGE REMOVED FROM PREVIEW] World-life, World Chemism—LuciferLight—Warmth—AirWater, Earth—Ahriman And esoteric guidance in the mysteries has always maintained that a person should find the proper relationship with these elements, that in the proper way he should feel his relationship with the elements.
He easily falls prey to the allurement, the seduction of Lucifer, who wishes to draw a person away from this world, into a world of beauty over which Lucifer himself has dominion.
203. Jehovah, Christ, Lucifer and Ahriman 13 Mar 1921, Dornach
Translator Unknown

237. Karmic Relationships III: The Spiritual Foundations of Anthroposophical Endeavour 06 Jul 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Dorothy S. Osmond

In these souls therefore, many of those influences are present which make it possible for man to fall a victim to the temptations of Lucifer on the one hand and Ahriman on the other. For in karma, Lucifer and Ahriman are weaving, no less than the good gods: this we have already seen.
This takes hold of his soul, but, influenced as it is by Ahriman (through the karma of former epochs too, of course), it finds vent as an appalling hatred against all that he had at first espoused.
270. Esoteric Lessons for the First Class I: Fifth Hour 14 Mar 1924, Dornach
Translated by Frank Thomas Smith

When we arrive at the Threshold, it consists of Ahriman and Lucifer, and the oxygen is the outer mask for Lucifer, and nitrogen the outer mask for Ahriman.
161. The Problem of Death: Lecture I 05 Feb 1915, Dornach
Translator Unknown

He then appeals—unconsciously of course,—to those powers of seduction which Lucifer is able to exercise all the time upon the human soul. And under the unconscious influence of Lucifer, such a person never gets to the point of saying to himself: ‘What I have in me, producing the desire for action, is really vanity, megalomania.’ He never says this, but on the contrary, he will often discover, under the influence of Lucifer, a whole system for explaining the feelings of which he is darkly aware but the true character of which he will not admit.
If the human being were to flee from everything that presses in upon him from the side of Lucifer and Ahriman, he would have to come out of his skin as soon as he realised it—I mean this symbolically too: Lucifer and Ahriman exercise no other forces upon us than those that are justified, normal forces in human life; only it is the case that Lucifer and Ahriman put them into operation in the wrong place.

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