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 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.

Efforts to create a perfect society based on non-spiritual impulses cannot succeed — yet a true spiritual-scientific viewpoint will not find easy acceptance.

Humanity must accept that destructive spiritual beings — who previously held a rightful place — have entered into everyday life, bringing disruption and division.

The evolution of humanity means a gradual inner separation of the spiritual and physical, something that must be comprehended clearly and incisively.

Fruitful political ideas will arise if the previously separated realms of human thought and true spiritual impulses are bridged.

Thinking, and subsequent action, must be based on actual even-day reality and not on abstract intellectual theory.

Concepts based on reality hold within them the active inner life which is also present in everyday outer life.

Ahrimanic beings — defeated by the Michaelic hosts — now influence human beings, especially through materialistic thinking.

The backward angels make themselves at home in human heads but can find no place in heads filled with true spiritual wisdom.

People's inner soul life and their connection with the Cosmos must be taken into consideration by future scientists, educators and others.

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 now work on earth, but their defeat in ‘the heavens’ meant a science of the spirit became available to humanity.

If humanity becomes fully conscious of spiritual realities — especially the influence of the Spirits of Darkness — then right attitudes and activities will manifest.