For centuries, the tradition of the mystical chronology of the world's seven archangelic regents has been part of Western esoteric teaching.
According to this tradition, 1879 marked the return of the solar spirit Michael--the archangel of the Sun--to oversee earthly evolution.
Steiner always placed his life and work in the service of Michael's evolutionary task.
And he recognized that, at the beginning of the twentieth century, humanity emerged from the Kali Yuga--the Dark Age--and entered .